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Why aeroplane wings aren't dimpled like golf balls
Before explaining the purpose of dimples, we first need to understand the aerodynamic properties of a sphere. Let us start by looking at a smooth sphere without any dimples, like a ping-pong ball. If we lived in an ideal world without any friction, the air flowing around a smooth sphere would behave like that shown in…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Sep 25, 2009 | Why aeroplane wings aren't dimpled like golf balls by aubergene | 76 | 5 |
