Other words, the absolute pressure is 14.64 + 12.5 = 27.14 psi.īefore running the analysis, I made sure to set up some Goals in my project, Flow Simulation always uses absolute pressure in its setup and results, soĪ “gauge” pressure of 12.5 psi really means 12.5 psi above atmospheric. The pressure box, but don’t worry- I haven’t pulled a Note here that I’ve typed in 27.14 psi in
Same conditions the minute it’s brought out onto the cold field, barring any Locker room (I guessed 73˚ F), the air inside the ball should still have those If the ball was really inflated to the league-minimum 12.5 psi inside the warm The air inside the ball, by creating what’s called a Fluid Subdomain. Would have been flying through the air a good part of the time (cooling itĮven faster), I also ignored the heat that might have been added to the ballĪt this point, the only remaining task was to enter the initial conditions of Even though there would have been some wind, and the ball We also have the option in Flow Simulation to set a wind speed, but here I The game time field conditions in Foxborough were reportedly 51 degreesįahrenheit, with an atmospheric pressure of 14.64 psi (slightly below normal). Those materials don’t exist in the default engineering database, so IĬreated a custom material with a thermal conductivity of 0.2 W/m-K, similar toīoth rubber and leather which have good insulation.įinally, it’s important to select the proper initial and ambient conditions. Nowadays is constructed of a synthetic leather with a bladder lining the Under Solids, we’d need to choose the material for the ball, which On the Fluids tab, I selected the pre-defined model for air no further work Selected since I need to know how quickly these temperature changes would On the field, thereby cooling the air inside. Solids needs to be turned on so we can simulate the pigskin cooling down once The natural air currents around the outside of the ball. Going through the setup wizard of our first project, we need to make sure toĮnable the key physical conditions that make for an accurate simulation.įirst, I selected an External analysis and enabled Gravity so we can simulate
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To start with, we need a 3D model of a football, which luckily I know how to SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation, our embedded Luckily, a heat transfer problem like this is just the of type thing Makes one big assumption: that the temperature of the air inside the ballĪctually would cool down to the same temperature as the air on theįield. Predicts at least some of the reported pressure drop, but using this equation In this case, it does appear that the ideal gas law We in the world of simulation are aware of both the power and the limitations To estimate that “a 5 to 10 percent dip in temperature could bring about aĭrop of 0.5 to 1.5 pounds per square inch, or psi, in a ball’s air pressure.” "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Professor Richard P. Heat transfer with internal fluid flowġ5. Thermal and thermal buckling analysis of a linkġ4. Thermal and thermal stress analysis of a coffee mugĩ.
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