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does anyone have any experience or thoughts on how to "dimple" (ie: like a golf ball) a non-linear surface? I've thought about and discarded projecting circles onto the surface because of the distortion resulting from the non-linear curved surface and because at some point 3D solids (ie: spheres) will be required to subtract from the baseline solid model's surface. any help or thoughts will be greatly appreciated!
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well, you can do a negative for the dimple and do a spherical pattern with the pattern command in 3D solids. You might have to get creative to take up all the empty spaces but that would be a starting point. Maybe do a pattern along projected curves on the sphere too. maybe you can share your non-linear surface but I would make that into a solid to work with the pattern command.
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see attached image of curved elliptical surface. patterns is a great place to start but I have no idea how to "wrap" the non-linear surface.............
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so you want to dimple the inside of the ear cones? If so, you need to put a dimple to start.
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I'd use the grid intersections of an isoline layout on the trumpets' inner surface as the pattern to locate the dimples, in the absence of any other definitive parameter, and a shell thickness offset to specify indentation depth. I'm interested in the idea of this: intake trumpets are supposed to tidy up airflow to maximise airflow velocity, while dimples on golf balls are said to stabilise the ball in flight by disrupting laminar flow around the rotating ball on its trajectory. These seem inconsistent aims to me.
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thanks for your input! where to I find the tool for invoking the isoline layout on the intake horn's surface. given a "wrapped" grid, I'll likely use the Powerpack tool for distance normal to a surface at a point to locate the center of the subtraction spheres.
the top level objective is getting more air into a carburetor. that implies using all the horn's area for air flow; ie: attached flow on the short side radius. dimples are an aerodynamic "trick" to convert laminar boundary layers to turbulent boundary layers which stay attached farther around a curved surface. it's why golf balls with dimples fly farther than spherical objects the same size and weight; less profile drag as a direct result of the turbulent boundary layer staying attached further. most introductory texts on fluid mechanics or aerodynamics are likely to have illustrations and further/better explanations of what's going on.
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Isoline parameters are in the display tab of object properties in the Inspector. Thanks for the explanation of the theory, I've never seen that implemented on intake horns in fifty years of involvement and observation of engine development, so there might be something new under the sun after all.
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thanks for the pointer on isolines!! I'd never changed the zeros before so had never stumbled across the utility of the tool. is there any way to select a switch such that the isoline intersections become selectable?? the grid is outstanding but without a means to select the intersection of the vertical and horizontal lines I don't see how they can help me. cutting and fitting line segments to the surface is definitely doable, just a lot of work.....! line segments would be the enabling vehicle for arrays of equally spaced "points" on the surface of the horn(ie: equivalent to horizontal & vertical isoline intersections).
the reason you probably haven't seen dimpled surfaces on intake horns before is there are very few carburetors with siameased venturi. there is no need/value for dimples with straight elliptical horns. Weber 32/36 carburetors (ie: the one used in Formula Ford, Formula Continental, & Sports 2000) are one of the carburetors with the siameased "feature". to implement the geometry advocated by Prof. Blair & W. Melvin Cahoon in their paper "
Best Bell ", something other than two straight elliptical horns is required. the non-linear center line of the elliptical horns is the root cause of the resulting short side radius and the subsequent need for the dimples to maintain attached flow.
see custompolycast.com for an example of currently available dimpled intake horns.
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You would need to copy and paste the model, then do the isolines per the number you want and then once the iso lines are shown you can then change the object type to lines to obtain them in space.
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thanks for the input! where/how do I change the object type? assume you have a slow student......
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Select and right click context menu.
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thanks! unfortunately I'm still doing the two steps forward followed by one step back game...... changing the object type also changes the grid spacing?? I've confirmed after chancing the object type the grid vertices are selectable which is major progress. now the question is how to maintain control of the grid spacing; it's critical for imposing the desired dimpling pattern uniformly onto the surface. see attached image below.
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I'd use multiple copies of the surface with different isoline density and combine those that have a distribution close to what you want, and you also have the capacity to elevate the order of curves to increase the control point density, and to convert the isocurves into polylines or line segments that might give more informative features.
Thinking on it, this is a "kissing circle/number" problem, a research topic in its own right.
I wonder what's the outcome if ridges are used instead of dimples? I'm thinking like the rippling on sand dunes.
alternatively, variation in the depth and/or radius of the dimpling dependent on surface curvature.
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Not sure how the additional iso lines are changed. I didn't get that result. see picture.
Maybe that's version dependent. I'm on a mac.
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thanks again guys!! the dimpling challenge is solved. in the end I resorted to brute force descriptive geometry to impose the dimpling geometry on the curved elliptical horn's inner surface. to avoid the science project implicit in dimpling the horn's diminishing radius surface, dimple geometry and dimple spacing in the velocity direction were fixed. dimple spacing in the circumferential direction was allowed to float as a means to maintain desired row-to-row relative geometry. circumferential spacing was defined by the smallest row radius (ie: the inner one); the initial guess of 19 vertices for 120° turned out to be too small requiring all the work to be redone with 26................
the work was done with V10 (1371) including the PowerPack on a Windows 7 Pro machine. PowerPack's "line normal to a surface" tool was instrumental to solving the challenge!!
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Good going, Art. If it ever gets on a dyno, show off the results to us?
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Wow! So stoked out murray. I was reading your older posts. I saw you said that iso lines was in the display options. I tried it and was so stoked out. Thanks for that info. I was looking for that function. I really appreciate this conversation. I took a sphere. ISO lined it. Copied and pasted a copy. Then I was able to select the vertices. Added some more spheres. tweaked the colors. Then turned off the ISO lines. Super cool feature. Thanks guys. Thanks rockyroad your tips showed me the way.
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