Why don't wings have dimples?

"T o d d P a t t i s t" wrote in message
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"Peter Dohm" wrote:

I am also interested in general aerodynamics, and am somewhat intrigued
by
the issue of dimples. Particularly, grooves and dimples could be quite
interesting as related to propellers.

I wasn't trying to discourage you from looking into it, just
pointing out that despite a great deal of work that has been
done on golf balls and dimples, it has found little
application in aviation. You'd be going down a path that I
know has been trod before. Perhaps you'd find something new,
but I'd expect it to take a lot of effort. If it were easy
or obvious, it would have been developed before.

I believe that you are right.

BTW, my glider wing *does* have dimples, for reasons
discussed elsewhere in this thread (trips the laminar flow
into turbulent flow).


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