Conceptual Disc

[kevdiv48]

I'd love to see some mechanical/aerospace engineers do a project comparing discs. Moment of inertia, drag coefficients, performance at different rotational and linear velocities... it could potentially be very interesting. I imagine disc designers at each company take these things into consideration, but I've never seen anything written about them.

A mechanical engineering graduate student at UC Davis did a thesis on flying discs in 2003.

 

[armiller]

A mechanical engineering graduate student at UC Davis did a thesis on flying discs in 2003.

Thanks! Will be looking through this...

 

[armiller]

A mechanical engineering graduate student at UC Davis did a thesis on flying discs in 2003.

Yeah, Kd48, this is very much what I was looking for. Did you just Google it or do you have a connection to the project? I think there's still some potential development related to disc golf, mainly because we throw many stinkin discs with very different properties...