Separation

Tennis ball rotating anti-clockwise. The boundary layer is separating above the ball before it separates below the ball. Image taken from Review of tennis ball aerodynamics, Mehta et al. (2008)

Matthew is a research software engineer (RSE) in the Advanced Research Computing Centre (ARC) at University College London (UCL). His hobbies include pretending to be called Humbug (H).

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