Golf and Wind

Shantanu Malik has obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 2020. He has been working on golf ball aerodynamics and flight simulation for the past three years. While at IIT Kharagpur, he has also worked on projects related to dynamics and control of UAVs as well as gravity and drag simulation for satellites in orbit. Shantanu holds technical skills in the areas of Programming & Simulation (MATLAB, C/C++, Simulink, Simscape, Arduino IDE, Solidworks), flight mechanics & control (Control theory, Aircraft Spacecraft & Helicopter dynamics) and flight testing (Hardware implementation, PID tuning, Piloting UAVs, In-flight experiments). Dr Sandeep Saha is Assistant Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. He obtained his bachelors and masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. He completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London. Before joining IIT Kharagpur, he was working as Marie-Curie Experienced Researcher, C.N.R.S. (laboratoire FAST), Orsay, France. He worked as Aerodynamics Engineer, ALSTOM Power, Rugby, UK; as Research Scientist (Fluids), Schlumberger Gould Research, Cambridge, UK; and as academics Staff member, Mechanical Engineering, Univerisity of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (in collaboration with SIEMENS AG). Dr Saha has published various articles in reputed journals and presented papers in many prestigious conferences. His area of specialization is fluid mechanics.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Understanding the motion - physical models.- Chapter 3: Solving the equations of motion.- Chapter 4: How does wind impact gameplay?.- Chapter 5: Gameplay, the course and wind.- Chapter 6: Concluding thoughts.