Patent Document ID: 20120166149
Application ID: 13326041
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A simulation method for evaluating the aerodynamic performance of a golf club head by using arithmetic operations executed by a computer to analyze air flow around the club head when the club is swung and thereby estimating aerodynamic forces which act on the club head, comprising the steps of: (A) setting up, within a virtual space created in a computer, a club head model to be evaluated and a virtual airflow region surrounding a periphery of the club head model; (B) setting up, on a bottom side of the virtual airflow region, a wall representing a ground surface, thereby making the bottom side of the virtual airflow region a closed side, and establishing a clearance between the club head model and the ground surface; (C) dividing the virtual airflow region into a plurality of grid cells in a manner such that the grid cells gradually increase in volume in a direction leading away from a surface of the club head model; (D) establishing a state in which an air stream of a predetermined speed flows into the virtual airflow region from in front of the club head model and, letting said state represent the state when the club head model moves through the air at the predetermined speed on being swung, calculating for each grid cell the speed, direction and pressure of the air stream that forms within the virtual airflow region; and (E) integrating the air stream speed, direction and pressure calculated for each individual grid cell, and computing the aerodynamic forces which have been generated by the air stream and which act on the club head model in the virtual airflow region.