A Serve with Serious Swerve

So Good Badminton Banned It: The Spin Serve Gets A CFD Analysis

In all racket sports, a well-executed serve can establish a real advantage. Badminton is played by around 220 million people across the globe and a“spin serve” took badminton by storm when a Danish player at the Polish Open 2023 badminton tournament used it to dominant effect. Like in table tennis, a spin-serve in badminton adds pre-spin before the racket touches the shuttlecock and the natural spin determined by its feathers’ inclination angles…

The dynamics of 3D computer fluids illustrates the “spin serve” phenomenon of the badminton - Archysport

Badminton’s “Spin Serve” Controversy: Is Science Killing the game? Table of Contents Badminton’s “Spin Serve” Controversy: Is Science Killing the game? The Science Behind the Spin: Unlocking Badminton Aerodynamics What’s Next for Badminton and the Spin Serve? The Counterargument: Is the Ban Justified? Key Data Points: Spin Serve Analysis SEO-Kind FAQ Section Frequently Asked Questions about the Badminton Spin Serve badminton, a global sport …

A Serve with Serious Swerve

In Physics of Fluids, researchers use computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamic experiments to explore the phenomenon of the controversial badminton "spin serve." The researchers used simulated the trajectories of a shuttlecock during serves under three conditions: without pre-spin, with pre-spin in the direction of the shuttlecock's natural spin, and with pre-spin against the natural spin. They found that the shuttlecock undergoes three phas…