Obtaining the lift force and drag force of a NACA0017 airfoil of 100 mm chord in supersonic flow of the order Mach 3 and finding the critical angle of attack when M<0.3   I have chosen a NACA0017 airfoil with a chord length of 100mm. The type of analysis is an external flow analysis with air as the medium.…

Intially the CAD model of a flowbench was created, and the valve was fixed at a particular height and a baseline simulation was carried out. The boundary conditions set were static pressure at the outlet and a stagnation pressure of 2 atm at the inlet. A static analysis was carried out. The goals set for the simulation…

A MATLAB program has been written to solve the ODE, that represents the equation of motion of a simple pendulum with damping, for the position of the pendulum with respect to time and using this information to simulate the motion of a pedulum with damping. The ODE given below is used to represnt the motion of a pendulum…

A model of a rotating shaft was modelled on Solidworks, of total length of 30cm, a shaft diameter of 2cm, with a bearing diameter of 10cm. Alloy steel was assigned as its material and bearing fixtures were applied to the cylindrical faces of the stepped face. Then a frequency analysis was carried out obtain 5 mode shape…

The objective of the project is to simulate the flow through a channel for different grid sizes and document the results. The velocity plot and animation is shown below. The results obtained are as follows: The mesh for grid size 2e-4   The mesh for grid size 1.5e-4   The mesh for grid size 1e-4   The velocity…

I have designed a rudimentary centrifugal pump, using an impeller with 6 vanes and aproximate dimensions for the volute and the diffuser. I have set up a solidworks flow simulation with the impeller specified as the rotating region. The Impeller was given an angular velocity of 1000 rad/s. After running a baseline simulation.…

NASA has documented a list of coefficients for different species. This data is used to calculate the specific heat, Enthalpy, Entropy and a MATLAB code has been written to parse the file using MATLAB. This allows us to read the whole file and use the values necessary to calculate the Thermodynamic properties of all the…

A Design Study was performed on a Cyclone Seperator stand for different positions of the rectangular stiffner from the top of the stand, with the goal of maximizing the buckiling Factor of Safety. The thickness of the stiffner is 60 mm. The bottom of the Cyclone stand was fixed and the load acting is set to 150 KN. First…

For the baseline simulation i used air as the fluid and an inlet velocity of 1m/s. The size of the computational domain was set to 2m and the Output time was set for 4 seconds.The desnity of air is 1.225m/sThe viscosity of water 1.813 x 10^-5  kg/m.sThe diameter of the cylinder is 0.2 mThe Reynolds Number of the baseline…

Given below is a program code that can solve the otto cycle and make plots for the thermal efficiency of an engine and generate a PV diagram of it taking in input values of : Bore Diameter Stroke Length Connecting Rod length The Compression Ratio Start Crank Angle End Crank Angle The specific heat ratio, gamma The temperatures…

A MATLAB code has been written to obatain the PV diagram and thermal efficiency of an Otto cycle spark ignition piston engine. The Otto cycle is a description of what happens to a mass of gas as it is subjected to changes of pressure, temperature, volume, addition of heat, and removal of heat. The Inputs that will be given…

The following MATLAB is code is written to find the final positions and workspace of a 2R robotic arm manipulator. Therefore using the equations: x1= l1*cosd(theta1)y1= l1*sind(theta1) x2= x1 + l2*cosd(theta2)y2= y1 + l2*sind(theta2) where, theta1 = the angle the first link of the robotic arm makes with the ground theta2=…

A MATLAB program has been written to optimize a Mathematical function, called the stalagmite function, and find it\'s global maxima. This function helps us generate a number of local minima and maxima. The optimization in this program is done using the Genetic Algorithm inbuilt in MATLAB. What is Genetic Algorithm? Genetic…

A Gas Flow simulation was setup using air at 300K with an inlet pressure of 101325Pa pressure and 110325 as the outlet pressure on a backward facing step. Therefore there was a pressure difference of 10,000 Pa. Three simulations were done with different base grit/mesh sizes. The velocity and pressure plots were obtained.…

A MATLAB code has been written to fit a set of data points on the variation of Cp (Specific Heat) with Temperature, using linear and Cubic polynomials. The linear and cubic fit curves are then evaluated based on their fitness characteristics and are also compared on the same plot, along with the raw data points. Intially…