Objectives: To define the Ahmed body and its importance. To Simulate flow over the Ahmed body. To perform the grid dependency test and post process the results Ahmed Body and Its Importance:- Ahmed body is a simplified car body and was first created by S.R Ahmed.This shape provides a model to study geometrical effects…
Sunil Aparaj
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Week 9 - Senstivity Analysis Assignment
Sensitivity Analysis is used to identify the parameters that affet a computed solution the most. It has proven invaluable in combustion studies, where the number of parameters is typically large. The main aim of the following code is to calculate the ignition delay of methane using a sensitivity analysis which will show…
15 Jun 2020 04:10 PM IST
Week 7 - Auto ignition using Cantera
Auto-Ignition:- Autoignition occurs when a mixture of gases or vapors ignites spontaneously with no external ignition source and after reaching a certain temperature, the autoignition temperature. The autoignition temperature is not an intrinsic property of the gases or vapors (Kanury 1975) but is the lowest temperature…
15 Jun 2020 02:38 PM IST
Week 6 - Multivariate Newton Rhapson Solver
Multivariate Newton Rapshon Method:- In numerical analysis, Newton's Method also known as the Newton-Raphson method is a root. Finding algorithms which produce successively better approximation to the root or zeros of a real values function. The most basic version start with a single variable function defined for…
10 Jun 2020 04:17 PM IST
Week 5 - Literature review: ODE Stability
What is Stability? Stability means that errors at any stage of the computation are not amplified but are attenuated as the computation progresses. In terms of the solution of a differential equation, a function f(x) is said to be stable if any other solution of the equation that starts out sufficiently close to it…
08 Jun 2020 04:29 PM IST
Week 5 - Compact Notation Derivation for a simple Mechanism
Reaction mechanism CO+O2⇔CO2+OCO+O2⇔CO2+O O+H2O⇔OH+OHO+H2O⇔OH+OH CO+OH⇔CO2+HCO+OH⇔CO2+H H+O2⇔OH+OH+O2⇔OH+O Compact notation: ⎡⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢⎣jSpecies1CO2O23CO24O5H2O6OH7H⎤⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥⎦[jSpecies1CO2O23CO24O5H2O6OH7H] ⎡⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢⎣jReactions1R12R23R34R4⎤⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥⎦[jReactions1R12R23R34R4]…
08 Jun 2020 04:19 PM IST
Week 4 - Combustion Efficiency Calculation after Preheating
1) Effect of preheating on the adiabatic flame temperature The effect of preheating air on Adiabatic Flame Tempreature (AFT) of CH4 was calculated. The Quantity class method of Cantera was used to created a Mixture Methane/Air to determine the AFT. Combustion efficiency is a measurement of how well the fuel burned is being…
02 Jun 2020 04:09 PM IST
Week 4 - Handling Mixtures with Cantera
Aim : We will be using the Quantity Class of Cantera to create various mixtures and explaining how mixture calculations is performed. 1. Use the "moles" method/function of the A object and explain how it was calculated. In this process we will be considering a mixture of Methane and Air. CH4+2(O2+3.76N2)→CO2+2H2O+7.52N2">CH4+2(O2+3.76N2)→CO2+2H2O+7.52N2CH4+2(O2+3.76N2)→CO2+2H2O+7.52N2…
02 Jun 2020 03:52 PM IST
Week 3 - Adiabatic Flame Temperature calculation
1. Equivalence Ratio One of the most important features of a combustion process is the highest temperatureof the combustion products that can be achieved. The temperature of the productswill be greatest when there are no heat losses to the surrounding environment and all ofthe energy released from combustion is used to…
27 May 2020 03:49 PM IST
Cyclone Separator Challenge
Objective:-To perform an analysis of the cyclone separator and calculate the separation efficiency and pressure drop. 1.The empirical models used for cyclone separator efficiency Cyclones are devices that employ a centrifugal force generated by a spinning gas stream to separate particles from the carrier gas. Their simple…
26 Apr 2020 12:27 AM IST
Gate Valve Parametric Study
Objectives: To simulate the parametric study on the gate valve simulation by setting the opening from 10 % to 80%. And, To Obtain the mass flow rates at the outlet for each design point. To Calculate the flow coefficient and flow factor for each opening and plot the graph. To Discuss the results of the mass flow rate and…
11 Apr 2020 06:20 AM IST
Conjugate Heat Transfer Analysis on a graphics card
15 Mar 2020 09:09 AM IST
Rayleigh Taylor Instability
2 . Phase animation Case1 Case 2 Case 3
15 Mar 2020 03:44 AM IST
Exhaust Port Challenge
Objective:- To Perform a CHT analysis on an exhaust manifold. 1. Conjugate heat transfer analysis : The term conjugate heat transfer (CHT) is used to describe processes which involve variations of temperature within solids and fluids, due to thermal interaction between the solids and fluids. Conjugate heat transfer corresponds…
08 Mar 2020 09:17 AM IST
Ahmed body and its importance
Objectives: To define the Ahmed body and its importance. To Simulate flow over the Ahmed body. To perform the grid dependency test and post process the results Ahmed Body and Its Importance:- Ahmed body is a simplified car body and was first created by S.R Ahmed.This shape provides a model to study geometrical effects…
01 Mar 2020 10:46 AM IST
Prandtl Meyer Shock problem
Objective: To uderstan the theory of formation of expansion fan due to infinite mach waves, originated at the sharp convex corner To understan the reason for the usage of Neuman BC at the outlet for supersonic flow To understan the effect of SGS parameters on shock location To undestand the effect of using subsonic initial…
01 Feb 2020 12:07 PM IST
Project 2 - Emission characterization on a CAT3410 engine
Objectives:- To run simulation of two pistons with different profiles on a CAT 3410 engine and to compare their respective parameters. Theory:- The CAT 3410 engine is a heavy duty diesel engine produced by caterpillar. This engine is generally used for industrial applications. The geometry of the piston head plays…
31 Jan 2020 12:34 PM IST
FULL HYDRO case set up PFI
Objective:- To simulate the full hydro setup of a port fuel injected engine which uses isooctane as the fuel and based on the results from the simulation calculate the following parametrs Compression ratio Combustion efficiency power and Torque Significance of CA10, CA50 and CA90 Geometry and Boundry Flagging:- The…
30 Jan 2020 01:18 PM IST
Literature review RANS derivation and analysis
Objective : To apply Reynolds decomposition to the Navier-Stokes equations and come up with the expression for Reynolds stress. Intruduction: Reynolds Number:- The Reynolds number is the ratio of inertia force to viscous force withinin a fluid which is being subjected to relative internal movement due to different…
26 Jan 2020 09:49 AM IST
Shock tube simulation
Objectives: Setup a transient shock tube simulation Plot the pressure and temperature plots in the domain. Plot the cell count as a function of time Intruduction: Shock tube are the devices which are mostly used to study the chemical kinetics. It basically is a tube with two chambers and a diaphram separating the…
15 Jan 2020 12:11 PM IST
Steady state simulation of flow over a throttle body
OBEJECTIVES: Simulation of flow over a throttle body using converge studio cfd software. Simulation is carried for two different mesh conditions and analysed with respective to the velocity profile at the outlet of the flow. Once the mesh is refined well ,the simulation is carried out for differnt CFL no and checked for…
29 Dec 2019 04:32 AM IST
Conjugate Heat Transfer Simulation
OBJECTIVE: Conjugate heat transfer throuhg cylinder. Performing grid dependency test and observing the effect of change in super-cyling interval. Spercycling: In fliuid H.T takes place faster than the solid region, therfore to over come this fluid solver is made to freeze periodicaaly while the heat transfer in solid…
29 Dec 2019 03:04 AM IST
Transient simulation of flow over a throttle body
OBJECTIVES: Perform a transient simulation for the flow of air over a throttle body in converge studio and post process the results in paraview Show the plots for the pressure , velocity amd mass flow rate The trottle valve should rotate by a given angle during the simulation time Geometry: The throttle inside the pipe…
29 Dec 2019 02:09 AM IST
Simulation floiw through pipe in OpenFoam-part2
Objectices of the project: 1). Calculation of flow variables 2). Generation of blocMeshDict using the wedge boundry condition. Create the blockmesgdict file in Matlab such that the mesh is automatically created for various wedge angle. 3). Simulating the pipe flow in OpenFoam using icoFoam solver. 4). Post process the…
18 Nov 2019 09:46 AM IST
Simulation of flow through pipe in OpenFOAM part-1
Objective of the project: 1) calculation of flow variables. 2) Generation of blockMeshDict using the wedge boundry condition. Create the blockMeshDict file in Matlab such that the mesh is automatically created for variable. 3). Simulation the pipe flow in OpenFOAM using icoFoam solver. 4). Post prosess the velocity profile…
17 Nov 2019 08:19 AM IST
Blockmesh Dril Down
Objective: The objective of the this study is to make a backward facing step block by editing blockMeshDict file and simulate it in openFOAM and post prosess the result like velocity profile near the step zone and to check the effect of grading scheme. On velocity profile. Fisrt the bacward step facing…
11 Nov 2019 09:27 AM IST
Interpolation schemes and Flux limiter in FVM
A brief explanation of Interpolation schemes and Flux limiters in finite volume method: some of the interpolation schemes used are Linear, Quadratic and other interpolation schemes. These methods are used toget to mor realistic results as the engineering problems basically uses the real world envirment. Here…
01 Nov 2019 03:11 AM IST
TAYLOR TABLE METHOD FOR HIGHER ORDER APPROXIMATION
Plots : 1. Comparision of CDS, SLDS, SRDS 2. Comparision of SDS,SLDS,SRDS,FD and BD II. Matlab program Main script clear all close all clc % calculating the derivative of function %% given function, f(x)=exp(x).sin(x); % f\'\'(x)=-2.exp(x).sin(x); %% assuming x=pi/3 x=pi/3; %% Definig the grid size…
31 Oct 2019 10:28 PM IST
Flow simulation of 1D super-sonic nozzle using the Mac-Cromack method
We consider the steady , isotropic through a convergent-divergent nozzlw. The flow at the inlet to the nozzle comes from a reservoir where pressure and tempertures are at stagnation. Also it is assumed that the cross sectional area of the nozzle is very lagre so that the velocity is almost V=0. The flow expands adiabatically…
12 Oct 2019 04:04 AM IST
solving the 2-D heat conduction equation
matlab code as plots are atteched below: clear all close all clc % steady state heat conduction n = 11; T = zeros(n,n); % initial temperature condition T(:,1)=400; % boundry condition left T(:,n)=800; % boundry condition right T(1,:)=600; % boundry condition top T(n,:)=900; % boundry condition bottom T_old1=T;T_old2=T;T_old3=T;…
17 Sep 2019 07:57 AM IST