CENTRIFUGAL PUMP DESIGN AND ANALYSIS USING SOLIDWORKS

OBJECTIVE: To model the rotating shaft and calculate the critical or resonant frequencies.   INTRODUCTION:  Resonance: Resonance describes the phenomena of amplification that occurs when the frequency of a periodically applied force is in harmonic proportion to a natural frequency of the system…

INTRODUCTION: Stretching of rectangular plates with hole: Holes exist on parts of ships and offshore structures to satisfy functional requirements, reduce weight, and achieve economic benefits. However, stress concentration often occurs around holes and affects the safety of structures. Analytical methods have been proposed…

INTRODUCTION: BUCKLING ANALYSIS: In many design projects, engineers must calculate the factor of safety (FOS) to ensure the design will withstand the expected loadings. Calculations require correctly recognizing the mechanisms of failure, and this is a difficult task. All too often we associate structural failure only…

INTRODUCTION: BENDING IN BEAMS:                                                                                   …

INTRODUCTION: Centrifugal pumps are a sub-class of dynamic axisymmetric work-absorbing turbomachinery. Centrifugal pumps are used to transport fluids by the conversion of rotational kinetic energy to the hydrodynamic energy of the fluid flow. The rotational energy typically comes from an engine or electric motor.…

INTRODUCTION: An airflow bench is a device used for testing the internal aerodynamic qualities of an engine component and is related to the more familiar wind tunnel. It is primarily used for testing the intake and exhaust ports of cylinder heads in an internal combustion engine. it is also used to test the flow…

INTRODUCTION: The NACA airfoils are the shapes designed for aircraft wings developed by the            National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.                                       …

INTRODUCTION:  Potential flow around a circular cylinder is a classical solution for the flow of an inviscid, incompressible fluid around a cylinder that is transverse to the flow. Far from the cylinder, the flow is unidirectional and uniform. The flow has no vorticity and thus the velocity field is…

INTRODUCTION: Pipe flow, a branch of hydraulics and fluid mechanics, is a type of fluid flow within a closed conduit (conduit in the sense of a means of containment). The other type of flow within a conduit is open channel flow. These two types of flow are similar in many ways, but differ in one important aspect.…

Rankine Cycle: The Rankine cycle is a model used to predict the performance of steam turbine systems. It was also used to study the performance of reciprocating steam engines. The Rankine cycle is an idealized thermodynamic cycle of a heat engine that converts heat into mechanical work while undergoing a…

Parsing NASA Thermodynamic Data using the Thermodynamic data file using 'thermo.dat' file and calculating specific heat, enthalpy, entropy, and molecular weight of the various chemical species using MatLab. Description About the thermodynamic data file: 'THERMO.dat' file consists of the header information which includes…

OPTIMIZATION OF STALAGMAITE FUNCTION USING GENETIC ALGORITHM : `f(x,y)=f1x*f2x*f1y*f2y` `f1x= [sin⁡(5.1πx+0.5) ]^6` `f1y= [sin⁡(5.1πy+0.5) ]^6` `f2x= e^((-4ln⁡(2)*(((x-0.0667)^2))/0.64))` `f2y= e^((-4ln⁡(2)*(((y-0.0667)^2))/0.64))` The genetic algorithm is a method for solving both constrained and unconstrained optimization…