BREAKING ICE WITH AIR CUSHIONED VEHICLE - FINDING MINIMUM PRESSURE WITH NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD

AIM: DATA VISUALIZATION, COMPATIBILITY CHECK, AND BASIC PERFORMANCE CALCULATION USING PYTHON.   INTRODUCTION: Data analysis is a process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and supporting decision-making. Data analysis has…

AIM: TO PERFORM CURVE FITTING FOR THE GIVEN TEMPERATURE AND CP DATA IN PYTHON   THEORY: Curve fitting is the process of constructing a curve, or mathematical function, that has the best fit to a series of data points, possibly subject to constraints. Curve fitting can involve either interpolation, where an exact fit…

AIM: TO CALCULATE THE MINIMUM PRESSURE OF AN ICE BREAKING AIR CUSHION VEHICLE USING NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD   THEORY: A hovercraft, also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is an amphibious craft capable of traveling over land, water, mud, ice, and other surfaces. Hovercraft use blowers to produce a large volume…

AIM: TO SIMULATE THE TRANSIENT BEHAVIOUR OF A SIMPLE PENDULUM AND TO CREATE AN ANIMATION OF IT’S MOTION USING PYTHON   THEORY: In Engineering, ODE is used to describe the transient behavior of a system. A simple example is a pendulum. The way the pendulum moves depends on Newton's second law. When this law is…

AIM: TO SIMULATE THE FORWARD KINEMATICS OF A 2R ROBOTIC ARM USING PYTHON   INTRODUCTION: A manipulator/end effector movement determines the workspace where the robotic arm can be applicable. Our motive is to animate the movement of the robotic arm with the subsequent relative motion between the two-comprising links.…

AIM: TO CREATE A PV DIAGRAM OF AN OTTO CYCLE AND FIND ITS THERMAL EFFICIENCY USING PYTHON   THEORY: An Otto cycle is an idealized thermodynamic cycle that describes the functioning of a typical spark ignition piston engine. It is the thermodynamic cycle most commonly found in automobile engines.   GOVERNING EQUATIONS:…

AIM: TO DESIGN A CENTRIFUGAL PUMP USING SOLIDWORKS AND SIMULATE THE FLOW   INTRODUCTION: 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. They are a sub-class…

AIM: TO CALCULATE THE DRAG FORCE ON A CYCLIST AND RUN PARAMETRIC STUDIES IN PYTHON   GOVERNING EQUATIONS:                                                            …

AIM: TO MODEL A FLOWBENCH AND RUN FLOW SIMULATION IN SOLIDWORKS   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 used primarily for testing the intake and exhaust ports of cylinder heads of…

AIM: TO SIMULATE FLOW OVER A CYLINDER AT VARYING REYNOLDS NUMBER USING SOLIDWORKS   INTRODUCTION: In mathematics, 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…

AIM: TO SIMULATE FLOW OVER A NACA 0017 AIRFOIL WITH VARYING ANGLE OF ATTACKS USING SOLIDWORKS   INTRODUCTION: An airfoil or aerofoil is the cross-sectional shape of a wing, blade (of a propeller, rotor, or turbine), or sail. An airfoil-shaped body moving through a fluid produces an aerodynamic force. The component…

AIM: FLOW SIMULATION IN SOLIDWORKS   INTRODUCTION: SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation is an intuitive Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solution embedded within SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD that enables you to quickly and easily simulate liquid and gas flows through and around your designs to calculate product performance and capabilities.…

INTRODUCTION:  A Valvetrain or Valve Train is a mechanical system that controls operation of the intake and exhaust valves in an internal combustion engine. The intake valves control the flow of air/fuel mixture (or air alone for direct-injected engines) into the combustion chamber, while…

INTRODUCTION: A slider-crank linkage is a four-link mechanism with three revolute joints and one prismatic, or sliding, joint. The rotation of the crank drives the linear movement the slider, or the expansion of gases against a sliding piston in a cylinder can drive the rotation of the…

INTRODUCTION: An epicyclic gear train (also known as planetary gear) consists of two gears mounted so that the centre of one gear revolves around the centre of the other. A carrier connects the centres of the two gears and rotates to carry one gear, called the Planet Gear or Planet…

INTRODUCTION: The Geneva drive or Maltese cross is a gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation movement into intermittent rotary motion. The rotating drive wheel is usually equipped with a pin that reaches into a slot located in the other wheel…

AIM: TO PARSE THE THERMODYNAMIC DATA FROM NASA USING MATLAB   THEORY: The official record of thermodynamic values at different temperatures has been stored by NASA in the form of polynomials with specified constants ranging from one to fourteen for various species. In order to quantify the values, the polynomials…

AIM: TO CREATE A RANKINE CYCLE SIMULATOR USING OCTAVE/MATLAB     THEORY: The Rankine cycle is the fundamental operating cycle of all power plants where an operating fluid is continuously evaporated and condensed. The selection of operating fluid depends mainly on the available temperature range. The…

AIM: TO CREATE A 'PV DIAGRAM' FOR AN OTTO CYCLE AND FIND ITS 'THERMAL EFFICIENCY' USING MATLAB   THEORY: An Otto cycle is an idealized thermodynamic cycle that describes the functioning of a typical spark ignition piston engine. It is the thermodynamic cycle most commonly found in automobile engines. GOVERNING EQUATIONS:…

AIM: TO SIMULATE THE 'FORWARD KINEMATICS' OF A 2R ROBOTIC ARM USING MATLAB   OBJECTIVE: Write a program to simulate forward kinematics of a 2R Robotic Arm Animating and creating a movie from the plots obtained from the program   THEORY: A manipulator/end effector movement determines the workspace where the robotic…

AIM: TO SIMULATE THE TRANSIENT BEHAVIOUR OF A SIMPLE PENDULUM AND TO CREATE AN ANIMATION OF IT’S MOTION USING MATLAB   THEORY: In Engineering, ODE is used to describe the transient behaviour of a system. A simple example is a pendulum. The way the pendulum moves depends on the Newtons second law. When this law…

AIM: TO CALCULATE THE 'DRAG FORCE' ON A CYCLIST AND RUN PARAMETRIC STUDIES IN MATLAB   GOVERNING EQUATIONS:                                                         `F_d=(1/2).ρ.A.v^2.C_d`…

AIM: TO CALCULATE THE GLOBAL MAXIMA OF A STALAGMITE FUNCTION USING MATLAB   THEORY: The global maxima of a ‘Stalagmite Function’ can be obtained using ‘Genetic Algorithm’ in MATLAB. Genetic algorithms are a class of algorithms based on the abstraction of Darwin’s evolution of biological…

AIM: TO PERFORM CURVE FITTING FOR THE GIVEN TEMPERATURE AND CP DATA   THEORY: Curve fitting is the process of constructing a curve, or mathematical function, that has the best fit to a series of data points, possibly subject to constraints. Curve fitting can involve either interpolation, where an exact fit to the…