AIM: To understand a mixing tee and carry out various simulations under different initial conditions and understand its effectiveness. OBJECTIVE: Plot Velocity and temperature contour plots on the cut planes along and across the pipe. Plot Velocity and temperature line plots along and across the length of the pipe. Perform…
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Final Project: Design of an Electric Vehicle
AIM: To design an electric vehicle with a DC motor using MATLAB and SIMULINK. OBJECTIVE: To understand and implement the following System-level configurations Model parameters Results Conclusion VEHICLE BLOCK DIAGRAM: Above is the basic block diagram of an EV, this will be implemented on SIMULINK using…
15 Mar 2021 09:27 AM IST
Gate Valve Parametric Study (ANSYS FLUENT)
AIM: To perform parametric study of a gate valve. Objective: Parametric study on the gate valve simulation by setting the opening from 10 % to 80%. Obtain the mass flow rates at the outlet for each design point. Calculate the flow coefficient and flow factor for each opening and plot the graph. Discuss the results…
09 Mar 2021 07:02 AM IST
1D Super-sonic nozzle flow simulation using Macormack Method (MATLAB)
AIM: This project will simulate the isentropic flow through a quasi 1D subsonic-supersonic nozzle. Derive both the conservation and non-conservation forms of the governing equations and sovle them using the MacCormack's technique. OBJECTIVE: plot the following 1. Steady-state distribution of primitive variables inside…
09 Mar 2021 07:01 AM IST
Parsing NASA thermodynamic data (MATLAB)
AIM: to evaluate NASA's thermodynamic data (provided ) by understanding and using the file parsing method on MATLAB to plot the various graphs and to do the calculations. GOVERNING EQUATIONS OBJECTIVE: Write a function that extracts the 14 co-efficients and calculates the enthalpy, entropy and specific heats for…
09 Mar 2021 07:00 AM IST
Solving the steady and unsteady 2D heat conduction problem (MATLAB)
AIM: to solve the 2D steady and unsteady heat conduction problem. OBJECTIVE: to conduct the Steady state analysis Explicit Transient State Analysis Implicit Transient State Analysis implementing the following methods for solving implicit equations. Jacobi Gauss-seidel Successive over-relaxation…
09 Mar 2021 07:00 AM IST
Simulation of Flow through a pipe in OpenFoam: part 1 (OpenFoam, MATLAB)
AIM: To simulate the laminar flow of water through a pipe. OBJECTIVE: Write a program in Matlab that can generate the computational mesh automatically for any wedge angle and grading scheme For a baseline mesh, show that the velocity profile matches with the Hagen poiseuille's equation Show that the velocity profile…
09 Mar 2021 06:58 AM IST
Simulation of Flow through a pipe in OpenFoam: part 2 (OpenFoam MATLAB)
AIM: To simulate the laminar flow of water through a pipe. OBJECTIVE: Write a program in Matlab that can generate the computational mesh automatically for any wedge angle and grading scheme For a baseline mesh, show that the velocity profile matches with the Hagen poiseuille's equation Show that the velocity profile…
09 Mar 2021 06:57 AM IST
Mixing Efficiency Of A Mixing Tee.(ANSYS FLUENT)
AIM: To understand a mixing tee and carry out various simulations under different initial conditions and understand its effectiveness. OBJECTIVE: Plot Velocity and temperature contour plots on the cut planes along and across the pipe. Plot Velocity and temperature line plots along and across the length of the pipe. Perform…
09 Mar 2021 06:56 AM IST
Steady Vs Unsteady flow over a cylinder (ANSYS FLUENT)
AIM: The main aim of this project is to simulate the flow over a cylinder, to observe the von- karman vortex street phenomenon. we must also understand how the various conditions affect the simulation. OBJECTIVE: PART-I Simulate the flow with the steady and unsteady case and calculate the Strouhal Number for Re= 100. …
09 Mar 2021 06:55 AM IST
DISCRETE PHASE MODELLING for efficiency calculation of Cyclone Separator (ANSYS FLUENT)
Aim: To perform analysis on cyclone separator and calculate the separation efficiency and pressure drop. Objective: To write a few words about any four empirical models used to calculate the cyclone separator efficiency. To perform an analysis on a given cyclone separator model by varying the particle…
09 Mar 2021 06:55 AM IST
Study and Simulation of Ahmed Body (ANSYS FLUENT)
AIM: To understand the importance and application of the ahmed body. OBJECTIVE: Describe Ahmed's body and its importance. Explain the reason for the negative pressure in the wake region. Explain the significance of the point of separation. Velocity and pressure contours. The…
09 Mar 2021 06:53 AM IST
CHT analysis of Exhaust Port (ANSYS FLUENT)
AIM: to understand various concepts of CFD such as CHT analysis, Y+ values through the CFD simulation of an exhaust manifold of an inline 4 cylinder engine. OBJECTIVE: Give a brief description of why and where a CHT analysis is used. Maintain the y+ value according to the turbulence model and justify the results. …
09 Mar 2021 06:52 AM IST
Conjugate Heat Transfer Analysis on a graphics card. (ANSYS FLUENT)
AIM : To perform CHT analysis on a graphics card OBJECTIVE: Run the simulation by varying the velocity from 1m/sec to 5m/sec for at least 3 velocities and discuss the results. Find out the maximum temperature and heat transfer coefficient attained by the processor. Prove that the simulation has achieved convergence with…
09 Mar 2021 06:51 AM IST
WOT Condition using Powertrain blockset (SIMULINK)
AIM: To understand and use the powertrain blockset, and thus answer the given questions. OBJECTIVE: What is the difference between mapped and dynamic model of engine, motor and generator? How can you change model type? How does the model calculate miles per gallon? Which factors are considered to model fuel flow? …
09 Mar 2021 06:50 AM IST
Solving second order ODEs (MATLAB)
AIM: objective is to write a program that solves the given ODE. This ODE represents the equation of motion of a simple pendulum with damping governing equations: CODE: the following functions are used in this code ode45- this is a preexisting MATLAB solver that is used to solve second order differential equations…
09 Mar 2021 06:50 AM IST
ADVISOR Tool (MATLAB)
AIM: To understand the ADVISOR(ADvanced VehIcle SimulatOR) tool on Matlab. OBJECTIVE: Use ADVISOR tool and simulate the following For EV_defaults_in file, if cargo mass is 500 kg with all other default conditions, can the vehicle travel for 45 km with FTP drive cycle? Conclude your observations. In the above case,…
09 Mar 2021 06:49 AM IST
Literature review: EV Drivetrain components
AIM: To Understand EV drivetrain components by answering the following questions. OBJECTIVE: Which types of power converter circuits are employed in an electric and hybrid electric vehicle? Read and review the blog on the topic 'Induction Versus DC Brushless Motors' For the given data What is EV steady-state…
09 Mar 2021 06:47 AM IST
DC Motor Control (SIMULINK)
AIM: To understand the DC motor control characteristics. OBJECTIVE: Run MATLAB demo ‘Speed control of a DC motor using BJT H-bridge’. Modify the model such that armature current doesn’t shoot up when motor changes direction from forward to reverse. Refer to the help section of ‘The Four-Quadrant…
09 Mar 2021 06:45 AM IST
Simulating Combustion of Natural Gas. (ANSYS FLUENT)
AIM: To perform a 2D axisymmetric Combustion simulation With the given combustor model. OBJECTIVES: plot the variation of the mass fraction of the different species’ in the simulation using line probes at different locations of the combustor. We need to plot for CO2, H2O, CH4, N2, O2, NOx emissions & Soot…
09 Mar 2021 06:44 AM IST
Powertrain requirements for electric Aircraft TUG
AIM: To study aircraft power requirements for moving on the ground. OBJECTIVES: To answer the following questions Search and list out the total weight of various types of aircraft. Is there any difference between ground speed and airspeed? Why is it not recommended to use aircraft engine power to move it on…
09 Mar 2021 06:43 AM IST
Electric Vehicle Braking (MATLAB)
AIM: To understand the concepts of electric vehicle braking. OBJECTIVE: To answer the following questions For a defined driving cycle, calculate the energy required for braking. Why electric motor can’t develop braking torque at a high speed similar to starting? How electric and mechanical brakes are coordinated? …
09 Mar 2021 06:43 AM IST
Rayleigh Taylor Instability Challenge
AIM: To understand the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability OBJECTIVE: What are some practical CFD models that have been based on the mathematical analysis of Rayleigh Taylor waves? In your own words, explain how these mathematical models have been adapted for CFD calculations. Perform the Rayleigh Taylor instability simulation…
08 Dec 2020 06:24 AM IST
Week 9 - FVM Literature Review
AIM : To describe the need for discretization, interpolation schemes and flux limiters in FVm THEORY: In fluid dynamics the 3 main methods to solve the PDE's of the navier stokes equation by converting them into algebraic forms are Finite Difference Method Finite Volume Method Finite Element Method Finite…
17 Nov 2020 07:32 AM IST
Week 8 - BlockMesh Drill down challenge
AIM: the main of this project is to simulate the flow through the backward facing step using the block in icoFoam solver and postprocess the results for velocity at 0.085 m from the start point Theory: there are 5 blocks in this particular project, 200 cells in the x direction and 10 cells in the y direction(for top 4…
17 Nov 2020 03:33 AM IST
Week 3 - Taylor table method and Matlab code
AIM: To Derive the following 4th order approximations of the second-order derivative of a given continuous function using taylors table method. OBJECTIVE: To calculate the taylor series coefficients for central difference,skewed right side difference and skewed left side difference Compare the analytical derivative…
20 Oct 2020 11:33 AM IST
Project 2 - Rankine cycle Simulator
AIM: To understand the Rankine Cycle and to simulate it using MATLAB Objective: To accept in initial conditions from the user. To calculate the state variables at each point To calculate the net work output, SSC, Back work ratio To plot the T-S and H-S graphs. THEORY: In general, the Rankine cycle is…
15 Oct 2020 03:56 AM IST
Week 4 - Genetic Algorithm
AIM : To understand the genetic algorithm and successfully apply it to a function to calculate the maxima. OBJECTIVE: Write a code in MATLAB to optimise the stalagmite function and find the global maxima of the function. Plot graphs for all 3 studies and for F maximum vs no. of iterations. FORMULAE USED:…
12 Oct 2020 05:30 AM IST
Week 3
Objective: to generate the mesh of the given model, using the mid surface on ANSA CAD model image: Procedure: 1) the first step is to do a geometry check/ geometry clean up, the mentioned errors need to be corrected before continuing(triple cons and others). 2) create the mid surface…
16 Jul 2020 10:58 AM IST