Week 1 : Exploring the GUI of GT-POWER

Aim: Exploring the GUI of GT-POWER

1. Applications of GT Suite:

1. Hydraulics and Fuel Injections
2. Power train cooling
3. Combustion and Emissions
4. Acoustics
5. Aerospace

2. Locate following settings:

• Time control flag
• Time step and solution control
• Integrator/Solver type

• Time Control Flag

• Time step and solution control

• Integrator/Solver type

3. Intercooler Tutorial settings:

Intercooler:

Run setup:

• Time control :
• Maximum Simulation duration (time) - 0.5s
• Minimum simulation duration (time) - ign
• Automatic shut off when steady state - on
• Main Driver ( Defines periodic frequency) - Automatic

• Initialization:
• Initialization state - User imposed
• User Imposed methods - Part Attributes

• Flow Control:
• Part Name List Object Identifying Circuits Belonging to Column - Default
• Time Step and Solution Control Object- Explicit
• Solve All Circuits Together (Single Solution Cluster for the Column)

• ODE Control:
• Part Name List Object Identifying Circuits Belonging to Column - Default
• Matrix Sparse Format Solver (BETA for CSR) - Skyline
• Matrix (Node Order) Optimization Method - Cuthill-Mckee
• Integrator/Solver Type - Explicit Runge Kutta
• Time Step and Solution Control Object - Explicit Default
• Time Step Output Frequency -= Default

Advanced Setup:

Plot Setup:

Output setup:

4. Problem:

Given

• Diameter of cooler inlet and outlet pipe= 50 mm
• Length of the CAC= 1000 mm
• Inlet mass flow rate = 1200 kg/ h at 100 degC
• Outlet pressure 2 bar at 30 deg C

Results :

HTC:

Pressure:

Pressure drop:

Temperature:

Conclusion:

• Simulated an Intercooler with the given dimensions and outputs were extracted.
• Tools in the GT suite were explored.