Week 12 - Validation studies of Symmetry BC vs Wedge BC in OpenFOAM vs Analytical H.P equation

                             CAD Cleanup and Advance Meshing of a Car Model with Wind Tunnel Aim :  1. To  Perform the CAD Cleanup of the Car model provided based on external aerodynamic analysis . 2.Create the wind tunnel to define…

                              Geometry Cleanup and Advance CFD Meshing of Turbocharger using Batch Mesh manager   I.Geometry :  Please click here to find the geometry of cleaned turbocharger (Error rectified) II.Aim To demonstrate…

                                        Geometry Cleanup and Advance CFD Meshing of Pressure valve I.Aim: To understand about the functions of pressure valve and to perform geometry cleanup of pressure valve using Pre…

Usage of Surface wrap in Thermal Analysis Aim :  1. Detailing the procedure for approaching the model for thermal analysis            2. Using surface wrap on an engine model and to mesh it for thermal analysis . Geometry : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lo38t4dhNYZ8Iz3XB--ReLq3ZisyeaJF/view?usp=share_link…

Advance Meshing of Ford for External Aerodynamics I.Aim: 1.To perform Geometry cleanup , surface Meshing and Volumetric Meshing od Ford for external aerodynamics  2.To create wind tunnel and do tyre crushing with standard dimensions  II.Geometry Link :Note : I was not able to perform volumetric meshing considering…

                              Week 4 Challenge-Compiling C++ Libraries Aim: Aim of this challenge is to  Part 1: copy one particular solver from the lagranjian library ( $FOAM_SOLVERS ) in to our run folder ( $FOAM_RUN ). Using…

 Simulating Fluid Sloshing effect inside a Gear-box Aim : Simulating the fluid sloshing effect in gearbox and to compare results among these 4 cases shown below  Part 1: 20% Immersion, Fluid - Engine oil. 30% Immersion, Fluid- Engine oil. 20% Immersion,Fluid-n-heptane (c7h16). 30% Immersion,Fluid-n-heptane…

Aim: To perform a combustion simulation on given combustor model and to observe the variation of mass fraction of different species in the simulation. Objective: Part 1 1) Perform a combustion simulation and plot the variation of mass fraction of different species in the simulation using line probe at different location.…

AIM:  to perform a parametric study on the gate valve simulation by setting the opening from 10 % to 80% Objective: 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 of the mass flow rate and flow…

                                       SIMULATING  CYCLONE SEPARATOR                   Aim:- To perform analysis on cyclone separator and calculate the separation…

                           CHT Analysis on a Graphics card Aim: To perform CHT analysis on graphic card. Objectives: 1) To learn the procedure for CHT analysis in ANSYS Fluent 2) To understand various meshing concepts and methods 3) To infer various…

Objective of the project:- 1. Calculation of flow variables. 2. Generation of the blockMeshDict using the wedge boundary condition. create the blockMeshDict file in MATLAB such that the mesh is autoatically created for various wedge angles. 3. Simulating the pipe flow in openFoam using icoFoa solver. 4. Post process the…

           Rayleigh Taylor Instability       Objectives: some practical CFD models that have been based on the mathematical analysis of Rayleigh Taylor waves explain how these mathematical models have been adapted for CFD calculations. Perform the Rayleigh Taylor instability…

           CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER ANALYSIS ON EXHAUST PORT  Objectives :   Giving a brief description of why and where a CHT analysis is used.  Maintaining the y+ value according to the turbulence model and justifying the results.   Calculating the wall/surface…

      External flow simulation over an Ahmed body Abstract: The aerodynamic behaviour of Ahmed body is numerically investigated in the present work. Commercial FLUENT software is used for CFD simulation using a turbulent model. Grid dependency test is performed to validate the results against the experimental…

           STEADY VS UNSTEADY FLOW OVER A CYLINDER  Aim :   To Simulate the flow over a cylinder and explain the phenomenon of Karman vortex street.  Problem Statement : PART-I Simulating  the flow with the steady and unsteady case and calculate the Strouhal Number for Re= 100.  PART-II Calculating  the coefficient of…

                            MIXING TEE CFD SIMULATION ABSTRACT The given problem is focused in analyzing the mixing effectiveness of hot and cold fluid in a tee shaped pipe. A numerical study using CFD approach is applied to predict the outlet temperature…

Objective: Writing a program in Matlab that can generate the computational mesh automatically for any wedge angle and grading schemes. Obtain results for the pipe flow with symmetry BC. Angles to test 10,25,45 Post process velocity and shear stress The results for the wedge boundary conditions can be seen here https://skill-lync.com/projects/week-11-simulation-of-flow-through-a-pipe-in-openfoam-4…

AIM: To describe the need for interpolation schemes and flux limiters in FVM THEORY: Discretization is the process of converting partial Differential Equation in to Algebradic form. The whole idea behind discretization is to get the solution at descrete points. Methods of Discretization  1. Finite Difference…

Simulation of a backward facing step in OpenFOAM   AIM: To simulate incompressible laminar viscous flow through the backward facing step geometry.   Introduction: In this challenge, the flow through backward facing step has been simulated isung icoFOAM solver which is performed in OPENFOAM software.…

Simulation of a backward facing step in OpenFOAM   AIM: To simulate incompressible laminar viscous flow through the backward facing step geometry.   Introduction: In this challenge, the flow through backward facing step has been simulated isung icoFOAM solver which is performed in OPENFOAM software.…

Objective: To simulate the isentropic flow through a quasi 1D subsonic-supersonic nozzle using both the conservation and non-conservation forms of the governing equations and sovle them using the MacCormack's technique and comparing their solutions. Description: We consider the study, isentropic flow…

 Understanding linear systems Aim:-To understand the linear systems by solving linear equation by using different iterative techniques. Theory:-Matlab can solve the linear systems very easily by using inbuilt function,but in this case we are using iterative techniques to solve the linear systems to understand the…

  STEADY STATE ANALYSIS IN THE UNSTEADY PROBLEM    Objective : For both implicit and explicit methods look at the effect of time step on the stability of the solution.  1. How does an unstable solution look like? 2. At what CFL number does your solution become unstable ?   Stability analysis…

Steady state vs unsteady analysis Steady State Analysis In steady state Analysis the solution is independent of time, hence it solves for the values at steady state. The fastest steady state analysis is achieved using SOR(Successive over relaxation) method at α">αα(Relaxation factor) =1.7.  …

                                        Solving the steady and unsteady 2D heat conduction problem   OBJECTIVE: To solve Steady and Unsteady state 2D Heat Conduction Equation by using the point iterative techniques…

WEEK 4 -LINEAR CONVECTION  Objective :  To solve the below mentioned 1D Linear Convection Equation using Finite Difference Method where forward differencing is used for the time derivative term and backward differencing is used for the space terms. The initial velocity and the final velocity is to be compared…

                                                        TAYLOR TABLE METHOD AND MATLAB CODE  Objective :    To Derive the following 4th order approximations…

                                                                                 RANKINE CYCLE SIMULATION USING MATLAB …

                                PARSING NASA THERMODYNAMIC DATA USING MATLAB  Objective :              Writing a code in matlab to parse the NASA Thermodynamic data file and to calculate the…

                                  GENETIC ALGORITHM USING MATLAB AIM :                    Aim of this project is to understand the concept of genetic algorithm and  writing a…

CURVE FITTING USING MATLAB  AIM :                   Writing a matlab code to fit linear and cubical data for cp data and plotting linear and cubical fit curves along with raw data fit points . INTRODUCTION :                 Basically…

     AIR STANDARD CYCLE SIMULATION USING ATLAB  1.AIM:  Writing a code to simulate an Air standard cycle using matlab  Creating a plot for P-V  Obtaining thermal efficiency of an engine  2.INTRODUCTION:          Generally a heat engine cycle is a series…

                                       SOLVING SECOND ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS USING MATLAB AIM:  The aim of this project is to solve an ordinary differential equation by using matlab . Particularly in this…

FORWARD KINEMATICS OF 2R ROBOTIC ARM USING MATLAB  1. AIM :               A program to simulate forward kinematics of 2R robotic arm using matlab   2.INTRODUCTION:                 A robotic arm is a type of mechanical…

 DRAG FORCE AGAINST A CYCLIST   1.AIM:                                To calculate drag force on a cyclist    2.INTRODUCTION:                        …