Week 4 - CHT Analysis on Exhaust port

  AIM: Perform the heat transfer analysis using ANSYS-Fluent software for the cylindrical 4 by 2 Lithium-ion Battery with heat generation boundary conditions and study the battery thermal management system(BTMS).   OBJECTIVES: Perform Mesh independent study for any one case(For velocity) and use the more suitable…

  AIM: To study and perform a parametric study on the gate valve simulation by using the ANSYS fluent software.   OBJECTIVE: Perform a 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…

  AIM: To perform analysis on cyclone separator and calculate the separation efficiency and pressure drop using the discrete phase modeling using ANSYS fluent software.   OBJECTIVES: Write a few words about any four empirical models used to calculate the cyclone separator efficiency.  To perform an analysis…

  AIM: To study and perform a steady-state conjugate heat transfer analysis on a graphics card model.   OBJECTIVE: Run the simulation by varying the velocity from 1m/sec to 5m/sec for at least 3 velocities. Find out the maximum temperature and heat transfer coefficient attained by the processor. Prove that the…

  AIM: To study and analyze the rayleigh Taylor instability criterion. OBJECTIVE: Perform the Rayleigh Taylor instability simulation for 2 different mesh sizes with the base mesh being 0.5 mm. Compare the results by showing the animations. Observe the differences in the animation and compare the effect of mesh…

  AIM: To perform the conjugate heat transfer analysis on the exhaust port model.   OBJECTIVES: Calculate the wall(surface) heat transfer coefficient on the internal solid surface & show the velocity & temperature contours in appropriate areas. Maintain the y+ value according to the turbulence model and…

AIM: To study the external flow simulation over the Ahmed body.   OBJECTIVE: Perform the grid independency test and provide the values of drag and lift with each case. Velocity and pressure contours. The vector plot clearly shows the wake region.  An explanation for the negative pressure region in the wake region…

  AIM: Simulate the flow over a cylinder and explain the phenomenon of Karman vortex street.    OBJECTIVES: Simulate the flow with the steady and unsteady case and calculate the Strouhal Number for Re= 100. Calculate the drag and lift coefficient over a cylinder by setting the Reynolds number to 10,100,1000,10000…

AIM: Derive the following 4th-order approximations of the second-order derivative using the Taylor table method. Central difference. Skewed right-sided difference. Skewed left-sided difference.   OBJECTIVES: Prove that obtained skewed schemes are fourth-order accurate. Write a program in Matlab to evaluate the second-order…

  AIM: For the given two versions(short and long) of the mixing tree model we are performing the steady-state simulations using the (K-epsilon/K-omega SST) model to compare the mixing effectiveness when the hot inlet temperature is 360C & the Cold inlet is 190C. Determine the temperature and…

AIM:To study and perform surface meshing on Tesla cyber truck and also to create a wind tunnel(perform surface meshing). OBJECTIVE:For the given Tesla cyber truck first, we have to solve the geometrical errors on the half portion and perform them with the given Target length and element Quality criteria(TRIA).…

AIM: To study and perform the surface wrapping on the given automotive assembly containing the Engine, transmission, and gearbox.   OBJECTIVE: First, we get individual ANSA model components which are Engine, Gearbox, and Transmission. Next step we do a geometrical clean on the individual models to make sure to delete…

AIM: To study and perform surface meshing on BMW car and also to create a wind tunnel(perform surface meshing).   OBJECTIVE: For the given BMW car first, we have to solve the geometrical errors on the half portion and perform them with the given Target length and element Quality criteria(TRIA). Once the meshing…

AIM: To study and perform the surface meshing and volumetric meshing on the turbocharger model.  OBJECTIVE: Our motto in this report is to check for geometrical errors to make sure appropriate volumes are present. To create PIDs and assign them accordingly based on the parts of a turbocharger. Finally to perform the…

AIM:  To study the meshing process of the pressure valve using ANSA software. Initially check for geometrical errors and perform topology cleanup accordingly. Finally set three different target lengths as three different cases and mesh the model.  TOOLS:   Under Topology option Fill hole Topo Faces(new)…

AIM: To study power electronics of DC motor which includes power converters and also control of DC motor using the power circuits in Simulink.   OBJECTIVES: To study and run the MATLAB demo model of Speed control of DC motor using BJT(Bipolar junction transistor) H bridge in Simulink and comment on the armature current…

AIM:  To study different types of power converter circuits used in electric and hybrid electric vehicles. For the given parameters of the electric vehicle powertrain calculate the steady-state speed of EV if the duty cycle is 70%. Create a Simulink model of the mathematical model of a DC Motor. Refer to the blog and…

OBJECTIVES: To carry the analysis of HEV reference application with WOT drive cycle by changing the grade and wind velocity in environment block. From the above-HEV reference application keeping all parameters the same, simulated results from both HEV and electric vehicle are compared to draw conclusions based on the performance…

AIM:  To use the ADVISOR tool for simulation of an electric vehicle in order to get the performance.   OBJECTIVES: Initially, we are selecting EV_default_in file, if cargo mass by 500 is added with all default conditions. We have to find can the vehicle travel for 45Km with an FTP drive cycle and study the…

Aim: Write a MATLAB code to create a Rankine cycle simulator to calculate the parameters at each state point based on given user input values also to plot T-S and H-S diagrams.    OBJECTIVE: Initially, we write a program to calculate the parameters(Temperature, Pressure, Enthalpy, Entropy) at each state point.…

AIM: Write a MATLAB code to parse NASA Thermodynamic data file to calculate the Specific heat, Enthalpy, Entropy, and molecular weight of each species.   OBJECTIVES: To read the data from the 'THERMO.dat' file and extract all the coefficients for each species to calculate entropy, specific heat, and enthalpy. Next…

AIM:  Write a MATLAB code to optimize the given stalagmite function by using a genetic algorithm. Finally, we are finding global maxima for a given stalagmite function using boundary conditions.   THEORY:    OPTIMIZATION Optimization is an area of study which deals with how to minimize or maximize the…

AIM:  Write a program in MATLAB that solves Second-order ordinary differential equations(ODE) for the simple pendulum with damping and also to simulate the pendulum's motion for given input variables to the simple pendulum with respect to time.   THEORY: A simple pendulum consists of a Ball of mass(m) hanging…