Week 9 - Parametric study on Gate valve.

AIM Create the rib for the Centre console coin holder considering the design rules as mentioned in the below image. OBJECTIVE Create a Rib for the CoinHolder following Design Rules for Rib creation. Perform Draft analysis. Arrange proper tree structure. Geometrical sets should have a proper name based on the sketches present…

AIM:To create a switch bezel from the given A-class surface by considering a thickness of 2.5 mm and also creating Core and Cavity blocks for it. PROCEDURE: A class surface : The input of the product designer is in the form of the A-class surface. The job of the product designer is to create the B and C surfaces keeping…

OBJECTIVE Design the Coin Holder Plastic Component from the given A surface, with: Proper Tooling Axis. Features meeting the Draft requirements. Uniform Thickness of 2.5 mm.   PROCEDURE STEP 1: CHECK CONNECTIVITY  We have to ensure that the Class A Surface is connected as one single profile. We can do that with…

DOOR ARM REST DESIGN USING CATIA V5 Aim In this project, we will design Door arm rest from Class-A input using Catia v5. Will check whether the Class A faces that intersected will clear the direction based on the tooling axis. Later we will start working on the Draft Analysis tool to check whether our tooling direction…

Roof Crash Analysis of a Neon Car Model using Hypermesh and RADIOSS Objective set up a Neon car model and perform a roof crash analysis using Hypermesh and solve the model using RADIOSS solver.  In this project, we will be setting up the case for roof crash analysis for a reduced neon car model.  Step 1 - Geometry…

MATLAB PROGRAM TO SOLVE STEADY AND UNSTEADY 2D HEAT CONDUCTION PROBLEM Problem Statement: Obtain temperature distribution for a thin square plate by solving 2D heat conduction equation. To solve for 2D heat conduction equation for steady-state and unsteady-state by explicit and implicit method with given boundary conditions.…

Rankine cycle Simulator using MATLAB Aim Create a Rankine Cycle Simulator using OCTAVE/MATLAB. Write code to calculate the state points of the Rankine Cycle based on user inputs.  Then, plot the corresponding T-s and h-s plots for the given set of inputs. Calculate Net Work output & Back work Ratio, Thermal…

Parsing NASA thermodynamic data file using MATLAB Aim The main aim is as follows: Write a function that extracts the 14 coefficients and calculates the enthalpy, entropy, and specific heats for all the species in the data file. Calculate the molecular weight of each species and display it in the command window. Plot the…

  Structural Meshing of the Car Spare Wheel Holder using Hypermesh Introduction In this project, we will perform pre-processing of car spare wheel holder. Modeling of the same component is to be done by extracting mid surface and meshing the component by achieving all the mentioned quality criteria parameters.…

Meshing the Plastic Component of a Car Side Door Model using Hypermesh Introduction In this project, we will perform pre-processing work on a Car side door plastic component.   side door plastic component has varying thickness and have many engineering features like ribs, gussets, dog houses etc. so we have to extract…

Developing Connections on a Rear Door model of a car using ANSA preprocessor Aim create suitable connections for the given rear door FE model, using different types of connection techniques along with different 1D elements. Procedure 1) open the Nastran deck file as, File > Input > NASTRAN > Open 2) create different…

Side Pole Crash Simulation of Dodge Neon BIW using RADIOSS solver and Preprocessing using HyperMesh / HyperCrash. OBJECTIVE To perform a crash analysis on the left side of a Dodge Neon BIW, also known as a side crash. The analysis is to be carried on the deformation and the forces created as a result of the crash at a…

AIM:  Frontal car crash simulation of Dodge Neon BIW using RADIOSS solver and Preprocessing using HyperMesh / HyperCrash. OBJECTIVE:  To check the unit system and either follow [Mg mm s] or [Kg mm ms]. To create the appropriate interface, friction 0.2, and recommended parameters. To make sure of no penetrations…

OBJECTIVE: Create the mesh for bumper assembly, mesh size should be 6mm.  Run the Crash tube model with 6 different cases as given below and compare. Run the crash tube model as it is. Change the Inacti=6 and run. Create the type 11 contact and run. Remove both notches and remove boundary condition on rigid body node then…

AIM: To run crash analysis on the given model by applying different materials laws available in Radioss and post-process the results.   OBJECTIVE: The objective of the assignment is to understand the different material card parameters and how they affect the simulation, the material failure, etc.   CASE SETUP:…

AIM: The aim is to run the simulation on crash beam model with base simulation and improved shell element properties Change the elemental properties as mentioned below and check whether the results are acceptable then compare the results with the base simulation. Study the output of both the simulation by plotting Rigid…

Aim: To study about the starter file and engine file in RADIOSS by changing the parameters for the given file. And also perform a 3D meshing on the given components of which one will have tetra mesh and the other one will have hex mesh. Objective: Check the material properties of the rail component and calculate the speed…

OBJECTIVE To mesh the given components as per the given quality criteria after geometry cleanup and midsurfacing. The three components are: Practice Component Clip Repair Mounting Bracket The 2D mesh is to have a target length of 5 mm with a minimum of 3.5 mm and a maximum of 7 mm. The thickness will also need to be assigned…

Problem Statement: 1. Perform the simulation analysis using methane-air fuel mixture and plot the variation of mass fraction of different species using line probes at different locations of the combustion chamber. 2. Study the effect of adding water to the methane-air mixture and plot the same and discuss the results.…

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…

  Abstract: A CFD analysis of a cyclone separator is performed. The separation efficiency is found out. Firstly the diameter of the particles is varied. Then the velocity at the inlet is varied with particles of constant diameter.The Physics of the problem is set up in Ansys Fluent. The Post -processing of the results…

Problem Statement: 1. Perform conjugate heat transfer analysis on graphics card considering appropriate materials.  2. Apply refined mesh for different components of the model and reason for the same. 3. Run 3 simulations by varying the inlet velocity. 4. Find the maximum temperature and heat transfer co-efficient…

Problem Statement:  1. Simulate the Rayleigh Taylor Instability analysis for two different mesh with a base mesh size of 0.5mm and compare the results with the help of simulation and explain the effect of mesh size on simulation.  2. Perform another simulation with water and user-defined material with density…

Problem Statement:  1. Calculate the heat transfer coefficient on the internal solid surface and plot the temperature and velocity contours. 2.  Explain why the Y+ is maintained within a certain range and the turbulence model chosen. 3. Verify HTC predictions from the fluent analysis and also on what factors…

Problem Statement:     1. Perform the simulation on half of Ahmed's body since it is symmetric and analyze the plots of velocity and pressure contours.    2. Validate the results from the analytical data.    3. Perform the grid independence test and values for drag and lift for each case.…

Problem Statement:  Simulate flow over a cylinder for different Reynolds number by varying the velocity of the flow using steady solver and calculate the drag and lift coefficient. Simulate the flow over a cylinder for steady and unsteady solver and calculate the Strouhal Number for Re 100. Study and discuss the effect…

Problem Statement: Create a steady-state simulation to compare the mixing effectiveness when hot inlet temperature of 36 degree celsius is mixed with the cold inlet at 19 degree celsius. Use a suitable RANS turbulence model for the simulation under different inlet conditions. Introduction: T junction is formed…

 Simulation of flow through a pipe in openfoam We consider a cylindrical pipe with the fluid water entering the pipe with the laminar flow .The aim is to simulate the flow through a section of pipe and compare the flow with the Hagen Poisuilles equation. Hagen Poiseuuiles Equation In nonideal fluid dynamics, the Hagen–Poiseuille…

Simulation of flow through a pipe in OpenFOAM We consider a cylindrical pipe with the fluid water entering the pipe with the laminar flow. The aim is to simulate the flow through a section of pipe and compare the flow with the Hagen Poisuilles equation.   Hagen Poiseuuiles Equation   In nonideal fluid dynamics, the Hagen–Poiseuille…

Finite Volume Method(FVM)   It is one of the methods of solving partial differential equations by converting them into algebraic equations and then solving them using iterative solvers or the matrix inversion method. In this method, volume integration of the partial differential equation is converted into surface integral…

  Simulation of a backward-facing step in OpenFOAM Aim:- Simulate an incompressible-laminar-viscous flow through the backward facing step geometry. Perform transient simulation; choose solver based on the described physics of the flow in problem statement. Explain simulation process and way of setting up the problem…

Problem Statement: 1. To derive the conservation and non-conservation form for the subsonic supersonic flow through the nozzle using Mac-Cormack's technique.  2. To simulate the subsonic and supersonic flow through the nozzle and using both conservative and non-conservative form. 3. To determine the steady-state temperature…

Introduction: Taylor Series Taylor series of a function of infinite number of terms that are expressed in their function derivatives at a single point. The partial sum formed by the first n terms of a taylor series is a polynomial of degree n is called a nth taylor polynomial. The accuracy of the taylor polynomial is increased…

MATLAB Program to optimize the stalagmite function using Genetic Algorithm and find the global maxima of the function. Aim The main aim is to optimize the Stalagmite function using Genetic algorithm and to find the global maxima of the function . Stalagmites: A Stalagmite is a type of rock formation that rises…

Solving Second order ODE of motion of simple pendulum using MATLAB, also to create a simulation showing the motion of simple pendulum Simple Pendulum A simple pendulum consists of a ball (point-mass) m hanging from a (massless) string of length L and fixed at a pivot point P. When displaced to an initial…

Creating Connectors between various Parts in Frame Assembly using Hyper Mesh Aim Create Connections between Various Parts of the given Frame assembly model What are Connectors?    Connectors are geometric entities, which are primarily used to represent the CAD geometric connection in terms of FEA. Connections…

3D Meshing using Tetra elements in Hyper Mesh Aim Perform Tetra Meshing on given components and clear Tet collapse failures for tetra elements. Procedure Methods to generate Tetra Meshing:     There are three methods to generate Tetra Meshing as stated below:   Conversion of 2D tria to Tetrahedral Elements,…

PREPROCESSING OF HOOD MODEL OF A CAR USING HYPER MESH Aim Prepare the given hood model for post-processing analysis, steps involved are, Perform geometry cleanup Extract mid-surface Mesh the component with given element quality criteria Procedure 1) First import the geometry using import geometry option and select the…

Creation of 1D Elements and Assigning Cross-section and Property to it   when to use 1D elements One of the dimensions is very large in comparison to the other two.     Element shape: Line     As, 1D element has only length, Area of cross section is required to capture the CAD geometry  …

CREATION OF DOOR SWITCH BEZEL FROM CLASS A SURFACE INPUT Creation of Tooling axis Creation of B and C surface thus forming a closed surface of switch bezel creating a solid body Draft Analysis

BASE MOUNT BRACKET DRAWING pdf of 2D drawings of base mount bracket and other models in part design are attached below

Base Mount Bracket

 MESHING AND DEPLOYING CONNECTIONS FOR AN AUTOMOTIVE SUSPENSION  ASSEMBLY USING ANSA PRE-PROCESSOR Modelling Automotive Suspension Assembly Automotive suspension assembly separate the wheel/axle assembly from the car body. The primary function of the suspension system is to isolate the vehicle structure from…

PRE-PROCESSING OF INSTRUMENT PANEL SUBSTRATE ( DASH BOARD SUB PART ) OF A CAR USING ANSA Aim The main aim of this project is to prepare the IP substrate for post-processing analysis. For that we have to do following operations check for the geometrical errors and perform geometry clean up Extract mid-surface of the component,…

 Morphing operation on a sheet metal component using ANSA Pre-processor Aim Perform various morphing techniques on the given sheet metal component and discuss the use of morphing technology in various industries. Morphing Morphing is a method effectively used to change the design of an existing model instead of going…

3D Meshing of Rearview Mirror using Tetra  element Aim Create a volume mesh ( using Tetra element) on the rearview mirror model under the given element quality criteria and avoid any kinks and dips on the surface of the component. steps involved for generating a Tetra mesh on the component are, 1) Geometry checks…

PRE-PROCESSING OF A PLASTIC BOTTLE CAP USING ANSA Aim Extract mid-surface of a Plastic component ( Bottle cap ) and mesh the model with required element quality criteria. and assign thickness to the component. Model is a plastic bottle cap, with many minute features like ribs, threads, wedges, etc. and surfaces having…

2D MESHING OF HOOD MODEL OF A CAR UNDER THE GIVEN ELEMENT QUALITY CRITERIA USING ANSA PREPROCESSOR. AIM Perform 2D Meshing on the given hood model of a car under the required element quality criteria and assign thickness to the component after meshing. Obtain a good mesh flow for the component and OFF elements after…