Internships

Aerodynamic design of a single-stage axial-flow turbine

Advisor - Mr. R. Prathapnayaka


Brief Description

  • Completed the preliminary design of a single-stage axial-flow turbine.
  • Adopted mean line design to estimate properties at stator and rotor of the turbine by performing simple thermodynamic calculations.
  • Employed free vortex method to estimate properties at the tip and root of the blades and consequently generated the 3-D blade geometry using SOLIDWORKS.
NAL_internship_project_report.pdf

Evaluation of open source software (OpenFOAM) as a viable option to CFD commercial tools like FLUENT

Advisor - Rakesh Chechare, Shivayogi Salutagi

Brief Description

  • Evaluated OpenFOAM (Open source software) as a viable replacement to FLUENT (Commercial CFD tool) for incompressible turbulent flow problems.
  • Analyzed 15 Eaton products by comparing the flow properties predicted by FLUENT and OpenFOAM.
  • Suggested necessary changes for fidelity improvement of the in-house OpenFOAM GUI.
  • Contributed towards a saving of $100,000 per year by the firm upon reducing 5 FLUENT licenses.