Ford 2016 - Publish a paper

Work on paper every day of internship:

https://www.sharelatex.com/project/570e87ad211d0aab16f04962

May 13th - August 13 2016

Ford Supervisor

Kevin Ellwood

Work Plan:

Most of the ongoing studies within the Fluids group are related to the development of methods to understand the dynamics of enabling passage of vehicles through an automotive paint shop. This generally involves single and multiphase flow formations for full vehicle immersion and convection-radiation heating. Present active projects depend on accurate prediction of surface quantities such as heat transfer coefficients and traction of the Cauchy stress tensor. Maintaining proper mesh sizing is one of the key elements of an accurate numerical study that is often left to good engineering judgment and experience. This internship will primarily focus on conducting a formal grid refinement study to determine proper meshing condition supporting present work streams.

Deliverables

1. Communicate with Ford research team to understand group activities.

2. Define a mesh refinement case study based on full vehicle rotary dip process to determine best practices for mesh setting. The objective function will be mesh independent pressure and shear forces and the geometry may be some representative sub assembly. Document results and make suitable presentation material.

3. Work with Ford research members to develop a test case to develop an understanding between the effects of local mesh size and predicted heat transfer coefficients for convection dominated flows.

4. Work with Ford research team to define a simple test geometry to conduct a mesh refinement study focused on drag or total force for the Fluent flow solver. This should be compared, in a meaningful way, to results obtained from the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM). As part of this study, Ford Research will provide the LBM results and execution time, given common resources, will be the focus.

5. Document all activities and make suitable presentation material.