IIT Bombay

Internship (June 2022)

At IIT Bombay during my work as an intern, I made CFD animations based upon the Doctoral Thesis work of Professor Atul Sharma (CFD Lab, HOD Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay).

It included writing code using Open FOAM by modifying Ico FOAM solver to include temperature in the simulation. The following animations made using Paraview are the result of my work done at IIT Bombay on the flow over a square heated prism.

External flow over a heated square cylinder - Steady periodic State.mp4

Steady State Flow over a heated square prism

The plots show the periodic (sinusoidal) variations in the Coefficient of Lift (CL), Coefficient of Drag (Cd) and Nusselt Number with time. The arrows in the top left figure indicate the direction and magnitude of the velocity (also indicated by color). The bottom left figure includes the streamlines, along with colors showing the pressure. The figures on the right show the vorticity and the temperature variation (in the logarithmic scale) in the periodic steady flow.

Transient State.mp4

Transient Flow over a heated square prism

This plot shows the transient phase starting from t=0 to the point where we start seeing the periodic steady state in the flow. It also shows the variation of temperature (logarithimic scale) and vorticity in the flow. Note that this is not the normal time and the video has been sped up.

Further details on the project can be found in the following pdf submitted to Mechanical Engineering Department, Nirma University as a part of proof of my internship completion requirement.

IIT Bombay Internship

This is me working in Professor Atul Sharma's Lab at IIT Bombay.

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