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ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL, COMBINED AND 2-STEP VARIATION IN INDUCTION SYSTEM OF AN IC ENGINE TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE AND FUEL EFFICIENCY
Title
ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL, COMBINED AND 2-STEP VARIATION IN INDUCTION SYSTEM OF AN IC ENGINE TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE AND FUEL EFFICIENCY
Author
SAWANT, PAURAS
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Automobiles--Design and construction
Description
Naturally aspirated internal combustion (IC) engines with conventional intake assembly are tuned only over a narrow speed range to produce an induction boost by capitalizing the pressure waves arising in the intake manifold. In this research, inta...
Insight Derived From High Order Structured Finite Difference CFD Simulations of Flow Past Generic Simplified Car Models
Title
Insight Derived From High Order Structured Finite Difference CFD Simulations of Flow Past Generic Simplified Car Models
Author
Henry, Maxwell
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description
This thesis focuses upon using a high-order finite-difference method on a structured overset grid to study flow features around a generic simplified car model adjusting mesh refinements, rear slant angles, solvers, and turbulence models. These pro...
Numerical Simulation Based Analysis Of Road Vehicle Aerodynamic Flows
Title
Numerical Simulation Based Analysis Of Road Vehicle Aerodynamic Flows
Author
Zhang, Chunhui
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is currently viewed as one of the major tools for investigating aerodynamics of road vehicles. In spite of its well-documented limitations in predicting flows involving complex geometries and flow separations, th...
Performance tuning of IC engine with variable exhaust system using a one-D simulation tool
Title
Performance tuning of IC engine with variable exhaust system using a one-D simulation tool
Author
Gajula, Vineeth
Date Created
2017
Subjects--Topical
Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description
The exhaust system has a significant effect on the breathing capability of an IC engine, which when increased, increases the volumetric efficiency. Due to the sudden opening of the exhaust valve, the highly pressurized gases in the combustion cham...
Reduced Order Aerodynamic Model Development of Road/Race Vehicles
Title
Reduced Order Aerodynamic Model Development of Road/Race Vehicles
Author
Halterman, Jaclynn
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction, Aerospace engineering
Description
This research systematically develops a real-time capable reduced order aerodynamic model of a race vehicle to predict the aerodynamic characterization of a transient vehicle. The aerodynamic model modularly combines the quasi steady state aerodyn...