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Heat transfer coefficient measurement of thick-walled inaccesible enclosures cooled internally using jet impingement
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Heat transfer coefficient measurement of thick-walled inaccesible enclosures cooled internally using jet impingement

Some internally cooled and small inaccesible and thick-walled enclosures like turbine blades and electronics packaging, cannot be directly measured for thermal performance due to the inaccessibility. Thus, inverse heat transfer was used to measure the temperature from an easier location but not the…
Infrared imagingMATLAB/SimulinkANSYS FluentPrototyping
Cooling a turbine blade's leading edge using jet impingement

Cooling a turbine blade's leading edge using jet impingement

Jet impingement is highly effective in cooling localised hotspots, and is used in turbine blade leading edges since leading edges face the brunt of hot gases in the combustion chamber of a jet engine. To improve efficiency multiple jets in various layouts are used, which were investigated…
MATLAB/SimulinkANSYS Fluent
Gas deivery system upgrade
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Gas deivery system upgrade

My team at ASM's America office tasked me with suggesting design improvements to the gas delivery systems of its process machines for a wider range of operating conditions.
PTC CreoSAP ERPVendor communicationsClean room
Crash testing of an custom aircraft seat design
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Crash testing of an custom aircraft seat design

An aircraft seat design was proposed, as an Indian alternative to imported aircraft seats for light aircraft, and needed to adhere to federal standards of static and dynamic testing before it was…
Altair OptistructAltair RadiossCrash simulationsNon-linear FEAMaterial testingProduct design
Setup of a desiccant dehumidifying heat exchanger prototype and measurement of flow and thermal variables.
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Setup of a desiccant dehumidifying heat exchanger prototype and measurement of flow and thermal variables.

Desiccants were proposed as a more energy efficient solution to dehumidify intake air in air conditioning systems, instead of heating the water away in a separate cycle. For a prototype heat exchanger using this concept and developed by a PhD student at BITS Pilani, sensors and instrumentation were…
PrototypingLabVIEWFlow and thermal sensorsData acquisitionControls
Octopus arm reaching motion underwater
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Octopus arm reaching motion underwater

Grasping and reaching movements of octopuses were important in the potential conceptualisation and design of an octopus-inspired soft robot. This motion had to be recreated for silicone rubber as the soft-robotic analogue, assuming embedded cables, or pneumatic actuation as the force…
ANSYS MechanicalANSYS FluentNon-linear FEA
Design and simulation of an AWD gearbox (Team Vulcan, BITS Pilani's SAE BAJA team)
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Design and simulation of an AWD gearbox (Team Vulcan, BITS Pilani's SAE BAJA team)

BITS Pilani, a notable university in India where I did my undergrad, has a team that competes in SAE BAJA competitions. Given that we were trying to improve our BAJA ATV for AWD drive trains, a new gearbox had to be…
Solidworks'ANSYS MechanicalDFMKinematics and dynamics
Design and simulation of airbrakes and rocket fins, for a small-scale rocket (SEDS BITS Pilani)
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Design and simulation of airbrakes and rocket fins, for a small-scale rocket (SEDS BITS Pilani)

BITS Pilani, a notable university in India where I did my undergrad, has a student community that is affiated to SEDS and had been trying to compete in the Spaceport America collegiate competition held globally. We were trying to improve control over the altitude and trajectory by testing out…
SolidworksANSYS MechanicalProduct designKinematics and DynamicsANSYS FluentTransonic flows