Hands on CFD experience

This is something I did for my fluid mechanics final project on ANSYS Fluent 14. So the idea was to understand the flow behavior in an aerosol sampling probe from a larger source medium. The normal to the inlet of the probe and the direction of flow in primary sampling zone affects the sampling alot. I finally used "Tracers" to determine how the tiny aerosol particles will respond to the change in flow.

Explicit Dynamics -ANSYS- Impact Attenuator Crash Simulation

Its been quite some time since my last post. But nevertheless, I have got something amazing to share in this post.
I have recently been working on my final year engineering project which involves designing an Impact Attenuator for passenger vehicles. As it is my final year project worth 6 credits, the work needed to be convincing.
So, I got to know about ANSYS analysis software for obtaining worthwhile results for my project and thus began the most arduous month of my life with 3-4 hours of calculations running on the PC, frequent hair pulling and consumption of head ache pills.

But finally, after 28 days of torture got the desired result.

So here, I have shared some pics of the analysis and a link to the video on youtube. Enjoy!

P.S. Leave a comment for any queries.

Basic Setup - Front View

Basic Setup - Isometric View

Deformation 1 - Front View

 

Deformation 1 - Isometric View

Deformation 2 - Front View

Deformation 2 - Isometric View