The centre aims to provide training to the research aspirants in Computational Fluid Dynamics, who wish to do their work using open source technologies. We conduct regular workshops in the fields related to Fluid flow analysis, Heat transfer analysis, Compressible flows suing OpenFOAM.

Students from various colleges in the state visits the centre for getting hands own experience to do their project works.

The research works that is undergoing in the centre includes:

• Analysis of fluid flow through the pipe bends
• Analysis of heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics
• Biofluid flows

For more details:- http://openfoam.aisat.ac.in

The work done so far includes:

• Arun V, Antonio Joseph and Vinu Varghese, “Swirl Induced Heat Transfer Enhancement Technique in Automotive Applications”,International NAFEMS Conference on Engineering Analysis, Modeling, Simulation and 3D-Printing (NAFEMS-3D), 29-31 Aug 2016.
• Calixtus Vincent, Vinu Varghese and Asha K R, “Simulation and study of shear stress field around a bubble in hydrofoil cavitation”,International NAFEMS Conference on Engineering Analysis, Modeling, Simulation and 3D-Printing (NAFEMS-3D), 29-31 Aug 2016.
• Antonio Joseph, Arun V and Vinu Varghese, “Swirl Flow Fluctuations in Pipe Bends as a Result of Flow Separation and Dean Vortex in Bends”,Proceedings of the 6th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power December 15-17, 2016, MNNITA, Allahabad, U.P., India
• Dibin Benny, Akshai Babu, Antonio Joseph, Vinu Varghese,”Analysis of dean cells in various pipe bends and its influence on flow at various Reynolds numbers”, National Conference on Energy, Economy and Environment, at NIT Calicut, 16-17 Dec 2016.
• Rinku Michael, Akhil Raj, Antonio Joseph, Vinu Varghese, “Analysis of fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics of a fin and tube heat exchanger with plain and corrugated fin configurations”, National Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering – 2017, NIT Kurukshetra
• Dibin Benny, Akshai Babu, Antonio Joseph, Vinu Varghese, “Analysis of the effect of Dean cells on Lyne circulation in a pulsating flow occurring through pipe bends”, National Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering – 2017, NIT Kurukshetra
• Akhil Sebastian, Antony Jomy, Antonio Joseph, Vinu Varghese, “Analysis of the heat transfer characteristics in a fluid flow occurring through the pipe bends at various Reynolds number”, National Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering – 2017, NIT Kurukshetra.
• Antony Jomy, Akhil Sebastian, Antonio Joseph, Vinu Varghese, “Analysis of heat transfer in various pipe bends and its effect on the Dean cells”, National Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering – 2017, NIT Kurukshetra.

We intend to promote the IC Engine Research in young aspirant engineers to come up with new ideas that would enhance the performance, reducing the fuel consumption and thereby the emission.  Due to the stringent emission norms and the fuel depletion, it is inevitable to come up with such research works. The global warming caused by the greenhouse gases is yet another problem faced by the automotive industry as the fuel used are hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide will be one of its end product.

The centre aims to promote the research activities related to the performance enhancement and thermodynamics and acoustic analysis of Internal Combustion engine. Currently, the research works are going on in the fields related to the thermodynamic and acoustic analysis to predict the engine operating parameters. Also, the research works related to the computational analysis of the flow through the engine manifolds are also under progress. The experimental facilities for studying the performance of IC engine and turbo-chargers are progressing.

Those who wish to do the theoretical and computational analysis related to Internal Combustion engine are welcome.

The works done so far includes:

• Antonio Joseph, “Approximate analysis of SI engine knocking using wavelet and its control with cooled exhaust gas recirculation”, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Transactions, 44, pp. 22-28, 2016.
• Antonio Joseph and Hans M H, “Hybrid turbocharged SI engine with cooled exhaust gas recirculation for improved performance”, Procedia Technology, 24, pp. 444-451, 2016.
• Antonio Joseph, and Hans M H, “Turbocharged SI Engine with Water Exhaust Injection System and Cooled Exhaust Gas Recirculation for Better Fuel Economy”, Proceedings of the India International Science Festival- Young Scientists’ Meet, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India – Dec 4-8, 2015.
• Antonio Joseph “Acoustic Analysis to Determine the Occurrence of Misfiring in SI Engines Using Wavelet Transform”, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering (ICETiME’15), at Cochin University of Science and Technology, December 16-17, 2015.
• Antonio Joseph, “Finite Time Thermodynamics: Recent Developments and Future Scope”, Futuristic Advancements in Mechanical Engineering, at College of Engineering Thalassery, August 7-8, 2016.