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.