<p>This licentiate thesis concerns one dimensional flow simulation of turbocharged spark ignited engines. The objective has been to contribute to the improvement of turbocharged SI engines’ performance as well as 1 D simulation capabilities.</p><p>Turbocharged engines suffer from poor gas exchange due to the high exhaust pressure created by the turbine. This results in power loss as well as high levels of residual gas, which makes the engine more prone to knock.</p><p>This thesis presents an alternative gas exchange concept, with the aim of removing the high exhaust pressure during the critical periods. This is done by splitting the two exhaust ports into two separate exhaust manifolds.</p><p>The alternative gas exchange study was performed by measurements as well as 1-D simulations. The link between measurements and simulations is very strong, and will be discussed in this thesis.</p><p>As mentioned, turbocharged engines are prone to knock. Hence, finding a method to model knock in 1-D engine simulations would improve the simulation capabilities. In this thesis a 0-D knock model, coupled to the 1-D engine model, is presented</p>

<p>The overall aim of this project is to study the heat transfer inside the reaction chamber of the Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition (HWCVD) system with a commercial software package FLUENT6.3 / it is one of the most popular Computational Fluid Dynamics solvers for complex flows ranging from incompressible to mildly compressible to even highly compressible flows. The wealth of physical models in FLUENT allows us to accurately predict laminar and turbulent flows, various modes of heat transfer, chemical reactions, multiphase flows and other phenomena with complete mesh flexibility and solution-based mesh adaptation. In this study the 3-D HWCVD geometry was measured and created in GAMBIT which then generates a mesh model of the reaction chamber for the calculation in FLUENT. The gas flow in this study was characterized as the steady and incompressible fluid flow due to the small Mach number and assumptions made to simplify the complexity of the physical geometry. This thesis illustrates the setups and solutions of the 3-D geometry and the chemically reacting laminar and turbulent gas flow, wall surface reaction and heat transfer in the HWCVD deposition chamber.</p>

Magister Scientiae - MSc / The overall aim of this project is to study the heat transfer inside the reaction chamber of the Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition (HWCVD) system with a commercial software package FLUENT6.3; it is one of the most popular Computational Fluid Dynamics solvers for complex flows ranging from incompressible to mildly compressible to even highly compressible flows. The wealth of physical models in FLUENT allows us to accurately predict laminar and turbulent flows, various modes of heat transfer, chemical reactions, multiphase flows and other phenomena with complete mesh flexibility and solution-based mesh adaptation. In this study the 3-D HWCVD geometry was measured and created in GAMBIT which then generates a mesh model of the reaction chamber for the calculation in FLUENT. The gas flow in this study was characterized as the steady and incompressible fluid flow due to the small Mach number and assumptions made to simplify the complexity of the physical geometry. This thesis illustrates the setups and solutions of the 3-D geometry and the chemically reacting laminar and turbulent gas flow, wall surface reaction and heat transfer in the HWCVD deposition chamber. / South Africa

D.Ing. / Conventional traffic models used for the analysis of packet-switched data are Markovian in nature and are based on assumptions, such as Poissonian arrivals. The introduction of packet oriented networks has resulted in an influx of information highlighting numerous discrepancies from these assumptions. Several studies have shown that traffic patterns from diverse packet-switched networks and services exhibit the presence of properties such as self-similarity, long-range dependencies, slowly decaying variances, "heavy tailed" or power law distributions, and fractal structures. Heavy Tailed distributions decay slower than predicted by conventional exponential assumptions and lead to significant underestimation of network traffic variables. Furthermore, it was shown that the statistical multiplexing of multiple packet-switched sources do not give rise to a more homogenous aggregate, but that properties such as burstiness are conserved. The results of the above mentioned studies have shown that none of the commonly used traffic models and assumptions are able to completely capture the bursty behaviour of packet- and cellbased networks. Artificial Intelligent methods provide the capability to extract the inherent characteristics of a system and include soft decision-making approaches such as Fuzzy Logic. Adaptive methods such as Fuzzy Logic Self-learning algorithms have the potential to solve some of the most pressing problems of traffic Modelling and Management in modern packet-switched networks. This dissertation is concerned with providing alternative solutions to the mentioned problems, in the following three sub-sections; the Description of Heavy Tailed Arrival Distributions, Timeseries Forecasting of bursty Traffic Intensities, and Management related Soft Decision-Making. Although several alternative methods, such as Kalman Filters, Bayesian Distributions, Fractal Analysis and Neural Networks are considered, the main emphasis of this work is on Fuzzy Logic applications.

Constant product development for integration and optimization is a crucial part of companies today. With industrial components comes the challenge with how these parts can be integrated and optimized the best for the system. One example is a hydraulic elevator system, to integrate and optimize the design, the rest of the valve system has to be taken into consideration. This thesis contains the integration and optimization of a check valve solution designed with the help of the product development process in hopes of reducing costs for the manufacturing process for the company. The thesis resulted in an optimized check valve solution with 6 bolts connected with the hydraulic elevator valve system. The requirements were fulfilled but some were not possible to achieve without a physical copy.

The purpose of this thesis is to design the key parameters of the high-powered Walkel engine and to design a chamber side on the base of computed parameters so that it enables variable change of the intake and exhaust port geometry. Consequently, to carry out a flow simulation in both ports in designed chamber side in order to find out its flow character and geometry change reaction.

The purpose of this thesis work was to study the airflow patterns and the particle distribution in a generic car cabin in order to evaluate the air quality and find how it can be improved. A 3D CAD model was created using the Solidworks software program and meshed using ICEM CFD software. The ICEM CFD software was used to generate the mesh and ANSYS FLUENT was adapted for the simulation. In total, 12 different cases were simulated by considering different inlet velocities and vent setup. The predicted results were further used to analyze the airflow and particle distribution in the entire car cabin. With higher inlet velocity there were more particles being transported to the rear part of the cabin. In general, the particle concentration was higher in the front of the cabin when they were introduced through the inlets, especially with low inlet velocities. Opening the recirculation vents resulted in a slight reduction of the flow to the rear side and reduced the particle distribution accordingly. When smoke particles were introduced in the rear seats, they mostly stayed in the rear of the cabin, especially with low inlet flow velocities as the air did not mix sufficiently. Overall a higher inlet airflow velocity reduced the number of particles that were trapped on the front and rear seats. However, an increase in the number of particles that were trapped on the ceiling, floor and walls were obtained. / Syftet med den här avhandlingen var att studera luftflödesmönster och partikelfördelningen i en generell bilkabin för att utvärdera luftkvaliteten och se hur man kan förbättra den. En 3D CAD-modell skapades med hjälp av Solidworks och ett rutnät skapades med hjälp av ICEM CFD. ICEM CFD användes för att generera rutnätet och ANSYS FLUENT användes för simuleringarna. Totalt simulerades 12 olika fall bestående av olika inflödeshastigheter och ventilinställningar. De beräknade resultaten användes sedan för att analysera luftflödet och partikelfördelningen i hela bilkabinen. Med högre inloppsflöde var det fler partiklar som transporterades till bakre delen av bilkabinen. Överlag var partikelkoncentrationen högre i framdelen av kabinen när partiklarna introducerades i inloppsventilerna, särskilt vid låga inloppshastigheter. Att öppna recirkulationsventilerna resulterade i en liten minskning av luftflödet till bakdelen av kabinen och även så partikelfördelningen. När rökpartiklar introducerades i baksätena, stannade de för det mesta i bakdelen av kabinen, särskilt vid låga inloppsflödeshastigheter då luften inte blandades tillräckligt. Överlag innebar en högre inloppsflödeshastighet reducerade mängden av partiklar som fastnade på fram- och baksätena, men ökade mängden partiklar som fastnade på taket, golvet och på väggarna.

This licentiate thesis concerns one dimensional flow simulation of turbocharged spark ignited engines. The objective has been to contribute to the improvement of turbocharged SI engines’ performance as well as 1 D simulation capabilities. Turbocharged engines suffer from poor gas exchange due to the high exhaust pressure created by the turbine. This results in power loss as well as high levels of residual gas, which makes the engine more prone to knock. This thesis presents an alternative gas exchange concept, with the aim of removing the high exhaust pressure during the critical periods. This is done by splitting the two exhaust ports into two separate exhaust manifolds. The alternative gas exchange study was performed by measurements as well as 1-D simulations. The link between measurements and simulations is very strong, and will be discussed in this thesis. As mentioned, turbocharged engines are prone to knock. Hence, finding a method to model knock in 1-D engine simulations would improve the simulation capabilities. In this thesis a 0-D knock model, coupled to the 1-D engine model, is presented / QC 20101112

[pt] Neste trabalho aplicamos o método Lattice Boltzmann (LBM) para simular os processos de reações químicas que ocorrem na interação entre o fluido e a fase sólida, modificando o meio poroso. Para isso apresentaremos como o método LBM aborda a simulação do escoamento de fluido em um meio poroso irregular para os casos de um ou mais fluidos incluindo o processo de dissolução química. A partir dos processos anteriores, propomos uma modificação onde a dissolução possa ocorrer como uma característica do fluido que interage com a fase sólida. Ao abordar a dissolução como característica da interação do fluido com a fase sólida, é possível ter uma maior compreensão de como o fluido pode modificar a geometria do meio poroso e impactar nas mudanças de fluxo. A proposta de modificação foi avaliada em alguns casos em que o fluxo no meio poroso é bem definido: o canal aberto, canal com cilindros e em um meio poroso de geometria complexa. A proposta foi estendida para a simulação em um meio poroso 3D, onde analisamos como a dissolução foi impactada pela presença de forças externas como a gravidade. / [en] In this work, we apply the Lattice Boltzmann (LBM) method to simulate the chemical reaction processes that occur in the interaction between the fluid and the solid phase, modifying the porous medium. For this, we will present how the LBM method approaches fluid flow simulation in an irregular porous medium for cases of one or more fluids, including the chemical dissolution process. Based on the previous processes, we propose a modification where dissolution can occur as a characteristic of the fluid that interacts with the solid phase. By approaching dissolution as a characteristic of the interaction of the fluid with the solid phase, it is possible to better understand how the fluid can modify the geometry of the porous medium and impact the flow changes. The modification proposal was evaluated in some cases where the flow in the porous medium is well defined: the open channel, a channel with cylinders, and a porous medium with complex geometry. The proposal was extended to the simulation in a 3D porous medium, where we analyzed how the dissolution was impacted by external forces such as gravity.

This dissertation presents the design of an integrated watershed model, WASH123D version 3.0, a first principle, physics-based watershed-scale model of integrated hydrology/hydraulics and water quality transport. This numerical model is comprised of three modules: (1) a one-dimensional (1-D) simulation module that is capable of simulating separated and coupled fluid flow, sediment transport and reaction-based water quality transport in river/stream/canal networks and through control structures; (2) a two-dimensional (2-D) simulation module, capable of simulating separated and coupled fluid flow, sediment transport, and reactive biogeochemical transport and transformation in two-dimensional overland flow systems; and (3) a three-dimensional (3-D) simulation module, capable of simulating separated and coupled fluid flow and reactive geochemical transport and transformation in three-dimensional variably saturated subsurface systems. The Saint Venant equation and its simplified versions, diffusion wave and kinematic wave forms, are employed for surface fluid flow simulations and the modified Richards equation is applied for subsurface flow simulation. The reaction-based advection-dispersion equation is used as the governing equation for water quality transport. Several physically and mathematically based numerical options are provided to solve these governing equations for different application purposes. The surface-subsurface water interactions are considered in the flow module and simulated on the basis of continuity of interface. In the transport simulations, fast/equilibrium reactions are decoupled from slow/kinetic reactions by the decomposition of reaction networks; this enables robust numerical integrations of the governing equation. Kinetic variables are adopted as primary dependent variables rather than biogeochemical species to reduce the number of transport equations and simplify the reaction terms. In each time step, hydrologic/hydraulic variables are solved in the flow module; kinetic variables are then solved in the transport module. This is followed by solving the reactive chemical system node by node to yield concentrations of all species. Application examples are presented to demonstrate the design capability of the model. This model may be of interest to environmental scientists, engineers and decision makers as a comprehensive assessment tool to reliably predict the fluid flow as well as sediment and contaminant transport on watershed scales so as to evaluate the efficacy and impact of alternative watershed management and remediation techniques prior to incurring expense in the field.