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Kirk Teesdale
Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours)
Project - Combustion chamber design
“I had to analyse the deficiencies that existed with the original combustion chamber then design an improved design that overcame these problems whilst still being constrained to the original valve configuration.”
Challenges
“Designing and building a test rig to form the physical basis for evaluating both the existing and improved designs was a challenge. The main challenge was however validating the SolidWorks™ computational fluid dynamics modelling results of our proposed improved combustion chamber to with our real life testing rig results.”
Highlights
“Seeing the SolidWorks™ perspex model we made of the engine’s head being created by CNC machine in the workshop and then using that machined component to perform real testing on a rig that we made was a major highlight.”
“Also overcoming a lack of knowledge of the computational fluid dynamics package as applied to this type of problem was greatly rewarding.”
Lessons learned
“Ashish Bhajaj and I had to get up to speed with all the related theory of internal combustion engines pretty quickly, along with going back to basics when troubleshooting issues that continuously came up.”
“In particular, understanding the behaviour of entrained gas flows within complex geometry was a challenge but we managed to produce a really effective design.”
Project - Combustion chamber design
“I had to analyse the deficiencies that existed with the original combustion chamber then design an improved design that overcame these problems whilst still being constrained to the original valve configuration.”
Challenges
“Designing and building a test rig to form the physical basis for evaluating both the existing and improved designs was a challenge. The main challenge was however validating the SolidWorks™ computational fluid dynamics modelling results of our proposed improved combustion chamber to with our real life testing rig results.”
Highlights
“Seeing the SolidWorks™ perspex model we made of the engine’s head being created by CNC machine in the workshop and then using that machined component to perform real testing on a rig that we made was a major highlight.”
“Also overcoming a lack of knowledge of the computational fluid dynamics package as applied to this type of problem was greatly rewarding.”
Lessons learned
“Ashish Bhajaj and I had to get up to speed with all the related theory of internal combustion engines pretty quickly, along with going back to basics when troubleshooting issues that continuously came up.”
“In particular, understanding the behaviour of entrained gas flows within complex geometry was a challenge but we managed to produce a really effective design.”
Last updated: 15 Sep 2011 4:57pm