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mech eng final year project?

  • 04-10-2009 9:50pm
    #1
    ep71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭


    thinking about designing an inlet manifold for an engine as my major project this year, problem is the college has neither a dyno or any way of welding aluminium!! aside from that my lecturer has suggested to me that maybe there might be too much work involved in calculating flow rates etc. as we only studied fluid mechanics on a fairly basic level. has anybody done something similar? any advice greatly appreciated or any ideas for an alternative project?


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  • #2
    mawk
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    budget a tig welder into your project proposal?

    some of our college final projects ran into the thousands of euros, so its not that insane. hell my own was about 600 euro in bearings alone.. expensive feckers.

    for a new idea;
    id say building a couple of different sizes of aero elastic flutter type turbines and collecting a bunch of data on the scalability of them would be interesting and doable on the solo. renewable energy is where the public opinion is at, but normal wind turbines/PV sets are pure done to death as projects


  • #3
    ep71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭ep71


    thanks for that, i'll certainly look into the flutter turbines idea


  • #4
    mawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    np. if you do it, please throw up the results here. Id be interested to see them. Just not quite interested enough to build my own and find out in my precious free time

    Edit,

    Why not build them a dyno either? Fellah in with me built one for the college's go carts

    Seemed simple~ish


  • #5
    Pembily
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,404 ✭✭✭✭Pembily


    ep71 wrote: »
    thinking about designing an inlet manifold for an engine as my major project this year, problem is the college has neither a dyno or any way of welding aluminium!! aside from that my lecturer has suggested to me that maybe there might be too much work involved in calculating flow rates etc. as we only studied fluid mechanics on a fairly basic level. has anybody done something similar? any advice greatly appreciated or any ideas for an alternative project?

    On the fluids - the flow ratesetc wouldn't be that hard, any good fluids book will tell!!!

    All our final year projrcts are energy based!!! Mine is energy management of the college!!! Hope I get a job as a result...

    Best of luck and any flow rate questions just ask :)


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