Week 1 : Exploring the GUI of GT-POWER

 Aim: Exploring the GUI of GT-suite

GT-suite can be used in a wide range of applications. There are several industries that are using GT-suite for various applications

• On-highway and off-highway vehicle
• Marine and rail
• Industrial machinery
• Aerospace
• Power generation

Multiphysics platform

GT-Suite has a versatile multiphysics platform based on many underlying fundamental libraries

• Flow library
• Acoustic library
• Thermal library
• Mechanical library
• Electrical and Electromagnetic library
• Chemistry library
• Control library
• Built in 3D CFD and 3D FE

Modern software and unique capabilities

• Fusion of 1D and 3D simulation in one tool
• Import solid models in CAD to create 1D and 3D models
• Performs embedded 3D (CFD) and 3D FE thermal/structural modeling with all the boundary conditions provided by the system.

2. Locate following settings:

• Time control flag (5 Marks)
• Time step and solution control (5 Marks)
• Integrator/Solver type (5 Marks)

Time Control flag

Time step and solution control

Integrator/Solver type

3. Explore intercooler tutorial and note down all settings of:

• Run setup (5 Marks)
• Advanced setup (5 Marks)
• Plot setup (5 Marks)
• Output setup (5 Marks)

Intercooler tutorial

Run setup

Advanced setup

Plot setup

Output setup

4. Problem: (50 Marks)

    Given

• Diameter of cooler inlet and outlet pipe= 50 mm
• Length of the CAC= 1000 mm
• Inlet mass flow rate = 1200 kg/ h at 100 degC
• Outlet pressure 2 bar at 30 deg C

• Calculate the Average heat transfer at Charge air cooler (CAC)
• Calculate pressure drop across CAC

Inlet boundary condition

Cooler boundary set up

Outlet set up

Results

Average pressure drop

Average heat transfer at CAC