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The document outlines potential project topics for a Finite Element Analysis course at IIT Madras, focusing on various engineering challenges. Topics include studying potential flow over two-dimensional bodies, computing acoustic band-gaps in phononic crystals, and analyzing transient diffusion with moving heat sources. Additional areas of interest involve impedance spectroscopy of microstructures and exploring wavelet bases for solving partial differential equations.

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ME5204 ProjectTopics

The document outlines potential project topics for a Finite Element Analysis course at IIT Madras, focusing on various engineering challenges. Topics include studying potential flow over two-dimensional bodies, computing acoustic band-gaps in phononic crystals, and analyzing transient diffusion with moving heat sources. Additional areas of interest involve impedance spectroscopy of microstructures and exploring wavelet bases for solving partial differential equations.

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Department of Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras


Finite Element Analysis (ME5204)
Potential project topics

Potential flow over two-dimensional body Objective of this project is to study the
potential flow over two dimensional body, viz., circular cylinder, ellipse, NACA hydrofoils.
Influence of the shape, angle of attack on the pressure distribution and coefficient of Lift
and Drag to be studied.

Computation of acoustic band-gap in phononic crystals Objective to compute


frequencies at which acoustic wave cannot pass through the material. Ref: A modified
smoothed finite element method (M-SFEM) for analyzing the band gap in phononic crys-
tals, Acta Mechanica, v230, 2279 - 2293, 2019.

Turing pattern formation

• Objective is to look at the spatial pattern formation in an epidemic model by a cross-


diffusion term. Ref: A fully adaptive numerical approximation for a two-dimensional
epidemic model with nonlinear cross-diffusion, Nonlinear analysis: real world appli-
cations, vol 12 (5), 2011, 2888–2903
Reference 1

• Study the formation of materials with regular periodic interconnected microstruc-


tures. Ref: Modeling of reaction-diffusion processes of synthesis of materials with
regular (periodic) microstructure, Open Ceramic, v6, 2021, 100088 Reference 2

Transient diffusion with moving heat source Objective to study the temperature
distribution due to a moving heat source. Potential application - 3d printing/additive
manufacturing.

Impedance spectroscopy of microstructures Impedance spectroscopy is an experi-


mental technique for materials characterization. This is used to quantify the contribution
of various constituents of a given heterogeneous systems to its electrical behavior and to
understand mechanisms of surface reactions, kinetics of reactions and mass transport. Ob-
jective is to numerically evaluate the impedance of polycrystals. Ref: A fast and accurate
numerical technique for impedance spectroscopy of microstructures, Journal of the Elec-
trochemical Society, v169, 2022, 020543. Reference 3

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Wavelet basis for solving PDEs Explore the possibility of using wavelet bases for the
solution of partial differential equations. Ref: The numerical performance of wavelets for
PDEs: the multi-scale finite element, Computational Mechanics, v25, 2000, 230–244. Ref-
erence 4

Multiphysics problems such as thermo-mechanical or chemo-mechanical problems.

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