Rules (Please read):
1. The assignment may be completed individually or by a group (of maximum 2 members). The
group formation is your own responsibility. Members may be from the same or different
tutorial groups but postgraduates (MECH928) and undergraduates (MECH419) must not be in
the same group.
2. The assignment is due in week 13 (Friday 1 June 2018) and submitted to EIS Central using the
barcoded sheet (see subject outline under assignment submission). Late submission will incur
penalty as stated in the subject outline. Copying other works or having someone else to do
the works will result in severe penalty and in serious case will be referred to the school
assessment committee (with recommendation of zero mark or TF, and possibly expulsion from
the university). Please ask me if you are unsure or consult the university policies regarding
copying (see subject outline under University and Faculty Policies).
3. As this assignment is considered as engineering project undertaken by group of engineers,
group synergy and team work are part of the learning. So if the assignment is completed by
group, include statement indicating the effort or contribution by each member and describe
how you group work together to solve the problem.
4. The MATLAB script files and function files must be included as appendix in the report. Actual
files are not needed, but the marker has the right to request them if needed.
Your team is tasked to analyse different fins designs. The fins are used to remove heat from a surface
whose temperature is 150oC. The temperature of the surrounding air is 20oC. The natural heat
transfer coefficient associated with the surrounding air is 30 W/m2K. The thermal conductivity of
aluminum is k = 168 W/m.K. Using triangular elements or rectangular elements or combined
triangular and rectangular elements, calculate the temperature distribution and plot the variation
along the fins centrelines. Approximate the heat loss from one fin of each design.
1) Develop Finite Element models of the fins. Compute the temperature distributions. You may use
and modify the FE MATLAB Codes provided in the course. You are encouraged to develop your
own codes. Show the contours of the temperatures and the temperature distribution along the
centerline. The fins are to be made of Aluminum. It is required that the FE analysis results are
verified. For this, alternative analysis based on conventional fin theory. If these results and FE results
have substantial disagreement, be concerned of mistake somewhere (40 marks);
2) Perform similar steady-state thermal analysis in ANSYS WORKBENCH and compare the
temperatures obtained in (1) and with the ANSYS result in (2) comment on the comparison (20
marks);
3) Based on the overall heat loss through the fin, rank the design to be adopted. Full mark will be
given if you propose a more effective design (20 marks);
4) Present you analysis as professional engineering report (20 marks).
Figure 1. Different fin designs to be investigated.
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