PhD & MPhil Titles

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If you are interested in coming to UTM as a Ph.D / M/Phil students, and possibly working with me, here are some topics that I’m currently working with;

  1. Bio-inspired airfoil shapes for reduction Leading/Trailing edges noise.
  2. Energy Harvesting for powering IoT Devices using flow induced vibration.
  3. Aerodynamic Performance And Safety For A Proposed Malaysia High Speed
    Train Traveling Under Crosswinds
  4. Aerodynamics loading and Noise emissions from a high speed train
  5. Aeroacoustics refinement of a passenger car DrivAer for NVH improvement

Contact Me at researchsukri@gmail.com

How to extract raw data from OpenFOAM using sampleDict

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We often need to take the data on a specific point. In OpenFOAM we can use sampleDict utility.

In the sampleDict file, we can add the following line for extracting data on a set of specific points.

curve // name of the file (can be any name)
{
type cloud; //type cloud for arbitrary ponits
axis xyz; // the points are scattred in xyz direction
points // list of points
(
(3.93 0.28 0.7897)
(5.93 0.28 1.2)
(7.93 0.28 2.2)
);
}

Sound from high-Reynolds number flow over bluff bodies

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Purpose
– This paper aims to investigate the aerodynamic sound generated from flow over bluff bodies at a high Reynolds number. By taking circular and square cylinders as two representative geometries for the cross-section of bluff bodies, this study aims to clarify the difference in flow formation and sound generation between the two types of bluff bodies. Furthermore, the possibility for a downstream flat plate to be used as sound cancellation passive mechanism is also discussed in this study.

Design/methodology/approach
– Sound source from the near field is numerically solved by using the Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier Stokes equations. While for the sound at far-field, the compact sound theory of Curle’s analogy is used.

Findings
– Magnitude of the generated sound is dominant by the aerodynamic forcer fluctuations, i.e. lift and drag, where the lift fluctuation gives the strongest influence on the sound generation. The square cylinder emits 4.7 dB higher than the sound emitted from flow over the circular cylinder. This relates to the longer vortex formation length for the case of square cylinder that provides space for more vortex to dissipate. It is suggested that downstream flat plate is possible to be applied for a sound cancellation mechanism for the case of circular cylinder, but it would be more challenging for the case of square cylinder.

Practical implications
– This study include implications for the development of noise reduction study especially in high-speed vehicles such as the aircrafts and high-speed trains.

Originality/value
– This study identified that there is possible method for sound cancellation in flow over bluff body cases by using passive control method, even in flow at high Reynolds number.

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/AEAT-06-2014-0086

email me (researchsukri[at]gmail.com) if you want the copy of the paper.