Virtual design for the interactive placement of baffles in air flow

iv CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 2: BACKGROUND 4 2.1. Engineering Decision Making 4 2.2. Development in Virtual Environments 6 2.3. Interactive Virtual Environments 7 2.4. VE-Suite 11 2.4.1. VE-Suite Plug-ins 13 2.4.2. Star-CD TM Integration 16 2.5. Previous Interactive Tool Research 17 CHAPTER 3: INTERACTIVE TOOL CASE STUDIES 21 3.1. Harvester Engine Platform 21 3.2. Harvester Cleaning Shoe 23 CHAPTER 4: CREATING AN INTERACTIVE MODEL 26 4.1. Cell Reduction 27 4.1.1. Cell Reduction for First Case Study 27 4.1.2. Cell Reduction for Second Case Study 29 4.2. Boundary Conditions 30 4.2.1. Boundary Conditions for First Case Study 30 4.2.2. Boundary Conditions for Second Case Study 32 4.3. Coarsening Cells 33 4.4. Designating the Area of Interest 33 4.5. Creating Star-CD TM Scripts 36 4.6. Creating an Interactive Environment 38 4.6.1. Interactive GUI 38 4.6.2. Interactive Virtual Environment 42 4.6.3. Computational Unit 42 CHAPTER 5: RESULTS 47 CHAPTER 6: SUMMARY AND FUTURE WORK 51 BIBLIOGRAPHY 53 APPENDIX: SCRIPTS FOR RUNNING STAR-CD TM 55 Appendix A1. Star-CD TM script for running simulation without Closed Baffle checked on a Windows OS 55 Appendix A2. Star-CD TM script for running simulation with Closed Baffle checked on a Windows OS 60