Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Experiment Rayleigh Taylor Instability states that it is possible to place a more dense fluid on top of a less dense fluid and no mixing will occur until perturbations are introduced into the system. The purpose of this capstone project is to develop a smooth particle hydrodynamic code that models the Rayleigh Taylor Instability for a two fluid system under normal atmospheric and gravitational conditions. A numerical analysis will be used to obtain a solution and computer code will be designed to perform the analysis. The results of the experiment will be represented graphically. The Mini Baja Competition simulates real-world engineering design projects.
Engineering students are to design and build an off-road vehicle.
The objective of the competition is to provide the students with a challenging project that involves the planning and manufacturing tasks found in industry today. Students must function as a team to design, build, test, and race a vehicle, but also to generate financial support for their project and manage their educational priorities. UAP is interested in analyzing the fluid flow on the shell side across the tubes and through various segmented baffles by using computational fluid dynamics and actual physical testing. A CFD model will be generated and analyzed. The data gathered from this analysis will be compared to experimental data.