Integration of Material Design and Product Design - A CFD Based Approach

Computational fluid dynamic analysis is carried out to establish a robust affiliation between the design variables of material design domain and product design domain. The CFD analyses performed for both ball valve and gate valve is necessitated with input parameters that outfits the application such as pressure, density, viscosity and temperature. The maximum pressure acting over diverse regions of the valve system that crop up due to fluid flow was examined by the extension of pressure concentration for different fluids viz water, lubricant and diesel. The analysis is presumed to be conversant with material selection strategies that satisfy the criterions for the new product development and therefore well defined inputs inclusive of virtual solid model, boundary conditions are promoted with higher grade mesh resolutions. In these cases, approximate selections are exercised and numerical scheme of properties has been adhered to embrace perfection in simulation analysis. The CFD study exemplifies accurate regions wherein maximum pressure assaults the valve body and so the observations originate to ascend product development without the expense of physical testing. The verification studies put forth for the pressure distribution generated due to fluid flow through the valve system is in stripe with end results. Furthermore valve deformation and valve performance is obligatory for material and product design integration and hence customary predictions is done by coupling the CFD results with finite element analysis.