Dr. Arup Nandy Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, 781039, Assam, India

 

Contact Information:

Office: C-307,

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, 781039,

India

Phone No.: +91-3612583441

email: arupn@iitg.ac.in

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Explored Research Domains

  • Transient Finite Element analysis in Structures, Acoustics and Electromagnetics

         Advisor : Prof. CS Jog, IISc Bangalore

    • Various new quantities are proposed in continuum framework, which are conserved under certain conditions, in the field of acoustics and electromagnetics.
    • We have proved both algorithmically as well as with numerical examples that trapezoidal rule FEM mimic different conservation laws in all these domains. Hence, the time stepping strategy can be said to be 'unconditionally stable' (from an energy perspective) allowing the use of arbitrarily large time-steps.
  • Hybrid/mixed FEM formulation in Structures and Electromagnetics

         Advisor : Prof. CS Jog, IISc Bangalore

         Collaborator : Prof. Sachin Singh Gautham, IIT Guwahati, Prof. Manish Agrawal, IIT Ropar

         Students : Dhiraj Bombarde, Silla Lakshminarayan

    • For transient analysis in structures and structural acoustics far better efficiency is observed with hybrid element as compared to displacement based formulation. Advantages of hybrid elements are more pronounced at higher frequencies.
    • We have implemented mixed FEM for eigen analysis in electromagnetics. This is the only strategy in nodal finite element which predict the null space accurately without adding any adhoc penalty term. It can handle sharp edges and corners, it can model inhomogeneous domain. In two dimension it works for all geometries; the only drawback is that it can not model curved geometries in three dimension.
    • Isogeometric analysis (IGA) is a numerical technique in computational mechanics that benefits in maintaining the exact geometry during discretization, ease in attaining the higher inter-element continuity, and the significantly lower dependency on computer-aided design (CAD) for successive refinements.
    • Hybrid Isogeometric Analysis (HIGA) is a two-field formulation developed to alleviate the different types of locking in locking-dominated problem domains by introducing a novel numerical scheme to approximate the independent stress field.
  • Outward wave favouring Amplitude formulation for electromagnetic harmonic analysis in exterior domain

         Advisor : Prof. CS Jog, IISc Bangalore

        Students :

Karanam Sreekanth

    • Here, the highly oscillatory radial part of the field is separated out a-priori so that the Lagrange interpolation function has to capture a relatively gently varying function.
    • We have solved a series of radiation and scattering problems, involving both conducting and dielectric bodies, including both convex and nonconvex domains. In all these cases proposed formulation has better coarse mesh accuracy than existing conventional formulation.

 

  • Edge element for electromagnetic analysis
    • Edge  elements  are constructed by curl and divergence conforming spaces. Whitney introduced these elements in the field of FEM in electromagnetics.
    • In this element electric fields are along the edge of the element satisfying required tangential continuity.
    • In  edge  based  FEM  each element is formed by connecting the edges. Each edge of the edge element is formed by joining the  two  nodes  of  the  element.
  • Monolithic FEM strategy for coupled multiphysics domains

         Advisor : Prof. CS Jog, IISc Bangalore

    • Coupled problems with structural acoustics interaction are solved. Better coarse mesh accuracy with hybrid elements is also visible in coupled analysis.
    • Incompressible magneto-hydrodynamics flow is modelled using continuous pressure velocity stable formulation, which ensures more stability and better coarse mesh accuracy than staggered stabilized formulation. Both transient and steady-state formulations are developed for two- and three-dimensional geometries.
  • Minimization of Radiated Sound Power of a vibrating Shell structures using FEM Analysis

         Advisor : Prof. CS Jog, IISc Bangalore

    • We have proposed an method for reducing radiated acoustic noise from 'light' fluid loaded structures. Here we minimize dynamic compliance (which is nothing but the input power) of the structure, which results in substantial reduction in the radiated sound power. Here we bypass the need for an acoustic and associated sensitivity analysis.
    • In this work we keep the base structure unaltered, the location and thickness of the added stiffeners are decided using optimality criteria method to minimize the radiated sound.
  • Electromagnetic Forming and Perforation: Experimental and Numerical Analysis

         Collaborator : Prof. Sachin D. Kore, IIT Goa

         Students : Dr. Sagar Pawar, Dinesh Ray,

Avinash Chetry

    • We have compared electromagnetic forming with conventional forming
    • Electromagnetic forming and perforation of Al tubes: FEM Simulation in ANSYS and LS-Dyna have been successfully matched with experiment.
Electromagnetic Perforation of tubes
Electromagnetic forming of muffler
  • Electromagnetic Crimping for Tube-to-Tube joints: Experimental and Numerical Analysis

         Collaborator : Prof. Sachin D. Kore, IIT Goa

         Students : Deepak Kumar, Shafeeque E S,

Avinash Chetry

    • Electromagnetic Crimping for tube to tube joints: Different surface profiles have been analyzed.
    • Electromagnetic crimping of Cu-SS Tube-to-tube joint : FEM Simulation in LS-DYNA and ANSYS have been successfully matched with experiment for both smooth and threaded surface.
  • Designing FEM tool with GUI interface

         Advisor : Prof. CS Jog, IISc Bangalore

         Other team members : R. P. Singh, Prof. Manish Agrawal, IIT Ropar, Vishwas Jayarama

    • Active member of the group developing HyFem. HyFem is a package to solve problems in structures, acoustics, electromagnetics and various other domains. Its GUI interface for preprocessing and post processing is in Matlab where as the analysis code is written in Fortran.