After the ramping up of the semester, the team has hunkered down to alter the software used for the transient heat-transfer simulations of the nozzle. With the realization that Ansys Discovery was unable to perform to a high degree of accuracy with the lack of a proper mesh, the team has made the decision to move on to Ansys Fluent, which is their flagship software and the leading fluid modeling program in the industry. This new software requires a drastic deepening of our fluids understanding and utilization of the novel user interface. The team has been busy watching Ansys tutorials on how to create a well-resolved mesh as well as volume extraction.

Additionally, on the CAD side of our project, we have been designing the new hybrid nozzle as our second type of solution. This new nozzle will have a simpler distance between inlet to outlet, but it will allow us to keep most of J&J’s original design the same. The nozzle will still have a heat jacket but we are still in the process of simulating the internal flow for this new nozzle. Furthermore, both designs will soon be printed with resin and the heaters will be customized and ordered.

Figure 1: Learning Ansys Fluent

Figure 2: CAD Design