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ABSTRACT
This project is aimed at improving the performance of diesel engine. Diesel engines burn
fuel oils, which require less refining and are cheaper than higher-grade fuels such as petrol.
During the combustion process, the stored chemical energy in the fuel is converted to the
During combustion, the top surface of the piston faces the maximum temperature. Due to
conduction, this heat is transferred throughout the piston. As heat is generated continuously in
the piston surface, conduction takes place rapidly allowing more heat to be conducted to the
piston. Due to this, some amount of heat which is to be combusted is lost to the piston. Also the
piston tends to get expanded due to the high temperature of heat which is transferred to piston.
In this study, a coating is done on the top surface of the piston to reduce the heat which is
being transferred throughout the piston. Functionally graded materials which have a low thermal
conductivity is been applied as coating to the top surface of the piston. Thermal analysis is done
on both the uncoated and coated piston and the stress results are compared. The thermal stresses
obtained are compared with the numerically obtained values. The thermal stress of coated piston
is found less than the uncoated piston which results in reduced heat transfer in the piston.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First and foremost I would like to thank the Lord Almighty for His presence and immense
It’s a matter of pride and privilege for me to express my deep gratitude to the management of
I am highly elated in expressing my sincere and abundant respect to the Vice Chancellor
Dr.S.Ramachandran for giving me this opportunity to bring out and implement my ideas in this
project.
Mechanical Engineering for much of his valuable support encouragement in carrying out this
work.
I would like to thank my internal guide Mr .Dr.P.Vijayabalan M.E., Ph.D. for continually
guiding and actively participating in my project, giving valuable suggestions to complete the
project work.
I would like to thank all the technical and teaching staff of the Mechanical Engineering
Last, but not the least, I am deeply indebted to my parents who have been the greatest support
while I worked day and night for the project to make it a success
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
2 LITERATURE REVIEW 4
3 PISTON
3.1. Internal Combustion Engines 6
3.2. Applications 6
4 COATING
4.1. Nanocoating 9
Barriers
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5.4.4. Meshing 20
5.5.1. Convection 23
8 CONCLUSION 39
REFERENCES
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LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF FIGURES
4.5 Koolkote 14
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS