Final Exam VS Final Year Project (FYP)

Musim final exam melanda lagi..Sebagai seorang pelajar, memang tak lekang ungkapan ini dari kehidupan sepanjang berada di univesiti. Bagi aku, dah tak heran sebab dah 4 tahun dah bergelut dengan final exam, tests, quizzes, assignments dan yang sewaktu dengannya. Insya-Allah, inilah final exam yang terakhir aku di UIAM selagi aku tak ambil keputusan sambung master di sini.

Macam-macam ragam pelajar-pelajar UIAM ni study..Ada yang lebih selesa study di library sebab ada privacy, ketenteraman jiwa etc. Ada yang lebih suka study di bilik masing-masing di mahallah sebab boleh berehat sambil landing atas katil (alih-alih tidur memanjang!)..Ada jugak memilih untuk study di kelas, study room di kulliyyah masing-masing mahupun kafe bersama rakan-rakan.

Ma’a taufiq wannajah!! Good luck for everyone!!

Buat final year student Engineering macam aku ni, selain final exam, ada lagi benda lain yang perlu difikirkan iaitu Final Year Project (FYP) ataupun tesis. Walaupun ada yang bermula awal, tetapi ada juga yang terpaksa bermula lambat lantaran barang yang diorder dari oversea belum sampai, tersilap order barang, mahupun tersilap method. FYP 1 lebih kepada theory, literature study, design and research method. Tapi FYP 2 lebih mencabar, ada yang build up, fabrication, lab experiment.

My FYP’s topic is “Analyzing Flow Past a Lighter-Than-Air Vehicle”, it’s a computational fluid dynamic (CFD) method of analyzing flow through an airship using CFD software, FLUENT. I have to learn FLUENT using manuals and tutorials provided by my supervisor, Prof Waqar Asrar and from the internet. FLUENT is use with GAMBIT, another CFD software. GAMBIT is a LINUX application, so I have to find X-server to enable GAMBIT to run in Windows. That’s the first obstacle I encountered. I got stuck learning the modules from the manuals, so I went to see Sis Hanan many times. Then finally, I realized that the manuals that I am using is a little bit different from the one available in the internet after some problems occurred. In short, actually I am following the wrong step by step, aghhhhhhhhhhh!!! But now, Alhamdulillah, I managed to do flow past a 2D airfoil of NACA 0012, a symmetric airfoil.

Flow over NACA 0012
Free stream velocity: 50m/s
Laminar flow, incompressible with Mach number around 0.15
Angle of attack: 1.2 degrees
Reynolds number:
Assume standard sea level values for free stream properties.

Generation of grid and mesh in GAMBIT.

Grid display in FLUENT

Iteration of NACA0012 for 1000 iterations

Velocity contours coloured by velocity magnitudes

Contours of pressure coefficients, Cp.

Disclaimer: This data can be understood by Aerospace students only.

So after this, I have to model on airship done by Zaimi.


12 Nov: FYP Report submission
17-19 Nov: FYP presentations
20 Nov: Poster presentations
27 Nov: Hard cover FYP report submission