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Computational Flow and Thermal Analysis of Motorbike
Exhaust Muffler
Maun Vadukul
1
, Aman Mehta
2
, Prem singh Rajpurohit
3
, Parth Patel
4
, Ravindra Gupta
5
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Parul University, Vadodara, India.
Email: maunvadukul@gmail.com
1
,ravindra.gupta@paruluniversity.ac.in
5
DOI:- https://doi.org/10.47531/SIC.2022.13
Abstract
With the increasing demand for automobile vehicle and their usages its influence on
environmental pollution and human health, it is very important to engineer it in the
best optimum design with respect to its life, emissions and manufacturing cost. Also,
with an increase in the maintenance of various components of vehicles demand new
effective design and their analyses have increased. In this work, we focused on the life
of the exhaust system of a motorbike in which high-temperature gases pass and get
cool and also sound emissions are decreased and then released to the atmosphere.
Gases stay more time in silencers than other parts of the exhaust system to reduce the
noise level. The uniform heat distribution over the entire exhaust system is important
for ensuring the enhanced life of elements in the sub-system. Therefore, uniform heat
flow is necessary along the passage surface to minimise the harmful effect of hotspots
over the length of the silencer, especially at the outer body of the silencer. We
introduced that providing different types of patterns uniform over the surface of the
muffler results in better heat dissipation throughout the surface, which will decrease
the oxidation rate of metal with oxygen present in air and rust formation. So, we made
CAD files using CREO Parametric of mufflers having different patterns on the surface.
The pattern designs which can be manufactured easily are to be made. Further CAD
models will be analysed in ANSYS by thermal analysis to observe which pattern is best
among those made.
Keywords: - Muffler, Silencer, Heat Flux, CFD
INTRODUCTION
Mufflers or silencer in the exhaust system of every
vehicle is an acoustic device to reduce the
loudness of the sound pressure created by the
engine. Straight-through design mufflers consist of
an inner perforated tube, an outer solid tube and
fibreglass insulation between the two tubes. They
often have less back pressure than original
equipment mufflers but are relatively ineffective at
reducing sound levels. A chambered muffler
consists of a series of concentric or eccentric pipes
inside the expansion chamber cavity. Sound waves