DCU Expo 2023 Final Year Projects

66 120. CFDDriven DesignOptimisation of a Suction Air Knife This project investigates the flow distribution and separation inside a suction air knife device used in material sorting applications. This project aim to improve the air knife’s flow uniformity at the inlet through a geometrical design change. The simulations are performed using a RANS turbulent model, and the modellingmethodology is validated through the comparison with a published benchmark test case. Class Mechanical andManufacturing Engineering (Year 5) Project Area 3-DModelling, Device Design, FluidMechanics, Simulation, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Project Technology ANSYSWorkbench, Excel/VB, Solidworks, ANSYS FLUENT Student Name(s) Zijian Li Email zijian.li9@mail.dcu.ie Supervisor Dr Yan Delauré 121. Shoe Authentication Application This application is used to authenticate shoes and identify whether a shoe uploaded by the user is authentic or a replica. The app will require a certain amount of photos to be uploaded by the user of different aspects of the shoe. These images will then be passed into the neural network which contains amodel which has been trained to understand the details of an authentic shoe. A result will be provided in under 5minutes, which will return ‘Authentic’ or ‘Replica’. Class Enterprise Computing Project Area Artificial Intelligence, Image/Video Processing Project Technology Machine Learning Student Name(s) IfeMakinde  |  Daniel Oshunloye Email ife.makinde2@mail.dcu.ie   |  daniel.oshunloye2@mail.dcu.ie Supervisor Dr Hossein Javidnia 122. Spark Spark is a semi-autonomous cost-effective smart parking system that can be installed at parking facilities. It is tasked with the responsibility of monitoring a facility’s activity as well as providing the user with an automated payment procedure. All of this will be handled by a web application and a raspberry PI device, both of which are interconnected through a centralised API. The ultimate goal is tominimise the financial/environmental costs and time delays associated with parking including enforcement. Class Computer Applications Project Area Computer Vision, Databases, Device Design, Image/Video Processing, Internet of Things, Optical Character Recognition, RaspberryPi, Software Development, Web Application Project Technology CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, MongoDB, Nodejs, Python, REST, Solidworks, PostgreSQL, OpenCV, pyTesseract, Sendgrid Student Name(s) Harish Narayanan  |  Ben Guiden Email harish.narayanan4@mail.dcu.ie   |  ben.guiden2@mail.dcu.ie Supervisor Dr Cathal Gurrin