My final year project is about characterization and modeling of thermal and optical properties of the lamp which is used in automobiles.
The thermal and radiative disciplines were applied in several complete numerical models.
I started with literature search, studying the examples and watching their teaching videos.
Several weeks later, I succeeded in building a simple model under the help of other engineers which I presumed that the bulb is a surface (has no thickness).
After that, I met a challenge of this project and no one succeeded for 3 years.
It was to model the change of temperature on the surfaces (interior and exterior) of the bulb.
I discussed with other engineers and exchanged ideas with technicians, finally, I succeeded to prove that the bulb is a thin optical material which means the difference of temperature in interior surface and exterior surface could be ignored.
This difficulty was simply and unexpectedly solved.
During my work, I insisted in submitting progress reports to my tutor and making schedule of periodic tasks.
The communication among the teammates made us worked efficiently.
My paper about this work was published in the ‘Key Engineering’.