Search
Now showing items 31-40 of 106
Odor Source Localization Using Swarm Robotics
(2010-06-02)
Locating an odor source in a turbulent environment, an instinctive behavior of insects such as moths, is a nontrivial task in robotics. Robots equipped with odor sensors find it difficult to locate the odor source due to the ...
Motion Optimistion Of Plunging Airfoil Using Swarm Algorithm
(2010-06-03)
Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) are battery operated, remote controlled miniature flying vehicles. MAVs are required in military missions, traffic management, hostage situation surveillance, sensing, spying, scientific, rescue, ...
A Study Of A Vortex Particle Method For Vortex Breakdown Phenomena
(2010-07-06)
Vortex breakdown is an important phenomenon observed in swirling flows involving the development of a stagnation point on the axis of the vortex followed by a region of recirculation when the swirl increases beyond a ...
Instabilities In Supersonic Couette Flow
(2010-07-15)
Compressible plane Couette flow is studied with superposed small perturbations. The steady mean flow is characterized by a non-uniform shear-rate and a varying temperature across the wall-normal direction for an appropriate ...
Turbulent Jet Diffusion Flame : Studies On Lliftoff, Stabilization And Autoignition
(2010-07-09)
This thesis is concerned with investigations on two related issues of turbulent jet diffusion flame, namely (a) stabilization at liftoff and (b) autoignition in a turbulent jet diffusion flame. The approach of Conditional ...
Investigations On Film Cooling At Hypersonic Mach Number Using Forward Facing Injection From Micro-Jet Array
(2010-07-16)
A body in a hypersonic flow field will experience very high heating especially during re-entry. Conventionally this problem is tackled to some extent by the use of large angle
blunt cones. At the cost of increased drag, ...
Autonomous Landing Of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(2010-03-26)
In this thesis the problem of autonomous landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle named AE-2 is addressed. The guidance and control technique is developed and demonstrated through numerical simulation results. The complete ...
Condensation Heat Transfer Of R-134A On Micro-Finned Tubes : An Experimental Study
(2010-06-04)
Eco-friendly non-CFC refrigerants were introduced in the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration industry during the last few years to reduce damage to the stratospheric ozone layer. The HFC refrigerant R-134a, which has zero ...
Numerical Studies On Ductile Fracture Of Pressure Sensitive Plastic Solids
(2010-07-08)
Experimental studies have shown that the yield strength of many important engineering materials such as polymers, ceramics and metallic glasses is dependent on hydrostatic stress. In addition, these materials may also ...
Micro-PIV Study Of Apparent Slip Of Water On Hydrophobic Surfaces
(2010-07-01)
The condition of no relative velocity of fluid past solid is termed as ‘no-slip boundary condition’. This condition is a general observation in fluid mechanics. However, several research groups have recently reported slip ...