Browsing by thesis submitted date"2018"
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On Flow Physics of Spinning Samaras
A particular form of winged seed (samara) dispersal technique adopted by nature uses autorotative (unpowered rotation of the wing generating thrust force against gravity) descent; for eg. in Maple and Mahagony trees. ... -
On Reduced-State Optimal Scheduling for Decentralized Medium Access Control of Wireless Data Collection Networks
In the Internet of Things (IoT), devices such as sensors and actuators will almost invariably be connected to the Internet via wireless networks. The sensor and actuator devices in such systems will be resource challenged ... -
On Some Questions Involving Prefix Codes
Let A be a finite alphabet and A be the set of all finite sequences of the elements of A. A word is any member of A . A prefix code X is a set of words satisfying the prefix property, i.e., no word in the set is a prefix ... -
On the electrical transport of weak topological insulators and Weyl semimetals
Topological insulators have garnered enormous amount of attention owing to their unique topological properties. The surface states protected by the topology of the system hold limitless potentials including topological ... -
On Trait Evolution in a Heterogeneous Environment: Oviposition Site Selection in a Mosquito in Response to Multiple Risk Factors
A focus in evolutionary biology is to understand the drivers of diversity in animal behavioural traits in the living world. Animals facing similar problems in the environment, such as the problem of how much to invest in ... -
On-board Failure Diagnostics and Failure Prediction of High Power White Light Emitting Diodes Used in Safety Critical Applications
Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) have become a focus of global lighting community owing to their long service life, low energy consumption and environmental friendliness. The ever-increasing use of LEDs in many applications ... -
Online Consumer Behaviour in Low Involvement Products: Cognitive Attributes and Purchase Behaviour
The internet has created fundamental shifts in business and consumer behaviour, akin to the industrial revolution of the 1800s. The internet serves as a ubiquitous and limitless information platform, and is leading to ... -
Optimal Relay Selection in Interference-Constrained Underlay Cooperative Cognitive Radio
Cognitive radio (CR) promises to significantly improve the utilization of scarce wireless spectrum. In the underlay mode of CR, which is the focus of the thesis, a secondary user (SU) can simultaneously transmit on the ... -
Optimal Routing and Data Transmission for Multi-Hop D2D Communications
Device-to-Device (D2D) communication, which enables direct link communication between nodes without going through the infrastructure, has received considerable attention in recent years, particularly in the context of ... -
Optimization of parameters in SiC production via Acheson Process – a hot model study
Silicon carbide (SiC) is produced industrially in a heat resistance furnace using quartz (silica) and raw petroleum coke (RPC) as the raw material. In this process, commonly known as the Acheson Process, a large current ... -
Optimization of Traversal Queries on Distributed Graph Stores
In this era of Big Data Analytics, much of the semi-structured data has inherent interconnectivity between representative entities. These are increasingly being modeled as property graphs because of the semantic advantages ... -
Organic Transformations in the Confined Cavity of Self-Assembled Pd(II) Molecular Containers
Biological systems utilize its extraordinary ability to develop complex and functional molecular assemblies employing reversible non-covalent interactions. These natural aesthetic examples motivated synthetic chemists ... -
Oxidation of CO Catalysed by Nanometric Mono and Bi-Noble Metals on Various Oxide Supports
Air pollution results mainly from the injurious smoke emitted by cars, buses, trucks, factories etc. This smoke contains carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen and sulphur. In case of cars, catalytic ... -
Parametric Manipulation in 2D Material based NEMS Resonators
In this this thesis, I have studied dynamics of the two-dimensional (2D) material based NEMS resonators with resonant frequency ranging typically from 10 MHz to 100 MHz. The experiment involved fabrication of the ... -
Phase Retrieval and Hilbert Integral Equations – Beyond Minimum-Phase
(2018-07-18)The Fourier transform (spectrum) of a signal is a complex function and is characterized by the magnitude and phase spectra. Phase retrieval is the reconstruction of the phase spectrum from the measurements of the magnitude ... -
Phononic bandgap engineering in cellular periodic structures and mechanical metamaterials
A methodology has been developed for the computation of phononic band structure of cellular periodic structures, structures with spatially repetitive patterns, using Frequency domain Spectral Finite Element Method along ... -
Plasmon Phonon Coupled Dynamics of Nanocrystalline Structures
This thesis is an attempt to understand the characteristics and responses of plasmon phonon coupled dynamics in nanocrystalline structures. An energy based Lagrangian formulation is developed with fundamental field quantities ... -
Predicting Innovation Capability at Team Level: An Exploratory Analysis
Innovation is one of the major concerns for technology-driven organizations. Extensive amount of literature is available on ‘managing innovation’ within organizations at individual level as well as firm level. However, ... -
Preliminary Investigation into the Cold Plasma Powered Water Gas Shift Reaction – Experiments And Analysis
Water gas shift reaction (CO + H2O ↔ H2 + CO2) is a CO oxidation reaction in the presence of steam resulting in the formation of H2 and CO2. Traditionally, water gas shift (WGS) reaction is achieved using multiple catalytic ...