Browsing by thesis submitted date"2011"
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Design, Synthesis and Properties of Novel Oligo-Phenylenevinylene based Supramolecular Photochromic Gels and Soft Composites with Nanomaterials
The thesis entitled “Design, Synthesis and Properties of Novel Oligo-Phenylenevinylene based Supramolecular Photochromic Gels and Soft Composites with Nanomaterials” deals with soft materials derived from low molecular ... -
Developing A Dialogue Based Knowledge Acquisition Method For Automatically Acquiring Expert Knowledge To Diagnose Mechanical Assemblies
(2013-06-20)Mechanical assembly is an important step during product realization, which is an integrative process that brings together the parts of the assembly, the people performing the assembly and the various technologies that are ... -
Development And Performance Evaluation Of An Indirect Evaporative Air Cooler
(2014-09-09)Evaporative cooling is an alternative and efficient method of cooling in dry climates. When a liquid evaporates into the surrounding gas, the energy required for the change of phase produces a cooling effect. The wet bulb ... -
Development And Performance Study Of Nanostructured Metal Oxide Gas Sensor
(2015-01-07)The basic necessities to sustain life are – air, water and food. Although the harmful effects due to contaminated food or water are dangerous to life, these can be reduced/avoided by controlling the intake. Whereas, in ... -
Development Of Algorithms For Power System State Estimation Incorporating Synchronized Phasor Measurements
(2013-07-16)The ability to implement Wide Area Monitoring and Control in power systems is developing into a need in order to prevent wide scale cascading outages. Monitoring of events in the power system provides a great deal of insight ... -
Development Of Ionic Catalysts For The Water-gas Shift Reaction And Exhaust Gas Purification
(2013-04-04)Treatment of fuel cell feed H2 for the removal of CO is important owing to the poisoning of the catalysts, thereby affecting the performance of the fuel cell. Strong and preferential adsorption of CO over the catalyst takes ... -
Device Structure And Material Exploration For Nanoscale Transistor
(2013-07-03)There is a compelling need to explore different material options as well as device structures to facilitate smooth transistor scaling for higher speed, higher density and lower power. The enormous potential of nanoelectronics, ... -
Dielectric Barrier Discharge Initiated NOx Abatement In Diesel Engine Exhaust : Towards Achieving Higher Removal Efficiency
(2013-08-28)In the last few decades India has advanced socioeconomically due to the rapid growth of industries and automobile sector. This in turn increases the use of fossil fuel and diesel. The atmosphere gets polluted due to the ... -
Differential Evolution Based Interceptor Guidance Law
(2013-05-29)Kinematics based guidance laws like the proportional navigation (PN) and many other linear optimal guidance laws perform well in near-collision course conditions. These have been studied thoroughly in the literature from ... -
Diffusion Studies On Systems Related to Nickel Based Superalloys
(2013-02-28)Superalloys offer high temperature strength, excellent creep, corrosion and oxidation resistances, microstructural stability and good fatigue life at elevated temperatures. The composition of the superalloys has been ... -
Dilations, Functoinal Model And A Complete Unitary Invariant Of A r-contraction.
(2013-08-02)A pair of commuting bounded operators (S, P) for which the set r = {(z 1 +z 2,z 1z 2) : |z 1| ≤1, |z 2| ≤1} C2 is a spectral set, is called a r-contraction in the literature. For a contraction P and a bounded commutant ... -
Distributed Bioenergy Systems For Expanding Rural Electricity Access In Tumkur District, India : A Feasibility Assessment Using GIS, Heuristics And Simulation Models
(2013-06-20)Energy is an important input for various activities that provide impetus to economic, human and social development of any country. Among all the energy carriers, electricity is the most important and sought after energy ... -
Distributed Wireless Networks : Link Scheduling And Application Delay Modelling
(2013-05-23)We address several problems that arise in a multihop wireless mesh network. First, we study the problem of joint congestion control, routing and MAC layer scheduling. We formulate the problem as an aggregate utility ... -
Divided They Stay : Species Coexistence In A Community Of Mutualists And Exploiters
(2012-12-14)The fig–fig wasp interaction is a classic example of obligate mutualism and coevolution. It is also a nursery pollination mutualism and supports a diversity of exploiter/parasite/non-pollinating fig wasp species. Mutualists ... -
Dynamics Of Water Drops Impacting Onto The Junction Of Dual-Textured Substrates Comprising Hydrophobic And Hydrophilic Portions
(2014-11-24)The research topic of liquid drop interaction with solid surfaces is being actively pursued to gain in-depth understanding of several practical cases such as the impingement of fuel spray droplets on surfaces like combustion ... -
Electrical Impedance Spectroscopic Studies On Bread Staling : Sensors And Instrumentation
(2013-04-15)Quality control is essential in food industry and efficient quality assurance is becoming increasingly important. The assessment of food quality still centers on its sensory properties (appearance, aroma and texture). Bread ... -
Electrochemical Supercapacitor Investigations Of MnO2 And Mn(OH)2
(2013-04-30)Electrical double-layer formed at the electrode/electrolyte interface in combination with electron-transfer reaction can lead to many important applications of electrochemistry, including energy storage devices, namely, ... -
Enantiospecific Synthesis Of Bioactive Styryllactones
(2013-02-25)The thesis entitled “Enantiospecific synthesis of bio-active stryllactones” comprise an introduction about stryllactone and two chapters describes the synthesis of stryllactones. Trees of the genus Goniothalamus of the ... -
Enantiospecific Synthesis Of Tetraquinane Diterpenes Crinipellins
(2013-04-15)Among Nature's creation, terpenoids are more versatile and exciting compounds, and provide fertile ground for developing and testing new synthetic strategies because of their phenomenal structural diversity. The thesis ... -
Energy And Channel-Aware Power And Discrete Rate Adaptation And Access In Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks
(2013-01-08)Energy harvesting (EH) nodes, which harvest energy from the environment in order to communicate over a wireless link, promise perpetual operation of wireless networks. The primary focus of the communication system design ...