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Adjoint-Based Aerodynamic Shape and Mesh Optimization with High-order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
The aerodynamic shape of an aircraft plays a pivotal role in determining its overall performance. Aerodynamic Shape Optimization (ASO) involves systematically modifying the geometry to optimize the aerodynamic objective ... -
Algorithmic Approaches to Pangenome Graph Problems
The human reference genome serves as a foundational baseline for comparing newly sequenced human genomes. With the growing availability of high-quality human genome assemblies, there is now an opportunity to modernize the ... -
Algorithms for various cost criteria in Reinforcement Learning
In this thesis we will look at various Reinforcement Learning algorithms. We will look at algorithms for various cost criteria or reward objectives namely Finite Horizon, Discounted Cost, Risk-Sensitive Cost. For Finite ... -
Barrier Coverage using UAVs and Camera Sensors
With advancements in camera sensor technology, camera sensor networks are increasingly utilized for border surveillance. UAVs equipped with downward-facing cameras also serve as effective sensors, and their features, ... -
Behavioral and Neural bases of Subcomponents of the Attentional Blink
Attention enables us to select relevant stimuli for enhanced sensory processing and decision-making. Yet, our ability to pay attention is severely capacity limited. This limitation is clearly revealed when we seek to perform ... -
Biologically Inspired Electronic Nose: Innovations and Developments
The olfactory system is a highly efficient and complex network for detecting and interpreting a wide range of chemical signals. It consists of specialized sensory cells located in the nasal mucosa that detect odor molecules ... -
Broadband Ultrafast Signal Generation and Dissemination via Dynamic Fiber Optic Links
Mode-locked fiber lasers, with rare-earth-doped fibers offering numerous advantages over alternative gain media, including excellent beam quality, simple thermal management, and a compact and robust design, are in high ... -
Combinatorial Problems arising in Quantum Physics and Model counting
This thesis investigates some combinatorial problems arising in quantum physics and model counting. In particular, we develop new graph-theoretic techniques to resolve some open questions from quantum photonics. We also ... -
Contact Line Instabilities in Thin Film Flows on Curved Surfaces
Thin fluid film flows are ubiquitous in nature and many industrial applications. Such flows are characterized by having the thickness in one direction being much smaller than the characteristic length scales in the ... -
Controller Synthesis Techniques for Infinite-State Reactive Systems
Reactive systems are ubiquitous, with various use cases ranging from controllers for cyber-physical systems to programs that run on multipurpose computers. A system is reactive if it continually behaves in a specific manner ... -
Deciphering the function of sesaminol as an anti-obesity and anti-MAFLD molecule
Obesity and its associated metabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) or metabolic dysfunction-associated liver disease (MAFLD), pose significant global health challenges. ... -
Design and Characterization of a Pin-to-Water Plasma Reactor Setup for the Generation of High Strength Plasma Activated Water
Plasma-activated water (PAW), generated by non-thermal atmospheric plasma interaction with water, has emerged as a promising solution due to its potent antimicrobial, antitumor, and nitrogen fixation properties, with ... -
Design and Development of Hybrid Catalyst for Hydrogen Storage: A Demonstrative Concept using Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHCs)
The urgent need to address CO2 emissions resulting from the industrial revolution has placed a strong emphasis on the reduction of greenhouse gases. As a result, hydrogen has gained significant attention as a sustainable ... -
Design and Fabrication of P3HT-Field Effect Transistors
The increasing demand for advanced sensing applications has highlighted the potential of hybrid systems combining silicon technology with organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). Silicon technology-based devices are ... -
Design, Optimization and Field Validation of Low Head Hydro Powered Turbine Pumps and Piston Pumps for driving stream flows in the range 40-120 l/s and 5-20 l/s respectively
This thesis focuses on developing optimized self-operating pumps using flows and head of perennial streams or rivers for decentralized irrigation and drinking water supply needs of local communities living by the river ... -
Development and Validation of Novel Methods for Measuring and Tracking Clean Energy Transitions: Case Studies from Rural India
Modern energy sources are crucial to gain all the benefits that modern living affords and is central to our idea of holistic human development. While they pose multitude benefits over their traditional counterparts, they ... -
Dripping Dynamics of Suspensions
The study of droplet formation dynamics of Newtonian fluids and non-colloidal suspensions has significant industrial applications. Experimental studies on the influence of fluid properties such as Newtonian and non-colloidal ... -
Effect of Laser Shock Peening on Residual Stress and Mechanical behaviour of Aluminium alloy AA2219 Friction Stir Weld
The Aluminium alloy AA2219 is a precipitation-hardenable wrought alloy with copper as the major alloying element. Large-volume propellant tanks of space launch vehicles are manufactured by joining AA2219 alloy through ... -
An Efficient Hardware Accelerator for Ascon-128 Lightweight Authenticated Encryption
The recent growth in connected devices has made it exceedingly vital to safeguard data communicated by resource-constrained embedded systems in Internet of Things (IoT) applications such as smart grids, industrial automation ... -
Enhancement Techniques for OTFS and Hybrid Reflection Modulation
Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation and hybrid reflection modulation (HRM) are emerging technologies in wireless communications. OTFS provides robustness in high Doppler channels. HRM improves rate and ...