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Adaptive charging techniques for Li-ion battery using Reinforcement Learning
Li-ion batteries have become a promising technology in recent years and are used everywhere from low-end devices like mobile phones to high-end ones like electric vehicles. In most applications, the discharge of a battery ... -
Demand Response Planning in a Transitioning Electricity System
Globally, the electricity systems are undergoing major transitions from robust, carbon intensive, and firm power conventional systems to uncertain, intermittent and variable renewable energy integrated low carbon systems. ... -
Exploring Entrepreneurial Motivations, Human Capital and Environmental Uncertainty As Antecedents of Causation and Effectuation
Entrepreneurship has been acknowledged as one of the most important drivers of growth and prosperity in modern times. Existing ways of life are creatively destroyed to make way for new ways of living. It is the process ... -
Development of Mathematical Models for a Class of Component Remanufacturing Problems With Break-even Analysis
The aim of the thesis is to propose and address a class of Component Remanufacturing (CR) problems. This class of CR problems arise for any Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) who produces durable products and, acquires ... -
Porous Polymeric Membranes with Engineered Surfaces for Water Remediation
Access to safe drinking water is one of the greatest challenges that have afflicted people across the globe. Approximately 1.2 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water while 2.6 billion have no access to ... -
Architectures for enhancing bandwidth and power scalability of optical frequency combs
Optical frequency combs (OFCs) have revolutionized high bandwidth communications, spectroscopy, arbitrary RF waveform generation, LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), and astronomical spectrograph calibration. OFCs have ... -
Effect of urbanisation & population density on groundwater in India using satellite remote sensing data
This work investigates the relationship of urbanization, population density and meteorological variables (temperature & precipitation) on groundwater storage for the selected study regions in India. Variations in ... -
Conceptualisation, Development and Validation of Energy Internet for a Transitioning Electricity System
Globally, the national electricity systems are in the midst of aggressive transitions. A shift from large-scale conventional fossil-fuel based power generation systems to large number of small-scale distributed renewable ... -
Generalized local projection stabilized finite element methods for boundary value problems
The primary goal of this thesis work is to study a priori analysis based on the generalized local projection stabilized (GLPS) finite element methods for the system of linear partial differential equations of first and ... -
Service quality of Intercity Bus transport
Public transportation has become one of the cornerstones for country’s infrastructure development. Road transportation is one of the important means of public transportation. Within road transportation, a large number of ... -
Psychographic Segmentation of Retail Banking Customers of Karnataka (India) - An Exploratory Study
Post Liberalization, India has witnessed a good growth rate in economy. The GDP has grown by in the range of 7- 8 percentage annually. The job prospects in India have increased phenomenally due domestic business climate ... -
Investigations on Joule Heating and Associated Effects during Liquid Dielectrophoresis of Aqueous Droplets
Liquid dielectrophoresis (L-DEP) is an electrokinetic phenomenon in which a dielectric liquid with higher permittivity than the surrounding medium, when placed in a non-uniform electric field, moves towards the regions of ... -
Fabrication of suspended Graphene microchannels and its application in studying graphene-liquid interface
Graphene is a single layer of sp2 hybridized carbon atoms having extraordinary mechanical, optical, and electrical properties. These exotic properties make them attractive for applications in all fields of science and ... -
An Exploratory Study on Financial Resources, Scaling, and Performance of Social Enterprises in India
The limitations of the government and current economic system deprived socio-economic opportunities to certain sections of the communities. The non-profit sector, expected to fill this gap, has been afflicted with fiscal ... -
Transition metal oxide absorbers for photovoltaics
Several oxides are non-toxic, stable, and can be deposited using inexpensive techniques on a variety of substrates. There is a compelling case for use of oxide in photovoltaics, referred to as “all-oxide photovoltaics”. ... -
On understanding the role of V addition in design and development of high specific strength γ'(L12)-strengthened Co-base superalloys
Ni-based superalloys with excellent mechanical, thermal and oxidation resistance properties have great demand in energy applications. Over the time, varied compositions of Ni-based superalloys have been utilized for the ... -
Finite Element Method based Model Order Reduction for Electromagnetics
Model order reduction (MOR) refers to the process of reducing the size of large scale discrete systems with the goal of capturing their behavior in a small and tractable model known as the reduced order model (ROM). ROMs ... -
Engineering Graphene Oxide Surface Chemistry and Investigating Its Effect on The Physicochemical and Biological Properties
In the current study, systematic tuning of oxidation degree of GO has been explored and a two-step methodology for engineering GO surface chemistry was successfully developed. The investigation of the effects of oxidation ... -
Heterogeneous Integration of Thin-film Germanium on Silicon and Steel
Integration of germanium (Ge) on low cost substrates such as silicon and steel open several applications such as low cost III-V photovoltaics, beyond silicon CMOS and optoelectronics applications. However, growth of germanium ... -
Towards Designing PCM-Conscious Database Systems
Phase Change Memory (PCM) is a recently developed non-volatile memory technology that is expected to provide an attractive combination of the best features of conventional disks (persistence, capacity) and of DRAM (access ...
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