• Effect of Flow Regime on Performance of Rotating Gliding Arc Reactor: Experimental and Simulation Studies 

  Pathak, Ram Mohan

  Non-thermal plasma (NTP) technology offers a promising approach for pollutant abatement, gas conversion, and plasma-assisted combustion (PAC) by enabling reactions under atmospheric conditions, bypassing thermodynamic ...

• Mathematical Modelling and Advanced Control Techniques for Irrigation Canal Management 

  Pandey, Rajani

  Efficient water management in irrigation canal systems is vital for sustainable agriculture and environmental conservation. This thesis presents advanced control strategies to optimize water distribution and address the ...

• Isolation of Arsenic and Sodium Hydroxide Recovery Using Nanofiltration for a Zero-waste Arsenic Remediation Scheme 

  Kumar, Subhash

  Groundwater contamination by arsenic poses a significant global health concern, with even trace concentrations leading to severe health issues, including various cancers and cardiovascular diseases. Conventional arsenic ...

• Land-Climate Nexus: Unravelling Compound Extremes From Multivariate Analysis To Transformer Networks 

  Subhadarsini, Suchismita

  The interplay between land use and extreme hydroclimatic events is a crucial aspect of Earth system science, influencing water resources, ecosystem stability, and disaster risk management. Extreme hydrologic events often ...

• A Descriptive Hierarchical Approach to Analyse Activities Through Causal Mechanistic View 

  Francis, Anitha

  Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) are essential routines that support individuals’ independence and well-being. For people with upper limb impairments, limitations in hand and arm function can make performing ADLs ...

• Navigation of Autonomous Vehicles using Event Cameras and Modified RRT Methods 

  Gupta, Ankit

  Autonomous vehicles, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), are at the forefront of technological innovation and are widely used across various applications. As these vehicles become ...

• Investigation of sea level anomalies along the Indian coastline using tide gauge data: a physics-guided machine learning approach 

  Salim, Ruksana

  The Indian coastline falls within low-elevation coastal zones that are densely populated. Recent observations indicate, with high confidence, that the rate of sea level rise in the In- dian Ocean has been accelerating ...

• Particle-laden Rayleigh-Benard convection 

  Srinivas, Thota

  Particle-laden flows are ubiquitous in nature and industries. For example, water droplets in clouds, fine dust particles in strong winds leading to dusty storms, dunes, ejection of solid particles and ash during volcanic ...

• Exploring the atomic-level solute-defect interactions for designing high-performance disordered Ni-Co base alloys and ordered Ni base superalloys 

  Godha, Akshat

  For structural applications, a major section of high-strength alloys, such as steels, superalloys, etc., has a base element of iron, nickel, cobalt, titanium, aluminium or their combinations. Such materials enable ...

• One-domain simulation of fluid flow and heat transfer in the conjugate porous-clear media 

  Verma, Abhijit

  In this thesis, based on generalized porous flow model, we present a one-domain framework for the simulation of incompressible flow in superposed clear and porous media. The continuous change in the characteristics of the ...

• Sustainable solutions for municipal solid waste and leachate treatment: A circular economy approach 

  Nalladiyil, Anusree

  India’s waste management system, largely reliant on landfilling and open dumping, is inadequate for handling rising volumes of unsegregated muncipal solid waste (MSW), causing environmental and public health risks. Addressing ...

• Remediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soil and Sediment And its Effective Reuse in Construction 

  Kulkarni, Kalyani Anilchandra

  This research explores approaches to mitigate the environmental impact of heavy metal contamination in soil and dredged sediment. It focuses on three main areas: chemical remediation through nano zero-valent iron (nZVI), ...

• Behaviour Modelling of Non-Cooperative Space Objects and Strategies for Decision Support in Space Situational Awareness 

  Shivshankar, S

  Space Situational Awareness [SSA] is defined as the comprehensive knowledge of Resident Space Objects [RSO] which may include satellites, rocket bodies, debris etc. and the ability to understand their behaviour. SSA solutions ...

• Studies on the application of plasma-assisted ignition for lean combustion 

  Athreya, Avaneesh V

  Non-thermal or non-equilibrium plasma is an emerging field in combustion science. Stable ignition of lean fuel-air mixtures continues to remain a challenge. The present work explores the potential of non-thermal plasma ...

• Investigations on Hypersonic Laminar to Turbulent Boundary Layer Transition in a Shock Tunnel 

  Bajpai, Ankit

  The phenomenon of laminar to turbulent boundary layer transition has baffled researchers in high speed fluid dynamics and aerodynamics for over half a century. The reason for departure of ordered laminar boundary layer ...

• Multi-Agent Pursuit-Evasion and Coverage Strategies 

  Nath, Suryadeep

  Autonomous agents are increasingly being used to solve many tasks deemed complex by humans with ease and effectiveness. Two such related applications are in defence scenarios and in coverage. Inspired by these applications, ...

• An Integrated Framework for Enhancing Water Distribution Network Performance Using Complex Network Theory 

  Pandey, Jyotsna

  Water Distribution Networks (WDNs) are critical infrastructure systems that could ensure the equitable and reliable supply of potable water to both urban and rural populations. With the increasing challenges of skewed urban ...

• A Framework for Evaluating Hydrologic Risk of Dams and Dam-Break Floods Under Data-Sparse and Climate Change Scenarios 

  Goel, Anubhav

  Design Flood Hydrograph (DFH) desirable for studies related to the planning, design, operation, and risk assessment of a dam is often derived using the Unit Hydrograph (UH) approach. It involves the convolution of UH of ...

• Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerators for Atmospheric Re-entry 

  Nair, Prasanth Balakrishnan

  Atmospheric re-entry is the most challenging part of human space flight. In the re-entry phase of flight, the crew module (or re-entry vehicle) is required to bring the onboard astronauts from orbital velocities, which ...

• Single and twin liquid jet injection in crossflow: Influence of Mach number and jet spacing 

  Ramana, Kukkarasi

  Supersonic air-breathing engine development towards hypersonic vehicles is challenging due to flow complexities arising from compressibility effects. In these engines, the incoming crossflow air enters the combustor at ...

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