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The keeper of Chronicles - Investigating calcium carbonate archives using clumped thermometry
Calcium carbonates (CaCO3) are the most abundant mineral archive for reconstructing past climate owing to their tendency to register the environmental condition during their formation. From biogenically mediated carbonates ... -
Kinematic And Dynamic Modeling Of Human Walking
(2014-08-07)Walking comes naturally to us and appears to be simple. However, this is not so and it is known that walking requires high level neural control and muscle coordination. There is no single, unifying theory of bipedal walking. ... -
Kinematic And Static Analysis Of Over-Constrained Mechanisms And Deployable Pantograph Masts
(2011-01-19)Foldable and deployable space structures refer to a broad category of pre-fabricated structures that can be transformed from a compact folded configuration to a predetermined expanded configuration. Such deployable structures ... -
Kinematic Design and Optimal Synthesis of Parallel Manipulators Using Monte Carlo Method
Parallel manipulators are widely used for a variety of tasks where increased accuracy and large load carrying capacities are required. In this work, we propose a Monte Carlo based method to represent and quantify the ... -
Kinematics and Rheology of Complex Fluids: Active Suspensions and Dry Granular Materials
This work focuses on two problems in complex fluids, namely collective dynamics of suspensions of self-propelled particles and the rheology of dry granular materials. In both systems, interaction between the particles is ... -
Kinetic Flux Vector Splitting Method On Moving Grids (KFMG) For Unsteady Aerodynamics And Aeroelasticity
(Indian Institute of Science, 2007-06-07)Analysis of unsteady flows is a very challenging topic of research. A decade ago, potential flow equations were used to predict unsteady pressures on oscillating bodies. Recognising the fact that nonlinear aerodynamics is ... -
Kinetic investigations on gas solid reactions
Gas-Solid Reactions in Metallurgical Processes Gas-solid reactions are of current interest to process metallurgists because of their growing importance in industrial processes. In the present work, investigations were ... -
Kinetic Streamlined-Upwind Petrov Galerkin Methods for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
(2017-09-20)In the last half a century, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been established as an important complementary part and some times a significant alternative to Experimental and Theoretical Fluid Dynamics. Development ... -
Kinetics Of Photo Initiated Organic And Polymer Reactions
(2012-04-23)Photo-initiated reactions involve the use of ultraviolet (UV) or visible light radiation to effect chemical transformations. Some of the advantages of photo-initiated reactions over thermal or high pressure reactions include ... -
Kinetics of Photocatalytic Degradation of Dyes, Organics and Polymers using Nanomaterials
The main objective of this thesis was to investigate the application of photocatalysis for the degradation of organics, dyes, polymers, reduction of metal ions, decomposition of NO, etc. In this context, extensive work was ... -
Kinetics Of Polymerization And Degradation By Non-Conventional Techniques
(Indian Institute of Science, 2007-03-28)Non-conventional techniques for polymerization and depolymerization were investigated. The rates of polymerization were enhanced higher in ultrasonic, supercritical fluids and microwaves. However in these system under ... -
Kinetics Of Pressureless Infiltration Of Al-Mg Alloys Into Al2O3 Preforms : A Non-Uniform Capillary Model
(2009-03-06)Al-Mg alloys spontaneously infiltrate into porous ceramic preform in a nitrogenous atmosphere above 750 °C with Mg either pre-alloyed or introduced at the interface to initiate the process. The governing process variables ... -
Kinetics of size reduction and associated wear of grinding media
Ball milling is an important step in mineral processing to liberate the locked minerals from ore. During milling, the media undergo extensive wear due to abrasion and impact. Corrosion acts synergistically to increase the ... -
Knowledge Management in Research and Development Projects: Mapping intellectual Assets for Innovation in Manufacturing
Innovation is the key driver of competitive advantage in a knowledge economy. In the manufacturing industry, a major portion of innovation emerges from research and development (R&D) projects. These projects require ... -
Lab Experiment Documenting Growth of Microbes in an Extreme Condition
Bacterial population during 3.2 billion years of early earth was responsible for modifying the greenhouse gas concentration in the early earth. Here we studied the primitive facultative anaerobe E.coli K12, known to contain ... -
Laminar buoyancy - induced flows and transport processes in stratified media
Buoyancy?induced flows in a density?stratified environment occur in a wide variety of engineering systems and in nature. Some of these are crystal growth processes, solar ponds, deep ocean power modules, environmental ... -
Laminar Conjugate Natural Convection And Surface Radiation In Horizontal Annuli
(2010-07-29)Numerical studies of two-dimensional laminar conjugate natural convection flow and heat transfer in horizontal annuli formed between inner heat generating solid cylinders and outer isothermal circular boundary are performed ... -
Laminar free convection heat transfer from vertical cylinders and wires
This thesis presents investigations on laminar free?convection heat transfer to a quiescent fluid from vertical cylinders and wires with the following boundary conditions: Isothermal surface temperature, Non?isothermal ... -
Land-Climate Nexus: Unravelling Compound Extremes From Multivariate Analysis To Transformer Networks
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 ...