Browsing Division of Mechanical Sciences by Title
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On the Structure and Propagation of Premixed Flames in Turbulence
Turbulence interacts with flames over a multitude of lengthscales and timescales. These interactions are nonlinear and are ubiquitous, for example, in propulsion engines operating in space, air, land, and sea. ... -
On Three Dimensional High Lift Flow Computations
(2018-02-18)Computing 3D high lift flows has been a challenge to the CFD community because of three important reasons: complex physics, complex geometries and large computational requirements. In the recent years, considerable progress ... -
On Viscous Flux Discretization Procedures For Finite Volume And Meshless Solvers
(2009-04-29)This work deals with discretizing viscous fluxes in the context of unstructured data based finite volume and meshless solvers, two competing methodologies for simulating viscous flows past complex industrial geometries. ... -
Onboard Propellant Gauging For Spacecraft
(2009-08-04)Estimation of the total mission life of a spacecraft is an important issue for the communication satellite industries. For accurate determination of the remaining mission life of the satellite it is essential to estimate ... -
Optimal Control Of Numerical Dissipation In Modified KFVS (m-KFVS) Using Discrete Adjoint Method
(2010-06-04)The kinetic schemes, also known as Boltzmann schemes are based on the moment-method-strategy, where an upwind scheme is first developed at the Boltzmann level and after taking suitable moments we arrive at an upwind scheme ... -
Optimal Guidance Of Aerospace Vehicles Using Generalized MPSP With Advanced Control Of Supersonic Air-Breathing Engines
(2016-07-11)A new suboptimal guidance law design approach for aerospace vehicles is proposed in this thesis, followed by an advanced control design for supersonic air-breathing engines. The guidance law is designed using the newly ... -
Optimal Numerical Integration Method for Higher Order Polygonal Finite Elements and its application in microstructure modeling
In conventional Finite Element Method (FEM), triangular and quadrilateral elements are commonly used finite elements and their counterparts with tetrahedral and hexahedral elements in three-dimensions to discretize the ... -
Optimal Resource Allocation In Lanchester Attrition Model Based Conflicts
(2009-05-06)Force deployment and optimal resource allocation has been an area of considerable research interest in conventional warfare. In the modern scenario, with significant advances in technology related to communication and ... -
Optimal Synthesis of Adjustable Four-Link Planar and Spherical Crank-Rocker Type Mechanisms for Approximate Multi-Path Generation
(2018-04-02)The well known synthesis problem of obtaining dimensions of a four-link mechanism such that a point on the coupler link traces a desired path has been extensively studied. There are two types of path generation–path specified ... -
Optimal Trajectory Planning for Fixed-Wing Miniature Air Vehicles
(2018-04-02)Applications such as urban surveillance, search and rescue, agricultural applications, military applications, etc., require miniature air vehicles (MAVs) to fly for a long time. But they have restricted flight duration due ... -
Optimization And Design Of Proportional Weirs
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Optimization of a higher-order sandwich composite beam under uncertainties
Optimization under uncertainties of structures is a challenging field due to the requirements of high computational resources. The typical approaches include reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) and robust design ... -
Optimization of parameters in SiC production via Acheson Process – a hot model study
Silicon carbide (SiC) is produced industrially in a heat resistance furnace using quartz (silica) and raw petroleum coke (RPC) as the raw material. In this process, commonly known as the Acheson Process, a large current ... -
Optimum Design Of Retaining Structures Under Static And Seismic Loading : A Reliability Based Approach
(2010-10-14)Design of retaining structures depends upon the load which is transferred from backfill soil as well as external loads and also the resisting capacity of the structure. The traditional safety factor approach of the design ... -
Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Photovoltaics : Interface Engineering, Fabrication and Characterization
In the past few decades the field of organic electronics particularly organics photovoltaic (OPVs) find wide interest among researchers. It finds many advantages such as light weight, low temperature fabrication requirements, ... -
Oxygen Transfer In Pichia Pastoris Fermentation
(2009-03-17)Recombinant Pichia pastoris is one of the important methylotropic yeast due to its robustness and ability to produce hormones like human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), luteinizing hormone (LH) extracellularly. High growth ... -
Packed Bed Gasification-Combustion In Biomass Based Domestic Stoves And Combustion Systems
(2014-07-04)This thesis constitutes fundamental experimental and computational investigations on gasification and combustion in a packed bed of biomass. Packed bed gasification-combustion in counter-current mode is used in two ... -
Paper microfluidic tools to improve the sensitivity and dynamic range of point-of-care immunoassays
Over the past decade, developing affordable home-based tests to diagnose infectious diseases has become a pressing need. The lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) is the most successfully commercialized point-of-care immunoassay. ...