Experimental studies have shown that the yield strength of many important engineering materials such as polymers, ceramics and metallic glasses is dependent on hydrostatic stress. In addition, these materials may also ...

Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) exhibit attractive properties such as high strength and resilience. However, they display negligible tensile ductility due to catastrophic crack propagation inside a dominant shear band (SB). ...

This thesis focuses on the prediction of favourable pressure gradient turbulent boundary layer flows. Particularly, the focus is on mild favourable pressure gradient turbulent boundary layers and relaminarising turbulent ...

Flow induced self-oscillations cause acoustic pressure oscillations of large amplitude in pipe flows. If Reynolds number is treated as a parameter, these floinduced oscillations occur only at discrete and critical values ...

The work reported in this thesis is an attempt to enhance heat transfer in electronic devices with the use of impinging air jets on pin-finned heat sinks. The cooling per-formance of electronic devices has attracted increased ...

Radiative transfer constitutes an important physical process in the atmosphere. A detailed knowledge of the radiative balance of the Earth and the processes pertaining to the transfer of solar and terrestrial radiation is ...

Subseasonal variability of tropical Indian Ocean sea surface temperature is thought to influence the active-break cycle of the Asian monsoon. There are several open questions related to the role of surface fluxes, large-scale ...