Materials which exhibit non-linear mechanical behaviors under large deformations are generally classified as “soft matter”. Elastomers represent an important class of soft materials which have wide commercial applications ...

This thesis comprises analytical studies of the relationships between solar/geomagnetic activity and the day-to-day variation of total atmospheric ozone at five selected stations — Resolute, Churchill, Hohenpeissenberg, ...

The moisture content of residual soils above the water table, and near ground surface (≤ 6 m) is influenced by the environmental relative humidity (RH). The focus of this thesis is to examine the physico-chemical and ...

In this thesis we examine intra-seasonal oscillations (ISO) in the aqua-planet setup of the Community Atmospheric Model (CAM) version 5.1, mainly based on July and January climatological sea surface temperature (SST). We ...

Melt convection and solid phase movement play an important role in solidification processes, which significantly influence the formation of grain structures and solute segregations. In general, the melt convection and grain ...

The work is a theoretical study on the ignition of a pool of liquid fuel at subflash temperatures under the action of localized ignition sources. While a few experimental results are available in the literature, no theoretical ...

Food wastage poses a significant threat to the nation’s food supply and safety due to inadequate storage infrastructure and logistics facilities. This study explores the potential of spray drying as a viable solution to ...

In the quest for a high fidelity numerical scheme for CFD it is necessary to satisfy demands on accuracy, conservation, positivity and upwinding. Recently the requirement of rotational invariance has been added to this ...

The Bay of Bengal is a semi-enclosed tropical ocean basin driven by the monsoon winds. The Bay receives a large quantity of freshwater from river discharges and rainfall, which leads to very low salinity values in the ...