Browsing Division of Mechanical Sciences by Subject "Aeronautics"
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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 ... -
Piezoceramic Dynamic Hysteresis Effects On Helicopter Vibration Control Using Multiple Trailing-Edge Flaps
(2009-07-14)Helicopters suffer from severe vibration levels compared to fixed-wing aircraft. The main source of vibration in a helicopter is the main rotor which operates in a highly unsteady aerodynamic environment. Active vibration ... -
Residual Error Estimation And Adaptive Algorithms For Fluid Flows
(2011-03-16)The thesis deals with the development of a new residual error estimator and adaptive algorithms based on the error estimator for steady and unsteady fluid flows in a finite volume framework. The aposteriori residual error ... -
Robust Partial Integrated Guidance And Control Of UAVs For Reactive Obstacle Avoidance
(2012-04-24)UAVs employed for low altitude jobs are more liable to collide with the urban structures on their way to the goal point. In this thesis, the problem of reactive obstacle avoidance is addressed by an innovative partial ... -
Rotationally Invariant Kinetic Upwind Method (KUMARI)
(2009-03-11)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 ... -
Shock Tunnel Investigations On Hypersonic Separated Flows
(2009-08-11)Knowledge of flow separation is very essential for proper understanding of both external and internal aerothermodynamics of bodies. Because of unique flow features such as thick boundary layers, merged shock layers, strong ... -
Structural Health Monitoring Of Composite Helicopter Rotor Blades
(Indian Institute of Science, 2007-04-18)Helicopter rotor system operates in a highly dynamic and unsteady aerodynamic environment leading to severe vibratory loads on the rotor system. Repeated exposure to these severe loading conditions can induce damage in the ... -
Structural Modeling And Analysis Of Insect Scale Flapping Wing
(2013-06-04)Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) are defined as a class of vehicles with their larger dimension not exceeding 15 cm and weighing 100 gm. The three main approaches for providing lift for such vehicles are through fixed, rotating ... -
Structure Of Sink Flow Boundary Layers
(2011-03-17)The work reported in this thesis is an experimental and theoretical investigation of the so-called sink flow boundary layers. These are two-dimensional (in the mean), favourable-pressure-gradient (FPG) boundary layer flows ... -
A Study Of A Vortex Particle Method For Vortex Breakdown Phenomena
(2010-07-06)Vortex breakdown is an important phenomenon observed in swirling flows involving the development of a stagnation point on the axis of the vortex followed by a region of recirculation when the swirl increases beyond a ... -
A Study On Boundary Layer Transition Induced By Large Freestream Disturbances
(2013-06-12)The initial slow viscous growth of the Tollmein-Schlichting wave in a canonical boundary layer transition is absent in bypass and wake-induced transitions. Although there have been a great deal of studies pertaining to ... -
System Identification And Control Of Helicopter Using Neural Networks
(2013-04-29)The present work focuses on the two areas of investigation: system identification of helicopter and design of controller for the helicopter. Helicopter system identification, the first subject of investigation in this ...