Browsing Division of Mechanical Sciences by Title
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Experimental Study On The Impact Of Water Drops On Groove-Textured Surfaces
(2014-09-08)The interaction of a liquid drop with a solid surface is being actively studied to understand practically encountered scenarios such as the impact of fuel spray droplets onto the walls of engine combustion chamber, the ... -
Experimental, Numerical and Probabilistic Analysis of Reinforced Anchors for Transmission Tower Foundations
The foundations of tall structures such as transmission towers are subjected to loads in three directions coming from wind and other environmental events. The use of anchors for application in transmission tower foundations ... -
Experiments And Analysis on Wood Gasification in an Open Top Downdraft Gasifier
(2017-09-26)The thesis, through experimental and numerical investigations reports on the work related to packed bed reactors in co-current configuration for biomass gasification. This study has extensively focused on the gasification ... -
Experiments On Natural Ventilation In A Room And Real Source-Sink Pairs
(2010-09-06)The present work consists of two parts: experimental study of natural ventilation in a model room and the flow associated with a source-sink pair. The first part describes the natural ventilation of a model room of size ... -
Experiments On Rolling Sphere Submerged In An Incompressible Fluid
(2016-09-15)Experiments are done using a smooth solid rigid homogeneous acrylic sphere rolling on an inclined plane which is submerged in water. The motivation for these experiments comes from a need to understand a class of solid-fluid ... -
Experiments on the Late Stages of Boundary Layer Transition
(2018-03-19)In canonical boundary layer transition, a uniform laminar flow perturbed by 2-d T-S waves develops downstream into 3-d waves, which eventually break down with turbulent spots appearing. Previous experimental studies have ... -
Experiments on Varying Intensity Air Blasts in Shock Tubes
Abstract In the recent past, with an increasing number of terrorist activities, blast related research has focused on conducting careful experiments to develop newer protection strategies. As field experiments using ... -
Expermental and Modeling Studies on the Generation of Hydrogen Rich Syngas through Oxy-Steam Gasification of Biomass
(2018-02-20)The present work focuses on the study of biomass gasification process for generating hydrogen rich synthetic gas with oxy-steam as reactants using experiments and modeling studies. Utilization of the syngas as a fuel in ... -
Explicit Filtering LES for turbulent premixed flames
Large eddy simulations of a premixed, turbulent, methane-air round jet flame at an equivalence ratio of 0.8 and unburnt gas temperature of 800 K are performed using Explicit Filtering LES (EFLES) method. The nominal inflow ... -
Exploration And Assessment of HCCI Strategies for a Multi-Cylinder Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine
(2017-10-17)Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) combustion is an alternative combustion mode in which the fuel is homogeneously mixed with air and is auto-ignited by compression. Due to charge homogeneity, this mode is ... -
Exploration of Design Thinking in School Education
This thesis comprehensively investigates the integration of design thinking into education, focusing on its application in K-12 settings in India. The broad aims of the research work are: 1. To investigate the need to ... -
Exploration of natural and polymer based composites for advanced engineering design
Light weighting is an important requirement in design today to save energy. For example, reduction in the weight of a vehicle can lead to improved fuel economy. Concomitantly, there is a great need for choosing lightweight ... -
Exploring End-of-Life Photovoltaic (PV) Panel as a Building Material: A Case of Crystalline Silicon PV
The renewable energy share in the energy mix worldwide is rising sharply to mitigate climate change, with Solar Photovoltaics (PV) carrying a large share of 3.6%. However, the end-of-life (EoL) management of decommissioned ... -
Exploring Hydrological Processes, Modeling Decisions, and Deep Learning for Improved Hydrologic Assessment
Hydrological modeling is complicated by the intricate challenges and uncertainties associated with understanding hydrological processes. This thesis aims at answering some of the key research questions related to ... -
Exploring the atomic-level solute-defect interactions for designing high-performance disordered Ni-Co base alloys and ordered Ni base superalloys
For structural applications, a major section of high-strength alloys, such as steels, superalloys, etc., has a base element of iron, nickel, cobalt, titanium, aluminium or their combinations. Such materials enable ... -
Exploring water dynamics and gas separations in graphene oxide surfaces and nanopores
Graphene oxide (GO) is a chemically functionalized graphene with various oxygen-containing functional groups, such as epoxy (-O-), hydroxyl (-OH), and carboxyl (-COOH) on the basal plane. As a consequence, GOs have hydrophilic ... -
Extended finite simulations of cohensive crack propagation under mode-3 loading
Modeling of propagating discontinuities (cracks) is a challenging problem in the field of computational mechanics. Numerical techniques such as Finite Difference Method (FDM), Boundary Element Method (BEM), and Finite ... -
An Extended Integrated Model Of Designing
(2014-06-20)Product success is a major goal of designing and design research. Designing involves developing systems. A system interacts with its environment to satisfy its requirements. Therefore, designing should involve developing ... -
Extended Range Predictability And Prediction Of Indian Summer Monsoon
(2009-03-17)Indian summer monsoon (ISM) is an important component of the tropical climate system, known for its regular seasonality and abundance of rainfall over the country. The droughts and floods associated with the year-to-year ... -
Extended Reality based Digital Twin of Arc Welding
Arc welding is an important permanent joining process widely used across multiple industries such as transportation, infrastructure construction and equipment manufacturing. However, the inherent high-energy physics and ...