Division of Mechanical Sciences: Recent submissions

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    • Insights into the formulation of PU foam and its mechanical behavior under quasi-static and impact loads 

      Shivakumar, N D
      In today’s world, cellular materials find extensive use in many engineering applications including being deployed as energy?absorbing countermeasures for impact safety protection. Polymeric foam is a popular category of ...

    • Studies on simple and restricted orifice surgre tanks 

      Seetharama Rao, V
      This thesis deals with certain basic experimental studies conducted on the phenomenon of mass oscillations in restricted orifice surge tanks. Simple surge tanks were also studied, they being considered an extreme case of ...

    • Electrochemical studies on caviation damage 

      Veerabhadra Rao, P
      Abstract not available

    • Some characteristics of branch channel flow 

      Pattabhiramiah, K R
      This thesis comprises three parts. The first part contains literature survey, the second part the theoretical analysis, experimental verification and results, and the third part the development of a precision point gauge. ...

    • Cavitation and cavitation damage  

      Thiruvengadam, A
      This thesis deals with the study of certain aspects of cavitation damage. In the first part of the thesis, a critical survey of the existing literature has been made, and various theories of cavitation damage have been ...

    • Some Studies on branch channel Flow 

      Krishnappa, G
      In the present investigation, methods are suggested to predict the flow into a branch taking off from a main channel, maintaining subcritical flow in the main and supercritical in the branch channel. The methods are based ...

    • Oxidation of Sulfur Dioxide with Copper (II) catalyst in aqueous solution and on poly-4-vinylpyridine resin 

      Kumar, S Siva
      Air pollution by sulfur dioxide is of great concern due to its harmful effects on environment, human beings, fauna and flora. Thermal power plants and industries employing combustion of carbonaceous fuels are the major ...

    • Studies on fluidised-bed electrode  

      Nadar Thangppan, R
      Flowing electrolyte The mass transfer coefficient k between the flowing electrolyte and the outer wall of an annulus in streamline flow varies as … The mass?transfer data obtained in streamline flow in this investigation ...

    • Oxidation of ortho-xylene 

      Pant, Gopinath S
      The thesis embodies the work on the vapour?phase oxidation of o-xylene over sintered and compacted vanadium pentoxide catalyst in a fixed?bed reactor (FBR) and a continuous stirred?tank catalytic reactor (CSTCR). A survey ...

    • Chemical process deveoopment for sodium dithionite- a kinetic study of sodium formate process 

      Ramesh H Udupa
      (1) The kinetics of formation of sodium dithionite has been investigated in homogeneous aqueous phase. The rate of hydrolysis of sodium formate has been found to be the rate?controlling step. The following rate equation ...

    • Studies in drop formation 

      Saradhy, Y P
      An exhaustive survey of literature has indicated that no investigation has been carried out on drop formation in non?Newtonian fluids. Further, it is noted that little attention has been paid to the problem of drop formation ...

    • Thermodynamic properties of liquid mixtures 

      Patel, H R
      Abstract not available

    • Investigations on gas-liquid ejectors 

      Raghuram,P T
      A gas–liquid ejector offers relatively higher interfacial area and can be seriously considered as a cocurrent gas–liquid contactor. A model has been proposed, which assumes the contactor comprises a series of stirred vessels ...

    • studies on thermal decomposition of calcium carbonate /calcium hydroxide for energy storage 

      Kumar, K Y Ajoy Pavan
      Alternate energy sources are essential to meet the present?day energy demands. Non?conventional energy resources may substitute for natural sources to some extent and they alleviate discomfortable thoughts about the impending ...

    • Dynamics of gas bubbles in liquids 

      Krishnamurthi, S
      The study of bubble formation in liquids is of great importance because of its application in the design of many industrial bubble contactors like distillation columns, bubble cap columns, absorption towers, reactors, extraction ...

    • Enzymatic synthesis of esters in supercritical fluids 

      Kumar, Rajnish
      Lipases are enzymes that are widely used to catalyze a variety of industrially important reactions. However, lipase?catalyzed reactions are heterogeneous and mass?transfer limited. Therefore, in most cases the reaction ...

    • Structure and Rheology of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals 

      Sathish, P
      The aim of the present work is to probe the structure and rheology of the various lyotropic liquid crystalline substances. For this purpose, a commercial rheometer is used for studying the rheology of the substance and a ...

    • Experimental studies on swirling flows at vertically upward intakes 

      Rao, K Mallikharjuna
      The experimental investigations presented in this thesis are concerned with the aspects of sump geometry and sump parameters, which govern the flow conditions at vertically upward intakes. Detailed studies are made to ...

    • Flow characteristics of sharp-edged orifices,quadrant-edged orifices and nozzles 

      Alvi, Shamsul Haque
      This thesis presents an integrated study of flow past sharp-edged orifices, quadrant-edged orifices and long radius nozzles, covering different aspects such as metering characteristics, loss characteristics and flow ...

    • Studies on erosion due to liquid jet impingement 

      Janakiram, K S
      The problem of erosion due to liquid jet impingement and cavitation is gaining importance with the rapid technological progress in the recent years. The possible uses of liquid jets in the mixing processes in chemical ...