Division of Mechanical Sciences: Recent submissions
Now showing items 661-680 of 1912
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Simulation and Study of Noise Generated due to Turbulent Boundary Layer in Towed Hydrophone Array
In this thesis, a wave propagation based analytical model is developed for an underwater towed array. The towed array is modeled as an in finite tube filled with a certain liquid and submerged in an in finite volume of ... -
Synthesis, Microstructural Stability and High Temperature Deformation of Alumina-Carbon Nanotube Composites
Structural ceramics such as alumina are known to have excellent hardness and high temperature mechanical properties. In view of this, they are used as refractory linings to mitigate the effect of high temperature exposure. ... -
Impact of Local and Remote Land-Atmosphere Coupling on the Indian Summer Monsoon
India lies on the edge of the Asian summer monsoon domain and receives almost 80% of its annual rainfall during June to September (referred as Indian summer monsoon rainfall: ISMR). The dominant forcing behind inter-annual ... -
Analyzing Inter-modal Competition Between High Speed Rail and Conventional Transport Modes in Indian Context
Indian Railway provides an important mode of public transport in India. This is the most commonly used and cost effective long-distance transport system of the country. Indian Railways has played an immense role in ... -
Discrete Velocity Boltzmann Schemes for Inviscid Compressible Flows
It is known that high-speed flows are compressible. In large parts of the flow domains, the inviscid approximation is valid and this leads to Euler equations of gas dynamics. These inviscid compressible flows are modelled ... -
On the Contribution of the Launch Platform towards Acoustic Environment of a Launch Vehicle at Lift-off
A launch vehicle experiences intense acoustic loading in the initial phase of its lift-off due to the noise generated by the rocket exhaust. This affects the launch vehicle structure in addition to sensitive payloads and ... -
Design and Analysis of Multifunctional Composites for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
The principal aim of this thesis is to analyse the effectiveness of multifunctional composites as intelligent structures to improve mechanical properties and activate additional non-structural features. In order to investigate ... -
Aeroelasticity of Flapping Wings towards Micro Air Vehicle Applications
Studies have revealed that insect like flapping flight can serve as a benchmark in designing Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAV) owing to its power efficiency and high maneuverability. Primarily envisioned as agents facilitating ... -
Investigations on Miniature Loop Heat Pipe with Flat Evaporator
The present investigation on a miniature loop heat pipe (LHP) with flat evaporator is motivated by two factors. Firstly, miniature loop heat pipes are required for thermal management of small electronics in spacecraft with ... -
Blast Effects on Mild Steel Plates and Blast Mitigation using Fluid-filled Polymer Foam
In the modern-day society, there are an increasing number of explosions, either by accidental explosions or by terrorist attacks on civilian and military infrastructure. In view of the increased threat to infrastructure ... -
Novel Phenomena Associated With Giant Tetragonality in the Ferroelectric BiFeO3-PbTiO3 System
The multiferroic perovskite solid solution xBiFeO3-(1-x)PbTiO3 (BF-PT) exhibits very unique features such as giant tetragonality (c/a ~ 1.19), coexistence of ferroelectric and magnetic order (in certain composition range) ... -
Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Photovoltaics : Interface Engineering, Fabrication and Characterization
In the past few decades the field of organic electronics particularly organics photovoltaic (OPVs) find wide interest among researchers. It finds many advantages such as light weight, low temperature fabrication requirements, ... -
Design and Development of a Novel Solar Thermal Receiver
One of the most widely used solar collectors for process heating and large scale electricity generation is the parabolic trough collector (PTC), in which a tube placed at the focus of the parabola receives concentrated ... -
Vertical Structure of Convective Clouds Using the TRMM PR Data
Very small fractional area (0.1%) occupied by the cumulonimbus (Cb) clouds belies their importance in Earths hydrological cycle and climate. For example, Riehl and Malkus (1958) estimated that the vertical transport of ... -
Multiscale Simulations in Multiphase Flows
Matter at small scales is not a continuum. Whenever we are dealing with phenomena which have disparate time and length scales, we have to rely on multiscale modelling approach in order to capture the complete physics. A ... -
Applications of Advanced CAE Methodologies to Orthopaedic Implant and Vehicle Occupant cum Pedestrian Safety Countermeasure Design
In the present work, experimental and numerical investigations into the load-displacement responses of a human lumbar Truncated Vertebral Unit (TVU) under quasi-static and impact loading conditions have been carried out ... -
An Integrative Approach to Vision Simulations using Digital Human Models
Digital Human Models (DHM), belong to a class of human-in-the-loop simulations having primary applications in the area of virtual ergonomics, virtual prototyping, and task evaluations. These models replicate physical and ... -
Testing Methodologies for Probing Site Specific Fatigue Response of Graded Coatings
Thermal barrier coating systems (TBC’s) employed in the high pressure turbine section of a modern aero-turbine engine serve as an example of constrained material systems used for engineering applications. TBC’s today are ... -
Planar Fault Energies in L12 Compounds
High temperature metallic structural materials, such as Ni-base superalloys owe their strength to a two-phase microstructure consisting of an fcc matrix strengthened by intermetallic A3B type precipitates. The performance ... -
Atomistic Simulation of Grain Boundary Effects on Cascade Damage in Vanadium
Advancements in fusion reactor technology has led to the construction of ITER and the realisation of fusion energy is closer than ever before. However, realisation of fusion energy critically depends upon breakthrough in ...