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Response of Granular Materials Towards Blast Loading
Granular media, such as sand, soil, and rocks, are commonly encountered in various engineering and geotechnical applications, and their response to blast loading is of significant interest. In this master’s thesis, the ... -
Robust Adaptive Control of a Laser Beam System for Static and Moving Targets
(2018-02-28)The motivation of this thesis is to propose a robust control technique for a laser beam system with target estimation. The laser beam is meant to track and fall on a particular portion of the target until the operation is ... -
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 ... -
Robust Station-keeping and High-Precision Attitude Control for a Spacecraft on Sun–Earth L1 Halo Orbit
The halo orbits around the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point form an ideal location for deploying a solar observation spacecraft as they offer uninterrupted, long-duration visibility of the Sun. However, the complex orbital and ... -
Role Of Hydrogen Injection Temperature On The Combustion Instability Of Cryogenic Rocket Engine
(2014-04-16)Physical mechanism for high frequency instability in cryogenic engines at low hydrogen injection temperature has been a subject of debate for long time. Experimental and early developmental studies revealed no instabilities ... -
The Role of Self-Recirculating Casing Treatment on Axial Compressor and Its Aeroelastic Behavior
The modern-day axial compressor stages in a gas turbine engine play a vital role in generating the high-pressure ratios by operating at the limits of their design. Aerodynamic instabilities such as rotating stall and surge ... -
Rotational Temperature Measurement in Hypersonic Shock Tunnel using Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy
Atmospheric entry of a spacecraft is considered as one of the critical phases in any planetary mission. Although it lasts only for a few minutes, rapid heating and deceleration can cause severe problems to the spacecraft. ... -
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 ... -
Satellite Attitude Determination from Terrestrial/Planetary Landmarks
Attitude Determination (AD) or specifying orientation relative to a known reference frame plays a crucial role in meeting the mission specific pointing goals of a satellite. Attitude sensors provide measurements of known ... -
Scattering From Chiral And Chirally Coated Bodies
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Search Strategies For Multiple Autonomous Agents
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Self-sustained oscillations in high-speed cylinder wake flows
Flow in the wake generated by a solid body presents an important class of problems in fluid dynamics, with wide ranging scientific implications and engineering applications. The present work investigates the structure and ... -
Shape Optimization Using A Meshless Flow Solver And Modern Optimization Techniques
(2009-03-17)The development of a shape optimization solver using the existing Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes is taken up as topic of research in this thesis. A shape optimizer was initially developed based on Genetic ... -
Shock Tunnel Investigations on Hypersonic Impinging Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interaction
(2018-04-13)The interaction of a shock wave and boundary layer often occurs in high speed flows. For sufficiently strong shock strengths the boundary layer separates, generating shock patterns in the contiguous inviscid flow (termed ... -
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 ... -
Shocks, Shock-Boundary Layer Interaction, And Transonic Flutter
(2017-09-27)Transonic utter is an aeroelastic instability characterized by part-chord shocks over an airfoil and single mode oscillations leading to a drop in the utter boundary. We present a numerical study that examines the influence ... -
Sliding Mode Control Based Guidance Strategies with Terminal Constraints
(2018-07-23)In the guidance literature, minimizing miss distance along with optimizing the energy usage had been an objective for several decades. In current day applications, additional terminal performance such as impact angle and ... -
Small-amplitude Oscillations in Hypersonic Double-cone Flow
Unsteady compressible flows typically pose problems with rich dynamics. The broad concern of this thesis is the shock wave unsteadiness that arises in external high-speed flow over a double-cone body. This unsteadiness is ...