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Genetic Programming Based Multicategory Pattern Classification
(Indian Institute of Science, 2005-02-22)Nature has created complex biological structures that exhibit intelligent behaviour through an evolutionary process. Thus, intelligence and evolution are intimately connected. This has inspired evolutionary computation ... -
A Ghost Fluid Method for Modelling Liquid Jet Atomization
(2018-05-21)Liquid jet atomisation has a wide variety of application in areas such as injectors in automobile and launch vehicle combustors, spray painting, ink jet printing etc. Understanding physical mechanisms involved in the primary ... -
Glowworm Swarm Optimization : A Multimodal Function Optimization Paradigm With Applications To Multiple Signal Source Localization Tasks
(2009-05-05)Multimodal function optimization generally focuses on algorithms to find either a local optimum or the global optimum while avoiding local optima. However, there is another class of optimization problems which have the ... -
Guidance Laws for Engagement Time Control
(2017-12-16)Autonomous aerial vehicles like missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted various military and civilian applications. The primary guidance objective of any autonomous vehicle is to reach the desired ... -
Guidance Laws For Impact Angle Constraints And Exo-Atmospheric Engagements
(2010-10-22)This thesis deals with development of guidance laws for advanced applications. Two class of guidance problems, namely, impact angle constrained guidance and pulsed guidance for exo-atmospheric engagements, are considered ... -
H Infinity - Based Robust Controller For Aerospace Vehicles
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Heat Transfer And Combustion In Baffle Separated Flows
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A High-Resolution Procedure For Euler And Navier-Stokes Computations On Unstructured Grids
(Indian Institute of Science, 2006-07-20)A finite-volume procedure, comprising a gradient-reconstruction technique and a multidimensional limiter, has been proposed for upwind algorithms on unstructured grids. The high-resolution strategy, with its inherent ... -
Hybird Central Solvers for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
(2018-05-11)The hyperbolic conservation laws model the phenomena of nonlinear waves including discontinuities. The coupled nonlinear equations representing such conservation laws may lead to discontinuous solutions even for smooth ... -
Impact Angle Constrained Guidance Using Cubic Splines
(2018-06-05)In this thesis the cubic spline guidance law and its variants are derived. A detailed analysis is carried out to find the initial conditions for successful interception. The results are applied to three dimensional ... -
Implicit Least Squares Kinetic Upwind Method (LSKUM) And Implicit LSKUM Based On Entropy Variables (q-LSKUM)
(Indian Institute of Science, 2006-10-12)With increasing demand for computational solutions of fluid dynamical problems, researchers around the world are working on the development of highly robust numerical schemes capable of solving flow problems around complex ... -
Improved Solution Techniques For Trajectory Optimization With Application To A RLV-Demonstrator Mission
(2009-03-12)Solutions to trajectory optimization problems are carried out by the direct and indirect methods. Under broad heading of these methods, numerous algorithms such as collocation, direct, indirect and multiple shooting methods ... -
Influence of Chemical Coating on Droplet Impact Dynamics
(2018-03-09)Dynamic behavior of impacting water drops on superhydrophobic solid surfaces provides important details on the stability/durability of such solid surfaces. Multi-scale surface roughness combined with a layer of low energy ... -
Innovative Optimal Guidance of Spacecrafts for Soft-Landing on Atmosphere-less Celestial Bodies
Nonlinear trajectory optimization based optimal guidance schemes are presented in this thesis for soft-landing of spacecrafts on atmosphere-less celestial bodies. First, a pseudo-spectral philosophy based multi-phase ... -
Instabilities In Supersonic Couette Flow
(2010-07-15)Compressible plane Couette flow is studied with superposed small perturbations. The steady mean flow is characterized by a non-uniform shear-rate and a varying temperature across the wall-normal direction for an appropriate ...