Browsing Aerospace Engineering (AE) by thesis submitted date"2024"
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Aeroacoustic Sources in Twin Turbulent Jets
An understanding of the aeroacoustics of twin turbulent jets is essential for applications involving noise reduction in dual engine aircrafts and launch vehicles. The aeroacoustic dynamics of these jets are influenced ... -
Asymptotic Modelling of Carbon Nanotube (CNT) and CNT-Reinforced Composite Structures Using Strain Gradient Formulations
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have garnered attention for their remarkable mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties, making them valuable in various applications. CNTs are particularly advantageous in aerospace structures ... -
Bearings-Only Quadrotor Guidance in Gap Traversal Scenarios
In autonomous missions, quadrotors are often required to safely fly through gaps or openings. Designing traversal guidance strategies becomes crucial in such scenarios, especially when the quadrotor relies on the information ... -
A Class of Vector Fields for Path Following Guidance
With rapidly evolving application scenarios, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are often desired to autonomously follow predefined paths. Prospective path following guidance methods should cater to the dynamic capability of ... -
Control of Alternating Flow Phenomena in Transonic Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interactions Over Payload Region of a Generic Launch Vehicle Model
During the transonic phase of a launch vehicle’s ascent, aerodynamic loads peak due to high freestream dynamic pressure and angle of attack. In addition to steady loads, significant pressure fluctuations arise from Shock ... -
Deformation-based Topological Lattices and their Edge States
Topological elastic metamaterials (TEMs) represent a novel class of elastic materials known for their unique ability to localize vibration energy at boundaries, maintaining robustness against system disorders. These ... -
Design and Development of Novel Quadcopters for Reliable Operations in Cluttered Environments
This thesis presents innovative designs and control strategies for enhancing the performance and reliability of quadcopters, particularly in demanding and cluttered environments. The primary contributions include the ... -
Design and Performance Analyses of Osculating Cone Waveriders
Modern mission requirements for long-range maneuverable hypersonic vehicles for space, military, and transportation applications necessitate vehicle design innovations. The primary challenges that a hypersonic vehicle ... -
Development of Scalable UAV Swarm-based Cooperative Search and Mitigation Approaches for Wildfire Management
Climate change has significantly exacerbated wildfire seasons, increasing their frequency, duration, and scale of destruction. Globally, wildfires destroy approximately 400 million hectares of land annually, resulting in ... -
Effect of Interface Roughness on Mechanical Strength of Adhesively Bonded CFRP Joints- Experimental and Numerical Studies
Composite materials are well known for their superior properties such as specific strength, specific modulus, tailor-ability in different directions, fatigue resistance, durability, low weight, and low thermal expansion. ... -
Experimental Study of Isolator Shock Trains in Confined Co-flowing Supersonic Streams
Futuristic high Mach number flight systems using advanced air-breathing propulsion technologies typically have multiple flow paths with supersonic flows that merge before exiting the vehicle. The supersonic-supersonic ... -
Interfacial oscillations and atomization of liquid jets from non-circular orifices
Understanding the flow behaviour of liquid jets discharging from orifices is essential for several applications such as fuel spraying, ink-jet printing, aerosol devices in pharmaceutical industries, micro-machined fuel ... -
Longitudinal Acceleration-based Variable Speed Bio-inspired Guidance Law
Most analyses of existing interceptor guidance laws assume the interceptor speed to be constant, which simplifies mathematical analysis and enhances predictability in interception characteristics. In reality, this is not ... -
On structure preserving numerical schemes for hyperbolic partial differential equations and multiscale kinetic equations
Natural phenomena are frequently represented through the formulation of differential equations, coupled with specific initial and boundary conditions. Many such models possess inherent structures that are crucial in ... -
On the nature of transonic buffet in a finite span wing
Transonic buffet, or self-sustained shock oscillations caused by shock boundary layer interactions, creates lift and drag fluctuation on the wing of an aircraft. This aerodynamic instability limits the flight envelope of ... -
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 ... -
Sub-mesoscale modeling framework for woven fabrics using VAM-based geometrically-exact beam model
In this work, a novel sub-mesoscale model of woven fabrics is developed using nonlinear finite element methods. The main aim of the work is to develop a framework for modeling woven fabrics. The yarns are modeled as beam ... -
Wave Propagation in Bio-inspired Inhomogeneous Waveguides for Impact Mitigation Applications
Decades of research aim to shield structures and people from impact and shock, mitigating damage and traumatic brain injuries. The development of novel structures to absorb energy and reduce stress waves in structures ...