Mechanical Engineering (ME)
Recent Submissions
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Numerical Simulations of Deforming Capsules and Cells in a flow
Understanding the evolution of deforming capsules and cells in various flow configurations can assist in better diagnosis of diseases like Malaria and sickle cell anemia. Flow of deformable capsules is also useful in ... -
Studies on Two-Stage Air-Cooled Silica gel + Water Adsorption Cooling System
Adsorption cooling systems are evolving as promising complements to conventional vapor compression refrigeration (VCR) systems because of their ability to utilize low-grade heat sources such as industrial waste heat, solar, ... -
Efficient Learning of Koopman Structures for Model-Based Control of Nonlinear Robotic Systems
Identification of the dynamics of a complex robotic system accurately from first principles is challenging and often infeasible. Simplifying assumptions commonly made in modeling such systems often restrict their scope and ... -
Insights into evaporation, atomization and precipitate formation of polymer droplets
Evaporation of polymer droplets is an active area of interest due to its applications in systems such as ink jet printing, thin films, spray combustors to name a few. Thus, understanding complex dynamics of evaporating ... -
Experimental and numerical study of mechanics and mechanisms of mode I fracture of a textured magnesium alloy
In recent years, magnesium alloys have gained increasing application in the automotive industry to achieve weight reduction in vehicle components which is crucial for enhancing fuel efficiency and meeting stringent emission ... -
Studies on Metal Hydride Based Multifunctional Coupled Thermal Battery Systems
Thermal energy storage systems (TESS) based on chemisorption/thermochemical reactions have several advantages over conventional thermal storage systems based on sensible and latent heat. The advantages include high energy ... -
Towards metal additive manufacturing using alternate powders
Metal powders are predominantly produced using processes derived from atomization, which, apart from being highly energy intensive, are also inflexible and very material specific. These limitations are particularly acute ... -
Inverse Material Design using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Ontology
Materials design is the process of tailoring materials with specific properties and performance characteristics to meet the particular needs of an application. It involves going back on the process-structure-property (PSP) ... -
Secondary Atomization of a Droplet in Diverse Interaction Settings
Secondary atomisation refers to the process by which liquid droplets, which are already in a dispersed state, are further atomised down into smaller droplets. This process occurs after primary atomisation, which is the ... -
Direct Numerical Simulation of Square Vortex Flows
Atmospheric and oceanic flows are often modeled as two-dimensional due to their large planar extents (∼ 1000 km) and small vertical extent (∼ 10 km). Most phenomena in these systems are governed by the theory of two-dimensional ... -
A Monolithic Finite Element Formulation for Magnetohydrodynamics Involving a Compressible Fluid
This work develops a new monolithic finite-element-based strategy for Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) involving a compressible fluid based on a continuous velocity-pressure formulation. The entire formula- tion is within a ... -
3D-Printing of Lunar Soil Simulant by Direct-Extrusion method.
The extrusion-based additive manufacturing (EAM) technique is recently being widely employed for the 3D printing of complex-shaped components made of ceramic powder (containing irregular-shaped particles) when it is cast ... -
Stability of wall-bounded compressible shear flows
In this work, the linear stability of compressible shear flows in channels and pipes are studied. A steady fully-developed laminar flow of an ideal gas, driven in a channel and a pipe by a constant body acceleration, is ... -
ALE-based Monolithic Finite Element Strategies for Fluid Structure Interaction Problems
Fluid-structure interactions (FSI) represent a class of engineering problems which involve a two-way coupling between the solid motion and the fluid flow. The deformation of the solid caused by the fluid forces at the ... -
Experimental and Theoretical Insights into Impact Phenomena of Small Scale Liquid Interfacial Systems
This work explores impact phenomena experimentally and theoretically for various interfacial systems ranging from medical diagnostics to drop impacts on solids and immiscible liquids. We study a hitherto unexplored impact ... -
Experimental investigation of syngas combustion using a novel two-stage combustor
In recent years, syngas has gained research interest as the focus shifts from fossil to renewable fuels. Syngas generated from biomass such as wood, agricultural residue, and paper is a promising fuel to achieve net-zero ... -
Coalescence of Polymeric Droplets
Coalescence is an energy minimization phenomenon in which two equilibrium droplets undergo a transition to attain a final equilibrium state, i.e., a coalesced state. Coalescence begins with a point contact between the ... -
Experimental and Numerical Studies on an Automobile Air Conditioning System with Refrigerants R134a, R1234yf and R1234ze(E)
The HydroFluoroCarbons (HFCs) synthesized as alternatives to ChloroFluoroCarbons (CFCs), though friendly to tratospheric ozone, have high Global Warming Potential (GWP). Despite this, numerous applications currently employ ... -
Sub-Newtonian Coalescence in Polymeric Fluids
Droplet coalescence is a thermodynamic equilibration process driven by surface energy minimization. The physics of this phenomenon is characterized by the temporal evolution of a liquid bridge formed upon the proximate ... -
Influence of surface topography on wear and debris morphology of polymers
The artificial knee and hip joints comprise a polymer-metal tribological system where soft polymers slide against hard metallic surfaces. When a polymer slides on it, the micro hard asperities remove the polymers in the ...