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Discrete particulate description of elastic structures undergoing geometrically nonlinear deformation and dynamic particle interaction
The mechanical behaviour of deformable bodies in a particulate environment has been an area of increasing interest across a wide spectrum of systems and scale. A composite ensemble of deformable structures and discrete ... -
Droplet Growth in Moist Turbulent Natural Convection in a Tube
(2018-07-04)Droplet growth processes in a cumulus cloud, beginning from its inception at sub-micron scale up to drizzle drop size of few hundred microns, in an average duration of about half hour, has been a topic of intense research. ... -
Dynamics of Bubbles and Drops in the Presence of an Electric Field
(2018-07-16)The present thesis deals with two-phase electrohydrodynamic simulations of bubble and droplet dynamics under externally applied electric fields. We used the Coupled Level-Set and Volume-of-fluid method (CLSVOF) and two ... -
Dynamics Of Cricket Song Towards Nature-inspired MEMS Speakers
(2016-09-15)The clever designs of natural transducers are a great source of inspiration for man-made systems. At small length scales, there are many transducers in nature that we are now beginning to understand and learn from. Here, ... -
Dynamics of Droplets Under Support, Acoustic And/Or Ambient Flow Excitation
(2018-04-24)The first step on the way to understanding the complicated dynamics of spray is to study the behavior of isolated droplets. In many industrial and natural processes such as turbulent combustion, agricultural sprays, spray ... -
The Dynamics Of Erosion Of Gradient-Zone In Solar Ponds
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Dynamics of Hollow Cone Spray in an Unconfined, Isothermal, Co-Annular Swirling Jet Environment
(2018-07-20)The complex multiphase flow physics of spray-swirl interaction in both reacting and non-reacting environment is of fundamental and applied significance for a wide variety of applications ranging from gas turbine combustors ... -
Dynamics of Leidenfrost droplets on microtextured substrates
A liquid droplet placed on a heated substrate at temperatures significantly higher than the saturation temperature of the liquid levitates over a thin film of vapor and is termed as a Leidenfrost (LF) droplet. Leidenfrost ... -
Effect of Convection and Shrinkage on Solidification and Microstructure Formation
(2017-11-24)Understanding the fundamental mechanisms of solidification and the relative significance of different parameters governing these mechanisms is of vital importance for controlling the evolution of microstructure during ... -
Effect Of Mould Filling On Evolution Of Mushy Zone And Macrosegregation During Solidification
(2010-01-01)The primary focus of the present work is to model the entire casting process from filling stage to complete solidification. The model takes into consideration any phase change taking place during the filling process. An ... -
Effect of Semi-Solid Processing on Microstructural Evolution and Mechanical Behavior of Austenitic Stainless Steel
(2018-06-19)In view of the significant advantages offered by semi-solid processing, such as reduction in number of intermediate processing steps and energy input, and the potential for improving component complexity, it is of paramount ... -
Effect Of Squeeze Film Flow On Dynamic Response Of MEMS Structures With Restrictive Flow Boundary Conditions
(2011-07-08)There are many ways in which the surrounding media, such as air between an oscillating MEMS structure and a fixed substrate, can affect the dynamic response of a MEMS transducer. Some of these effects involve dissipation ... -
Effect of Surface Texture on Friction under Dry Reciprocating Contacts
Surface texture has been successfully used in many fields to improve the performance of surfaces, in applications like drag reduction, control of wettability, and enhancement of heat transfer. In tribology, surface texture ... -
The Effect Of Viscosity On The Erosion Of Gradient- Zone In A Laboratory Solar Pond
(Indian Institute of Science, 2006-08-24)Double diffusive phenomena occur in many natural systems and in a variety of engineering applications, such as solar ponds. In a solar pond, the erosion of gradient zone due to convection and diffusion is the main cause ... -
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 ... -
Efficient Simulation Strategies for Electromechanical Systems, Contact Mechanics and Time Finite Elements, within the Framework of Hybrid Finite Elements
The purpose of this thesis is to provide robust numerical schemes for various challenging nonlinear large-deformation elasticity problems. The presence of geometric and material nonlinearities poses interesting challenges ...