Mechanical Engineering (ME): Recent submissions
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Studies for Design of Layered Ceramic Armour Inspired by Seashells
(2018-06-26)Pearly layers in seashells, also known as nacreous layers, are reported to be three orders of magnitude tougher than their primary constituent, aragonite. Their high toughness is attributed to a particular structure of ... -
Modeling Free Surface Flows and Fluid Structure Interactions using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
(2018-06-26)Recent technological advances are based on effectively using complex multiphysics concepts. Therefore, there is an ever increasing need for accurate numerical al-gorithms of reduced complexity for solving multiphysics ... -
Experimental and Numerical Studies on Phase Shifting in an Inertance Pulse Tube Cryocooler
(2018-06-21)This work is concerned with the design, development and performance evaluation of an inertance Pulse Tube Cryocooler (PTC). The main components of a PTC are the compressor, regenerator, pulse tube and inertance tube coupled ... -
Experimental Studies on Biodiesel Spray Characteristics : Effects of Evaporation & Nozzle Cavitation
(2018-06-21)Vegetable oil methyl esters obtained by transesterification of vegetable oils are considered to be suitable alternative fuels for diesel engines. However, higher viscosity, surface tension and boiling temperatures of ... -
Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers : From Design to Applications
(2018-06-21)Ultrasonic sensors are well known for various applications such as NDT, ultrasound imaging, and proximity sensing. Conventional ultrasound transducers are bulky, work at notoriously high voltages, and consume significant ... -
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 ... -
Influence of Hydrodynamic Slip on the Wake Dynamics and Convective Transport in Flow Past a Circular Cylinder
(2018-06-14)Hydrodynamic slip is known to suppress vorticity production at the solid-fluid boundary in bluff body flows. This suppression combined with the enhanced vorticity convection results in a substantial reduction in the unsteady ... -
Modeling of the Haltere-A Natural Micro-Scale Vibratory Gyroscope
(2018-06-05)Vibratory gyroscopes have gained immense popularity in the microsystem technology because of their suitability to planar fabrication techniques. With considerable effort in design and fabrication, MEMS (Micro-electro-mec ... -
Quantitative Laser-Based Diagnostics and Modelling of Syngas-Air Counterflow Diffusion Flames
(2018-06-05)Syngas, a gaseous mixture of H2, CO and diluents such as N2, CO2, is a clean fuel generated via gasification of coal or biomass. Syngas produced via gasification typically has low calorific values due to very high dilution ... -
Numerical Modelling and Software Development for Analysing Squeeze Film Fffect in MEMS
(2018-06-05)The goal of the current study was to develop a computational framework for modelling the coupled fluid-structure interaction problem of squeeze films often encountered in MEMS devices. Vibratory MEMS devices such as ... -
Studies on the Effect of Process Aspects on Material Mixing and Defect Formation in Friction Stir Welding
(2018-05-30)Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is a rapidly growing solid state welding process and has been a proven method for welding high strength aluminium alloys which were formerly not recommended for joining by conventional fusion ... -
Axially Homogeneous Turbulent Convection at High Rayleigh Numbers : Scaling Laws for Flux and Spectra
(2018-05-30)Natural turbulent convection studies encompass a wide range of flows occurring in nature, for example, atmospheric and oceanic flows, con-vection in the Earth’s mantle, convection in the stars and also in many engineering ... -
Intent- driven Correspondence and Registration of Shapes
(2018-05-29)Registration means to bring two or more shapes into a suitable relative configuration (position and orientation). In its major applications like 3D scan alignment, the aim is to coalesce data and regions originating from ... -
Estimation of Stress Concentration and Stress Intensity Factors by a Semi-Analytical Method
(2018-05-29)The presence of notches or cracks causes stresses to amplify in nearby regions. This phenomenon is studied by estimating the Stress Concentration Factor (SCF) for notches, and the Stress Intensity Factor (SIF) for cracks. ... -
A Novel Hybrid Vehicle Architecture : Modeling, Simulation and Experiments
(2018-05-22)Electric and hybrid vehicles are particularly suited for use in urban areas since city transportation is mainly characterized by relatively short driving distances, low continuous power requirements, long idling times and ... -
Numerical Simulation of a High-speed Jet Injected in a Uniform Supersonic Crossflow Using Adaptively Redistributed Grids
(2018-05-22)Minimizing numerical dissipation without compromising the robust shock-capturing attributes remains an outstanding challenge in the design of numerical methods for high-speed compressible flows. The conflicting requirements ... -
Design and Development of a Three-degree-of-freedom Parallel Manipulator to Track the Sun for Concentrated Solar Power Towers
(2018-05-21)In concentrated solar power (CSP) stations, large arrays of mirrors which are capable of changing its orientation are used to reflect the incident solar energy to a stationary receiver kept at a distance. Such mirrors are ... -
Experimental Studies on Extremely Small Scale Vibrations of Micro-Scale Mechanical and Biological Structures
(2018-05-14)Experimental vibration analysis of mechanical structures is a well established field.Plenty of literature exists on macro scale structures in the fields of civil, mechanical and aerospace engineering, but the study of ... -
Thermal Performance of Various Roof Elements Under Different Weather Conditions
(2018-05-14)Beside the point of whether the country is developed or underdeveloped, energy crisis is a common scene all over the world. In order to balance energy supply and demand, either one has to increase the supply or decrease ... -
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 ...