Mechanical Engineering (ME): Recent submissions
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Specification and Verification of Tolerances for Parts with Free-Form Surfaces
(2017-11-27)The need for increased product variety and improved aesthetics require the manufacturing enterprise to reduce time to market and to increase use of free-form surfaces in the form of the product. These changes lead to ... -
Viscous Vortex Method Simulations of Stall Flutter of an Isolated Airfoil at Low Reynolds Numbers
(2017-11-27)The flow field and forces on an isolated oscillating NACA 0012 airfoil in a uniform flow is studied using viscous vortex particle method. The simulations are carried out at very low chord (c) based ... -
Flow and Windage Heating in Labyrinth Seals
(2017-11-24)The ability to quantify leakage flow and windage heating for labyrinth seals with honeycomb lands is critical in understanding gas turbine engine system performance and predicting its component lifes. Variety of labyrinth ... -
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 ... -
Laser-based Diagnostics and Numerical Simulations of Syngas Combustion in a Trapped Vortex Combustor
(2017-11-16)Syngas consisting mainly of a mixture of carbon monoxide, hydrogen and other diluents, is an important fuel for power generation applications since it can be obtained from both biomass and coal gasification. Clean coal ... -
Unsteady Two Dimensional Jet with Flexible Flaps at the Exit
(2017-11-13)The present thesis involves the study of introducing passive exit flexibility in a two dimensional starting jet. This is relevant to various biological flows like propulsion of aquatic creatures (jellyfish, squid etc.) and ... -
Growth And Characterization of ZnO Nanostructures for Device Applications : Field Emission, Memristor And Gas Sensors
(2017-11-09)Zinc oxide (ZnO) is perhaps one of the most widely studied material in the last two decades. It has received so much of attention because of its incredible potential for wide ranging applications. ZnO is a wide band gap ... -
Exploration And Assessment of HCCI Strategies for a Multi-Cylinder Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine
(2017-10-17)Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) combustion is an alternative combustion mode in which the fuel is homogeneously mixed with air and is auto-ignited by compression. Due to charge homogeneity, this mode is ... -
Novel Compression Fracture Specimens And Analysis of Photoelastic Isotropic Points
(2017-10-11)Compression fracture specimens are ideally suited for miniaturization down to tens of microns. Fracture testing of thermal barrier coatings, ceramics and glasses are also best accomplished under compression or indentation. ... -
Geometric Reasoning with Mesh-based Shape Representation in Product Development
(2017-10-09)Triangle meshes have become an increasingly popular shape representation. Given the ease of standardization it allows and the proliferation of devices (scanners, range images ) that capture and output shape information as ... -
A Numerical Study of Droplet Dynamics in Viscoelastic Flows
(2017-10-05)The polymers are integral part of vast number of products used in day to day life due to their anomalous viscoelastic behaviour. The remarkable flow behaviour exhibited by the polymeric fluids including rod climbing, ... -
Influence of Contact Stresses on Shape Recovery in Sputter Deposited NiTiCu Thin Films
(2017-10-05)NiTiCu is a shape memory alloy that regains its original shape after large amount of shape changing deformation when heated above a critical temperature called reverse martensitic trans-formation temperature( Af). When ... -
Analytical Investigations on Linear And Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Structural-acoustic Waveguides
(2017-09-26)This thesis has two parts: In the first part, we study the dispersion characteristics of structural-acoustic waveguides by obtaining closed-form solutions for the coupled wave numbers. Two representative systems are ... -
Interaction of Bubbles with Vortical Structures
(2017-09-23)Bubbly turbulent flows occur in a variety of industrial, naval and geophysical problems. In these flows, the bubbles in the flow interact with turbulence and/or vortical structures present in the continuous phase, resulting ... -
Development And Investigation of Two-Stage Silica Gel + Water Adsorption Cooling Cum Desalination System
(2017-09-20)The present research work caters to two important needs of rural India: i) desalination of subsoil/coastal brackish water and ii) basic refrigeration for short term preservations of agro-produce, medicines etc. Fortunately, ... -
Design And Development Of Miniature Compliant Grippers For Bio-Micromanipulation And Characterization
(2017-05-24)Miniature compliant grippers are designed and developed to manipulate biological cells and characterize them. Apart from grippers, other compliant mechanisms are also demonstrated to be effective in manipulation and ... -
Studies On Fuel-Air Stratification And Combustion Modelling In A CNG-Fuelled Engine
(2016-11-19)In-cylinder fuel-air mixing in a compressed natural gas (CNG)-fuelled, single-cylinder, spark-ignited engine is analysed using a transient three-dimensional computational fluid dynamic model built and run using STAR-CD, a ... -
Tribology Of Combustion Generated Soot
(2016-11-19)Soot is a carbonaceous materials produced as a result of incomplete combustion of fuels (gasoline, diesel, etc). At the present level of automobile technology, emission of soot from combustion in diesel engine appears to ... -
Design And Analysis Of Flexible Beam Platform As Vibration Isolator For Space Applications
(2016-10-20)Spacecrafts are generally equipped with high precision optical and other sensor payloads. The structures of most of the spacecrafts are light-weight, flexible and have low damping. Vibrations are often induced in the ... -
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, ...