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Molecular Dynamics Studies of Diffusion in Confined Regions
Diffusion of guest molecules under confinement of zeolites shows many interesting properties due to guest-host interactions. This thesis explores some of these interesting behaviours relating to the diffusion of guest ... -
Investigating the mechanisms of cancer drug resistance
Clinical chemo-resistance has posed a challenge to scientists and clinicians since the development of chemotherapeutics as anticancer strategy. Mechanisms of drug resistance continue to be a subject investigation amongst ... -
Point-of-need analyte detection using dsDNA-templated fluorescent copper nanoparticles
The detection of various types of pollutants, toxins, and adulterants that are detrimental to the environment and human health is essential for monitoring air, water, soil, and food quality. Technologies that enable the ... -
Bearings-Only Information Based Guidance Law for Trajectory Shaping Applications
Munitions like projectiles and artillery mortars follow ballistic trajectory to hit the target. However, unguided munitions may miss the target due to external disturbances or errors in aerodynamic modeling. A guided ... -
Probing phase transition and anisotropy in magnetic insulator based heterostructures employing magnon spin currents
Thermoelectric phenomena like the Seebeck and Peltier effects are known for more than two centuries with a wide range of applications. In 2008 Uchida et al. first demonstrated the phenomena called Spin Seebeck Effect (SSE) ... -
Large Herbivore Dung Decomposition: Effects on Nutrient Cycling in a Tropical Forest of Southern India
Large herbivores can selectively feed on nutrient rich resources, resulting in regular deposition of high quality organic matter in the form of dung. In tropical forests such as in southern India it is estimated that large ... -
Through the looking glass: Phoresy as seen in the light of mutualism
Phoresy is the dispersal of small organisms on larger ones to move out of an unfavourable habitat. Although these interactions are transient, they can form tight links with mutualistic interactions if the phoretic organisms ... -
Vibration mitigation in spacecraft components using Stewart platform and particle impact damping
A spacecraft encounters two regimes of vibrations: launch loads and on-orbit loads. Both these loads propagate through the spacecraft structure, which is primarily made up of honeycomb sandwich. The launch loads that are ... -
Analysis and Modelling of Small Scale Organic Rankine Cycle System with Scroll Expander
In recent years, the growing concern about pollution from fossil fuels has resulted in an increased effort for utilization of low-grade heat sources such as industrial waste heat, solar energy and other renewable sources. ... -
Explicit Filtering LES for turbulent premixed flames
Large eddy simulations of a premixed, turbulent, methane-air round jet flame at an equivalence ratio of 0.8 and unburnt gas temperature of 800 K are performed using Explicit Filtering LES (EFLES) method. The nominal inflow ... -
Advances in Microfluidic Impedance Cytometry for Electromechanical Characterization of Cells
Single-cell analysis is extremely important for discovering unique characteristics of individual cells, identifying cell populations of interest, and understanding their behaviour during disease conditions. With the advent ... -
Particles and Fields in Partial-differential-equation Models for fluid and Superfluid Turbulence
We have shown that uniformly rotating vortex-containing gravitationally-bound solutions of the GPPE can be generated by starting the evolution from initial data obtained by integrating to convergence the (imaginary-time) ... -
Structural and mechanistic studies on Staphylococcal RNA degrading enzymes and multienzyme complexes
RNA degrading enzymes and multi-enzyme complexes govern a variety of cellular processes. The role of these enzymes and multi-enzyme assemblies has been suggested to govern gene expression levels in bacteria with modulations ... -
Evolution of plasma electrolytic oxidation coatings formed on AM50 Mg alloy utilizing various alkaline electrolytes with and without glycerol additive and its corrosion behavior
The widespread application for Mg and its alloys are severely restricted mainly due to its relatively low strength and ductility and poor corrosion behaviour, particularly in the aqueous environment. The plasma electrolytic ... -
Non-classical continuum models for solids using peridynamics and gauge theory
This thesis focuses on three areas of nonclassical continuum mechanics of solids. In the first part, we develop a few peridynamics (PD) models and solution strategies for discretized PD equations in the context of the ... -
Towards precision medicine to detect, characterize and treat liver cancer: Large-scale data analyses using genome-wide networks
In summary, various systems biology approaches were applied to identify a potential genesignature set to monitor CLD progression which can help in the early detection of HCC. An unbiased analysis of metabolic alterations ... -
Design of Authentication and Privacy Schemes for a Generic Social Network
In social networks, people (also known as actors) are often connected to each other in order to share the information. With the advancement in the information technology, social networks have in influenced actors of ... -
Micro-spectroscopic studies on Mycobacteria & Cancer cells
Evasion of the immune system is a key hallmark of cancer progression. Developing strategies that diagnose early the immune-cancer synapse may lead to long term cures from these aggressive cancers. We aimed to develop optical ... -
Multi-Scale Modeling of Moist Convection Over India
Clouds exist on all scales from turbulent processes to global scale and are organized on all the scales in between. They truly are multi-scale in nature. This makes them a very challenging simulation problem for atmospheric ... -
Mechanical Behavior of a Directionally Solidified Nickel-based Superalloy Su 247LC DS at Elevated Temperature
Directionally solidified Nickel-based superalloys are the workhorse for the Jet Engine turbine rotor blades and nozzle guide vanes (NGV) applications. Su 247LC DS is the material used for turbine rotor blades and NGVs of ...