Browsing Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering by Title
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Numerical and experimental investigation of variable transportation cooling for reusable thermal protection systems
(2014-12)This research work is focused on the numerical and experimental investigation of the transpiration cooling technique for reusable thermal protection systems. The transpiration cooling has been considered because of its ... -
NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SINGLE PHASE AND MULTIPHASE DROPLET DYNAMICS ON ELECTROWETTING-ON-DIELECTRODE DIGITAL MICRO-FLUIDICS
(2018-10-12)In the recent years, significant efforts have been devoted to the development of droplet based lab-on-a-chip devices of which advantages include being programmable and reconfigurable. Among various droplet flow based ... -
NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON TURBULENCE PRODUCTION OF A SELECTED MODE OF STREAMWISE VORTEX INTERACTION IN SUPERSONIC FLOW
(2019-05-10)The development of effective mixing strategies of air/fuel mixtures in supersonic flows has been the subject of a significant body of research for the last 60 years due to the hindering effects of compressibility. Particular ... -
Numerical Investigation of Stability Characteristics of a Jet in Counterflow
(2017-08-22)A jet in counterflow is a configuration in which a jet is issued into an opposing external stream of fluid. Some of the possible applications of this configuration include study of pollutant discharge into body of water, ... -
Numerical Investigation Of Steady State And Transient Thermal Performance Of A Multi-chip Vapor Chamber
Effective dissipation of heat generated in microelectronic devices during operation is critical for reliability and performance, particularly for advanced architectures such as microserver chips. Vapor chambers are a class ... -
Numerical Investigation of Vortex Generator Flow Control for External-Compression Supersonic Inlets
(2017-05-04)Vortex generators (VGs) within external-compression supersonic inlets for Mach 1.6 were investigated to determine their ability to increase total pressure recovery and reduce total pressure distortion. Ramp and vane-type ... -
Numerical Investigation of Vortex Generators and Jet in Cross-Flow Enhancements
(2016-12-19)Vortex generators have extensively been used over the past few decades for heat transfer applications. Their passive form of enhancement coupled with the ease of their implementation is the primary reason for their growing ... -
Numerical Modeling Of A Parallel Plate Electrowetting-on-Dielectric (EWOD) Device
(Mechanical Engineering, 2011-07-14)Numerical modeling and simulations have been performed in this study that focuses on modeling the fluid dynamics of an Electrowetting-on-Dielectric (EWOD) device. The case to be modeled in the present study is a droplet ... -
Numerical Modeling of an Alloy Droplet Deposition with Non-Equilibrium Solidification
(2016-05-16)Droplet deposition is a process of extensive relevance to the microfabrication industry. Various bonding and film deposition methods utilize single or multiple droplet impingements on a substrate with subsequent splat ... -
Numerical Modeling of Capillary Driven Microfluidic Flow
(2017-01-05)Capillary driven two dimensional axisymmetric and three dimensional asymmetric flow in various microfluidic applications have been modeled and analyzed numerically. The transient Navier-Stokes equations are solved using a ... -
Numerical modeling of damper configuration and arrangements for analysing thermal stratification in modular air handling units
(2023-05-22)Although air handling units are well established and maturated there are opportunities to optimize and improve the overall thermal and flow performance to reduce the carbon footprint of an air-cooled data center. Airside ... -
Numerical Simulation of Biodiesel Synthesis in a Continuous Flow Microreactor and a Porous Media Reactor
(2019-09-12)Biodiesel has become an increasingly popular fossil fuel substitute in recent years. Constant attempts are being made to develop new technology that increases the efficiency and yield of biodiesel production units. Numerical ... -
Numerical simulation of flow in fluidic valves in rotating detonation engines
(2017-08-21)Rotating detonation engines (RDE) have received considerable research attention in recent times for use in propulsion systems. The cycle frequency of operation of an RDE can be as high as 10,000 Hz. Conventional mechanical ... -
Numerical Simulation Of Magnetohydrodynamics
(Aerospace Engineering, 2008-04-22)Use of electromagnetic fields has been shown to be an effective way to control the behavior of electrically conducting fluids. Specifically, the modification of the boundary layer profile with electromagnetic fields can ... -
Numerical Simulation Of Particle Adhesion Dynamics For Applications In Nanomedicine And Biosensing
(Mechanical Engineering, 2009-09-16)Multifunctional nanoparticles hold considerable promise as the next generation of medicine that allow for detection of early on-set of diseases and targeted therapy with minimal toxicity. To achieve targeted drug delivery, ... -
Numerical Simulation Of Pulse Detonation Phenomena In A Parallel Environment
(Aerospace Engineering, 2007-08-23)The objective of this work was to develop a parallel algorithm that would be used in the simulation of the detonation process in the chamber of a pulse detonation engine. The emphasis is laid on reducing computation ... -
Numerical simulation of unsteady normal detonation combustion
(2018-08-13)The objective of this research is to simulate normal detonation combustion which is a mode of operation for a Pulsed Detonation Engine (PDE). A supersonic flow with stoichiometric hydrogen-air mixture is made to impinge ... -
Numerical Simulations Of Transonic Wingtip
(Aerospace Engineering, 2014-03-12)This report presents numerical simulations using ANSYS FLUENT for a NACA 0012 wing both in two- and three-dimensional cases to compare with an experimental data. This comparison also allowed for any wall interference in ... -
NUMERICAL STUDIES ON SPIN COATING OF METALS
(2016-05-13)Spin coating is a surface coating process which involves spreading a liquid dispensed on the center of a rotating substrate. The liquid is discharged using a suitable method on to the substrate rotating at a constant angular ... -
Numerical Study Of Chemically Reacting Viscous Flow Relevant To Pulsed Detonation Engines
(Aerospace Engineering, 2007-08-23)A computational fluid dynamics code for two-dimensional, multi-species, laminar Navier-Stokes equations is developed to simulate a recently proposed engine concept for a pulsed detonation based propulsion system and to ...