Browsing Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering by Title
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Process Calibration for Elastically Scaled 3D Printed Models using Fused Deposition Modeling
(2018-12-18)With the increase in additive manufacturing capabilities the use of 3D printed models characterize a critical point for evaluating aerodynamic and aeroelastic properties on aircraft configuration. An experimental and ... -
A Process For Ice Detector Placement Using 3-D Eulerian Droplet Impingement Analysis
(Aerospace Engineering, 2009-09-16)Ice detectors invoke an aircraft's ice protection systems, which reduce the risks of flight into known icing conditions. A process has been developed to place ice detectors on aircraft using high fidelity computational ... -
PRODUCTION OF LIQUID FUELS FROM NATURAL GAS: SIMULATION OF SYNTHESIS GAS AND FISCHER-TROPSCH REACTORS
(2019-05-08)Gas to Liquid (GTL) processes chemically convert natural gas to valuable liquid hydrocarbon products. The GTL process considered in this research is comprised of three phases: 1) syngas production, 2) Fischer-Tropsch ... -
PSEUDO-SPECTRAL METHODS BASED REAL-TIME OPTIMAL PATH PLANNING FOR UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES
(2017-12-08)Real-time optimal trajectory design and tracking for autonomous ground vehicles are maturing technologies with the potential to advance mobility by enhancing time and energy efficiency in application such as indoor ... -
PSYCHROMETRIC BIN ANALYSIS FOR DATA CENTER COOLING MODES USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
(2018-05-25)With an increase in the need for energy efficient data centers, a lot of research is being done to increase the use of Air Side Economizers (ASEs), Direct Evaporative Cooling (DEC), Indirect Evaporative Cooling (IEC) and ... -
Pulsed Detonation Engine Nozzle Design and Analysis
(2019-12-04)For a hypersonic flight mission, different flight regimes have been recognized. The successful and efficient operation of the aircraft to traverse through all the flight regimes requires the integration of various propulsion ... -
Quality Assessment of Adhesive Bond Based On Dielectric Properties
(Society of the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE)University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute (UTARI), University of Texas at Arlington, 2017)Composite materials are widely used in Aerospace, Marine and Automotive structures to reduce weight and increase performance. Adhesive bonding improves the stress distribution between the composite materials / dissimilar ... -
Quantifying Air Flow Rate Through A Server In An Operational Data Center And Assessing The Impact Of Using Theoretical Fan Curve
Cooling is one of the major cost factors in data centres that accounts for 37% of the total data centre electricity consumption. Demands on cooling systems have increased substantially in recent years, due to increasing ... -
QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF A THRUST VECTOR CONTROLLED TRANSPORT AT THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN PHASE
(2015-12-16)The impetus to innovate, to push the bounds and break the molds of evolutionary design trends, often comes from competition but sometimes requires catalytic political legislature. For this research endeavor, the ‘catalyzing ... -
QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL SCRAMJET COMBUSTOR FLOW SOLVER USING THE NUMERICAL PROPULSION SYSTEM SIMULATION
(2018-05-16)The flow field inside a scramjet engine combustor involves complex phenomena such as fuel-air mixing, combustion chemistry, and flow separation. In order to determine the properties of the flow along the length of the ... -
Rack Level Study of Hybrid Cooled Servers Using Warm Water Cooling with Variable Pumping for Centralized Coolant System
(2017-05-24)As the worldwide demand for the data centers grows, so does the size and load placed on data centers which leads to the applied constraints on power and space available to the operator. Cooling power consumption is a major ... -
REACHABLE SET COMPUTATION AND ANALYSIS FOR PERTURBED LINEAR SYSTEMS
(2018-12-04)Determination of the set of all possible states, which a system can attain, plays an important role in safety for critical application. Prior knowledge of this set for the complete run-time provides critical information ... -
Reactive Motion Planning of Autonomous Vehicles in 3-Dimensional Environments using Collision and Rendezvous Cones
(2022-08-15)This dissertation presents a collision cone/rendezvous cone-based approach for reactive motion planning in three-dimensional dynamic environments. Collision avoidance is fundamental to robot motion planning. In dynamic ... -
Real Time Temperature Prediction In A Data Center Environment Using An Adaptive Algorithm
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-03-12)Most organizations around the world rely on information systems to run their operations. Data centers are hence a crucial aspect of most organizational operations to ensure business continuity. Disruption in the working ... -
REAL-TIME MATERIAL STATE ASSESSMENT OF COMPOSITES USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS CHALLENGES
(2021-05-09)Over several decades of careful experimental investigation and exhaustive development of discrete damage analysis methods including integrated computational mechanics methods, our community knows a great deal about how ... -
Real-time Minimum Jerk Optimal Trajectory Synthesis and Tracking for Ground Vehicle Applications
(2018-01-08)Research on wheeled mobile robots has been an active research field for several decades with focus on the problems of stability, maneuverability and control. The trajectory generation for wheeled mobile robots is usually ... -
Reanalysis For Static And Steady State Structure Response
(Mechanical Engineering, 2011-03-03)Reanalysis of a structure has become very important in structural analysis, as it reduces the cost and the computational time required to measure the response of the structure after it has been modified. As the importance ... -
RECONFIGURABLE ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSOR ENABLED BY DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES
The increasing demand for improving the health care quality in developed countries with synchronous advances in the microfabrication of CMOS devices results in the emergence of the Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) field. The ultimate ... -
Reduced Order Modeling Of Low-temperature Gas Discharges In Glow Mode
(Aerospace Engineering, 2014-12)Gas discharge actuation of fluid dynamics phenomena has garnered significantattention in recent years due to their low-power requirements andtheir geometrical simplicity, amongst others. However, many of their actuationmechanisms ... -
Reduced-order Analysis Of Dual Mode Supersonic Combustion Ramjet Propulsion System
(Aerospace Engineering, 2015)High speed propulsion systems typically possess relatively simple geometry but the complexity involved in the flow characteristics makes their analysis a challenging task. The current research work introduces a reduced ...