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Parameters Affecting Critical Heat Flux Of Nanofluids: Heater Size, Pressure Orientation And Anti-freeze Addition
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)This research aims at investigating the effect, heater size, pressure, heater orientation and effect of anti-freeze addition on critical heat flux of nanofluids which have shown large potentials as coolants for high power ... -
Parametric Analysis Of A Detonation-type Turbofan
(Aerospace Engineering, 2012-04-11)A new type of turbofan which detonates a fuel-air mixture was theoretically found to perform better than a conventional turbofan. A continuous detonation process is described and considered inside the core of the turbofan. ... -
Parametric And Performance Analysis Of A Hybrid Pulse Detonation / Turbofan Engine
(Aerospace Engineering, 2011-07-14)The performance of a hybrid pulse detonation engine (PDE), with the PDE tubes installed in the bypass duct of a turbofan engine is investigated in this study. Performance parameters for the duct burning PDE engine are ... -
Parametric Cycle Analysis For Pulse Detonation Engines
(Aerospace Engineering, 2007-08-23)The performance of an ejector-driven pulse detonation engine (PDE) with an afterburner is analytically estimated. In the analysis, the PDE was modeled as a straight tube, closed at the front end and open at the other. A ... -
Parametric Cycle Analysis of Adaptive Cycle Engine
(2016-05-10)One of the main area of research currently in air-breathing propulsion is increasing the fuel efficiency of engines. Increasing fuel efficiency of an air-breathing engine will be advantageous for civil transport as well ... -
Parametric Multi-Objective Optimization of Cold Plate for Single-Phase Immersion Cooling
(2023-05-19)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 05/16/2025** ABSTRACT: The increasing demand for high performance computing in applications such as Internet of Things, Deep Learning, Big data for crypto-mining, virtual ... -
PARAMETRIC STUDY OF AN IGBT COLD PLATE AND AFFECT OF DEVICE LEVEL MODELLING ON SYSTEM LEVEL THERMAL PREDICTIONS
(2016-02-29)In power electronics, as there is continuous increase in performance of the electronic devices, simultaneously the size of the components used in these devices keep on decreasing. This has resulted in increased power ... -
Particle Advection Using The Lattice-Boltzmann Method
(Aerospace Engineering, 2013-03-20)Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) CFD analysis can be helpful in analysing fluid flow through porous media and complex geometries that may be difficult to simulate using traditional CFD methods. In this thesis, the technical ... -
Passive Wireless Antenna Sensors For Crack Detection And Shear/compression Sensing
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-03-20)Despite the fact that engineering components and structures are carefully designed against fatigue failures, 50 to 90% of mechanical failures are due to fatigue crack formation. The severity of the failure depends on both ... -
Peak Stress Of Composite Multiple-hole Laminates With And Without Patch
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-07-19)In repairing of composite structures, the damage in the composite laminate is usually removed in the form of circular cutouts which results in holes in the laminate. Then a patch laminate is adhesively bonded to the damaged ... -
Performance Analysis Of A Helium Cooled VHTR Powered Brayton Cycle Topping Unit On An Existing Steam Cycle Using Numerical Propulsion System Simulation
With the decommissioning of ageing coal power plants due to outdated technology and high levels of air pollution, the advantages of overhauling existing infrastructure is twofold. First, by providing an alternate, sustainable ... -
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS, DYNAMIC SIMULATION AND CONTROL OF MASS-ACTUATED AIRPLANE
(2016-08-12)The control of space, aerial and underwater vehicles requires moment generation mechanisms to change their orientation. In addition to or in place of conventional moment generation actuators, internally moving-mass actuation ... -
Performance Characteristics Of Single Effect Lithium Bromide/ Water Absorption Chiller For Small Data Centers
A medium data center consists of servers performing operations such as file sharing, collaboration and email. There are a large number of small and medium data centers across the world which consume more energy and are ... -
Performance Enhancement and Prediction of Composite Materials with Embedded Electrospun Piezoelectric Sensors
(Society of the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE), 2020)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In today’s world, continuous fiber reinforced composite materials are extensively used in the aerospace, automotive and other structural industries. Since the ... -
PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT OF RASPBERRY PI SERVER FOR THE APPLICATION OF OIL IMMERSION COOLING
(2016-05-13)The power consumed by Central Processing Unit (CPU) generates the heat which is undesirable and which is further responsible for the damage of Information Technology equipment. Oil Immersion cooling is one of the emerging ... -
Performance Evaluation Of Compliant Foil Seal
The concept of foil bearings has gained large acceptance in the industry and is been applied for various rotating equipment including air cycle machines, cryogenic turbo-expanders, centrifugal compressors and gas turbine ... -
Performance Evaluation of Plate-fin and Pin-fin Heat Sinks for The Application of Oil Immersion Cooling and Design Optimization of Dynamic Cold Plate for The Application of Warm Water Cooling
(2016-05-10)In IT industries, to keep server rooms and data centers cool is a constant challenge for hardware developers and the cooling solution providers. Air cooling is the most widely used approach for thermal management of servers ... -
Performance Modeling and Experimental Investigations of Rotating Detonation Engines
(2018-12-13)The rotating detonation engine (RDE) is a promising propulsion concept that has the potential to offer increased thermodynamic performance in a compact package with no moving parts. A series of analytical and experimental ... -
Performance Optimization Of Multi-core Processors Using Core Hopping - Thermal and Structural
(Mechanical Engineering, 2011-10-11)As the work load on the single core processor increases, it's processing speed increases resulting in increased power densities and die temperatures. The increase in die temperature results in decreased performance and ... -
Phoresis Of A Solid Particle In Real Fluid
For micro- and nano-scale particles driven by interfacial non-contact forces in fluid, known as phoresis, this dissertation provides a general formulation and a systematic investigation. It starts with an analytical ...