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Comparison Of Cooling Performance Of Overhead And Underfloor Supply With Rear Door Heat Exchanger In High Density Data Center Clusters
(Mechanical Engineering, 2008-09-17)
The power trend for server systems continues to grow thereby making thermal management of Data centers a very challenging task. Although various configurations exist, the raised floor plenum with Computer Room Air Conditioners ...
The Development And Testing Of Pulsed Detonation Engine Ground Demonstrators
(Aerospace Engineering, 2008-09-17)
The successful implementation of a PDE running on fuel and air mixtures will require fast-acting fuel-air injection and mixing techniques, detonation initiation techniques such as DDT enhancing devices or a pre-detonator, ...
Context-aware Inference System To Capture Design Rationale From Legacy MCAD
(Mechanical Engineering, 2008-04-22)
There exist numerous design rationale systems that convert captured information into structured design rationale while providing rationale representation and retrieval. These systems woefully neglect the design rationale ...
Stress Distribution And Strength Prediction Of Composite Laminates With Multiple Holes
(Mechanical Engineering, 2008-04-22)
The major purpose of this study was to investigate failure of composite laminates with multiple unloaded holes in close proximity. The least square boundary collocation method for anisotropic materials was utilized to ...
Flight Data Analysis And Simulation Of Wind Effects During Aerial Refueling
(Aerospace Engineering, 2008-08-08)
This thesis presents an analysis of data obtained in an automated aerial refueling test flight conducted with a KC-135 as the tanker and a Learjet 25 as the surrogate receiver UAV. The purpose is to identify the wind induced ...
Design For Reliability In Microoptelectromechanical Systems (MOEMS)
(Mechanical Engineering, 2008-08-08)
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is an enabling technology for miniaturization. MEMS consist of micron sized moving mechanical structures and electronics fabricated on a suitable substrate such as silicon. MEMS has ...
Trajectory Optimization Using Collocation And Evolutionary Programming For Constrained Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
(Aerospace Engineering, 2008-08-08)
Trajectory design and optimization has a broad variety of applications in fields such as aerospace and electrical engineering. The solution of a trajectory that minimizes a cost function subject to nonlinear differential ...
Thermo-mechanical Solutions In Electronic Packaging: Component To System Level
(Mechanical Engineering, 2008-09-17)
Since the advent of the transistor and integrated circuit, the performance of electronic equipment has increased significantly while footprint of systems at all levels continues to decrease. Recently, the number of transistors ...
A Least-squares/Galerkin Split Finite Element Method For Incompressible And Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations
(Aerospace Engineering, 2008-09-17)
Over the years Galerkin finite element method along with its variants has been used to solve incompressible and compressible Navier-Stokes equations. The Galerkin method which is more suited for self-adjoint type system ...
Analysis And Design Of A Hypersonic Scramjet Engine With A Starting Mach Number Of 4.00
(Aerospace Engineering, 2008-09-17)
When pressures and temperatures become so high in supersonic flight that it is no longer efficient to slow the oncoming flow to subsonic speeds for combustion, a scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is used in place of ...