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Design, Fabrication And Test Of Surface Tension-driven Microboats And Thermally Oscillatory Bubble-propelled Microsubmarines
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-10-23)
In this work, we develop microboats and microsubmarines, which are capable of moving on and under water, respectively. The microboat is propelled due to the difference between surface tensions around stern and bow. This ...
Thermo-mechanical Analysis Of Nano-imprint Lithography
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-10-22)
Nanoimprint Lithography is being explored by the semiconductor industries for future high volume fabrication of silicon chips, memory devices and patterned media. Nanolithography and Microlithography has played pivotal ...
Development And Operation Of An Integrated Sampling Probe And Gas Analyzer For Turbulent Mixing Studies In Complex Supersonic Flows
(Aerospace Engineering, 2013-10-22)
For many aerospace applications, mixing enhancement between co-flowing streams has been identified as a critical and enabling technology. Due to short fuel residence times in scramjet combustors, combustion is limited by ...
Impact Of Louver Orientation On Air Flow Distribution And Thermal Management Of Data Centers
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-03-20)
Nowadays with the increasing use of technology, Traditional data centers are being replaced by the highly efficient Containerized or Modular Data centers. The cooling systems and constructional cost employed for Traditional ...
Solution To Three Dimensional Incompressible Navier-stokes Equations Using Finite Element Method
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-03-20)
A primitive variable mixed order formulation of finite element method for solving three dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is presented. The method of weighted residuals is used to obtain the approximate ...
Application Of Phase Change Material In Sustainable Cooling Of Data Centers
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-07-22)
The ever increasing information technology heat load and data center cooling energy are the main reasons to investigate the performance of microencapsulated phase change slurry over other heat transfer fluids. In recent ...
Effect Of Nanoparticle Dispersions In A Binary Nitrate Salt As Thermal Energy Storage Material In Concentrated Solar Power Applications
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-07-22)
Despite the huge improvements in the field of solar energy to produce electricity, the high cost of production has been one of the major problems in this field. Concentrated solar power (CSP) uses a number of mirrors to ...
Heat Transfer Enhancement In A Rectangular Channel Using Vortex Generator In A Laminar Flow
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-03-20)
Enhancement of heat transfer through various means has been an intense area of research for many years. There are numerous applications where high performance heat exchange is desired. The cooling of electronics, such as ...
Design And Control Of A Smart Bed For Pressure Ulcer Prevention
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-07-22)
This work details the design, simulation, and experimental testing of a mechanically actuated smart hospital bed for the prevention of pressure ulcers in hospital patients. The smart hospital bed, or Smartbed, is designed ...
Computational Study Of Heat Transfer Enhancement For A Dimpled Surface In A Channel
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-03-20)
Heat transfer augmentation techniques have gained great importance in different engineering applications to deal with thermal management issues. In this work, a numerical investigation was carried out to see the effects ...