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Development Of Detailed Computational Flow Model Of High End Server And Validation Using Experimental Methods
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-03-20)The continued development of the microprocessor has led to significant increase in high frequency interconnects and power dissipation. High power devices are pushing the limits of air cooling in data center environments. ... -
Development Of Foil Thrust Bearing Test Rig
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-07-22)Oil lubricated bearings have been widely used in variety of turbo machinery, though it has its own limitations such as thermal degradation of oil over temperature, complicated oil lubrication system and their maintenance. ... -
Development Of Multi-element Active Aerodynamics For The Formula SAE Car
(Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2014-03-12)This thesis focuses on the design, development, and implementation of an active aerodynamics system on 2013 Formula SAE car. The aerodynamics package itself consists of five element front and rear wings as well as an under ... -
Development Of Optical Fiber Sensors For Distance, Refractive Index And Strain Measurement
(Mechanical Engineering, 2009-09-16)This thesis is focused on the development of optical fiber based sensors for the measurement of distance, refractive index, and strain. The fabrication, implementation, analysis, and evaluation of the sensors are presented. ... -
DEVELOPMENT OF PARAFFIN WAX AS A PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL FOR THERMAL MANAGEMENT IN ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS
(2016-05-10)Increasing development in electronic technologies has improved functionality and reduced physical constraints, while managing to impart higher power and performance in smaller and compact devices. As a result of this size ... -
Development Of Spectral And Wavelet Time-of-flight Methods For Propagating Shock And Detonation Waves
(Aerospace Engineering, 2009-09-16)An accurate time delay estimate for a propagating disturbance, including an estimate of its uncertainty, is important in many areas of science. Several techniques were developed for determining the propagation time of a ... -
Development of the Vehicle Configuration Compendium: A Comprehensive Data-Information-Knowledge System to Aid in High-Speed Vehicle Design
(2021-12-21)The conceptual design phase is the most crucial phase in hypersonic vehicle design. Choices made during this phase will have significant impact on the success of the overall project and the feasibility of the end-product. ... -
Development Of Three Block Thermal Compact Model And Verification Of Modified Linear Superposition Technique For Stacked Die
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Over the last few years an impressive amount of progress has been achieved in the field of compact modeling of chip packages. But available compact modeling methods could not address the issue of limitation on the mesh ... -
Development Of Ultra-high Temperature Material Characterization Capabilities Using Digital Image Correlation Analysis
(Aerospace Engineering, 2011-10-11)Ultra-high temperature deformation measurements are required to characterize the thermo-mechanical response of material systems for thermal protection systems for aerospace applications. The use of conventional surface-contacting ... -
DEVELOPMENT OF VIRTUAL SIMULATION FOR EVALUATION OF ROBOTIC ASSISTIVE ENVIRONMENT
(2021-08-18)Robotics research in virtual simulation has the advantage of reduced testing time, verification of algorithms on different systems before implementation, and cost-saving. Today’s simulation softwares are capable of providing ... -
Development of Vortex Box (VBOX) and Vortex Tip (VTIP) Filament Free-Wake Rotor Models
(2023-03-13)Rotor models span from simple static and first order expressions to high fidelity, numerical computations and across the spectrum each model is good for different purposes. The use of models has improved with time and ... -
Diffusion And Elastoplastic Analyses Of Polycrystalline Magnesium For Solid State Hydrogen Storage Application
(Mechanical Engineering, 2015)Solid state hydrogen storage can be an effective way of storing hydrogen as an energy source for mobile applications. The advantage includes high energy density, low setup cost, safe operation, abundance of metal hydrides, ... -
Direct Numerical Simulation Of Interaction Of Detonation Wave With Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence
(Aerospace Engineering, 2009-09-16)The propagation of a shock or detonation wave through a reactive mixture has been the subject of research for over a century. The basic understanding has been shaped by one-dimensional Euler models, namely, those of ... -
Dymore Finite Element Analysis Of The Paired Blade Tiltrotor Conceptual Design And A Comparable Conventional Tiltrotor Design
(Aerospace Engineering, 2009-09-16)Increasing the solidity of tiltrotors above that of current designs presents challenges associated with control system packaging and control couplings. The paired blade rotor concept addresses these issues by placing two ... -
Dynamic Mode Decomposition Of Detonation Waves
(Aerospace Engineering, 2012-07-25)Dynamic mode decomposition is applied to study the self-excited fluctuations supported by transversely unstable detonations. The focus of this study is on the effect of forcing on the limit cycle solutions. Using DMD, only ... -
Dynamic Performance Of Offset-preloaded Two Pad Foil Bearings
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-07-22)Commercial application of the air foil bearing (AFB) in microturbomachinary have been acknowledged. Absence of external pressurizing and lubricating system makes them light and compact. Simple construction, low friction ... -
Dynamic Stress From Transverse Impact On Flexural Beams
(Mechanical Engineering, 2010-03-03)Accurate prediction of stress from impact would be very useful to an engineer in the design and analysis phases of a project. Currently one must resort to finite element analysis and experimentation, both of which have ... -
Dynamic Thermal Management Of Multi Core Processors Using Core Hopping
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-07-19)Multi core processors are the order of the day today. The demand for greater levels of performance and the consequent increase in design complexity have rendered the single core processor obsolete and resulted in more cores ... -
Dynamics and Control of Jumping Legged Robot
(2018-08-13)This research aims to studying the agility of legged robots particularly their interactions with the ground and achieve a jumping motion by using an operational space controller. Methods were developed to first formulate ... -
Dynamics And Control Of The Smart Maintenance And Inspection Robotic Free-flyer (SMIRFF)
The aim of the future space missions would be exploring near earth planets and asteroids. This would mean longer flight durations requiring a space habitat. Longer flight durations would require frequent maintenance and ...