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Investigation Of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer With Nanofluids
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)This investigation conducts pool boiling experiments under saturated conditions (Tsat=60°C) using nanofluids as coolants. Four different nanofluids were tested including zinc oxide (ZnO)-water, aluminum oxide (Al2O3)-water, ... -
Investigation Of Side Wall Effects On An Inward Scramjet Inlet At Mach Number 8.6
(Aerospace Engineering, 2013-10-22)Experimental and computational studies were conducted to evaluate the performance of a scramjet inlet as the side cowl length is changed. A slender inward turning inlet with a total length of 304.8 mm, a span of 50.8 mm ... -
Investigation of the Impact of Material Models on Reliability Assessment of Electronic Packages
(2020-08-13)Drop testing, thermal cycling, power cycling, etc. are some of the tests used to assess the reliability of new electronic products. However, performing experimental study of every new design is costly and time consuming. ... -
INVESTIGATION OF THE MICROSTRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SELECTIVELY LASER MELTED IN718 OVERHANGS FABRICATED WITHOUT SUPPORT STRUCTURES
(2021-05-07)Additive manufacturing is a new manufacturing technology that allows for extreme design freedom as well as the simultaneous production of many parts with high complexities. IN718 is a high-strength, corrosion-resistant ... -
Investigation of Thermal Performance Enhancement and Thermo-mechanical Assessment of ITE using Single-Phase Immersion Cooling Technology
(2023-08-25)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 08/01/2024** The use of air-cooling as a thermal management technique in data centers has consistently maintained its importance, however its efficacy is limited to CPUs ... -
INVESTIGATION OF THERMO-PHYSICAL PROPERTY ENHANCEMENT MECHANISM OF MOLTEN SALT NANO-EUTECTIC VIA NANOSTRUCTURAL CHANGE AND POLYALPHAOLEFIN NANOFLUID VIA IN SITU FORMATION OF SUPERSTRUCTURES
(2018-08-10)For many years, scientists enhanced the specific heat capacity of molten salt nanofluids by dispersing only minute concentrations of different nanoparticles (e.g., 1 wt.%). While the specific heat capacity for molten salts ... -
Investigation Of Wetting States On Microstructures After Liquid Drops Contact Groove Base
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-09-17)Wetting properties of roughness surfaces have attracted a considerable attention because of both the scientific insight and the practical applications. One of the most intriguing topics of wetting is the so-called Cassie-Baxter ... -
INVESTIGATION ON EFFECTIVE MODULUS AND STRESS CONCENTRATION FACTOR OF 3D REINFORCED COMPOSITE BY FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS METHOD
(2018-05-24)Micromechanics of Composites aims to analyze the localized stresses inside any given constituents of the composite structure. This Thesis is focused on Calculating the effective modulus and the Stress concentration factor ... -
Investigation on Metal-Composite Hybrid Flywheels using Finite Element Method
(2018-01-08)This research is aimed to investigate the kinetic energy storage of a hybrid metal-composite flywheel rotating at high speeds. The upper limit of energy, which flywheel can supply, is restricted by the strength of material ... -
INVESTIGATION ON MICROSTRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POROUS STRUCTURES PROCESSED BY LASER POWDER BED FUSION
(2021-05-07)Inconel 718 (i.e., IN718) is a prominent nickel-based, precipitation-hardening superalloy which exhibits exceptionally stable mechanical and corrosion resistant properties, even at temperature range of 650ºC to 700ºC, ... -
Issues On Finite Element Modeling Of Laminated Composite Structures
(Mechanical Engineering, 2011-07-14)Composite structures have been used widely in aviation industries and civil construction field because of their high specific stiffness, high specific strength and directional dependent properties. When using finite element ... -
Kinematic Analysis Of A Quadruped Robot Capable Of Working As A Machining Tool
(Mechanical Engineering, 2010-11-01)Parallel robots have been proposed for some time now due to their potential advantages over serial robots in high load bearing, acceleration, stiffness and with lower moving mass. Mobile parallel configurations, i.e. ... -
LAMINAR SWEPT AND CROSS SHOCKWAVE/BOUNDARY-LAYER INTERACTIONS
(2021-08-02)Shockwave/boundary-layer interactions are considered one of the most complex problems in high-speed gas dynamics, and numerous studies have been carried out for more than eighty years to understand the fundamental physics. ... -
Large Scale Finite Element Analysis Using GPU Parallel Computing
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-03-10)In the past years, graphic processing units have become a new abundant parallelcomputing resource on personal computers. In this work parallel computation ofa typical case in nite element analysis for solids has been ... -
The Lattice Boltzmann Method For Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications
(Aerospace Engineering, 2008-09-17)An analysis of lattice Boltzmann method is presented in this thesis. This analysis contrast with the traditional lattice Boltzmann work, where complex fluids are considered with extended properties. Focus of the current ... -
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 ... -
Liquid Cooling Of A High-power Multi-chip Module Using A Sectioned Cold Plate
With the advancement in micro-fabrication techniques and high performance chips, the heat flux generated through these electronics is reaching a point where air-cooling of these devices is not efficient enough. By definition, ... -
Load Carrying Capacity Management of Compound Anisotropic Composite Rings under External Pressure
(2017-05-30)Composites have much higher strength than conventional materials such as steel. This makes it attractive to replace heavy loaded structural elements, made traditionally from steel, by elements made from composites. However, ... -
A Low Cost Micro Scale Cyclone Seperator- Design And Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-11-01)Microparticle separation process has a variety of application varying from application in biological and biomedical industries for analysis and diagnosis, in biogas manufacturing to separate phases as well as in defense ... -
Lumped Parameter Modeling Of Fluid Line Dynamics With Turbulent Flow Conditions
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-03-20)A procedure for obtaining rational polynomial transfer functions representing ordinary differential equations for time domain transient response simulations of systems with fluid transmission lines with incompressible ...