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An Experimental Investigation Of Ionization Of Supersonic Air By A Corona Discharge
(Aerospace Engineering, 2007-08-23)
A technique is developed to ionize supersonic air flow in a shock tube by a weak corona discharge. The driven section of the tube is open to the atmosphere. The shock propagates in the driven section at about 1 km/s by ...
Design And Optimization Of Heat Spreaders And Selection Of Fan In Laptop
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
Technical advancements lead to the need for faster processors and reduced sizes in electronic systems. The urge for faster and compact systems leads to two major problems. Firstly over heating of chips which degrade the ...
Effect Of CRAC Location On A Fixed Rack Layout Of A Data Center
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
Microprocessor driven escalation of thermal management needs has resulted in significant cooling challenges at the data center facility level, which can house thousands and tens of thousands of heat producing processors. ...
Effects Of Edge Distance, Hole Size Ratio And Hole Spacing On Peak Stresses Of Composite Laminate With Multiple Holes
(Mechanical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Unlike isotropic material, the stress distribution of laminate with a hole varies with its size, its material properties and fiber orientations of each layer. Moreover, presence of a hole in the neighborhood of another ...
Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Of A Vertical Axis Wind Turbine
(Aerospace Engineering, 2011-07-14)
The purpose of this study is to introduce and demonstrate a fully automated process for optimizing the airfoil cross-section of a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). The objective is to maximize the torque while enforcing ...
Structural Analysis At Aircraft Conceptual Design Stage
(Aerospace Engineering, 2014-03-12)
In the past 50 years, computers have helped by augmenting human efforts with tremendous pace. The aircraft industry is not an exception. Aircraft industry is more than ever dependent on computing because of a high level ...
A Generic Stability And Control Tool For Flight Vehicle Conceptual Design: Aeromech Software Development
(Aerospace Engineering, 2007-08-23)
During the conceptual design (CD) phase, various solution concepts must, and should, be explored to select the best flight vehicle size and configuration in order to meet the mission requirements. As the aerospace industry ...
An Approximate Solution To Buckling Of Plates By The Galerkin Method
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
This thesis presents a semi-analytical method to solve the governing differential equation of plates using the Galerkin method. Symbolic algebra software is extensively used to perform necessary calculations. In this thesis, ...
Development Of A Conceptual Design Weight Estimation Method Library And Documentation
(Aerospace Engineering, 2014-07-14)
The state of the art in estimating the volumetric size and mass of flight vehicles is held today by an elite group of engineers in the Aerospace Conceptual Design Industry. This is not a skill readily accessible or taught ...
Complete Stress Analysis For Two Dimensional Inclusion Problem Using Complex Variables
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-09-17)
This thesis addresses the problem of finding stresses and displacements in an infinite plate with a two dimensional circular inclusion with different material properties using complex variable method with biaxial loading ...