Sah, Rajkamal; Tambe, Sumit Sunil; Gopalan, Jagadeesh(American Institute of Physics, 2025-07)
This paper probes into the flow induced by a rotating cone-cylinder model in an enclosure. Two component particle image velocimetry measurements in the symmetry plane reveal that the rotating cone-cylinder causes an outward ...
Borthakur, Rajnandan; Ghosh, Uddipta(American Institute of Physics, 2025-07)
Electrophoresis of charged particles in polymeric (viscoelastic) fluids remains important in various separation processes, although their theoretical analysis is rather scarce in the literature. The ones which do investigate ...
Sarkar, Abishek; Sharma, Manjul; Narayanan, Vinod(American Institute of Physics, 2025-07)
The gravitational settling of small solid particles in an incompressible decaying turbulence is investigated using the Eulerian–Lagrangian framework. We were able to reach a Taylor microscale-based Reynolds number, Rek ¼ ...
Srivastava, Rishabh; Swaminathan, Jaichander(American Chemical Society, 2025-07)
A modular permeate gap forward-feed multi-effect membrane distillation (PG-MEMD) system with integrated internal feed preheating channels was built and experimentally compared against the baseline MEMD design. Inlet feed ...
Dhal, Arpeet; Mamidi, Teja Krishna; Vashista, Vineet(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2025-05-12)
The mandates of safety standards in manual material handling tasks have spurred the development and commercialization of many back-assist exoskeletons. These devices prevent back pain injuries by redistributing the applied ...
Singh, Randheer; Vashista, Vineet(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2025-05-12)
Cable-based exosuits are one of the prevalent choices for rehabilitation, among others. These exosuits are redundant in nature and are capable of imposing a desired joint torque along with a specific impedance simultaneously ...
Vyas, Ronak; Travascio, Francesco; Vashista, Vineet(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2025-05-12)
Repetitive lifting tasks, common in labor-intensive industries, are a significant contributor to work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) and chronic lower back pain (LBP). The continuous physical strain associated ...
This chapter explores the latest advancements in AI-driven gait classification. The work mainly focuses on developing and implementing techniques for characterizing and measuring human gait using a wearable portable sensor ...
The advancement of tactile sensing in robotics and prosthetics is constrained by the trade-off between spatial and temporal resolution in artificial tactile sensors. To address this limitation, we propose SuperTac, a novel ...
De, Utpal Chndra; Satpathy, Rabinarayan; Patra, Sudhansu Shekhar; Ghosh, Akash; Dash, Bibhuti Bhusan(Innovative Research Publishing, 2025)
The amplified concern in cloud and fog computing calls for a stimulus in the demands on the strategies that allocate virtual machines to amplify energy efficiency to alleviate high energy utilization and the environmental ...
Prajapati, Pratik; Banavar, Ravi N.; Vashista, Vineet(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2025-06)
Recent advancements in mechanical design and robust control modalities have significantly enhanced the ability of aerial robots to interact with humans in various physical tasks. A critical challenge remains to ensure safe, ...
Thermodynamic equipartitioning can improve the energy efficiency of a fuel cell at fixed size and fuel utilization by varying local cell potential to optimally distribute current density and electrochemical reaction rates ...
Shaji, Kannan; Narayanan, Vinod; Suryan, Abhilash; Kim, Heuy Dong(Elsevier, 2025-11)
Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube is a highly efficient fluidic expansion device with thermal separation features. Geometric optimization of the device is necessary for getting the best performance. Current study aims to conduct ...
With the advent of new sensor device designs, IoT based medical applications are increasingly being employed. This study introduces BlockFaaS: a Blockchain-assisted serverless framework that incorporates advanced AI models ...
Laser surface melting (LSM) is a surface modification technique involving melting and resolidifying a thin surface layer. The high-temperature gradients involved results in unwanted residual stresses which affect the ...
A critical requirement for rehabilitation robots is achieving high transparency in user interaction to minimize interference when assistance is unnecessary. Cable-driven systems are a compelling alternative to rigid-link ...
We study spontaneous deformations of a ribbon made of nematic polymer networks and activated under the action of a mechanical load. We show that when such ribbons are activated appropriately, the deformations produced can ...
Balaji, Adireddi; Paul, Diptangshu; Jayaprakash, K. R.; Vyasarayani, C. P.(Springer, 2025-05)
This work proposes an efficient numerical methodology to simulate the non-smooth vibro-impact dynamics between two one-dimensional continuums, more specifically, two taut strings. At the outset, we invoke Galerkin’s ...
Sah, Rajkamal; Tambe, Sumit Sunil; Jagadeesh, Gopalan(Cornell University Library, 2025-05)
This paper probes into the flow induced by a rotating cone-cylinder model in an enclosure. Two component particle image velocimetry measurements in the symmetry plane reveal that the rotating cone-cylinder causes an outward ...