• A hierarchical multiscale model of heat transfer between nano-alumina powder and noble gases 

  Thoudam, Jyotishraj; Kulkarni, Prasanna; Sundaram, Dilip (Elsevier, 2022-09)

  Hierarchical multiscale modeling and simulations are conducted to study heat transfer between nano-alumina powder and noble gases. The noble gases considered in this study are helium, argon, and xenon. Density functional ...
• Understanding the mechanics of complex topology of the 3D printed Anthill architecture 

  Kushwaha, Brijesh; Kumar, Avinash; Ambekar, Rushikesh S.; Arya, Vinay; Negedu, Solomon Demiss; Bakshi, Deep; Olu, Emmanuel Femi; Ayyagari, Ravi Sastri; Pal, Varinder; Sadasivuni, Kishor Kumar; Pugno, Nicola M.; Bakli; Chirodeep; Tiwary, Chandra Sekhar (Oxford University Press, 2022-05)

  Objectives:The present work aimed to investigate the deformation behavior of complex ant mound architectures under compression. Methods: We have used the cement casting method to extract four different ant nest morphologies. ...
• Replacing chloride anions in dyeing enables cheaper effluent concentration and recycling 

  Gupta, Priyanshu Ranjan; Shanmukham, Saravana Perumal; Patel, Chirag G.; Lienhard, John H.; Swaminathan, Jaichander (Elsevier, 2022-07)

  Reverse osmosis followed by distillation is commonly used to recycle fresh water and concentrated brine in the textile dyeing industry to achieve zero liquid discharge. The chemistry of industrial effluents is governed by ...
• Improved air gap distillation desalination through induced film condensation 

  Varier, Anuj Sivan; Joshi, Mrugesh; Swaminathan, Jaichander (Elsevier, 2022-04)

  Distillation across an air gap is implemented in several novel small-scale desalination technologies such as air gap distillation and multi-effect solar stills. These systems achieve better energy efficiency than simple ...
• Combined electromechanically driven pulsating flow of nonlinear viscoelastic fluids in narrow confinements 

  Kumar, Vishal; Mukherjee, Joydeb; Sinha, Sudipta Kumar; Ghosh, Uddipta (The Royal Society, 2022-04)

  Controlled microscale transport is at the core of many scientific and technological advancements, including medical diagnostics, separation of biomolecules, etc., and often involves complex fluids. One of the challenges ...
• Effect of interfacial kinetics on the settling of a drop in a viscous medium 

  Jadhav, Sayali N.; Ghosh, Uddipta (American Institute of Physics, 2022-01)

  Multiphase emulsions, such as drops in a continuous medium, tend to have surfactant-like impurities present at the interfaces, either naturally or introduced artificially for stability, which may influence the flow field ...
• Gait classification with gait inherent attribute identification from ankle's kinematics 

  Singh, Yogesh; Vashista, Vineet (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022-03)

  The human ankle joint interacts with the environment during ambulation to provide mobility and maintain stability. This association changes depending on the different gait patterns of day-to-day life. In this study, we ...
• Change in task conditions leads to changes in intermittency in intermittent feedback control employed by CNS in control of human stance 

  Dash, Ranjita; Palanthandalam-Madapusi, Harish J. (Springer, 2022-04)

  Event-driven intermittent feedback control is a form of feedback control in which the corrective control action is only initiated intermittently when the variables of interest exceed certain threshold criteria. It has been ...
• A note on invertibility and relative degree of MIMO LTI systems 

  Kadam, Sujay D.; Palanthandalam-Madapusi, Harish J. (Elsevier, 2022-06)

  The property of system invertibility is important both from a theoretical standpoint and an important consideration in left and right inversion problems that deal with input estimation and tracking control respectively. ...
• A designed setup of low-priced in-house goniometer/tensiometer 

  Ahmed, Zeeshan; Sarode, Ajinkya; Tripathi, Abhishek Kumar; Parida, Satyajeet; Singh, Vivek Kumar (Elsevier, 2022-05)

  In many educational institutes and industries, the contact angle and surface tension analysis are done to measure the quality of a solid surface and of a liquid. In order to determine these, the sessile and pendant droplet ...
• Solar energy storage as salt for cooling? 

  Swaminathan, Jaichander (Elsevier, 2022-03)

  An endothermic solvation reaction coupled with a solar-thermal crystallizer has been proposed as a renewable-energy-driven cooling solution in a recent issue of Energy and Environmental Science. We highlight some challenges ...
• Multiscale interplay of curvature and hydrodynamic slippage in flow over a patterned topography 

  Dewangan, Mainendra Kumar; Dutta, Subhra (American Physical Society, 2022-02)

  Reduction of fluid-solid friction utilizing the phenomenon of hydrodynamic slippage underlies a variety of energy-saving innovations. For simple demonstration of such ideas, the flow is often assumed to take place over a ...
• Vibratory cue training elicits anticipatory postural responses to an external perturbation 

  Bhardwaj, Siddharth; Negi, Vikram; Vashista, Vineet (Springer, 2022-02)

  Anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs) represent the feedforward mechanism of neuromuscular control essential for maintaining balance under predictable perturbations. The importance of vision as a distal sensory modality ...
• Shear-driven flow in an elliptical enclosure generated by an inner rotating circular cylinder 

  Unnikrishnan, Akash; Shahane, Shantanu; Narayanan, Vinod; Vanka, Surya Pratap (American Institute of Physics, 2022-01)

  Shear-driven flow between a rotating cylinder and a stationary elliptical enclosure is studied in this paper. Two-dimensional time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations are solved using a meshless method, where interpolations ...
• Comparison of detached eddy simulation and standard k-? RANS model for rack-level airflow analysis inside a data center 

  Saiyad, Anashusen; Fulpagare, Yogesh; Bhargav, Atul (Springer, 2022-01)

  High computing demands and data privacy regulations from many countries in the world have resulted in the expansion of data centers. With this, energy consumption by data centers has increased to an alarming level. Data ...
• Investigation of optimal water utilization for water spray cooled photovoltaic panel: a three-dimensional computational study 

  Raju, Martin; Sarma, Rakesh Narayana; Suryan, Abhilash; Nair, Prasanth P.; Nizetic, Sandro (Elsevier, 2022-06)

  The study focused on the development of a three-dimensional computational model for water spray cooling of photovoltaic panels. A water spray cooling technique can ensure performance improvement due to a reduction in panel ...
• Iron tungsten nanorods electrode with high capacitance: an extraordinary cycling stability for durable aqueous supercapacitors 

  Sharma, Meenu; Bhargav, Atul (ACS Publications, 2022-01)

  Improving cycle life and rate capability through unique morphological features is beneficial for developing the energy storage capacity of supercapacitors (SC). The evolving use of abundant earth metals in low-cost metal ...
• A steady state semi-analytical approximation of melt pool evolution in pulsed laser surface melting 

  Mistry, Utsavkumar; Vadali, Madhu (Elsevier, 2022-02)

  Pulsed laser surface melting (pLSM) is a technique that offers an efficient and effective way to modify the geometry surfaces without any addition or removal of material. The resultant surface geometry plays a critical ...
• Thermocapillary effects on viscoelastic drops suspended in axisymmetric pressure driven flows 

  Vyas, Malay; Ghosh, Uddipta (American Institute of Physics, 2021-12)

  The first two asymptotic corrections to the leading order Newtonian behavior are reported here, in the limit of small Deborah and Capillary numbers, which, respectively, characterize the extent of viscoelasticity and ...
• Development of graphitic carbon nitrides (g-C3N4) as multifunctional bridges in ZnCo2O4 for the anode of lithium-ion battery 

  Sharma, Meenu; Bhargav, Atul (IOP Publishing, 2021-10)

  Lithium-ion battery (LIB) proves to be one of the most important energy storage systems for portable electronics and vehicles. High volumetric lithium storage is becoming increasingly necessary as the market for nanotechnology ...

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