• Computational rod model with user-defined nonlinear constitutive laws 

  Fatehiboroujeni, Soheil; Palanthandalam-Madapusi, Harish; Goyal, Sachin (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018-08)

  Computational rod models have emerged as efficient tools to simulate the bending and twisting deformations of a variety of slender structures in engineering and biological applications. The dynamics of such deformations ...
• Intelligent scan trajectories for pulsed laser polishing 

  Vadali, Madhu; Ma, Chao; Li, Xiaochun; Pfefferkorn, Frank E.; Duffie, Neil A. (Inderscience, 2018-01)

  The objective of this work is to generate irregular, smooth, adaptive laser scan trajectories for pulsed laser polishing. Traditionally pulsed laser polishing, like other surface finishing processes has used zig-zag scan ...
• Energy accommodation under non-equilibrium conditions for aluminum-inert gas systems 

  Mane, Tejas Shivanand; Bhat, Pooja; Sundaram, Dilip Srinivas; Yang, Vigor (Elsevier, 2018-06)

  Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are conducted to determine non-equilibrium energy accommodation coefficients for aluminum-inert gas systems for a surface temperature of 300 K and gas temperatures in the range of 1000-3000 ...
• Electrohydrodynamic phenomena 

  Ghosh, Uddipta; Bandopadhyay, Aditya (Springer Verlag, 2018-06)

  This work is a review article focused on exploring the interactions between external and induced electric fields and fluid motion, in the presence of embedded charges. Such interactions are generally termed electrohydrodynamics ...
• Global stability analysis of axisymmetric boundary layer over a circular cylinder 

  Bhoraniya, Ramesh; Narayanan, Vinod (Springer, 2018-05)

  This paper presents a linear global stability analysis of the incompressible axisymmetric boundary layer on a circular cylinder. The base flow is parallel to the axis of the cylinder at inflow boundary. The pressure gradient ...
• Metal-water mixtures for propulsion and energy-conversion applications: recent progress and future directions 

  Sundaram, Dilip Srinivas (Al-Farabi Kazakh State National University, 2018-03)

  The metal-water system is attractive for propulsion and energy-conversion applications. Of all metals, aluminum is attractive due to its high energy density, relative safety, and low cost. Experimental studies provide new ...
• A review of super plastic forming 

  Chatterjee, Ritam; Mukhopadhyay, Jyoti (Elsevier, 2018-03)

  Super plasticity is the property exhibited by a few metals and alloys which involves, under tensile loading, very high elongation without necking until failure. This was first closely studied by Back ofen, Turner and Avery ...
• Multifunctional Fe3O4-ZnO nanocomposites for environmental remediation applications 

  Goyal, Prateek; Chakraborty, Swaroop; Misra, Superb K. (Elsevier, 2018-03)

  We developed a one-pot synthesis route for multifunctional (ZnO-Fe3O4) nanocomposites. The Fe3O4 nanoparticles were decorated on the surface of ZnO. The formation of ZnO- Fe3O4 (ZF) nanocomposite was confirmed using XRD, ...
• Geoelectrical signatures of reactive mixing: a theoretical assessment 

  Ghosh, Uddipta; Borgne, T. L.; Jougnot, D.; Linde, N.; M.heust, Y. (American Geophysical Union, 2018-02)

  Characterizing the effects of subsurface fluid mixing on biogeochemical reactions is a key step towards monitoring and understanding a range of processes and applications in which fluids of different chemical compositions ...
• On the adaptation of pelvic motion by applying 3-dimensional guidance forces using TPAD 

  Kang, Jiyeon; Vashista, Vineet; Agrawal, Sunil K. (IEEE, 2017-09)

  Pelvic movement is important to human locomotion as the center of mass is located near the center of pelvis. Lateral pelvic motion plays a crucial role to shift the center of mass on the stance leg, while swinging the other ...
• Rack level transient CFD modeling of data center 

  Fulpagare, Yogesh; Joshi, Yogendra; Bhargav, Atul (Emerald Publishing, 2018-02)

  The paper aims to capture the rack level thermal dynamics in data center. It proposes the rack level response experiments as well as transient CFD analysis to characterize the local thermal environment of the system. A ...
• Size effect on melting temperatures of alumina nanocrystals: Molecular dynamics simulations and thermodynamic modeling 

  Joshi, Nikhil; Mathur, Nilkumar; Mane, Tejas; Sundaram, Dilip (Elsevier, 2018-04)

  Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and thermodynamic analysis are conducted to investigate size effect on melting point of alumina nanocrystals. Different geometries including spherical and cubic particles, planar thin ...
• The effective compliance of spatially evolving planar wing-cracks 

  Ayyagari, R. S.; Daphalapurkar, N. P.; Ramesh, K. T. (Elsevier, 2017-11)

  We present an analytic closed form solution for anisotropic change in compliance due to the spatial evolution of planar wing-cracks in a material subjected to largely compressive loading. A fully three-dimensional anisotropic ...
• A novel processing approach for free-standing porous non-oxide ceramic supports from polycarbosilane and polysilazane precursors 

  Konegger, Thomas; Patidar, Rajesh; Bordia, Rajendra K (Elsevier, 2015-09)

  In this contribution, a low-pressure/low-temperature casting technique for the preparation of novel free-standing macrocellular polymer-derived ceramic support structures is presented. Preceramic polymers (polycarbosilane ...
• On the adaptation of pelvic motion by applying 3-dimensional guidance forces using TPAD 

  Kang, Jiyeon; Vashista, Vineet; Agrawal, Sunil K. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-09)

  Pelvic movement is important to human locomotion as the center of mass is located near the center of pelvis. Lateral pelvic motion plays a crucial role to shift the center of mass on the stance leg, while swinging the other ...
• A molecular dynamics approach of the role of carbon nanotube diameter on thermal interfacial resistance through vibrational mismatch analysis 

  Sarode, Ajinkya; Ahmed, Zeeshan; Basarkar, Pratik; Bhargav, Atul; Banerjee, Debjyoti (Elsevier B.V., 2017-12)

  Carbon nanotubes (CNT) have been known to increase the heat transfer at the solid-liquid interfaces, but have a limitation due to the thermal interfacial resistance. Vibrational mismatch at the interface leads to this ...
• Robot-driven downward pelvic pull to improve crouch gait in children with cerebral palsy 

  Kang, J.; Martelli, Dario; Vashista, Vineet; Martinez-Hernandez, I.; Kim, H.; Agrawal Sunil K. (Macmillan Publishers, 2017-07)

  Children with cerebral palsy commonly exhibit an abnormality called crouch gait, which is characterized by excessive flexion of the hips/knees and weak plantar flexor muscles during the stance phase. One of the major reasons ...
• Three-dimensional energy channeling in the unit-cell model coupled to a spherical rotator II: unidirectional energy channeling 

  Jayaprakash, K. R.; Starosvetsky, Yuli (Springer, 2017-09)

  This work is the second one in a two-part series devoted to the analysis of complex nonlinear mechanism of energy channeling emerging in a locally resonant three-dimensional, unit-cell model, and the current paper considers ...
• Three-dimensional energy channeling in the unit-cell model coupled to a spherical rotator I: bidirectional energy channeling 

  Jayaprakash, K. R.; Starosvetsky, Yuli (Springer, 2017-07)

  This work is the first one in a two part series devoted to the analysis of the complex nonlinear mechanism of three-dimensional energy channeling emerging in a locally resonant three-dimensional, single-cell unit. The ...
• Global stability analysis of axisymmetric boundary layer over a circular cone 

  Bhoraniya, Ramesh; Narayanan, Vinod (American Physical Society, 2017-06)

  This paper presents a linear global stability analysis of the incompressible axisymmetric boundary layer on a circular cone. The base flow is considered parallel to the axis of the cone at the inlet. The angle of attack ...

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