• Global stability analysis of axisymmetric boundary layer over a circular cone 

  Bhoraniya, Ramesh; Vinod, Narayanan (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 ...
• Metal-based nanoenergetic materials: Synthesis, properties, and applications 

  Sundaram, Dilip; Yang, Vigor; Yetter, Richard A. (Elsevier, 2017-07)

  Metal particles are attractive candidate fuels for various propulsion and energy-conversion applications, primarily due to their high energy densities. Micron-sized particles present several drawbacks, such as high ignition ...
• Global stability analysis of axisymmetric boundary layer over a circular cone 

  Bhoraniya, Ramesh; Narayanan, Vinod (Institute of Physics, 2017-04)

  This paper presents linear biglobal stability analysis of axisymmetric boundary layer over a circular cone. An incompressible flow over a sharp circular cone is considered with zero angle of attack. The base flow velocity ...
• Oxidative steam reforming of ethanol on rhodium catalyst – I: Spatially resolved steady-state experiments and micro kinetic modeling 

  Baruah, Renika; Dixit, Marm; Parejiya, Anand; Basarkar, Pratik; Bhargav, Atul; Sharma, Sudhanshu (Elsevier, 2017-04)

  Oxidative steam reforming of ethanol is an important process for on board production of hydrogen in fuel cell based auxiliary power systems. Although the process has been extensively studied from a catalyst perspective, ...
• Traveling and solitary waves in monodisperse and dimer granular chains 

  Starosvetsky, Yuli; Jayaprakash, K. R.; Vakakis, Alexander F. (World Scientific Publishing, 2017-03)

  We provide a review of propagating traveling waves and solitary pulses in uncompressed one-dimensional (1d1d) ordered granular media. The first such solution in homogeneous granular media was discovered by Nesterenko in ...
• Thermal conductivity calculation of nano-suspensions using green-kubo relations with reduced artificial correlations 

  Sundaram, Dilip; Muraleedharan, Murali Gopal; Henry, Asegun; Yang, Vigor (IOP Publishing, 2017-02)

  The presence of artificial correlations associated with Green-Kubo (GK) thermal conductivity calculations is investigated. The thermal conductivity of nano-suspensions is calculated by equilibrium molecular dynamics (EMD) ...
• Effect of fuel particle size and blending ratio on syngas production and performance of co-gasification 

  Kumar, A.; Guangul, F.M.; Inayat, M.; Sulaiman, S. A. (Universiti Malaysia Pahang, 2016-09)

  Shortage of feedstock supply often happens in biomass gasification. Thus, the cogasification of blended biomass is a potential option to maintain feedstock supply for continuous gasification operations. The aim of this ...
• Direction-dependent adaptation of dynamic gait stability following waist-pull perturbations 

  Vashista, Vineet; Micera, Silvestro; Agrawal, Sunil K.; Martelli, Dario (IEEE, 2016-11)

  Balance recovery during an unexpected disturbance is a complex motor task, where part of the variability depends on the type of the perturbation itself. Despite of this, little is known to what extent adaptation mechanisms ...
• Computational prediction of annular wing aerodynamic characteristics 

  Kanoria, Akshay A.; Damodaran, Murali (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2016-11)
• Polynomial sparse adaptive algorithm 

  Maheshwari, Jyoti; George, Nithin (Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2016-12)
• Long-wave interface instabilities of a two-layer system under periodic excitation for thin films 

  Navarkar, Abhishek; Amiroudine, Sakir; Demekhin, Evgeny A.; Ghosh, U.; Chakraborty, S. (Springer Verlag, 2016-11)

  The stability of a system of two thin liquid films under AC electroosmotic flow is studied using linear stability analysis for long-wave disturbances. The system is bounded by two rigid plates which act as substrate. ...
• The stability of two layer dielectric-electrolyte micro-flow subjected to an external electric field 

  Demekhin, Evgeny A.; Ganchenko, G. S.; Navarkar, Abhishek; Amiroudine, Sakir (AIP Publishing, 2016-09)

  The two-phase microflow of conductive (electrolyte) and non-conductive (dielectric) viscous liquids bounded by two solid walls in an external electric field is scrutinized. The lower solid wall, which is adjoined to the ...
• Precision munition guidance and moving-target estimation 

  Hablani, Hari B.; Sreeja, S. (Aerospace Research Central, 2016-07)

  The efficacy of a munition depends on target detection, estimation of its motion, guidance, tracking and control; in fact even more so if the target is moving. This paper is concerned with flight dynamics of a munition in ...
• A general theory of ignition and combustion of nano- and micron-sized aluminum particles 

  Sundaram, Dilip Srinivas; Puri, Puneesh; Yang, Vigor (Elsevier, 2016-07)

  A general theory of ignition and combustion of nano- and micron-sized aluminum particles is developed. The oxidation process is divided into several stages based on phase transformations and chemical reactions. Characteristic ...
• Clinical facts along with a feedback control perspective suggest that increased response time might be the cause of parkinsonian rest tremor 

  Shah, Vrutangkumar V.; Goyal, Sachin; Palanthandalam-Madapusi, Harish (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016-06)

  Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by increased response times leading to a variety of biomechanical symptoms such as tremors, stooping and gait instability. Although the deterioration ...
• Precision targeting in guided munition using infrared sensor and millimeter wave radar 

  Sulochana, Sreeja; Hablani, Hari B.; Arya, Hemendra (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2016-07)

  Conventional munitions are not guided with sensors and therefore miss the target, particularly if the target is mobile. The miss distance of these munitions can be decreased by incorporating sensors to detect the target ...
• Effects of thermal induced buoyancy forces on the vortex shedding of a circular cylinder 

  Singh, Sumit; Chandar, Dominic D. J. (Elsevier, 2016-08)

  Thermal effects on the vortex shedding of a circular cylinder are studied numerically under laminar flow conditions for flows along (parallel but in a direction opposite) and perpendicular to the direction of gravity. When ...
• On two-liquid AC electroosmotic system for thin films 

  Navarkar, Abhishek; Amiroudine, Sakir; Demekhin, Evgeny A. (Wiley, 2016-03)

  Lab-on-chip devices employ EOF for transportation and mixing of liquids. However, when a steady (DC) electric field is applied to the liquids, there are undesirable effects such as degradation of sample, electrolysis, ...
• Correlations for heat transfer coefficients and wall-temperatures for laminar and turbulent free convection from plane vertical surfaces to supercritical fluids 

  Seetharama, T. R.; Seetharamu, K. N.; Sharma, Girish Kumar (INPRESSCO, 2016-03)

  Correlations for heat transfer coefficient and wall-temperature are proposed for free convection from a plane vertical surface to super critical water and super critical carbon-dioxide based on numerical solutions using ...
• Autothermal reforming of methane on rhodium catalysts: Microkinetic analysis for model reduction 

  Dixit, Marm; Baruah, Renika; Parikh, Dhrupad; Sharma, Sudhanshu; Bhargav, Atul (Elsevier, 2016-06)

  Methane autothermal reforming has been studied using comprehensive, detailed microkinetic mechanisms, and a hierarchically reduced rate expression has been derived without apriori assumptions. The microkinetic mechanism ...

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