In this paper, vibration suppression and control of a smart flexible satellitemaneuvering in a circular orbit are studied. The satellite is considered as a rigid hub and twoflexible appendages with PZT (lead zirconate ...

Swimming microrobots are miniature machines which can be designed and fabricatedusing microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. They can play a key role in manybiomedical applications, such as controlled drug ...

Increase in air pollution due to automotives is an important problem worldwide. Presentexperimental work concerns with the influence of inlet air temperature along with oxygen enrichedhydrogen gas on reduction of exhaust ...

This paper addresses a Taguchi based method for optimization of process parameters inwaterjet cleaning (WJCl). The experimental data was collected based on Taguchi L18 orthogonalarray. The tests were conducted under varying ...

In the present study, Al-WC (0, 5, 10, 15% weight fractions) nano composite wasdeveloped with WC particles as the reinforcement and Al particles as the base metal. The WC(99.5%, 20μm) is mixed (0,5,10 & 15% in weight ...

The thermal performances of the heat sink with un-uniform fin width designs with baseplates and carbon nano tube coating were investigated experimentally and numerically. Realistic,manufacturable geometries are considered ...

Explosive cladding is a metal cladding technique, wherein restricted detonationimpinges two or more metals to fuse together. On detonation, the chemical energy stored in thechemical explosive is converted instantaneously ...

In this study, the flow field of impinging jets in rarefied condition and high pressureratios was investigated. Direct Simulation of Monte Carlo (DSMC) method was employed to findthe flow field at two different Knudsen ...

The objective of this study is to implement a numerical method which is a combinationof pseudo-spectral collocation method with a positive scaling factor and extrapolation for solvingsteady, laminar, incompressible, viscous ...

In the present work, a laminar forced convection flow over a backward-facing step(BFS) in a duct is investigated. This study concerns the practical application of entropy generationanalysis in separated convective flow for ...

In the present study fractal geometry is used to model frost growth around a cooledhorizontal circular cylinder having constant surface temperature. Fractal geometries are veryapplicable in this area because phase changes ...

Three-dimensional laminar flow and heat transfer characteristics in smooth hexagonalducts with equal sides have been numerically investigated in the Reynolds number range from 300to 2000. The numerical solutions are obtained ...