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Evaluating And Augmenting Fuel-Saving Benefits Obtained In Aircraft Formation Flight, Wendy Awele Okolo
Evaluating And Augmenting Fuel-Saving Benefits Obtained In Aircraft Formation Flight, Wendy Awele Okolo
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
When an aircraft flies, it generates wake vortices, which induce a non-uniform wind distribution in its wake. A trail aircraft, placed in the wake of a lead's aircraft vortices experiences this non-uniform wind distribution with varying directions and magnitudes, depending on the location within the wake. It has been demonstrated that there is a "sweet spot" within the wake of a leader in which a trail can experience upwash which leads to reduced drag. Through this mechanism, aircraft can save significant amounts of fuel by flying at the sweet spot of the lead aircraft's wake. This dissertation provides two metrics …
Energy And Water Impacts Of Data Center Cooling Systems: A Triple Bottom Line Assessment For Facility Design, Marianna Louisa Vallejo
Energy And Water Impacts Of Data Center Cooling Systems: A Triple Bottom Line Assessment For Facility Design, Marianna Louisa Vallejo
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
Increasingly, society is being transferred to a dependence upon electronic technologies and networked systems, usually accessed via the internet. Physically, these systems reside within clusters of servers and storage banks which are collectively housed and maintained in data center facilities. In order for a data center to function properly, the environment must be tightly controlled to ensure maximum reliability of the electronic hardware components. Any method of controlling the environment has a cost, either in capital or in resources, and therefore becomes an issue for the sustainability of a building or complex. Currently data centers are one of the largest …
Material Changes Of Bone Following Ishcemia Of The Immature Femoral Head, Olumide O. Aruwajoye
Material Changes Of Bone Following Ishcemia Of The Immature Femoral Head, Olumide O. Aruwajoye
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD) is a childhood hip disorder resulting from the loss of blood flow to the femoral head. In severe cases of the disease, the femoral head can develop a flattening deformity; additionally, if the disease is diagnosed at a later stage, it leaves most patients to develop early osteoarthritis of the hip. Due to a lack of pathological specimen from patients, an experimental piglet model of femoral head ischemia was developed. The model closely follows the radiographic changes seen in LCPD patients, where there is subchondral fracture, resorption, and a flattening deformity of the femoral head. After ischemia, …
Bayesian Statistics And Information Fusion For Gps-Denied Navigation, Brian Lee Copp
Bayesian Statistics And Information Fusion For Gps-Denied Navigation, Brian Lee Copp
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
It is well known that satellite navigation systems are vulnerable to disruption due to jamming, spoofing, or obstruction of the signal. The desire for robust navigation of aircraft in GPS-denied environments has motivated the development of feature-aided navigation systems, in which measurements of \textit{environmental features} are used to complement the dead reckoning solution produced by an inertial navigation system. Examples of environmental features which can be exploited for navigation include star positions, terrain elevation, terrestrial wireless signals, and features extracted from photographic data. Feature-aided navigation represents a particularly challenging estimation problem because the measurements are often strongly nonlinear, and the …
Automatic Carrier Landing System For V/Stol Aircraft Using L1 Adaptive And Optimal Control, Shashank Hariharapura Ramesh
Automatic Carrier Landing System For V/Stol Aircraft Using L1 Adaptive And Optimal Control, Shashank Hariharapura Ramesh
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
This thesis presents a framework for developing automatic carrier landing systems for aircraft with vertical or short take-off and landing capability using two different control strategies - gain-scheduled linear optimal control, and L1 adaptive control. The carrier landing sequence of V/STOL aircraft involves large variations in dynamic pressure and aerodynamic coefficients arising because of the transition from aerodynamic-supported to jet-borne flight, descent to the touchdown altitude, and turns performed to align with the runway. Consequently, the dynamics of the aircraft exhibit a highly non-linear dynamical behavior with variations in flight conditions prior to touchdown. Therefore, the implication is the need …
Magnetic Field Enhanced Thermal Conductivity Analysis Of Magnetic Nanofluids, Christopher Allen
Magnetic Field Enhanced Thermal Conductivity Analysis Of Magnetic Nanofluids, Christopher Allen
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
The magnetic properties of four water-based nanofluids consisting of Al2O3, CuO, Fe3O4, and SiO2 were exploited to analyze the effect of the application of an external magnetic field on the thermal conductivity of the nanofluid. When the magnetic field is applied, the magnetic dipole moments of the particles align and the particles come in contact with each other and form chains in the direction of the applied magnetic field. When parallel to the direction of heat flow, the magnetic field causes the effective thermal conductivity in the direction of the magnetic field to increase. A higher thermally conductive fluid can …
A Model Analysis Of Sand Insertion In Hydraulic Fractures, Ya Hao
A Model Analysis Of Sand Insertion In Hydraulic Fractures, Ya Hao
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is a well-stimulation technology to create large volume of fracture formation in rocks for gas and/or oil extraction. This technology has been applied to commercially exploit natural gas in unconventional shale reservoirs that contain immense quantity but low density of hydrocarbon sources. The productivity can be largely dependent on the connectivity of fractures that must stay open. However, upon initial hydraulic fracturing, the fractures would be closed due to high hydrostatic pressure deep inside the crust. Sand must be pumped into the fractures to keep them open. An in-depth understanding of the sand distribution and its dependence …
Thermal Analysis Of Disk Brake In Order To Study The Brake Fluid Vaporization Phenomenon Of A Formula Sae Car, Anurag Dey
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
The brake system is inarguable one of the most critical aspect of a vehicle safety. It has always been the major concern for design engineers to develop a system that gives a steady performance with respect to time. In order to achieve that feat, one of the most common problems that arises in maintaining a brake is the problem of brake fluid vaporization. Brake fluids, being hygroscopic in nature, absorb moisture over a period of time. It is one of the prime reasons for reducing the longevity of brake fluid volume inside the brake caliper as the boiling point of …
Estimation Of Fracture Mechanics Parameters In 3d Tsv Package During Chip Attachment Process, Mohammed Shahid Ali
Estimation Of Fracture Mechanics Parameters In 3d Tsv Package During Chip Attachment Process, Mohammed Shahid Ali
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Nowadays, the packaging of electronic products is becoming revolutionized, since the packages are becoming more and more complex, dense, thinner and lighter for greater portability. Miniaturization of packages is being taken to the next level, and hence, 3D packaging has become a hot topic in the present research area. Three dimensional chips stacking with TSV technology has gained momentum to meet such requirements of significant miniaturization and power reduction which result in increased performance. However, the unique issues related to yield and reliability of critical areas in TSV based 3D ICs need to be evaluated. Therefore, Reliability of such electronic …
Smart Bed And Contact Impact Of Flexible Bodies Using Energy Compensation Method, Pranav Parikh
Smart Bed And Contact Impact Of Flexible Bodies Using Energy Compensation Method, Pranav Parikh
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
This work investigates robotic means to prevent pressure ulcers in human bodies. The smart bed is intended to act as an intelligent assistant to a care-giver that relieves some of the physical and mental burden involved in preventing pressure ulcers. This type of device is needed because of a labor shortage in the nursing field. The smart bed distinguishes itself from the current available measures by redistributing pressure and minimizing shear forces acting on the skin in contact. This is done by using data from the sensor grid installed on the bed surface and actuating the degrees of freedom associated …
Developing And Validating Thermodynamic Models For Evaporative Cooling Employed In Data Centers, Niravkumar Prabhatsinh Dodia
Developing And Validating Thermodynamic Models For Evaporative Cooling Employed In Data Centers, Niravkumar Prabhatsinh Dodia
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Cooling of Data centers is of paramount importance for continuous and reliable operation of Servers housed by them. Considerable amount of total power is used to drive the cooling activity. Various different types of cooling methods have been implemented and are currently operating in various data centers. Evaporative (Indirect/Direct) Cooling is trending these days because of its ability to provide cooling at minimal cost. Previous studies have presented various cooling plants in data centers and studied them. A dedicated model for Evaporative cooling is developed and validated. The data is computed assuming the developed cooling model operating at a particular …
Computational Analysis Of Enhancing Heat Transfer In A 3-D Stacked Die Using Different Finned Heat Sink, Deekshith Pittala
Computational Analysis Of Enhancing Heat Transfer In A 3-D Stacked Die Using Different Finned Heat Sink, Deekshith Pittala
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
3D die stacking is an exciting new technology that increases the transistor’s density by integrating two or more dies vertically with a dense high – speed interface. The result of 3D die stacking is a significant reduction of interconnect both within a die and across dies in a system. The objective of the thermal design requirement for a 3D stacked die package is to maintain the junction temperatures of the devices at or below specified limits. Installing the Heat sink aid the heat transfer activity from a package. The extent of cooling and the junction temperatures vary if the designs …
Cfd Modeling And Parametric Study Of Vapor Chamber As Heat Spreaders For High-Power Electronic Devices, Dhanraj Arun Patil
Cfd Modeling And Parametric Study Of Vapor Chamber As Heat Spreaders For High-Power Electronic Devices, Dhanraj Arun Patil
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Technological developments have resulted in a growing demand for high power electronic devices. Although these high power devices meet the high performance requirements, they also generate a very large amount of heat which adversely affects their operating efficiency. Most part of the heat within a package is generated at the chip and hence it is imperative to keep junction temperature as low as possible. This is commonly achieved by using heat sinks mounted directly on top of the package. Heat sinks provide a significant enhancement in cooling by increasing the surface area. However, base thickness of heat sinks limits its …
Experimental Study On Effects Of Segregated Cooling Provisioning On Thermal Performance Of Information Technology Servers In Air Cooled Data Centers, Ashwin Venugopal Siddarth
Experimental Study On Effects Of Segregated Cooling Provisioning On Thermal Performance Of Information Technology Servers In Air Cooled Data Centers, Ashwin Venugopal Siddarth
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Modern Information Technology (IT) equipment are typically assumed to operate in quiescent airflow conditions in an uncontained data center facility. In this study, the multi-scaled thermal management strategies are reconsidered at the IT chassis and rack level for a containment system. For an ideal containment configuration of airflow provisioning the entirety of conditioned air provided by the Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) unit would flow through the IT equipment and return back to the CRAC. But in actuality a lack of interfaced airflow distribution exists between the amount of conditioned air provisioned to the rack and the volume capacity ingested …
Enhancement Of Fog-Collection Efficiency Of A Raschel Mesh Using Surface Coatings And Geometric Changes, Mithun Rajaram
Enhancement Of Fog-Collection Efficiency Of A Raschel Mesh Using Surface Coatings And Geometric Changes, Mithun Rajaram
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
In a few countries, such as Chile, a Raschel mesh is widely used in the field to collect fog. In this work, we explored the possibility of enhancing fog-collection efficiency of a typical Raschel mesh through surface modification and geometric changes. We demonstrated about 100% enhancement in the fog-collection efficiency.
A Study On Evaporative Cooling For Data Centers & Artificial Neural Network Modeling, Pritam Karmokar
A Study On Evaporative Cooling For Data Centers & Artificial Neural Network Modeling, Pritam Karmokar
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
This study mainly aims at exploring how, one of the best “Green” solutions for IT equipment cooling aka Evaporative Cooling, can be optimized for better future deployment. Also, this study focuses on ways to deploy Artificial Neural Network models to Dynamic Systems. Today, SERVERS are one of most important devices that our technology driven world cannot do without. Efficiently cooling these delicate yet highly power dense beasts, while being environment friendly is one of our prime concerns. This study is a combination of two deceptively divergent works. First, on exploring the workings of this technique by investigating one such Evaporative …
Development Of A Methodology And Sample Preparation To Evaluate Reliability Of Oil Cooled Data Center, Venkata Naga Indu Sravani Kota
Development Of A Methodology And Sample Preparation To Evaluate Reliability Of Oil Cooled Data Center, Venkata Naga Indu Sravani Kota
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Liquid immersion cooling is not a new concept which is slowly emerging as an alternative solution to conventional chilled air cooling systems for data centers. The main idea is to build a body of knowledge to help industry make more informed regarding mechanical reliability of IT equipment in mineral oil immersed systems. The goal is to develop a testing procedure for evaluating the reliability of electronic packages and components when immersed in mineral oil. PCB’s, chip packages, passive components like capacitors, inductors, resistors, diodes, cables and wiring form the most important parts of a server used in data centers. The …
Experimental Analysis Validating A Control Scheme To Develop A Dynamic Cooling Solution For Non-Uniform High Powered Electronic Devices In Data Center, Ruturaj Kiran Kokate
Experimental Analysis Validating A Control Scheme To Develop A Dynamic Cooling Solution For Non-Uniform High Powered Electronic Devices In Data Center, Ruturaj Kiran Kokate
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
The trend towards higher heat fluxes and non-uniform power distribution continues as we follow Moore’s law with technology nodes now approaching 10nm. Cooling is always designed for maximum junction temperature and as such it is important to mitigate hot spots. All cold plates have a static design by nature and do not possess the capability to respond to non-uniform heat dissipation. The unique “dynamic cold plate” concept aims to improving on conventional static designs through implementation of sensing and control, by redistributing the liquid across its body to counter varying power dissipation across the device being cooled.
Additive Manufacturing And Stress Analysis Of Naturally And Artificially Optimized Celullar Structures, Sachin Jose
Additive Manufacturing And Stress Analysis Of Naturally And Artificially Optimized Celullar Structures, Sachin Jose
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
The main objective of our research is to manufacture topology optimized cellular structures using 3D printing and polymer infusion and obtain their structural response. First, we have obtained topology optimized cellular structure of beam using an in-house topology optimization tool. The Solid Isotropic material with Penalization (SIMP) method of optimization is used for finding the optimal topology. Since we require a continuous structure where we can take advantage of additive manufacturing, a no-penalty approach was chosen. For 3D printing, first the optimized condition for manufacturing was determined. Important parameters on which manufacturing depend are Number of Shells, Infill percentage and …
Quantitative Evaluation Of A Thrust Vector Controlled Transport At The Conceptual Design Phase, Vincent Patrick Ricketts
Quantitative Evaluation Of A Thrust Vector Controlled Transport At The Conceptual Design Phase, Vincent Patrick Ricketts
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
The impetus to innovate, to push the bounds and break the molds of evolutionary design trends, often comes from competition but sometimes requires catalytic political legislature. For this research endeavor, the ‘catalyzing legislation’ comes in response to the rise in cost of fossil fuels and the request put forth by NASA on aircraft manufacturers to show reduced aircraft fuel consumption of +60% within 30 years. This necessitates that novel technologies be considered to achieve these values of improved performance. One such technology is thrust vector control (TVC). The beneficial characteristic of thrust vector control technology applied to the traditional tail-aft …
Cae Analysis On A Ford Ecoboost Mustang Connecting Rod For Forged Steel, Aluminum 7075, Shiva Prasad Keralapura Basavaraju
Cae Analysis On A Ford Ecoboost Mustang Connecting Rod For Forged Steel, Aluminum 7075, Shiva Prasad Keralapura Basavaraju
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Connecting rod is high volume production critical component in an automobile engine. Every Internal combustion engine uses a connecting rod. Connecting rod must have highest possible rigidity with lowest possible weight. The major stress developed in the connecting rod are axial stress, due to combustion chamber pressure, and bending stress, due to centrifugal effect. Connecting rod mainly fails due to fatigue; according to survey, about 90% of the time the failure is due to fatigue. CAE analysis on Ford Eco boost Mustang connecting rod is carried out to validate the life of the connecting rod for forged steel and Aluminium7075. …
The Effect Of Material Strain Hardening On The Buckling Strength Of A Perforated Plate Under Uniaxial Loading, Mayuri Suresh Patil
The Effect Of Material Strain Hardening On The Buckling Strength Of A Perforated Plate Under Uniaxial Loading, Mayuri Suresh Patil
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Plates or members containing plate elements have been used in the offshore, aerospace and construction industry. Cutouts are often located to lighten the weight of the structure, but these cutouts reduce the ultimate strength of the plate. A number of studies have taken place for determining the buckling strength of a perforated plated but few discuss the effect of material strain hardening on the buckling strength of a perforated plate. Buckling strength is often considered as an important criterial to determine the serviceable limit of the perforated plate in the offshore structure. The aim of the present study is to …
Two Phase Flow Cfd Analysis Of Refrigerants In A Condenser Pipe For Prediction Of Pressure Drop And Pumping Power, Aniket Ramchandra Kalambe
Two Phase Flow Cfd Analysis Of Refrigerants In A Condenser Pipe For Prediction Of Pressure Drop And Pumping Power, Aniket Ramchandra Kalambe
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
With the ever growing need of achieving optimum cooling at chip level at the expense of low input pumping power and keeping in check the Global Warming Potential (GWP) & Ozone Depletion Potential (ODP) has given rise to “two-phase on chip cooling” with nature friendly refrigerants. Currently, “air-cooling” and “single-phase water on-chip cooling” using copper micro-channel coolers are being used but “two-phase on chip cooling” with refrigerants have a very large scale & long lasting advantages over the prior. However, due to the perceived complexity of modelling two-phase flow, this solution is not yet well understood. Modelling of two phase …
Additive Manufacturing Methodologies For Multi Process And Multi Material Scenarios, Tushar Saini
Additive Manufacturing Methodologies For Multi Process And Multi Material Scenarios, Tushar Saini
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Additive Manufacturing processes have been developing and continuously improving but are primarily constrained to single materials, albeit some commercial multi extrusion 3D printers do exist where by it is possible to print with multi-colored fluidic polymers or at most two filaments of the same type. 3D printing an object with volumetric varying properties requires manual modification of the G-Code, not a feasible option considering the average size of G-Code generated by the slicing software. This research focuses on developing a post processing methodology that modifies the large G-Code files generated by the slicing software according to user requirements. The proposed …
Impact Of Layer Thickness Of Qfn Package Mounted Printed Circuit Boards During Drop Testing, Sayalee Pradeep Sabne
Impact Of Layer Thickness Of Qfn Package Mounted Printed Circuit Boards During Drop Testing, Sayalee Pradeep Sabne
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
In past studies, it was established that board level reliability of the packages depends mainly upon the design of the package and the soldering technology used for mounting the components. There are many methods to test the reliability, such as temperature cycling test, bend test, power cycling, etc. which have been studied and practiced. We need to consider the failure rate and failure mechanism both, to understand how specific loading conditions affect the failure of an assembly. In this study, PCB’s with variable thicknesses and QFN package mountings are subjected to drop test. It has been observed previously that the …
Neural Network Modeling And Control Of Data Center, Nachiket Rajendra Kansara
Neural Network Modeling And Control Of Data Center, Nachiket Rajendra Kansara
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Data Center has become a definitive element of Modern IT infrastructure. With the development of high performance computing architectures and equipment, data centers consume large amount of electricity. Due to low Demand/Supply ratio of electricity production there is need to develop ways to reduce power footprint. Many researchers are working on approaches to resolve problems related to en- ergy usage of Data Center. One of these approaches is to develop a model-based control system that would control data centers in efficient way to reduce power footprint. Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) has been used to model the dynamic and complex environment …
Cfd Based Design And Modelling Of Wind Fence To Mitigate High-Speed Wind Loading On A Modular Data Center, Devi Prasad Gorrepati
Cfd Based Design And Modelling Of Wind Fence To Mitigate High-Speed Wind Loading On A Modular Data Center, Devi Prasad Gorrepati
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
A Modular Data Center (MDC) is a portable method of deploying a data center’s capacity. As an alternative to the traditional data center, an MDC can be placed anywhere data capacity is required. But this comes at the cost of making the MDC operable at any desired location with the environmental factors such as earthquakes and heavy winds. This study focuses on mitigating high-speed wind loading on the MDCs by designing a wind fence to reduce wind speed. Although wind fences are used in many agricultural and farming practices, their usage pertaining to MDCs is very limited. The challenge is …
Board Level Flexural Reliability Testing And Failure Analysis Of Printed Circuit Boards With Wcsp Packages, Guruprasad Shrikant Shinde
Board Level Flexural Reliability Testing And Failure Analysis Of Printed Circuit Boards With Wcsp Packages, Guruprasad Shrikant Shinde
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Printed circuit boards, widely known as PCBs; are the skeleton behind every technology today. Electronics have integrated with every other engineering domain to improve the outcomes. It is very important that they remain intact in slightly extreme physical conditions. They are used in wide range applications which may lead to mechanical stress-strain in some conditions. There are various boards with different kinds of packages on them. A 0.7mm thick board with WCSP; Wafer chip scale package is a prime specimen for my work. The research includes designing exact replica of given PCB into ANSYS and its reliability testing. A 3-point …
Computational Model For Steady State Simulation Of A Plate-Fin Heat Exchanger, Ajit Rajesh Desai
Computational Model For Steady State Simulation Of A Plate-Fin Heat Exchanger, Ajit Rajesh Desai
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
High performance heat transfer devices are critical components in hybrid power generation systems. The design of a Recuperator for 'waste heat recovery' is crucial for reducing the operating cost of a hybrid system. Plate-fin heat exchangers occupy a special position among high performance heat exchangers because of the compactness, efficiency and flexibility they offer. The performance of these heat exchange devices is typically very sensitive to fluid property variations, axial conduction and heat losses to environment. This thesis presents a numerical model of a plate fin heat exchanger in which fluid property variations including temperature driven changes in specific heat …
An Invastigation Of Band-Limited Fluid Damper Configuration Using Lumped Parameter Modeling, Ye Hong
An Invastigation Of Band-Limited Fluid Damper Configuration Using Lumped Parameter Modeling, Ye Hong
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Vehicle suspension system is one of the key factors related to the vehicle dynamic characteristic. The fine tuning of suspension system between vehicle handling and ride comfort is not only a trade-off between these two aspects, but also, has its impact on vehicle safety and durability. For an optimal damper performance, the damper needs to generate sufficient damping force at maneuvering frequency (< 2 Hz); and it also needs to generate less damping force, which allow spring to filter the high frequency noise (> 2 Hz) generated by vehicle travels along rough road condition at speed. In order to achieve such performance, a lumped parameter model of Band-Limited Damper is proposed. Frequency response of both Conventional Damper and Band-Limited Damper are …