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Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ไคโตซานถูกดัดแปรขนาดโมเลกุลโดยการนำไปฉายรังสีแกมมาที่ปริมาณรังสีต่าง ๆ หลังจากนั้นจึงนำไปทำเป็นสารละลาย แล้วนำไปกราฟท์ (graft) ลงบนผ้าไหมไทยที่ผ่านการดัดแปรผิวด้วยกระบวนการพลาสมาคลื่นความถี่วิทยุในสภาวะที่เหมาะสมมาแล้ว จากการศึกษาพบว่าอัตราการยึดเกาะของไคโตซานบนผ้าไหม (degree of grafting) จะแปรผันตรงกับมวลโมเลกุลของไคโตซาน ซึ่งกำลังพลาสมาที่เหมาะสมจะอยู่ที่ 120 วัตต์ , ระยะเวลาในการดัดแปรผิวผ้าไหมด้วยพลาสมาที่เหมาะสมอยู่ที่ 4 นาที และจากการทดลองพบว่า ผ้าไหมที่ไม่ผ่านการดัดแปรผิวด้วยเทคนิคพลาสมาจะมีการกราฟต์ติดของไคโตซานบนผ้าโดยเฉลี่ยอยู่ที่ 18.78 % ซึ่งต่ำกว่าผ้าไหมที่ผ่านการดัดแปรผิวด้วยเทคนิคพลาสมาที่มีการกราฟต์ติดของไคโตซานบนผ้าโดยเฉลี่ยอยู่ที่ 19.18 % ทั้งนี้ยังพบว่าผ้าระบบที่ผ่านการดัดแปรผิวด้วยพลาสมาจะมีค่าร้อยละแห่งการหลุดออกของไคโตซานจากเส้นใยต่ำกว่าผ้าอีกระบบที่ไม่ผ่านการดัดแปรผิวด้วยพลาสมา และที่มากกว่านั้นคือ เราสามารถมั่นใจได้เกินกว่า 90% ว่าผ้าระบบที่ใช้พลาสมาในการดัดแปรผิวจะสามารถผ่านการซักไปได้ถึง 155 ครั้ง และ 93 ครั้ง สำหรับเชื้อ E.coli และ S.aureus ตามลำดับ จึงจะหมดประสิทธิภาพในการต้านแบคทีเรีย ในทำนองกลับกัน ผ้าระบบที่ไม่ได้ใช้พลาสมาในการดัดแปรผิว แค่ผ่านการซักไปเพียง 67 ครั้ง และ 48 ครั้ง สำหรับเชื้อ E.coli และ S.aureus ตามลำดับ ก็ทำให้หมดประสิทธิภาพในการต้านแบคทีเรียแล้ว จึงกล่าวได้ว่า การใช้กระบวนการทาง RF-Plasma ด้วยเงื่อนไขของสภาวะดังตามที่ทดลอง จะสามารถทำให้ไคโตซานกราฟท์ติดกับเส้นใยได้ดีขึ้นและยังทำให้ไคโตซานดำรงอยู่บนเส้นใยได้ยาวนานขึ้น ผ้าไหมจึงต้านแบคทีเรียได้ยาวนานกว่าเดิม นั่นคือสามารถใช้งานได้ในระยะยาว

Conductive Patterns By Spray Pyrolysis Of A Self-Reducing Copper-Amine Complex Ink, Phenfar Benjapongvimon

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

A conductive pattern prepared by spray pyrolysis of copper-amine complex ink on glass and polyimide (PI) substrates in nitrogen atmosphere. The complex ink was prepared by mixing copper (II) formate, diethanolamine, 25% ammnonia solution and distilled water. The effects of concentration of copper ion, spray pyrolysis temperature, annealing time, type of substrate, rate of deposition and benzimidazole coating were investigated. Concentration of copper ion affected size of copper particles generated. The patterns fabricated at 200 OC had higher packing density than those fabricated at lower temperature. The rate of deposition determined the thickness of well-sintered layer. Therefore, volume resistivity of …

การวัดประสิทธิภาพเชิงเปรียบเทียบของคณะวิศวกรรมศาสตร์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย, วนัชพร สืบปรุ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยชิ้นนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อวัดประสิทธิภาพการทำงานของคณะวิศวกรรมศาสตร์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย โดยการประยุกต์ใช้ข้อมูลตัวชีวัดผลการดำเนินงาน (KPI) ปี 2558 ร่วมกับวิธีการล้อมกรอบข้อมูล (Data Envelopment Analysis : DEA) โดย DEA นั้นเป็นการวัดค่าประสิทธิภาพเชิงเปรียบเทียบซึ่งเป็นการวัดอัตราส่วนของปัจจัยนำเข้าและปัจจัยผลผลิต DEA เหมาะสำหรับองค์กรที่ไม่แสวงหาผลกำไร ทำให้ DEA ได้รับความนิยมเป็นอย่างยิ่ง ผลลัพธ์ที่ได้จาก DEA เรียกว่า ค่าประสิทธิภาพ โดยมีค่าตั้งแต่ 0 ถึง 1 ถ้าค่าประสิทธิภาพเชิงเเปรียบเทียบ ยิ่งมีค่ามาก ยิ่งแสดงถึงความมีประสิทธิภาพของหน่วยงานนั้น สำหรับงานวิจัยในครั้งนี้ ขอบเขตงานวิจัยคือ สำนักงานหลักสูตรวิศวกรรมนานาชาติและภาควิชาทั้ง 12 ภาควิชา งานวิจัยชิ้นนี้ได้แบ่งการวัดประสิทธิภาพออกเป็น 3 แบบ คือ การวัดประสิทธิภาพด้านการเรียน การวัดประสิทธิภาพด้านการสอน และการวัดประสิทธิภาพโดยรวม เมื่อทำการวัดประสิทธิภาพแล้ว จะทำให้ทราบว่าแต่ละหน่วยงาน มีประสิทธิภาพการทำงานเป็นอย่างไร นอกจากนี้ ยังสามารถบอกได้ถึงค่าปัจจัยต่างๆที่ควรลดหรือเพิ่มเพื่อให้การดำเนินงานเป็นไปอย่างมีประสิทธิภาพมากขึ้น เมื่อได้วิเคราะห์ข้อมูลด้วยเทคนิคการล้อมกรอบข้อมูลพบว่า เมื่อวัดประสิทธิภาพด้านการสอน พบว่า 7 ภาควิชา (คิดเป็น 53.85%) มีประสิทธิภาพด้านการสอน สำหรับด้านการวิจัย 12 ภาควิชา (คิดเป็น 92.31%) มีประสิทธิภาพในด้านการวิจัย และเมื่อวัดประสิทธิภาพโดยรวม ภาควิชาที่มีประสิทธิภาพ มีทั้งสิ้น 12 ภาควิชา (คิดเป็น 92.31%)

A Study Of Uplift Capacity Of Pipeline In Soils, Khamnoy Kounlavong

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This thesis aims to analyze the uplift capacity of a burial pipeline in two types of soil namely cohesionless soils and cohesive-frictional soils. Finite element analysis with two dimensional plain strain condition were employed to model and determine the limit load of this problem. Cohesionless and cohesive-frictional soils were model as Mohr-coulomb materials in the drained condition while a pipeline was modeled as plate element with an elastic material with high axial and bending stiffness to ensure its rigid behavior. Parametric studies of cohesionless soils and cohesive-frictional soils were performed to study effects of dimensionless variables, including 1) embedment depth …

Numerical And Experimental Studies Of Undercut Slopesinclined Along A Bedding Plane, Rithy Ouch

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Slope failures along a bedding plane were critical issues and mostly happened in an open pit mining project such as the Mae Moh Mine, Thailand. The prediction of maximum width to which the slope remains stable after an excavation process is required. The aim of this research is to investigate the stability and failure mechanisms of undercut slopes with and without shear pins resting on a bedding plane by means of physical and numerical models. Physical models of slip tests and undercut slopes were made of the humid silica sand No. 6 with 10% of water content and rested on …

Correlation Of Csk2sb Photocathode Lifetime With Antimony Thickness, M. A. Mamun, C. Hernandez-Garcia, M. Poelker, A. A. Elmustafa

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications

CsK₂Sb photocathodes with quantum efficiency on the order of 10% at 532 nm, and lifetime greater than 90 days at low voltage, were successfully manufactured via co-deposition of alkali species emanating from an effusion source. Photocathodes were characterized as a function of antimony layer thickness and alkali consumption, inside a vacuum chamber that was initially baked, but frequently vented without re-baking. Photocathode lifetime measured at low voltage is correlated with the antimony layer thickness. Photocathodes manufactured with comparatively thick antimony layers exhibited the best lifetime. We speculate that the antimony layer serves as a reservoir, or sponge, for …

Predicting Irrigation Efficiency In The Rio Grande Project, Gerardo Melendez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Surface water losses in the Bureau of Reclamation’s (USBR) Rio Grande Project have become more prevalent within the past few years of the drought of the 2000’s. Simple regressions were performed in order to find correlations and determine factors that may affect the flows within the Rio Grande Project. Correlations were found in the difference between Rio Grande below Caballo flows and Rio Grande at El Paso flows, and between the diversion ratio and groundwater levels. Caballo Reservoir release amounts were found to be fairly well correlated with the difference between the Rio Grande below Caballo and the Rio Grande …

Alternative Fatigue Cracking Resistance Assessment Criteria Of Asphalt Mixtures With Overlay Tester, Alejandro Miramontes

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The accumulation of damage due to cracking of hot mix asphalt (HMA) layers under repeated loading along with the climatic effects is known as fatigue cracking. The Overlay Tester (OT) has been implemented or considered by several highway agencies as an index to evaluate the cracking susceptibility and resistance to cracking of asphalt mixtures in the laboratory. The performance indicator used to measure the quality of the HMA mixes is the number of cycles that a specimen may resist during the test until the crack appears and fully propagates to the top of the specimen. The repeatability of the number …

Mechanical And Optical Characterization Of Tungsten Oxynitride (W-O-N) Nano-Coatings, Oscar Roberto Nunez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Aation and cation doping of transition metal oxides has recently gained attention as a viable option to design materials for application in solar energy conversion, photo-catalysis, transparent electrodes, photo-electrochemical cells, electrochromics and flat panel displays in optoelectronics. Specifically, nitrogen doped tungsten oxide (WO3) has gained much attention for its ability to facilitate optical property tuning while also demonstrating enhanced photo-catalytic and photochemical properties. The effect of nitrogen chemistry and mechanics on the optical and mechanical properties of tungsten oxynitride (W-O-N) nano-coatings is studied in detail in this work. The W-O-N coatings were deposited by direct current (DC) sputtering to a …

Design Optimization And Optical Characterization Of A High Temperature Solar Receiver, Samia Afrin

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Concentrated solar power (CSP) is a fast forwarding technology in power generation sector because of its' competitive price, abundance in nature and the most important fact is its' energy storage capability. Among the four types of available CSP technology, central receiver has more potential concerning with high temperature, power block efficiency and levelized cost of energy (LCOE). Other than conventional type of receiver design, the concept of this work is very particular in a sense of its design novelty.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) come up with a new concept of high temperature solar receiver called near black body (NBB) …

Processing And Property Evaluation Of Tungsten-Based Mixed Oxides For Photovoltaics And Optoelectronics, Mirella Vargas

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Tungsten Oxide (WO3) films and low-dimensional structures have proven to be promising candidates in the fields of photonics and electronics. WO3 is a well-established n-type semiconductor characterized by unique electrochromic behavior, an ideal optical band gap that permits transparency over a wide spectral range, and high chemical integrity. The plethora of diverse properties endow WO3 to be highly effective in applications related to electrochromism, gas sensing, and deriving economical energy. Compared to the bulk films, a materials system involving WO3 and a related species (elements or metal oxides) offer the opportunity to tailor the electrochromic response, and an overall enhancement …

Salt And Mineral Recovery From High Salinity Waters, Osvaldo Alejandro Broesicke

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Natural salt springs in the Salt Fork Basin in Crosby County, Texas, result in the natural salt pollution of the Brazos River, rendering it unusable for most potable purposes. Previous research indicates that by intercepting the source of the pollution, water quality of the Brazos River can be greatly improved. This paper investigates and assesses two strategies for salt and mineral recovery using natural brine collected from the Salt Fork Basin, the first of which is presented in a separate work.

The research described in this paper evaluates the potential of a desulfation, soda-caustic softening, acidification/decarbonation, and evaporation process to …

Characterization Of Kendex® 0834 (Heavy Resins) & Kendex® 0897 (Light Resins), Victor Correa

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Characterization of crude oil and some of its refined products has always been a challenge in the refining industry. This is mainly due to the high molecular complexity of crude oil. In this research, Heavy and Light Resins extracted from Penn Grade crude oil were analyzed with a wide variety of techniques, ranging from X-Ray Diffraction, Electron Microscopy, Fourier Transformed Infrared, C-13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, and chromatographic methods. An asphaltene extraction protocol was performed on both products. Only the Heavy Resin sample yielded a low amount of asphaltene. Results show that both Resins have a high degree of carbon branching, …

Moisture Susceptibility Of Dense Graded Asphalt Concrete Using Cyclic Moistue Induced Stress Tester, Sarvesh Dip Dhakal

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Moisture damage in asphalt concrete causes loss in mechanical properties of asphalt material due to the presence of moisture in its microstructures in a liquid or a vapor state. Some of the common types of distress observed in asphalt pavements due to moisture damage are stripping (separation of asphalt binder and aggregate), raveling (dislodgement of aggregate particles in asphalt mixture from surface), and hydraulic scour (a process that occurs on a saturated surface by which the pavement material is eroded due to dynamic action of tires in the presence of water). This Thesis focuses on the research on the effects …

Simulations Of The Effects Of Temperature And Plasma In Carbide Processing, Alejandro Garcia

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The transient surface temperature of particles within a packed bed was simulated to enable ultimately the prediction of plasma-surface reactions at ultrahigh temperatures. The motivation for the present study was along two fronts - the reactive infusion of liquid alloys at ultrahigh temperatures to process metal matrix or ceramic matrix composites and the plasma processing of materials to spike the surface temperatures to enable the formation of protective oxidizing scales on ultrahigh ceramic composites. The transient temperature simulations determined that a graphite crucible containing B4C spherical particles heated from 298 to 2128 K and 2504 K occurred in about 900 …

Comparison Of Bicycle Transportation Systems In El Paso And Prague, Jose C Hernandez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Bicycle transportation infrastructure has an important role in bicycle transportation mode. Every year there are hundreds of accidents where bicyclist are involve, because there is not a good infrastructure for bicycles in the roads bicyclists have a potential risk. One of the main purposes is maintain the bicyclistsâ?? safety in the roads to attract more people to use this eco-friendly transportation mode. The goal of this Thesis is compare the bicycle infrastructure in two different countries, United States and Czech Republic. The history and the main terminology are described in firsts chapters. Based on law and regulations, design criteria and …

Synchronization Of Bistatic Radar Using Chaotic Amplitude And Frequency Modulated Signals, Chandra Sekhar Pappu

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this work is to develop a synchronization scheme for bistatic radar that uses a 3-D chaotic system to generate and process wideband AM and FM signals, which allows for the extraction of high range-resolution information from targets. For AM bistatic radar, the setup includes a drive oscillator at the transmitter and a response oscillator at the receiver. The challenge is synchronizing the response oscillator to the drive oscillator with a scaled version of the transmitted signal sr(t, x) = αs t(t, x), where x is a chaotic state variable and α is a scaling factor. Here, α …

A Stochastic Approach For Pavement Condition Projections And Budget Needs For The Mtc Pavement Management System, Rafael Arturo Ramirez Flores

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Pavement management decision-making is the most important task for officials in transportation agencies, who develop maintenance and rehabilitation programs. Information about historical pavement network performance is needed for decision-making; pavement management systems (PMS) provide means to organize road network data to improve the pavement network condition. PMS have prediction performance models to forecast the future condition of the pavement networks with information required for decision-making; these models can be deterministic or probabilistic. Pavement performance deterministic models are commonly used in PMS, but they do not consider the uncertainty in forecasting pavement performance. Pavement performance depends on many random factors like …

Recovery Of Nutrient Nitrogen From Municipal Wastewater Residuals By Gas Membrane Separation, Evelyn Rios

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

There are relatively high amounts of ammonia returned to the headworks of a municipal wastewater plant that are extracted from the dewatering process. This ammonia load contributes to a significant oxygen demand in the secondary treatment, requiring greater air blower energy costs. This goal of this research was to evaluate the feasibility of the recovery of an ammonium sulfate product from belt press filtrate. The objectives of this research were to: (1) analyze wastewater treatment average monthly data flows and constituents with respect to ammonia nitrification, (2) the evaluate the technical performance of a two sage gas-separation membrane for recovering …

Novel Classification Of Slow Movement Objects In Urban Traffic Environments Using Wideband Pulse Doppler Radar, Berta Rodriguez Hervas

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Every year thousands of people are involved in traffic accidents, some of which are fatal. An important percentage of these fatalities are caused by human error, which could be prevented by increasing the awareness of drivers and the autonomy of vehicles. Since driver assistance systems have the potential to positively impact tens of millions of people, the purpose of this research is to study the micro-Doppler characteristics of vulnerable urban traffic components, i.e. pedestrians and bicyclists, based on information obtained from radar backscatter, and to develop a classification technique that allows automatic target recognition with a vehicle integrated system. For …

Performance Life Of Various Hot Mix Asphalt Mixtures In Texas, Danniel David Rodriguez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Typically, pavement engineers in subjectively estimate the service lives of various hot-mix asphalt (HMA) mixtures as part of the life-cycle cost analysis considering the staged design and rehabilitation of flexible pavements. This study proposes the performance lives for the various dense-graded (conventional) mixtures, stone-matrix asphalts (SMA), permeable friction courses (PFC), performance design mixtures and other mixtures placed in Texas. A necessary and significant aspect of the approach involved data mining and merging several pavement management databases (Letting Database, DCIS and PMIS) to obtain mixture longevity data along with historical PMIS information. The product of the linking process resulted in the …

Accuracy And Precision Evaluation Of Traffic Speed Pavement Deflection Devices, Jorge Velarde

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Pavement structural adequacy is considered an important aspect of the pavement management activities and can be incorporated by using surface pavement deflections. Continuous deflection technology, which has been around for several years, can potentially supplant single point deflection measurements provided by the Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD). Previous studies have evaluated the traffic speed deflection devices (TSDD) accuracy and precision by comparing their results with FWD measurements. Although appropriate correlations and indices to compensate for the differences in load have been made, a direct comparison under the same loading conditions has not been reported in the literature.

The goal of this …

Development Of A Novel Hybrid Unified Viscoplastic Constitutive Model, Luis Alejandro Varela Jimenez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Gas turbines are now days used in power plants for power generation and for propulsion in the aerospace industry. In these applications gas turbines are exposed to severe temperature and pressure variations during operating cycles. These severe operating conditions exposed the turbineâ??s components to multiple deformation mechanisms which degrade the material and eventually lead to failure of the components. Nickel based and austenitic super alloys are candidate material used for these applications due to its high strength and corrosion resistance at elevated temperatures. At such temperature levels, candidate materials exhibit a rate-dependent or viscoplastic behavior which difficult the prediction or …

A Heterogeneous Multiscale Method For Poroelasticity, Paul M. Delgado

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

In this Thesis, we develop and analyze a heterogeneous multiscale model for coupled fluid flow and solid deformation in porous media based on operator splitting and finite volume method. The splitting method results in two elliptic multiscale PDE's in the form of a reaction diffusion equation and a linear elasticity equation. We extend our previous multiscale method from 1D to higher dimensions and develop new approaches for the inclusion of mixed boundary conditions and source terms. We derive an error estimate for our multiscale method and analyze the stability of our splitting method. We also test the effectiveness of our …

Reducing Uncertainty In Technology Selection For Long Life Cycle Engineering Designs, Halil I. Ozdemir, C. Ariel Pinto, Resit Unal, Charles B. Keating, Colin Britcher, Sila Çetinkaya (Ed.), J. K. Ryan (Ed.)

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

The best capabilities are usually achieved by having the latest technologies in defense systems. However, including the new, usually immature, technologies in a system design does not always easily result in achieving the capabilities at the right level, at an affordable cost, and in a timely manner. Many programs have suffered from immature technologies as cost overruns, late or no deliveries, and poor performance levels. Another impact of technology selection appears as obsolescence after the deployment of systems, or even before the deployment of the system. As the technologies of a system become obsolete, the cost of maintaining the system …

Challenges For Developing Complex System Governance, Charles B. Keating, Polinpaplinho F. Katina, Joseph M. Bradley, Sila Çetinkaya (Ed.), J. K. Ryan (Ed.)

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper examines the challenges and practice implications for Complex System Governance (CSG). CSG is presented as an emerging field focused on the design, execution, and evolution of the higher order (metasystem) functions necessary to provide control, communication, coordination, and integration of a complex system. This paper is focused on three primary objectives. First, we introduce the complex system problem domain that the CSG field is being designed to address. The pervasiveness of this problem domain is demonstrated by a short examination of the water utilities sector. Second, we expound the nature of CSG and an emerging reference model …

Learning By Doing - Energy Systems Management, Nima Shahriari, Adrian V. Gheorghe

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

Climate change concerns have confronted energy policy makers by unprecedented challenges in the 21st century. Revolution of renewable energy technologies, as well as more efficient energy systems, has been promising in the context of global warming. However, these technologies are not maturing and chaning. Consequently planning for development of these resources requires dealing with various multidisciplinary research questions such as financial feasibility of renewable energy projects. Nevertheless, there is considerable lack of education programs offering multidisciplinary approach for addressing the current energy challenges. Based on the 21st evolving energy landscape, an interdisciplinary graduate certificate course work was designed at Old …

A Theory Of Name Resolution, Pierre Néron, Andrew Tolmach, Eelco Visser, Guido Wachsmuth

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

We describe a language-independent theory for name binding and resolution, suitable for programming languages with complex scoping rules including both lexical scoping and modules. We formulate name resolution as a two-stage problem. First a language-independent scope graph is constructed using language-specific rules from an abstract syntax tree. Then references in the scope graph are resolved to corresponding declarations using a language-independent resolution process. We introduce a resolution calculus as a concise, declarative, and language- independent specification of name resolution. We develop a resolution algorithm that is sound and complete with respect to the calculus. Based on the resolution calculus we …

Diffusion And Elastoplastic Analyses Of Polycrystalline Magnesium For Solid State Hydrogen Storage Application, Amey Mathakari

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

Solid state hydrogen storage can be an effective way of storing hydrogen as an energy source for mobile applications. The advantage includes high energy density, low setup cost, safe operation, abundance of metal hydrides, low maintenance, etc. Magnesium is one of the potential metals for the application. However, sluggish desorption kinetics of magnesium requiring relatively high operation temperature has hindered its practical realization. In the present study, an attempt is made to analyze effects of grain boundary on diffusion and diffusion induced stresses in polycrystalline magnesium. Grain boundaries in nanostructured magnesium can undergo severe plastic deformations during the hydrogen insertion …

Simulation And Performance Analysis Of Ejector Nozzle In A Low-Bypass Turbofan Engine Using Npss, Hatim Soeb Rangwala

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

Nozzles for propulsive applications in airbreathing engines have long been studied to augment thrust and reduce the size of the engine. They are critical elements of the engine as they convert the internal energy into kinetic energy, thereby producing thrust. Fixed-geometry nozzles are operated optimally only at a particular set of flight conditions and are not efficient at off-design conditions. To improve off-design performance, variable geometry nozzles can be utilized which require complex mechanisms that ultimately increase weight and susceptibility to failure. Ejector nozzles provide variable geometry capability via aerodynamically varying the effective area ratios of the core and bypass …