In an effort to improve the safety and road-holding capabilities of vehicles, manufacturers have begun a trend toward increasing vehicle body roll resistance by introducing stiffer roll-stabilizer bars. In this study vehicle ...

A three dimensional numerical investigation of steady laminar flow and heat transfer is undertaken to determine the developing as well as fully developed temperature fields. Physical interpretation is given for the enhancement ...

With recent advances in myoelectric signal processing, powered prosthetic hands with myoelectric control have become more accepted among users of prosthetic hands. Inspite of this progress, the hands that are currently ...

Lateral vibrations of stabilized bottomhole assemblies (BHA) of drill-strings often exhibit quite complicated patterns. Previous work has taken into account nonlinearities due to fluid damping, wall contact, eccentric ...

Neural networks have been found to be useful as a technique for the modeling of non-linear functions or processes that involve several variables. The primary goal of this thesis is to explore the feasibility of applying ...

The problem considered here involves a functional I subject to differential constraints, nondifferential constraints, and general boundary conditions. It consists of finding the state x(t), control u(t), and parameter $\pi$ ...

In our study, an iterative point successive over-relaxation (PSOR) finite difference scheme has been used to solve the coupled unsteady Navier-Stokes and energy equations for incompressible, viscous and laminar flows in ...

The effect of coal particle coagulation during pulverized coal combustion is studied using a plug-flow model of a practical coal combustor. The model incorporates turbulent coagulation, in addition to the combustion ...

A nondimensionalized model is developed for a falling, electrically conducting, spherical droplet undergoing equilibrium vaporization. Vaporization is caused by the presence of an external, alternating magnetic field. This ...