Abstract: Water permeable porosities and thermal conductivity of ceramic construction materials have been experimentally determined in this work. The samples were selected so as to obtain a wide variation in their apparent porosity. ...

Abstract: The pressure drop for steady uniform flows (UF) through low permeability porous media—packed bed of particles (balls and rods) and sand (K<10−7m2)—is predicted using the existing global Hazen-Dupuit-Darcy (HDD) hydraulic ...

Abstract: High compression ratio and lean-burn operation of low-octane gasoline-fueled compression ignition engines lead to significantly higher thermal efficiencies. Hence, it has emerged as a potential technology to propel medium ...

Abstract: An experimental investigation dealing with failure characterization of 63/37 solder-copper interfaces is presented. The method of moiré interferometry is used for mapping elasto-plastic deformations ...

Abstract: Design optimization of trusses consists of arriving at optimum topology, configuration, and sizes of cross-sectional parameters, when weight of the truss is minimum, satisfying a set of specified constraints. Genetic ...

Abstract: This paper describes the results of systematic investigations undertaken to study the effect of free-stream turbulence on the heat transfer coefficient distribution around gas turbine rotor blades ...

Abstract: Optimizing most structural systems used in practice requires considering design variables as discrete quantities. The paper presents a simple genetic algorithm for optimizing structural systems with discrete design variables. ...