Theory of Plasticity And Metal Forming
Concepts of stress and strain, state of stress in two and three dimensions, Hydrostatic and deviatoric stress, flow curves, yielding criteria (Von Mises and Tresca), octahedral shear stress and shear strain, stress invariants, Deformation work and power, Plastic stress - strain relations, Fundamentals of metal forming - Extrusion, rolling, wire drawing, Forging, Friction and lubrication in metal forming processes, Mechanics of meal working by slab method, Tension testing.
Physiological Fluid Mechanics
Introduction to Physiological Fluid Mechanics; Review of Concepts in Fluid Mechanics, Kinematics, Hydrostatics, Conservation relations, Viscous Flow, Unsteady Flow; Clinical Fluid Dynamic Measurements; Analysis of Total Peripheral Flow; Circulatory Biofluid Mechanics, Blood Rheology, Blood Composition and Structure, Flow Properties of Blood, Blood Vessel Structure; Models of Biofluid Flow, Models of Blood Flow, Applications of Poiseuilli’s Law for the study of Blood Flow; Introduction to Non-Newtonian Fluids, Power Law Model, Herschel-Bulkley Model, Casson Model, Non-Newtonian Flow in Elast
Robot Mechanisms And Technology
Mechanisms of robots: Regional and orientational mechanisms of serial chain manipulators, gripper mechanisms, parallel chain manipulator mechanisms, leg mechanisms of walking robots, suspension and drive mechanisms of wheeled rovers, bio-robots, UAV’s and Underwater robots. Representation of spatial mechanisms, and rigid body transformations Actuators, drives, and sensors in robotics.
Analytical Methods In Thermal And Fluid Science
Special Functions, Bessel equation and related functions, Laplace transform methods: Inverse Laplace transform, Complex numbers, Bromwich integral, bilateral Laplace transforms, solution to ordinary and partial differential equation, Green function and boundary value problems, Fourier transform methods, Mellin transforms. Eigenvalue problems and Eigen function expansions: Sturm-Liouville problems. Integral equations, Perturbation methods.
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Review of planar motion of rigid bodies and Newton-Euler equations of motion; constraints – holonomic and non-holonomic constraints, Newton-Euler equations for planar inter connected rigid bodies; D’Alembert’s principle, generalized coordinates; alternative formulations of analytical mechanics and applications to planar dynamics – Euler-Lagrange equations, Hamilton’s equations and ignorable coordinates, Gibbs-Appel and Kane’s equations; numerical solution of differential and differential algebraic equations; spatial motion of a rigid body – Euler angles, rotation matrices, quaternions, Newt
Numerical Methods for Scientific Computing
Mathematical review and computer arithmetic – numbers and errors; Nonlinear equations; Direct methods for linear systems; Iterative methods for linear systems; Eigenvalues and eigenvectors power method, inverse power method, QR method; Approximation theory – norms, orthogonalization, polynomial approximation, piecewise polynomial approximation, trigonometric approximation,rational approximation, wavelet bases; Numerical differentiation; Numerical integration – Romberg integration, Gauss quadrature, Adaptive quadrature; Numerical ordinary differential equations - single step and multi-step m
Introduction to Space Laws
Introduction to international law; Space law – UNCOPUOS and its sub-committees and treaty formulation, definition and delimitation of outer space; Sources of space law – UN treaties, principles and resolutions, and domestic space legislations; Other international agencies relevant to space law; Legal aspects of space activities – state responsibility for space activities, debris mitigation; Legal and policty aspects of space applications – SATCOM policy, remote sensing data policy, position and navigation services, legal issues in satellite based services; Space Law relating to commercial s
