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The S-shaped rotor is a modification of the Savonius rotor with no overlap. Drag and torque coefficients of a five bladed S-shaped Savonius rotor have been investigated by measuring the pressure distribution on the blade ...

The trend towards higher pressure ratio and compact turbomachines with a reduced number of stages leads to a considerable increase of aerodynamic loading of the airfoil cascades. Thereby the velocities relative to the ...

When the physical length scale of a fluid mechanical system becomes comparable to the molecular mean free path (the average distance traveled by each molecule of gas between successive intermolecular collisions), the system ...

Analytical solution scores the highest degree of importance in structural analysis. But the existing mathematical models for analytical solutions are still inadequate. Neither the beam theory nor the stress function approach ...

This thesis deals with the analysis of stress and displacement fields of a mixed boundaryvalue problem of fiber-reinforced composite materials. More specifically, the elastic field of a thick stiffened simply-supported ...

This study is concerned with the brittle fracture characteristics of an infinite plate with a functionally graded material (FGM) coating around a circular hole. The incompatible eigenstrain induced in the FGM coating after ...

Composite materials drew attention of researchers from all over the world due to their outstanding advantages over conventional materials. They are being increasingly used as structural elements in almost all engineering ...

Dynamics of nonlinear self-excited vibrations for both two degrees of freedom system (2DOFS) and three degrees of freedom system (3DOFS) using nonlinear springs and dampers is treated as a boundary value problem (BVP) ...