Showing papers in "Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal in 2016"

TL;DR: In this article, a bibliographic review is presented to demonstrate the tribological behavior of natural fiber reinforced composites and find a knowledge about their usability for various applications that tribology plays a dominant role.

TL;DR: In this paper, the steady boundary layer flow of MHD Williamson fluid through porous medium toward a horizontal linearly stretching sheet in the presence of nanoparticles is investigated numerically, and the resultant non-dimensionalized boundary value problem is solved numerically by Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg fourth-fifth order method with shooting technique.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the flow, heat and mass transfer behavior of Casson fluid past an exponentially permeable stretching surface in presence of thermal radiation, magnetic field, viscous dissipation, heat source and chemical reaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of reinforcement, volume fraction, normal load, and sliding velocity on the tribological performance of aluminum matrix composites reinforced by graphene nanoplatelets and pure aluminum was investigated.

TL;DR: The superiority of the proposed FA optimized fuzzy PID controller has been demonstrated by comparing the results with some recently published approaches such as optimal control and Differential Evolution optimized PID controller for the identical interconnected power system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the challenges of spintronics devices that have to meet for the success of the electronics future are summarized, and a few low power computing techniques altogether based on spintronic to provide a basic and meaningful understanding.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of process variables such as powder concentration (Cp), peak current (Ip), pulse on time (Ton), duty cycle (DC) and gap voltage (Vg) on response parameters such as Material Removal Rate (MRR), Tool Wear Rate (TWR), Electrode Wear Ratio (EWR) and Surface Roughness (SR) have been investigated using chromium powder mixed to the dielectric fluid.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated support vector machine based fault type and distance estimation scheme in a long transmission line using post fault single cycle current waveform and pre-processing of the samples is done by wavelet packet transform.

TL;DR: In this paper, a teaching learning based optimization (TLBO) algorithm is employed to optimize the parameters of the PIDD controller for automatic generation control (AGC) of multi-area power systems with diverse energy sources.

TL;DR: In this paper, a steady two-dimensional hydromagnetic stagnation point flow of an electrically conducting nanofluid past a stretching surface with induced magnetic field, melting effect and heat generation/absorption has been analyzed numerically.

TL;DR: Time domain simulation results confirm the potentiality and efficacy of the proposed QOGWO method over other intelligent methods like fuzzy logic, artificial neural network (ANN) and adaptive neuro-fuzzy interface system (ANFIS) controller.

TL;DR: A new and powerful algorithm called Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA) is proposed for optimal allocations and sizing of capacitors in various distribution systems to minimize the losses and total cost and to enhance the voltage profile and net saving forVarious distribution systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental test was conducted on a single cylinder direct injection diesel engine to study the impact of oxygen enrichment on pollution and performance parameters by increasing the oxygen concentration of intake air from 21 to 27% by volume.

TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical investigation of MHD flow of Casson fluid model with variable viscosity towards a stretching sheet with variable thickness is presented, where Cattaneo-Christov heat flux model is used instead of Fourier's law to explore the heat transfer characteristics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the methods for preparation of lithium iron phosphate are discussed which include solid state and solution-based synthesis routes, and the methods to improve the electrochemical performance of lithium ion battery are presented in detail.

TL;DR: An improved version of the energy aware distributed unequal clustering protocol (EADUC), by electing cluster heads considering number of nodes in the neighborhood in addition to the above two parameters, outperforms the existing protocols in terms of network lifetime in all the scenarios.

TL;DR: In this paper, a shell and tube type latent heat storage (LHS) has been designed for solar dryer and paraffin wax is used as heat storage material, and a series of experiments were conducted to study the effects of flow rate and temperature of HTF on the charging and discharging process of LHS.

TL;DR: In this article, the availability of solar radiation for south-facing flat surfaces in Humid Subtropical Climatic Region of India has been estimated for over a period of three years.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make an effort to find the flow separation characteristics under high Reynolds number in pipe bends using k-e turbulence model and provide numerical results to understand the flow characteristics of fluid flow in 90° bend pipe.

TL;DR: The simulation results exhibit the potential of the proposed SOS algorithm and demonstrate its effectiveness for solving the OPF problem of power system incorporating FACTS devices over the other evolutionary optimization techniques that surfaced in the recent state-of-the-art literature.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new four-node quadrilateral inverse-shell element, iQS4, is developed that expands the library of existing iFEM-based elements.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the unsteady magnetohydrodynamic radiative flow and heat transfer characteristics of a dusty nanofluid over an exponentially permeable stretching surface in presence of volume fraction of dust and nano particles.

TL;DR: From the simulation test results, it is evident that bat optimized fuzzy proportional derivative controller has superior performance than the other controllers considered.

TL;DR: A new algorithm called BA-LBG is proposed which produces an efficient codebook with less computational time and results very good PSNR due to its automatic zooming feature using adjustable pulse emission rate and loudness of bats.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the fabrication and physical, mechanical, three-body abrasive wear and water absorption behaviour of Luffa fibre reinforced polyester composites with and without addition of micro-fillers of Al 2 O 3, CaCO 3 and TiO 2.

TL;DR: A novel technique for optimizing the FACTS devices, so as to maintain the voltage stability in the power transmission systems is presented and its performance is evaluated and compared with the existing GA based GSA hybrid technique.

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical look at the science of shape memory phenomena as applicable to copper and iron based SMA systems is presented, which also covers the limitations of these systems, the effect of processing parameters on these alloys, proposed solutions to limitations associated with this group of SMA alloys and thoughts for future consideration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of the viscous dissipation and radiation effects on the natural convection heat transfer in a square cavity filled with porous media saturated with a nanofluid is studied.

TL;DR: This study used the questionnaire as a quantitative method to explore quality factors for mobile learning system based on perspectives of 392 students and opens future work for using the identified quality factors as guidelines for researchers and designers to design and develop mobile learning applications.

TL;DR: In this paper, an implementation of FPA to solve ELD and CEED problems in power systems is discussed and results obtained by the proposed FPA are compared with other optimization algorithms for various power systems.