Telecommunications networks have graduated from primarily being pure wire line networks to present day Heterogeneous Telecommunication Network (HTN). These HTNs predominantly incorporate wireless access networks integrated to high speed backbone optical networks. The wireless access networks include Wireless&#x...

The present dissertation reports experimental investigations pertaining to the heat transfer and fluid flow behavior during quenching of hot horizontal stationary surface with various coolants, such as water and air-water mist jet impingement. Also, the effect of jet inclination angle and pl...

Biometrics-based authentication has drawn attention of the researchers due to its widespread use in security and access control. Authentication of users can be done by utilizing various distinctive characteristics of the individuals such as: fingerprint, iris, face, etc. In particula...

The idea inculcated by the great lecture of the distinguished physicist Richard P. Feynman “There’s plenty of room at the bottom” could be considered as the basis for the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology which have been making significant progress and their effect on&#...

The dynamical systems theory, which deals with the temporal evolution of the state of interacting constituent entities of a system, forms the foundation of this thesis. The study of dynamics originated in the 1600s when Newton and Leibniz developed calculus to study th...

Phasor Measurement Units (PMU) are microprocessor-based devices used for real time monitoring of power system. PMU measures the voltage and current phasors of the buses in the power system and transfers the data to the control centre. This data is later used for v...

Shape memory alloys (SMA) are smart materials having distinctive behaviour such as shape memory effect and pseudoelasticity. A reversible solid state displacive phase transformation from austenite to martensite is the reason behind the smart behaviour [1,2]. SMAs are metallic alloys and cate...

John Ruskin, in his book The Stones of Venice claims that the genius of a work depends on its quality of being “grotesque” or in the “incapability of understanding it” (158). Perceived in this light, this study unravels the complexity and significance of the organ heist&#...