Mechanical Engineering

 


M E Programme

Duration: 2 years

Core: 64 credits

 

Hard Core: 18 credits (All the courses are compulsory)

 

Course Credits Course Title

 

ME 201 3:0 Fluid Mechanics

ME 228 3:0 Materials & Structure Property

                   Correlations

ME 240 3:0 Dynamics & Control of

                   Mechanical Systems

ME 242 3:0 Solid Mechanics

ME 271 3:0 Thermodynamics

MA 211 3:0 Matrix Theory

OR

MA 251 3:0 Numerical Methods

OR

MA 262 3.0 Probability Models

OR

Any other course recommended by the department

 

Project: 24 Credits

 

ME 299 0:24 Dissertation Project

0:06 Aug-Dec Term

0:18 Jan-Apr Term 

 

Electives: A balance of 22 credits is required to make up a minimum of 64 credits to complete the M.E. Program. All students are required to take one semester of ME 297, a departmental seminar. This leaves 21 credits to be taken from electives within/outside the department.  The electives offered within the department are:

 

 

ME 201 (AUG) 3:0

Fluid Mechanics

 

Fluid as a continuum, mechanics of viscosity, momentum and energy theorems and their applications, compressible flows, kinematics, vorticity, Kelvin's and Helmholtz's theorems, Euler's equation and integration, potential flows, Kutta-Joukowsky theorem, Navier-Stokes equations, boundary layer concept, introduction to turbulence, pipe flows.

 

J H Arakeri and R N Govardhan

 

Kundu, P.K., and Cohen, I.M., Fluid Machanics, Elsevier, 2005.

White, F.M., Fluid Mechanics, McGraw Hill, 1986.

Vennard, J.K., and Street, R.L., Elementary Fluid Mechanics, John Wiley, Sixth Edn. 1982.

 

ME 228 (AUG) 3:0

Materials and Structure Property Correlations

 

Atomic structure of materials, atomic bonding, crystal structure point, line and areal defects in crystal structure, dislocation concepts of plastic deformation, critical resolved shear stress, interactions between dislocations and work hardening, fracture-microscopic descriptions, strengthening. Mechanisms of metals, Processing maps, concepts of bio-materials; natural and synthetics, fracture and fatigue of bio-materials.

 

Satish Vasu Kailas,  M S Bobji and Narmrata Gundiah

 

Raghavan, V., Materials Science and Engineers, Prentice Hall, 1979.

Davidge, R.W., Mechanical Behaviour of Ceramics, Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Reed-Hill, R.E. and Abbaschian, R., Physical Metallurgy Principles, PWS-Kent Publishing Company, 1992.

Ratner, B D, Hoffman A S, Schoen F J, Lemons, J E, Biomaterials Science- An introduction to Materials in Medicine, Academic Press 1996

 

ME 237 (AUG/JAN) 3:0

Mechanics of Microsystems

 

An overview of microsystems and microfabrication, mechanics issues that are relevant to Microsystems, scaling laws, materials properties and their role in Microsystems, lumped modelling of Microsystems. Coupled-simulations of multi-energy domain systems including electrostatics-mechanical, electro-thermal, thermo-mechanical, piezoelectric-mechanical, fluidic issues such as squeezed-film effects and others. Application of numerical techniques such as finite element and boundary element methods in solving steady-state and transient regimes. Case studies of selected microsystems devices and systems. An introduction to biomechanics at the small sizes.

 

Rudra Pratap and G K Ananthasuresh

 

Pre-requisite: Multi-variable calculus and numerical analysis. No prior background in microsystems or mechanics is assumed although familiarity with microfrabrication and basic mechanics is useful for this course. This course is also open to students working in the interdisciplinary areas that require an understanding of mechanics at the small sizes.  

 

Senturia, S.D., Microsystem Design, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

 

ME 238 (JAN) 3:0

Nonlinear Oscillations

 

Review of linear systems and stability, nonlinear  systems: fixed points and linearization, stable and unstable manifolds, stability and Lyapunov functions, index theory. Perturbation theory: regular perturbation, method of multiple scales, averaging, elementary bifurcation theory: normal forms of saddle node, transcritical, and pitchfork bifurcations, Hopf bifurcation; maps: 1-D maps, stability of periodic orbits, symbolic dynamics and conjugacy, chaos.

 

A Chatterjee

 

Hale, J., and Kocak, H., Dynamics and Bifurcations, Springer-Verlag, NY, 1991.

Strogatz, S.H., Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, Addison Wesley, Massachusetts, 1995.

Verhulst, F., Nonlinear Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, Springer-Verlag, 1990

 

 

ME 239 (JAN) 3:0

Modelling and Simulation of Dynamics Systems

 

Axioms of mathematical modelling, approximations and idealizations, fundamental balance laws, governing equations, state-space description, solution of ODEs, numerical methods for solutions of ODEs, explicit and implicit methods, error and accuracy, stability analysis of numerical solvers, stiff systems and stability, frequency domain in analysis of linear systems, FFT and power spectra, nonlinear systems, maps, bifurcations and chaos.

 

Rudra Pratap

 

Hirsh, M., and Smale, S., Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems and Linear Algebra, Academic Press, 1974.

Farlow, S.J., Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers, Dover Publications Inc., 1993.

Pratap, R., Getting Started with MATLAB 7, Oxford University Press, 2006.

 

 

ME 240 (AUG) 3:0

Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems

 

Representation of translation and rotation of rigid bodies, degrees of freedom and generalised coordinates, motion of a rigid body and multi-body systems, Lagrangian and equations of motion, small vibrations, computer generation and solution of equations of motion, review of feedback control, PID control, rootlocus, Bode daigrams, State Space method, control system design and computer simulation.

 

A Ghosal and Rudra Pratap

 

Greenwood, D.T., Principles of Dynamics, Second Edn.,Prentice Hall, 1988.

Haug, E.J., Computer Aided Kinematics and Dynamics of Mechanical Systems, Vol. 1, Allyn and Bacon, 1989.

Franklin, G.F., Powell, J.D., and Abbas Emami-Naeini, Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, Addison Wesley, 1987.

 

 

ME 241 (JAN) 2:1

Experimental Engineering

Introduction to modeling of system response and sensor dynamics, introduction to electronics, data acquisition and analysis, fluid velocity, stress, temperature measurement techniques; experiments using photoelasticity, universal testing machine, hot-wire anemometry, accelerometers.

M S Bobji, R N Govardhan, V R Sonti , K R Y Simha and J H Arakeri

 

Doeblin, E.O., Measurement Systems: Application and design, McGraw Hill, 1990.

Horowitz, P., and Hill, W., The art of electronics, Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Goldstein, R.J., Fluid mechanics measurements, Hemisphere Publishing Company, 1983.

 

 

 

ME 242 (AUG) 3:0

Solid Mechanics

 

Analysis of stress, analysis of strain, stress-strain relations, two-dimensional elasticity problems, airy stress functions in rectangular and polar coordinates, axisymmetric problems, energy methods, St. Venant torsion, elastic wave propagation, elastic instability and thermal stresses.

 

C S Jog and K R Y Simha

 

Fung, Y.C., Foundations of Solid Mechanics, Prentice Hall.

Srinath, L.S., Advanced Mechanics of Solids, Tata McGraw Hill.

Sokolnikoff, I.S., Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, Prentice Hall.

 

ME 243 (AUG) 3:0

Continuum Mechanics

 

Introduction to vectors and tensors, finite strain and deformation-Eulerian and Lagrangian formulations, relative deformation gradient, rate of deformation and spin tensors, compatibility conditions, Cauchy's stress principle, stress tensor, conservation laws for mass, linear and angular momentum, and energy; entropy and the second law, constitutive laws for solids and fluids, principle of material frame indifference, discussion of isotropy, linearized elasticity, fluid mechanics.

 

C S Jog

 

Malvern, L.E., Introduction to the Mechanics of a continuous medium, Prentice Hall, 1969.

Gurtin, M., An Introduction to Continuum Mechanics, Academic Press, 1981.

Hunter, S.C., Mechanics of Continuous Media, Ellis-Horwood, 1983.

 

ME 244 (AUG) 3:0

Advanced Topics in Dynamics of Mechanical Systems

 

ODE solution methods: event detection, systems with discontinuities, computation of unstable solutions. Approximation methods: asymptotics, Galerkin projections, POD. Introduction to: Kane's equations, the bond graph technique, Monte Carlo simulation methods, and models for rigid body impact.

 

A Chatterjee

 

Hinch, E.J., Perturbation Methods, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Kane, T.R., and Levinson, D.A., Dynamics: Theory and Applications, McGraw-Hill, 1985.

Mukherjee, A., and Karmakar, R., Modeling and Simulation of Engineering Systems through Bondgraphs, Narosa, 2000.

 

Prequisite: Consent of Instructor.

 

 

ME 245 (JAN) 3:0

Vibration of Linear Systems

Small oscillations of linear dynamical systems, free and forced vibrations of single and multi-degree-of-freedom systems, normal modes and orthogonality relations, generalized co-ordinates and Lagrange's equations, matrix formulation, eigenvalue problem and numerical solutions, operational approach to the transient response of one-dimensional systems, approximate energy methods of flexural systems.

 

U Shrinivasa

 

Tse, Morse and Hinkle, Mechanical Vibration, Prentice Hall of India, 1968.

Thomson, W.T., Theory of Vibration with Applications, George Alien and Unwin Ltd., London, 1981.

Srinivasan, P., Mechanical Vibration Analysis, Tata McGraw Hill, 1982.

 

ME 246 (JAN) 3:0

Introduction to Robotics

 

Robot manipulators: representation of translation, rotation, links and joints, direct and inverse kinematics and workspace of serial and parallel manipulators, dynamic equations of motion, position and force control and simulation.

Term paper.

 

A Ghosal

 

Ghosal, A., Robotics: Fundamental Concepts and Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2006.

Notes and recent research papers.

 

 

ME 247 (AUG) 3:0

Dynamics of Machinery

 

Inertia balancing of reciprocating and rotating machines. Torque analysis and damping of crankshafts of I. C. Engines, rotor dynamics and critical speed calculations, vibration and stressing of blades and discs of turbomachinery, vibration isolators and dampers.

 

U Shrinivasa

 

Den Hartog, J.P., Mechanical Vibrations, McGraw Hill, 1956.

Hartog, J.P.,   Dover Publications, Inc, New York, 1984

Srinivasan, P., Mechanical Vibration Analysis, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 1982.

 

ME 248 (AUG) 3:0

Industrial Noise Control

 

Acoustic waves, sound pressure level, intensity level, power level and impedance. Physiology of the human ear and subjective response to SPL. Instrumentation for noise measurement and analysis, noise criteria, hearing damage risk and environmental noise level criteria. Mechanisms of noise radiation and outdoor sound propagation; sound power; its use and measurement; sound in enclosed spaces; partitions, enclosures, barriers and muffling devices; sound power and sound pressure level estimation procedures.

M L Munjal

 

Bies, D.A., and Hanson, C.H., Engineering Noise Control, Third Edn, Spon Press, London, 2003.

Irwin, J.D., and Graf, E.R., Industrial Noise and Vibration Control, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1979.

Munjal, M.L., Acoustics of Ducts and Mufflers, Wiley -Interscience, NY, 1987.

 

 

 

ME 249 (JAN) 3:0

Fundamentals of Acoustics

 

Fundamentals of vibration, vibrations of continuous systems (strings and rods), I-D acoustic wave equation, complex notation, harmonic solutions, concept of impedance, Kirchoff-Helmholtz Integral Equation (spherical coordinates, spherical harmonics, Green function (Dirichlet and Neumann), Sommerfeld Radiation condition, sound radiation from simple sources, piston in a baffle, pulsating sphere, piston in a sphere, vibrating free disc, scattering from a rigid sphere), near field and far field, directivity of sources, sound waves in pipes, standing waves and travelling waves, resonances, wave guides (phase speed and group speed), lumped parameter modeling of acoustic systems, sound in enclosures (rectangular box and cylinders), Laplace Transforms and PDEs, 1-D Green Function, octave bands, sound power, decibels, brief introduction to diffraction, scattering, reflection, refraction.

 

V R Sonti

 

Kinsler, L.E., Frey, A.R., Coppens, A.B., and Sanders, J.V., Fundamentals of Acoustics, John Wiley, 1982.

Williams, E., Fourier Acoustics

 

ME 250 (AUG) 3:0

Structural Acoustics

 

Vibration of continuous systems (rectangular plates and cylindrical shells), types of wave propagation through solids, sound radiation from rectangular plates and cylindrical shells, coincidence and wave number spectra, wave impedance, transform and Rayleigh Integral methods, effects of fluid loading, fluid-structure coupling in waveguides, complex variables refresher, solutions using branch cuts, Crighton’s classical problem.

 

V R Sonti

 

Junger, M.C., and Feit, D., Sound, Structures and their Interaction, MIT Press, 1986.

Fahy, F.J., Sound and Structural Vibration, Academic Press, 1985.

Cremer, L., Heckl, M., and Ungar, E. E., Structure-Borne Sound, Springer-Verlag, 1987.

 

Pre requisite: Consent of Instructor

 

 

ME 251 (JAN) 3:0

Biomechanics

 

Bone and cartilage, Joint contact analysis, structure and composition of biological tissues. Continuum mechanics, constitutive equations, nonlinear elasticity, rubber elasticity, arterial mechanics. Introduction to cell mechanics.

 

Namrata Gundiah

 

Humphrey, J.D., Cardiovascular Solid Mechanics, Springer-Verlag, 2002.

Fung, Y.C., Biomechanics, Springer-Verlag, 1990.

Holzapfel, G. A., Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Wiley, 2000.

 

 

ME 252 (AUG) 3:0

Mechanisms

 

Simple and complex mechanisms, kinematic analysis by graphical and algebraic methods. Complex number, vector, quaternion, tensor-based kinematics. Computer aided kinematics, modeling constraints and simulation. Rigid body guidance problem. Curvature theory in plane kinematics. Elements of line geometry and screw theory for rigid body motion in space.

 

Dibakar Sen

 

Hirschhorn, J., Kinematics and Dynamics of Plane Mechanisms, McGraw Hill, 1962.

Haug, E.J., Computer Aided Kinematics and Dynamics of Mechanical systems, Allyn and Bacon.

Hunt, K.H., Kinematic Geometry of Mechanisms, Clarendon Press.

 

ME 255 (AUG) 3:0

Principles of Tribology

 

Surfaces, theories of friction and wear, friction and wear considerations in design, viscosity, hydrodynamic lubrication, Reynolds equation, coupling of elastic and thermal equations with Reynolds equation. Elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication. Mechanics of rolling motion, hydrostatic lubrication, lubricants, tribometry, selection of tribological solutions.

 

M S Bobji

 

Halling, J. (ed.), Principles of Tribology, Macmillan, 1975.

Seireg, A.A., Friction and Lubrication in Mechanical Design, Marcel Dekker, 1998.

Comeron, A., Principles of Lubrication, Longman, 1966.

 

ME 256 (JAN) 3:0

Variational Methods and Structural Optimization

Calculus of variations: functionals, normed vector spaces, Gateaux variation, Frechet differential, necessary conditions for an extremum, Euler-Lagrange multiplier theorem, second variations and sufficient conditions. Weak form of differential equations, application of Euler-Lagrange equations for the analytical solution of size optimization problems of bars and beams; topology optimization of trusses and beams applied to stiff structures and compliant mechanisms. Material interpolation methods in design parameterization for topology optimization, optimization formulations for structures and compliant mechanisms involving multiple energy domains and performance criteria. Essential background for Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions for multi-variable optimization; numerical optimization algorithms and computer programs for practical implementation of size, shape and topology optimization problems.

 

G K Ananthasuresh

 

Smith, D.R., Variational Methods in Optimization, Dover Publication, 1998.

Haftka, R.T., and Gurdal, Z., Elements of Structural Optimization, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.

Bendsoe, M.P., and Sigmund, O., Topology Optimization: Theory, Methods and Applications, Springer, 2003.

 

ME 257 (JAN) 3:0

Finite Element Methods

 

Linear finite elements procedures in solid mechanics, convergence, isoparametric mapping and numerical integration. Application of finite element method to Poisson equation, calculus of variations, weighted residual methods, introduction of constraint equations by Lagrange multipliers and penalty method, solution of linear algebraic equations, finite element programming.

 

R Narasimhan

 

Cook, R.D., Malkus, D.S., and Plesha, M.E., Concepts and Applications of Finite Element Analysis, Third Edn, John Wiley, 1989.

Bathe, K.J., Finite Element Procedures, Prentice Hall of India, 1982.

 

ME 258 (JAN) 3:0

Acoustics of Ducts and Mufflers

 

Acoustics of moving media, duct acoustics, analysis and synthesis of one dimensional acoustic filters, the exhaust process of reciprocating I.C. engines. Analysis of exhaust mufflers, finite wave analysis of exhaust systems, aeroacoustic characterization of engine sources. Finite element methods for mufflers, design of exhaust mufflers.

 

M L Munjal

 

Munjal, M.L., Acoustics of Ducts and Mufflers, Wiley-Interscience, NY, 1987.

Goldstein, M.F., Aeroacoustics, McGraw Hill, 1976.

 

 

 

ME 259 (AUG) 3:0

Nonlinear Finite Element Methods

 

Introduction to structural nonlinearities, Newton-Raphson procedure to solve nonlinear equilibrium equations, finite element procedures for I-D plasticity and viscoplasticity. Return mapping algorithm. Continuum plasticity theory. Stress updated procedures. Treatment of incompressible deformation. Fundamentals of finite deformation mechanics-kinematics; stress measures; balance laws, objectivity principle. Finite element procedure for nonlinear elasticity. Lagrangian and spatial formulations. Finite element modeling of contact problems. Finite element programming. Newton-Raphson procedure. Finite element formulation for plasticity and nonlinear elasticity. Stress update algorithms for plasticity. Finite element procedures for dynamic analysis; explicit and implicit time integration. Finite element modelling of contact problems – slide-line methods and penalty approach; adaptive finite element analysis - automatic mesh generation. Error estimation, choice of new mesh, transfer of state variables. Finite element programming.

 

R Narasimhan

 

Bathe, K.J., Finite Element Procedures, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi 1997.

Zienkiewicz, O.C., and Taylor, R.L., The Finite Element Methods, Vols. I and II, McGraw Hill, 1991.

Belytshko, T., Liu, W.K., and Moran, B., Nonliner Finite Elements for Continua and Structures, Wiley, 2000.

 

Pre requisite: ME 257 or equivalent

 

ME 260 (AUG) 3:0

Topology Optimization

 

Hierarchy in structural optimization: topology, shape, and size. Michelle continua and truss/frame topology optimization. Design parameterization and material interpolation: ground structure method, homogenization-based method, density distribution, level-set methods, peak function methods, phase-field methods, etc., numerical methods for topology optimization: optimality criteria methods, convex linearization and method of moving asymptotes, etc., dual algorithms: numerical issues in the implementation of topology optimization algorithms: applications to multi-physics problems, compliant mechanisms and material microstructure design. Manufacturing constraints, other advanced topics.

A significant fraction of assignments in this course will be related to a research-oriented course-project.

Presentations by the students on topics from contemporary literature will be included in addition to the regular lectures.

 

G K Ananthasuresh

 

Bendsoe, M.P., and Sigmund, O., Topology Optimization: Theory, Methods, and Applications, Springer, 2003.

Contemporary literature.

 

Pre-requisite: ME 256: Variational Methods and structural Optimization Background in finite element analysis is preferred.

 

ME 271 (AUG) 3:0

Thermodynamics

 

Concepts of thermodynamics, zeroth law, first law, properties of pure substances and mixtures, first order phase transitions, thermophysical properties, energy storage; second law. Energy analysis of process and cycle, calculation of entropy and entropy diagrams, availability analysis, multi-phase multi-component systems, membrane equilibrium, phase equilibrium, chemical equilibrium.

 

Pradip Dutta and R V Ravikrishna

 

Van Wylen, G.J., and Sonntag, R.E., Fundamentals of Classical Thermodynamics, Wiley.

Wark, K., Advanced Thermodynamics for Engineers, Mc-Graw Hill, 1995.

 

 

ME 272 (JAN) 3:0

Thermal Management of Electronics

 

Structures of heat in electronic systems, review of heat transfer mechanisms with reference to electronic systems: foot prints, spreading resistance, design of fins; convection and radiation from electronic modules, jet impingement cooling; active cooling systems – adsorption, thermo-electric, phase change: current state of the art and future projections of thermal needs in electronics.

 

P Dutta

 

Thermal Management of Electronic Systems, Vol. 1-4, ASME Press.

Krauss, A.D., and Cohen, A.B., Thermal Management of Electronics, Hemisphere.

ASME Trans. Journal of Electronic Packaging

IEEE Trans. On components and Packaging Technologies.

 

 

ME 273 (JAN) 3:0

Solid and Fluid Phenomena at Small Scales

Intermolecular forces, surfaces, defects. Size dependent strength, micro - mechanics of interfaces and thin films. Solvation forces, double layer forces, effect of physico-chemical forces on fluid flow at micron-scales. Slip boundary condition, friction and nano tribology. Nanoindentation, atomic force microscopy, micro-PIV and other characterizing techniques. MEMS, micro fluidics, microscopic heat pipes and other applications.

M S Bobji and R N Govardhan

 

Israelachvili, J.N., Intermolecular and Surface Forces, Elsevier Publishing Company, 2003.

Meyer, E., Overney, R.M., Dransfeld, K., et al., Nanoscience Firction and Rheology on the nanometer scale, 1998.

Karniadakis, G.E., and Beskok, A., Micro Flows, Springer Verlag, 2001.

 

ME 274 (JAN) 3:0

Convective Heat Transfer

 

Energy equation, laminar external convection, similarity solution, integral method, laminar internal convection, concept of full development heat transfer in developing flow, turbulent forced convection, free convection from vertical surface, Rayleigh Benard convection.

 

J Srinivasan and P Dutta

 

Kays, W.M., and Crawford, M.E., Convective Heat and Mass Transfer, Tata-McGraw Hill.

Bejan, A., Convective Heat Transfer, John Wiley.

 

Pre-requisite: ME 201 and ME 271

 

 

ME 275 (AUG) 3:0

Radiative Heat Transfer

 

Black body radiation, radiative properties of non-black surfaces, Kirchoff's Law, radiative exchange between different surfaces, configuration factor, radiative transfer in enclosures, radiative transfer in gases, Planck and Rosseland mean coefficient, equation of transfer, gas radiation in enclosures and furnaces, interaction between conduction, convection and radiation.

 

J Srinivasan and P Dutta

 

Siegel, R., and Howell, J., Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer, Taylor and Francis, 2002.

Hottel, H.C., and Sarofim, A.F., Radiative Transfer, McGraw Hill 1967.

Modest, M.F., Radiative Heat Transfer, McGraw Hill 1993.

 

 

 

ME 282 (JAN) 3:0

Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow

 

Mathematical description of fluid flow and heat transfer; conservation equations for mass, momentum, energy and chemical species, classification of partial differential equations, coordinate systems. Discretization techniques using finite difference methods: Taylor-series and control volume formulations. Irregular geometries and body-fitted coordinate system. Applications to practical problems.

 

P Dutta, R V Ravikrishna and Ratnesh Shukla

 

Patankar, S.V., Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, 1980.

Anderson, D.A., Tannehill J.C., and Pletcher, R.H., Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, 1984.

Versteeg, H.K., and Malalasekara, W., An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics, Longman, 1995.

 

Pre-requisite: ME 201, ME 271

 

 

ME 284 (JAN) 3:0

Thermofluid dynamics of I C Engines

 

Review of classical thermodynamics, ideal cycles, real cycles, spark ignition and compression ignition engine fundamentals, engine performance parameters, gas exchange processes, spray processes, engine combustion, normal and abnormal combustion, combustion chamber design parameters, pollutant formation, exhaust gas after treatment.

 

R V Ravikrishna

 

Heywood, J.B., Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals, McGraw Hill Intl Edn, 1988.

Richard Stone, Introduction to Internal Combustion Engines, Second Edn, Macmillan Press, 1992.

Hawthorne, W.R. (ed.), Aerodynamics of Compressors and Turbines, Princeton University Press, 1964.

 

 

ME 285 (AUG) 3:0

Turbomachine Theory

Introduction to turbomachines, mixing losses, review of vorticity, profile changes in contracting and expanding ducts. Brief review of diffusers, rotating co-ordinate system, total enthalpy, rothalpy, Euler turbine equation, velocity triangles. Specific speed and Cordier diagram, cascade aerodynamics. Elemental compressor stage, reaction work and flow coefficients. Equations of motion in axisymmetric flow, simple and extended radial equilibrium. Elemental axial turbine stage, radial and mixed flow machines, work done by Coriolis forces and by aerofoil action, the centrifugal compressor, vaned and vaneless diffusers.

 

J H Arakeri and R N Govardhan

 

Sabersky, R.H., and Acosta, A., Fluid Flow: A First Course in Fluid Mechanics, Publisher?

Wilson, D.G., The Design of High Efficiency Turbomachinery and Gas Turbine, MIT Press, 1984.

 

 

ME 287 (JAN) 3:0

Refrigeration Engineering

 

Methods of refrigeration; vapour compression refrigeration-standard and actual vapour compression cycles, multipressure systems, compressors, condensers, expansion devices, evaporators, refrigerants and refrigeration controls, component matching and system integration, vapour absorption refrigeration thermodynamics, single stage, dual stage and dual effect systems. Selection of working fluids, design of generators and absorbers; non-conventional refrigeration systems, vapour jet refrigeration.

 

G S V L Narasimham

 

Stoecker, W.F., and Jones, J.W., Refrigeration and Air conditioning, Second Edn, Tata McGraw Hill, 1982.

Therlkeld, J.L., Thermal Environmental Engineering, Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1970.

ASHRAE Handbooks (SI Editions): Fundamentals (2009), Refrigeration (2010).

 

ME 288 (JAN) 3:0

Air Conditioning Engineering

 

Properties of air water mixtures, psychometric chart, air conditioning processes, enthalpy potential, cooling and dehumidifying coils, cooling towers, heat transfer in buildings, comfort air conditioning, cooling load calculations, air conditioning system, design of air delivery systems, clean rooms and laminar flow equipment, air conditioning controls, noise and vibration control in air-conditioned rooms.

 

G S V L Narasimham

 

Jones, W.P., Air Conditioning Engineering, Fifth Edn, Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, 2001.

Croome, D.J. and Roberts, B.M., Airconditioning and Ventilation of Buildings, Second Edn, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1981.

Haines, R.W., and Hittle, D.C., Control Systems for Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Sixth Edn, Springer Science plus Business Media, Inc., NY, 2003.

ASHRAE Handbooks (SI Editions): HVAC Applications (2007), Systems and Equipment (2008), Fundamentals (2009).

 

 

ME 289 (AUG) 3:0

Principles of Solar Thermal Engineering

 

Introduction, solar radiation – fundamentals and fluid mechanics and heat transfer, methods of collection and thermal conversion, solar thermal energy storage, solar heating systems, solar refrigeration, solar thermal elective conversion. Other applications.

 

G S V L Narasimham

 

Kreith, F., and Kreider, J.F., Principles of Solar Thermal Engineering, McGraw Hill, 1978

Duffie, J.A., and Beckman, W.A., Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes, John Wiley and Sons, 1991.

Meinel, A.B., and Meinel, F.P., Applied Solar Energy.

 

ME 293 (AUG) 3:0

Fracture Mechanics

 

Evoluation of fracture mechanics, elements of elasticity and plasticity. Energetics of fracture, energy release rate and stress intensity factor, mixed mode fracture mechanics. Dynamic fracture; nonlinear fracture mechanics J integral, elastic – plastic crack tips fields, J integral testing, J controlled crack growth and stability and engineering approach to plastic fracture, impact phenomena and fragmentation. 

 

K R Y Simha and R Narasimhan

 

Broek D., Elementary Engineering Fracture Mechanics, North-Holland.

Kanninen, M.K., and Popelar, C.H., Advanced Fracture Mechanics Oxford, 1985.

Anderson, T.A., Fracture Mechanics, Fundamentals and application, CRC Press, 1994.

Simha, K.R.Y., Fracture Mechanics for Modern Engineering Design, Universities Press 2001.

 

 

ME 295 (JAN) 3:0

Geometric Modelling for Computer Aided Design

 

Representation of curves and surfaces-parametric form, Bezier, B. Spline and NURBS, intersection of curves and surfaces, interpolation, topology of surfaces, classification, characterization, elements of graph theory; representation of solids: graph based models and point set models, Euler operators, boundary evaluation, computation of global properties of solids.

 

B Gurumoorthy and Dibakar Sen

 

Piegl, L., and Tiller, W., The NURBS Book, Springer-Verlag, 1995.

Mantyla, M., An Introduction to Solid Modeling, Computer Science Press, 1988.

Carter, J.S., How Surfaces Intersect in Space – An Introduction to Topology, World Scientific, 1993.

Fomenko, A.T., and Kunii, T.L., Topological Modeling for Visualization, Springer - Verlag, 1997.

 

 

ME 297 (AUG/JAN) 1:0

Departmental Seminar

 

The student is expected to attend and actively take part in ME departmental seminars for one semester during his/her stay. A ‘pass’ in the course is obtained by attendance of at least 80%

Faculty Co-ordinator

 

ME 298 (JAN) 3:0

Fluid Turbulence

 

Stability of fluid flows, transition to turbulence-introduction to turbulence, Reynolds averaged equations, statistical description of turbulence, vorticity dynamics, similarity methods, turbulent shear flows, Rayleigh Benard convention, modelling and numerical methods.

 

J H Arakeri

References?

Pre-requisite: Consent of Instructor

 

ME 299 (JAN) 0:18

(Fourth Term of Study)

 

Dissertation Project

Refer August Term for course content.

 

Faculty

 

 

ME 299 (AUG) 0:06

(Third Term of Study)

 

Dissertation Project

The M. E. Project is aimed at training students to analyse independently any problem posed to them. The project may be a purely analytical piece of work, a completely experimental one, or a combination of both. In a few cases, the project may also involve sophisticated design work. The project report is expected to show clarity of thought and expression, critical appreciation of the existing literature and analytical and/or experimental or design skill.

 

Faculty