Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Nakshatrala, Kalyana"
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Bridges, Ronald 1980- (2011-08-02)In this dissertation, we use the second law of thermodynamics to find restrictions on the Gibbs potential so that there can be no dissipation associated with the deformation, in any process. We find that the use of the ...
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Lacroix, Daniel Edward (2012-07-16)Blood is a complex mixture of formed cellular elements, proteins, and ions dissolved in a solution. It is a difficult fluid to model because it is a shear-thinning, viscoelastic fluid that stress- relaxes. In this study, ...
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Fatima, Roma (2012-02-14)The present work seeks to investigate the thermal hydraulic (heat transfer and fluid dynamics) behavior of supercritical (Sc) fluids at both the fundamental and applied levels. The thermal hydraulics of these fluids is not ...