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    On the improved performance of luby transform codes over selective repeat ARQ in turbulent free space optical links
    (2013) Prakash, G.; Nayak, A.; Kulkarni, M.; Acharya, S.
    Free Space Optical (FSO) links are capable of offering high data transfer rates, secure and low interference links for connectivity as a last mile solution. However, atmospheric turbulence can degrade the performance for distances over 1 km. This degradation is in the form of packet loss and hence drop in the error performance. Error Control Coding (ECC) can be used to mitigate the effects of the atmospheric turbulence. In this paper we prove analytically and verify through simulations that Luby Transform(LT) Codes show an improved performance over Automatic Repeat Request(ARQ) schemes for FSO transmission. FSO systems are limited by the safety limits of the input power to the laser transmitter. A notable contribution in this paper is that we prove that this improvement with LT codes is within Maximum Permissible Exposure (MPE) limit for an FSO link for a BER performance of 10-5. © 2013 IEEE.
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    Experimental Evaluation of Reliable Underwater Optical Communication in the Presence of Turbulence and Blockage
    (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020) Prasad Naik, R.; Shripathi Acharya, U.; Suyan, N.K.
    In this paper, we have evaluated the performance of underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) link in the presence of turbulence, air bubbles and blockage of 2.5-m-length channel. To mitigate the effects of turbulence and air bubbles, we have employed channel coding and receiver diversity combining techniques. Blocking causes the burst errors, and to mitigate the effect of blocking, we have employed interleaved channel-coded receiver diversity combining technique. Bit error rate (BER) performance of UWOC system evolved, and improvement in BER is achieved by employing channel codes, receiver diversity combining and interleaved channel codes. © 2020, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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    Three-dimensional multihelical microfluidic mixers for rapid mixing of liquids
    (2008) Verma, M.K.S.; Ganneboyina, S.R.; Vinayak Rakshith, R.; Ghatak, A.
    Rapid mixing of liquids is important for most microfluidic applications. However, mixing is slow in conventional micromixers, because, in the absence of turbulence, mixing here occurs by molecular diffusion. Recent experiments show that mixing can be enhanced by generating transient flow resulting in chaotic advection. While these are planar microchannels, here we show that three-dimensional orientations of fluidic vessels and channels can enhance significantly mixing of liquids. In particular, we present a novel, multihelical microchannel system built in soft gels, for which die helix angle, helix radius, axial length, and even the asymmetry of the channel cross section are easily tailored to achieve the desired mixing. Mixing efficiency increases with helix angle and asymmetry of channel cross section, which leads to orders of magnitude reduction in mixing length over conventional mixers. This new scheme of generating 3D microchannels will help in miniaturization of devices, process intensification, and generation of multifunctional process units for microfluidic applications. © 2008 American Chemical Society.
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    Removal of ammonia and particulate matter using a modified turbulent wet scrubbing system
    (2012) Byeon, S.-H.; Lee, B.-K.; Raj Mohan, B.
    Conventional scrubbers are typically modified to serve the needs of modern industries that discharge effluents that cause synergetic, adverse effects on the environment. We designed and developed a modified turbulent wet scrubber (MTWS) to remove air pollutants as they emerge from a coal furnace. Experiments were conducted to estimate the pressure drop and the efficiencies of ammonia gas and particulate removal via the MTWS. The optimum water levels and gas flow rates for effective scrubbing of ammonia gas at different concentrations and particulate matter at different feed rates were estimated. For ammonia gas at a concentration of 45 ppm, a gas flow rate of 3.5 m 3/s and a water level of 58 cm in MTWS and position B (central position of the nozzle) in the water level of the nozzle yielded efficient ammonia gas removal for the given time. Similarly, for a fly ash feeding rate of 140 mg/min, the same gas flow rate and water level in the MTWS yielded high efficiencies even for particles at the submicron level. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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    A numerical investigation on heat transfer and emissions characteristics of impinging radial jet reattachment combustion (RJRC) flame
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2015) Tajik, A.R.; Hindasageri, V.
    Radial Jet Reattachment combustion (RJRC) flame jet is used in applications where the impingement surface is delicate and demands low impingement pressure. In the present study, a two dimensional axisymmetric computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation is carried out. The turbulence-combustion interaction in the flame field is modeled in a k-?/EDM framework. The distribution of heat flux, pressure coefficient and emissions is presented for varying Reynolds number (Re = 1000 to 30,000) and different non-dimensional nozzle tip to plate spacing (X/R = 0.5 to 3). It is found that the peak heat flux increases and pressure coefficient reduces significantly with the increase in Reynolds number. However, with the increase in the nozzle tip to plate spacing the peak heat flux and the pressure coefficient decrease. Furthermore, the concentrations of NOx and CO emissions increase with the increase in Reynolds number and the distance of the location of the nozzle tip from the impingement plate. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Nonlinear control of wind turbine with optimal power capture and load mitigation
    (Springer Verlag service@springer.de, 2016) RAJENDRAN, R.; Jena, D.
    The main control objectives associated with the variable speed wind turbine is to extract maximum power at below rated wind speed (region 2) and to regulate the power at above rated wind speed (region 3). This paper proposes a nonlinear framework to achieve the above two control objectives. The paper discusses about the application of an integral sliding mode control (ISMC) in region 2 and a fuzzy based proportional integral (PI) control in region 3. Same ISMC is adopted for the stable switching between operating regions (transition region 2.5) and the control input maintains the continuity at the instant of switching. Lyapunov stability criterion is used to prove the stability of ISMC. The controllers are tested for different wind speed profiles with different turbulence component. Finally the performances of the proposed controllers are tested with nonlinear Fatigue, Aerodynamics, Structures, and Turbulence WT model and the results are compared with the existing baseline + PI controllers. © 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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    Experimental demonstration and analysis of underwater wireless optical communication link: Design, BCH coded receiver diversity over the turbid and turbulent seawater channels
    (John Wiley and Sons Inc. P.O.Box 18667 Newark NJ 07191-8667, 2020) Naik, P.N.; Udupi, S.A.; Krishnan, P.
    In this article, we demonstrate an experimental underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) system in the presence of air bubbles and weak turbulence for varying turbidity levels of the aquatic optical medium. The major limiting factors of the UWOC system are: absorption, scattering, and beam fluctuations; these effects can be mitigated by employing transmitter/receiver diversity schemes and channel codes. In this proposed system, we have employed receiver diversity (selection combining (SC), majority logic combining (MLC), and equal gain combining (EGC)) techniques augmented with Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) codes to improve the performance of on-off keying modulated UWOC system. The bit error rate (BER) expressions are derived for the proposed system and results are validated using analytic and experimental means. The results show that the proposed system, that is, the receiver employing SC, MLC, and EGC receiver combining techniques augmented with the BCH code provides a transmit power gain of 4, 6, and 8 dB respectively, when compared with the uncoded single-input single-output system, at a BER of 10?5. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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    Co-operative RF-UWOC link performance over hyperbolic tangent log-normal distribution channel with pointing errors
    (Elsevier B.V., 2020) Naik, P.N.; Udupi, S.A.; Krishnan, P.
    In this paper, we have proposed an analytic model and determined the outage probability and average bit error rate (BER) performance of a co-operative radio frequency ? underwater wireless optical communication (RF?UWOC) system. In recent years, UWOC has attracted attention as a useful enabler of underwater activities such as climate and ocean monitoring, surveillance, ocean exploration, underwater wireless optical sensor networks (UWOSN) and internet of underwater things (IoUT) because of its high speed, ease of deployability and wide bandwidth availability which is free of licensing fees. The proposed co-operative RF–UWOC system is designed to establish a connection between an underwater vehicle inside the ocean to a terrestrial ground station using decode?forward and amplify?forward relays. The RF link between the terrestrial ground station to relay is modeled as a Rayleigh distributed channel. The UWOC link between the relay to the underwater vehicle is modeled as being perturbed by the hyperbolic tangent log-normal (HTLN) distribution. To the best of our knowledge, it is for the first time that the perturbations due to weak oceanic turbulence have been modeled using HTLN distribution. This distribution is a member of the class of log-normal distributions derived from hyperbolic tangent distribution. Novel closed-form expressions have been derived for the outage probability and average BER for various modulation techniques that can be employed in this system. The analytical results are evaluated and validated with Monte-Carlo simulations in the presence and absence of pointing errors. The results show that the impact of pointing errors in the RF-UWOC system is to impose an additional SNR penalty of at-least 10 dB to obtain a BER of 10?6 when compared with the system operating without pointing errors. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
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    Asymptotic bit error rate analysis of convergent underwater wireless optical communication-free-space optical system over combined channel model for different turbulence and weather conditions with pointing errors
    (SPIE, 2020) Bhargava Kumar, B.K.; Krishnan, P.
    The differential phase-shift keying-based dual-hop underwater wireless optical communication-free-space optics (UWOC-FSO) convergent system is proposed for UOWSNs and Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) applications. In the proposed system, the collected sensor data are transmitted to a decode-and-forward relay using underwater optical wireless communication links modeled as gamma-gamma distribution. The relay transmits the signal to the terrestrial destination using free-space optical link modeled as Malaga distribution. The end-to-end performance of the system (novel expression for asymptotic bit error rate) is derived and analyzed over combined channel model (including the effects of attenuation, turbulence, and pointing errors for both FSO and UWOC channels). The in-depth study is carried out for different weather conditions of FSO (attenuation - very clear, haze, rain, and fog; turbulence - weak and strong; and pointing error - weak and strong based on the g values 1, 2, and 6) and UWOC (attenuation - clear, coastal ocean, and turbid harbor; turbulence - weak, moderate, and strong; and pointing error - weak and strong based on the g values 1, 2, and 6), respectively. The proposed system is highly useful in coastal environments, where the climate is changing adequately as clear, rain, haze, and fog. © 2020 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).
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    Analysis of M-QAM Modulated Underwater Wireless Optical Communication System for Reconfigurable UOWSNs Employed in River Meets Ocean Scenario
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020) Uppalapati, A.; Naik, R.P.; Krishnan, K.
    In this paper, the bit error rate (BER) performance of underwater wireless optical communication system employing with M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation is proposed for underwater optical wireless sensor networks (UOWSN) in river meets ocean scenario. The underwater channel degradation effects such as absorption, scattering and oceanic turbulence is taken into account. The oceanic turbulence is modelled by the Gamma-Gamma distribution. The first time, we proposed re-configurable UOWSN for the real time scenario of the river meets the ocean and derived the novel closed form analytical BER expressions of the proposed system over Gamma-Gamma turbulence with attenuation effects. The impact of oceanic turbulence parameters such as the variations of temperature, kinetic energy, viscosity, salinity, link range and the water type of system performance is investigated for river water, mixed water (river and ocean water) and ocean water. The proposed system and the related analysis will be highly useful in UOWSN and the Internet of underwater thing (IoUT) applications. © 1967-2012 IEEE.