Dept. of Mechanical Engineering - Master's degree
Recent Submissions
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Design, manufacturing, and rough terrain analysis of a collision resilient foldable, adjustable wheeled miniature robot: FAWSCY
(Bilkent University, 2021-02)FAWSCY: Foldable Adjustable Wheeled Stringy Clumsy Robot is a foldable, collision resilient, adjustable wheeled robot which can run through different ter-rains and inclined surfaces, to inspect areas which are unavailable ... -
Viscoelastic effects in lubricated contacts in the presence of cavitation
(Bilkent University, 2021-01)A model is proposed to study the influence of fluid viscoelasticity on the performance of lubricated contacts in the presence of cavitation. Previous studies on viscoelastic lubricants did not consider the presence of ... -
A spectral vanishing viscosity method for large-eddy simulations of two-fluid flow
(Bilkent University, 2021-01)DNS studies of turbulent flows have proved to be inefficient in terms of time and computational resources. On the other hand, Large-eddy simulation (LES) is an effective approach towards modeling turbulence. The current ... -
Theoretical and experimental analysis of a soft and miniature quadruped
(Bilkent University, 2020-12)Multi-body dynamic modeling of non-rigid and legged robots is an active research area with the goal of investigating the interaction of a robot with its environment and its resulting locomotion. The results of such studies ... -
Bow tie shaped coplanar waveguide microwave resonators for single cell detection, flow rate measurements, and nanopore sensing of viruses
(Bilkent University, 2020-10)Measurement sensitivity of different biosensing applications can be enhanced by using the microwave resonators. In the first application, microwave sensors based on bow tie shaped coplanar waveguide (CPW) resonator was ... -
Design, control, modeling, and locomotion analysis of a multi-legged modular miniature robot with soft backbones
(Bilkent University, 2020-08)Soft Modular Legged roBot (SMoLBot) is a legged, foldable, modular, miniature robot with soft backbones. SMoLBot’s body and locomotion mechanisms are folded out of acetate sheets and its compliant connection mechanisms are ... -
Numerical and experimental investigation of the effect of channel geometry on cavity formation in microfluidic channels
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)Cavitation formation in low pressure regions of a flow is a chaotic distortion in fluid mechanics. Due to the complicated nature of multiphase flows, its modelling is expensive in terms of time and computational power. ... -
Nonlinear identification and optimal feedforward friction compensation for a motion platform
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)We present a method of nonlinear identification and optimal feedforward friction compensation procedure for an industrial single degree of freedom motion platform. The platform suffers from nonlinear dynamic effects, such as ... -
A control allocation technique to recover from driver-induced oscillations
(Bilkent University, 2019-12)The focus of this thesis is the study of driver induced oscillations. When the rear tires of a car are force saturated due to aggressive driver behaviour, high velocity on a slippery road, sudden steering action or heavy ... -
Spatio-temporal evolution of evaporating liquid films sheared by a gas
(Bilkent University, 2019-11)The main purpose of this work is the investigation of the spatio-temporal characteristics of an evaporating liquid film under the in uence of inertia, hydrostatic pressure, thermocapillary effects, vapor recoil, and ... -
Microfluidic synthesis of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) based organic-inorganic hybrid microparticles
(Bilkent University, 2019-10)Utilizing micro uidic systems inevitably changes tools used in chemistry due to advantages such as handling differential volume, controlled reaction environment, enhanced mixing performance, less time required to complete ... -
Development of a non-ordinary state-based peridynamics solver
(Bilkent University, 2019-10)Damage prediction is crucial in the design process of engineering structures to ensure structural integrity. The limitations of empirical methods and the high costs associated with experimental analyses have prompted the ... -
Design, control, fabrication and maneuverability analysis of an untethered miniature soft robot
(Bilkent University, 2019-10)As the robotics field grows, it searches for new potential workspaces to be interacting with. The conventional robotics, which involves utilization of robots made out of hard materials like metals and hard plastics, has ... -
Three-dimensional modeling of heat transfer and fluid flow in a flat-grooved heat pipe
(Bilkent University, 2019-10)Flat-grooved heat pipes (FGHP) are widely used in many applications from thermal management of electronic devices to space industry due to their robustness and ability of dissipating heat from the system effectively and ... -
Collision resilient foldable micro aerial robot
(Bilkent University, 2019-10)Collision management strategies are integral part of micro air vehicles for the reliability of their operation. Collision avoidance strategies require enhanced environmental and situational awareness for generating evasive ... -
Investigating the effect of CP titanium microstructure on the mechanics of microscale machining
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)Metal cutting in microscale brings along many challenges and unanswered questions. Mechanical response of the material to the micro-cutting process is one of them, since feed values and the edge radius of the tool can ... -
Single nanoparticle sensing with nanoelectromechanical resonators operating at nonlinear regime
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)Machines working at the nanoscale dimensions o er an important technological opportunity for healthcare and biomedical screening. State-of-the-art nanomachines are usually operated at small displacements, since engineering ... -
An experimental approach to nanomechanical buckling and snap-through phenomenon
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)Buckling has received little attention as a valuable resource for engineering applications since it is regarded as a type of failure in civil and mechanical engineering. Nevertheless, buckling has a great potential in ... -
Nonlinear modeling of non-Newtonian hydrodynamic lubrication
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Lubrication is essential to improve the performance of sliding surfaces. Power transmission in mechanical and biological systems rely on proper lubrication to minimize wear and energy losses. However, most practical ... -
Linear stability analysis of evaporating falling liquid films
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)In order to improve our understanding of the wavy dynamics of evaporating falling liquid films, we perform a linear stability analysis using the Orr Sommerfeld (OS) eigenvalue problem. In the present work, the OS problem ...
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