We give an analysis of the stability and uniqueness of the simply laminated microstructure for all three tetragonal to monoclinic martensitic transformations. The energy density for tetragonal to monoclinic transformations has four rotationally invariant wells since the transformation has four variants. One of these tetragonal to monoclinic martensitic transformations corresponds to the shearin...

High temperature differences between the ceramic parts in thermo-electric modules (TEMs) intended for high temperature applications makes the TEMs vulnerable to the elevated thermal stress leading to possible structural (mechanical) failures. The problem of reducing the interfacial shearing stress in a TEM structure is addressed using analytical and finite-element-analysis (FEA) modeling. The m...

This study focuses on the dynamics of the Taylor-Couette Vortex Flow (TVF) in a photo-bioreactor in which CO2 is changed to O2 with high efficiency by the photosynthesis ability of micro algae. Stirring by means of a screw propeller is generally used for a simple agitation. However, the problem is that there exists a very high shearing flow region just near the propeller, which causes the destr...

We present here both analytical and numerical results of hydrodynamic stability investigations of rota-tionally supported circumstellar flows using the shearing box formalism. Asymptotic scaling arguments justifying the shearing box approximation are systematically derived, showing that there exist two limits which we call small shearing box (SSB) and large shearing box (LSB). The physical mean...