Optical microcavities (OMs) are receiving increasing attention owing to their potential applications ranging from cavity quantum electrodynamics, optical detection to photonic devices. Recently, rolled-up structures have been demonstrated as OMs which have gained considerable attention owing to their excellent customizability. To fully exploit this customizability, asymmetric and topological rolled-up OMs are proposed and investigated in addition to conventional rolled-up OMs in this thesis. By doing so, novel phenomena and applications are demonstrated in OMs. The fabrication of conventional rolled-up OMs is presented in details. Then, dynamic mode tuning by a near-field probe is performed on a conventional rolled-up OM. Next, mode splitting in rolled-up OMs is investigated. The effect of single nanoparticles on mode splitting in a rolled-up OM is studied. Because of a non-synchronized oscillating shift for different azimuthal split modes induced by a single nanoparticle at different positions, the position of the nanoparticle can be determined on the rolled-up OM. Moreover, asymmetric rolled-up OMs are fabricated for the purpose of introducing coupling between spin and orbital angular momenta (SOC) of light into OMs. Elliptically polarized modes are observed due to the SOC of light. Modes with an elliptical polarization can also be modeled as coupling between the linearly polarized TE and TM mode in asymmetric rolled-up OMs. Furthermore, by adding a helical geometry to rolled-up structures, Berry phase of light is introduced into OMs. A -π Berry phase is generated for light in topological rolled-up OMs so that modes have a half-integer number of wavelengths. In order to obtain a deeper understanding for existing rolled-up OMs and to develop the new type of rolled-up OMs, complete theoretical models are also presented in this thesis.

Ce travail est motivé par une demande croissante d'informations quantitatives sur l'évolution du littoral. Nous avons étudié deux approches pour l'analyse de la dynamique sédimentaire. Les deux techniques aboutissent à la résolution de modèles non-locaux pour le fond. L'étude mathématique a porté sur l'analyse de l'existence et l'unicité de perturbations autour des ondes progressives solutions du modèle de Fowler. Nous avons montré que les solutions constantes de l'équation de Fowler sont instables. Pour la simulation numérique de ce modèle, nous avons dans un premier temps considéré des schémas aux différences finies explicites pour lesquels nous avons obtenu des critères de stabilité numérique. Dans un second temps, nous avons utilisé une approche par splitting de sorte à pouvoir résoudre la convection, puis la diffusion et l'anti-diffusion fractionnaire de façon exacte. Ensuite, il est apparu que nous pouvions utiliser les principes de minimisation pour décrire l'évolution d'un lit érodable sous l'action de l'eau où le fond est considéré comme une structure déformable de faible rigidité s'adaptant en minimisant une certaine fonctionnelle d'énergie. Il est intéressant de constater que cette seconde approche peut être liée à la première car elle débouche aussi sur une équation de type Exner avec un terme non-local. En nous inspirant du modèle morphodynamique non-local de Fowler, nous concluons cette thèse par une application exotique au traitement de signal où nous proposons une nouvelle méthode de filtrage. / This work is motivated by a growing demand for quantitative information on the evolution of the coastline.We have studied two approaches for the analysis of sand morphodynamics.Both techniques lead to the resolution of nonlocal models for the seabottom.The mathematical study focused on the analysis of the existence and uniqueness of perturbations around the travelling-waves solutions of the Fowler model. We have shown that constant solutions of Fowler's equation are unstable.For the numerical simulation of this model, we have first considered explicit finite difference schemes for which we got numerical stability criteria. We have next used an approach by splitting method in order to solve first the convection, then the diffusion/fractional anti-diffusion exactly. We have also used minimization principles to describe the evolution of an erodible bed sheared by a fluid flow where the seabed is considered as a deformable structure with low stiffness whichadapts itself by minimizing a certain energy functional. It is interesting to note that this secondapproach can be linked to the first one because it also leads to a new Exner equation with a nonlocal term for the flux. Inspired by Fowler's morphodynamical model, we conclude this dissertation with an unexpected application to signal processing.

In this paper we propose an algorithm for solving systems of coupled monotone inclusions in Hilbert spaces. The operators arising in each of the inclusions of the system are processed in each iteration separately, namely, the single-valued are evaluated explicitly (forward steps), while the set-valued ones via their resolvents (backward steps). In addition, most of the steps in the iterative scheme can be executed simultaneously, this making the method applicable to a variety of convex minimization problems. The numerical performances of the proposed splitting algorithm are emphasized through applications in average consensus on colored networks and image classification via support vector machines.

Time splitting is a numerical procedure used in solution of partial differential equations whose solutions allow multiple time scales. Numerical schemes are split for handling the stiffness in equations, i.e. when there are multiple time scales with a few time scales being smaller than the others. When there are such terms with smaller time scales, due to the Courant number restriction, the computational cost becomes high if these terms are treated explicitly. In the present work a nonlinear advective equation is solved numerically using different techniques based on a generalised framework for splitting methods. The nonlinear advective equation was chosen because it has an analytical solution making comparisons with numerical schemes amenable and also because its nonlinearity mimics the equations encountered in atmospheric modelling. Using the nonlinear advective equation as a test bed, an analysis of the splitting methods and their influence on the split solutions has been made. An understanding of influence of splitting schemes requires knowledge of behaviour of unsplit schemes beforehand. Hence a study on unsplit methods has also been made. In the present work, using the nonlinear advective equation, it shown that the three time level schemes have high phase errors and underestimate energy (even though they have a higher order of accuracy in time). It is also found that the leap-frog method, which is used widely in atmospheric modelling, is the worst among examined unsplit methods. The semi implicit method, again a popular splitting method with atmospheric modellers is the worst among examined split methods. Three time-level schemes also need explicit filtering to remove the computational mode. This filtering can have a significant impact on the obtained numerical solutions, and hence three-time level schemes appear to be unattractive in the context of the nonlinear convective equation. Based on this experience, splitting methods for the two-time level schemes is proposed. These schemes realistically capture the phase and energy of the nonlinear advective equation.

La simulation d’écoulements incompressibles pose de nombreuses difficultés. Une première est la question de savoir comment traiter la contrainte d’incompressibilité et le couplage vitesse/pression afin d’obtenir une solution précise à moindre coût. Pour cela, nous nous intéressons en particulier à deux méthodes de time splitting : la correction de pression et la correction de vitesse. Une seconde difficulté porte sur des conditions limites de sortie. Nous nous intéressons ici à deux d’entre elles : la condition limite de traction et la condition limite d’Orlanski. Après avoir détaillé les difficultés pouvant apparaître lors de l’implémentation des méthodes de time-splitting, nous proposons une nouvelle implémentation de la condition limite de traction qui permet d’améliorer les ordres de convergence obtenus. Nous nous intéressons ensuite à la condition limite d’Orlanski qui nécessite une certaine vitesse d’advection C dans la direction normale à la limite dont nous proposons ici une nouvelle définition. Nos propositions sont confrontées à de multiples écoulements physiques afin de valider leurs comportements : l’écoulement en aval d’une marche descendante, l’écoulement au niveau d’une bifurcation,l’écoulement autour d’un obstacle et des écoulements de Poiseuille-Rayleigh-Bénard. / One of the understudied difficulties in the simulation of incompressible flows is how to treat the incompressibilityconstraint and the velocity/pressure coupling in order to obtain an accurate solution at low computationnalcost. In this context, we develop two methods: pressure-correction and velocity-correction. An anotherdifficulty is due to the boundary conditions. We study here two of them : the traction boundary condition andthe Orlanski boundary condition. After having developed the difficulties that appears when implementing timesplittingmethods, we propose a new way to enforce the traction boundary condition which improves the orderof convergence. Then we propose a new definition of the advective velocity C which is needed for the Orlanskiboundary condition. Our propositions are validated against multiple physical flows: flow over a backward facingstep, flow around a biffurcation, flow around an obstacle and several Poiseuille-Rayleigh-Bénard flows.

Cette thèse aborde la résolution des problèmes d'interaction fluide-structure par un algorithme consistant en un couplage entre deux solveurs : un pour le fluide et un pour la structure. Pour assurer la cohérence entre les maillages fluide et structure, on considère également une discrétisation de chaque domaine par volumes finis. En raison des difficultés de décomposition du domaine en sous-domaines, nous considérons pour chaque environnement un algorithme parallèle de multi-splitting (ou multi-décomposition) qui correspond à une présentation unifiée des méthodes de sous-domaines avec ou sans recouvrement. Cette méthode combine plusieurs applications de points fixes contractantes et nous montrons que, sous des hypothèses appropriées, chaque application de points fixes est contractante dans des espaces de dimensions finies normés par des normes hilbertiennes et non-hilbertiennes. De plus, nous montrons qu'une telle étude est valable pour les résolutions parallèles synchrones et plus généralement asynchrones de grands systèmes linéaires apparaissant lors de la discrétisation des problèmes d'interaction fluide-structure et peut être étendue au cas où le déplacement de la structure est soumis à des contraintes. Par ailleurs, nous pouvons également considérer l’analyse de la convergence de ces méthodes de multi-splitting parallèles asynchrones par des techniques d’ordre partiel, lié au principe du maximum discret, aussi bien dans le cadre linéaire que dans celui obtenu lorsque les déplacements de la structure sont soumis à des contraintes. Nous réalisons des simulations parallèles pour divers cas test fluide-structure sur différents clusters, en considérant des communications bloquantes et non bloquantes. Dans ce dernier cas nous avons eu à résoudre une difficulté d'implémentation dans la mesure où une erreur irrécupérable survenait lors de l'exécution ; cette difficulté a été levée par introduction d’une méthode assurant la terminaison de toutes les communications non bloquantes avant la mise à jour du maillage. Les performances des simulations parallèles sont présentées et analysées. Enfin, nous appliquons la méthodologie présentée précédemment à divers contextes d'interaction fluide-structure de type industriel sur des maillages non structurés, ce qui constitue une difficulté supplémentaire. / This thesis deals with the solution of fluid-structure interaction problems by an algorithm consisting in the coupling between two solvers: one for the fluid and one for the structure. In order to ensure the consistency between fluid and structure meshes, we also consider a discretization of each domain by finite volumes. Due to the difficulties of decomposing the domain into sub-domains, we consider a parallel multi-splitting algorithm for each environment which represents a unified presentation of sub-domain methods with or without overlapping. This method combines several contracting fixed point mappings and we show that, under appropriate assumptions, each fixed point mapping is contracting in finite dimensional spaces normalized by Hilbertian and non-Hilbertian norms. In addition, we show that such a study is valid for synchronous parallel solutions and more generally asynchronous of large linear systems arising from the discretization of fluidstructure interaction problems and can be extended to cases where the displacement of the structure is subject to constraints. Moreover, we can also consider the analysis of the convergence of these asynchronous parallel multi-splitting methods by partial ordering techniques, linked to the discrete maximum principle, both in the linear frame and in the one obtained when the structure's displacements are subjected to constraints. We carry out parallel simulations for various fluidstructure test cases on different clusters considering blocking and non-blocking communications. In the latter case, we had to solve an implementation problem due to the fact that an unrecoverable error occurred during execution; this issue has been overcome by introducing a method to ensure the termination of all non-blocking communications prior to the mesh update. Performances of parallel simulations are presented ans analyzed. Finally, we apply the methodology presented above to various fluid-structure interaction cases on unstructured meshes, which represents an additional difficulty.

Submitted by AMÉRICO BIANCALANA NETO null (abiancalana@confab.com.br) on 2016-09-21T15:55:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO_Américo Biancalana Neto.pdf: 6507235 bytes, checksum: 42c17d17ef5a510dd34876071a8ff043 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Juliano Benedito Ferreira (julianoferreira@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-09-26T19:52:21Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 biancalananeto_a_me_guara.pdf: 6507235 bytes, checksum: 42c17d17ef5a510dd34876071a8ff043 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-26T19:52:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 biancalananeto_a_me_guara.pdf: 6507235 bytes, checksum: 42c17d17ef5a510dd34876071a8ff043 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-22 / Os processos tradicionais de produção de tubos API 5CT N80Q envolvem processos de bobinamento e desbobinamento, conformação por dobramento, soldagem, etapas de usinagem e expansão dos diâmetros interno e externo, tratamentos térmicos de têmpera e revenimento e endireitamento. Essas etapas são responsáveis por introduzir tensões residuais no material constituinte do tubo. Estas tensões residuais podem alcançar valores próximos aos do limite de escoamento do material base do tubo, podendo produzir distorções geométricas, falhas prematuras, baixa resistência à corrosão, e diminuição na sua capacidade de absorção de cargas em trabalho. O método mais utilizado para alívio de tensões é o tratamento térmico. Porém, a aplicação de vibrações mecânicas, (Vibratory Stress Rielif) para reduzir e redistribuir as tensões residuais em estruturas conformadas a frio e em estruturas soldadas, tem sido utilizada com sucesso em várias partes do mundo, principalmente nos Estados Unidos, China e Canada. Para verificar a viabilidade deste processo, como um método alternativo para o alivio de tensões, selecionamos um tubo API 5CT 80NQ, com diâmetro de 178 mm com 8,05 mm de espessura e 3000 mm de comprimento. Os ensaios de vibração foram executados na frequência de ressonância do tubo, através de um indutor de vibração montado no seu comprimento médio, dentro de um intervalo de tempo correspondente ao seu peso. Comparando os valores de tensões residuais existentes no tubo antes e após o tratamento de vibração conseguimos uma redução média de 16% no valor das mesmas. Para a caracterização mecânica do tubo, antes e depois do processo vibratório, foram realizados os seguintes ensaios conforme a norma API 5CT 2001: impacto Charpy “V”, ensaios de tração e dureza Rockwell C, tanto no metal base do tubo, como na região da solda. Foi realizada, também, a sua caracterização micro estrutural através, microscopia ótica, antes e depois dos ensaios de vibração. Para avaliação das tensões residuais, antes e após os ensaios de vibração, foi utilizado o método de secção longitudinal de um anel (splitting ring test) conforme a norma ASTM EN 1928-13. / The traditional production processes API 5CT N80Q pipes involve coiling and uncoiling processes the plate, conformation by bending, welding, machining steps and expansion of its internal and external diameters, heat treatment of quenching and tempering and straightening. These steps are responsible for introducing residual stresses in the material of the tube. These residual stresses can reach values close to the yield strength of the pipe`s base material and may produce geometric distortions, premature failure, low corrosion resistance and reduction its capacity of absorption loads in the work. The most widely used method for relieving stress is the heat treatment. The application of mechanical vibrations, Vibratory stress relief ( VSR), to reduce and redistribute the residual stresses in cold shaped structures and welded structures, has been used with success in various parts of the world, especially the United States, China and Canada. Thus, the mechanical vibration, Vibratory stress relief (VSR), can prove to be an interesting process to relieve stress in the tubes. To verify the feasibility of this process, as an alternative method for the relief of stresses, we selected an API 5CT 80NQ tube with a diameter of 178 mm, with 8.05 mm thickness and 3000 mm in length. Vibration tests were performed in pipe resonance frequency, via a vibration-inducing mounted at its mid-length, within a time corresponding to their weight. Comparing the values of residual stress existing in the tube before and after the vibration treatment achieved a mean reduction of 16 % in the amount thereof. For the mechanical characterization of the pipe, before and after the vibration process, the following tests were conducted according to API standard 5CT 2001: Charpy 'V', tensile tests and hardness Rockwell C, both in the metal base tube, and in the weld region. It was also carried out their microstructural characterization through optical microscopy before and after the vibration tests. To evaluate the residual stress before and after the vibration tests, we used the ring splitting test according to ASTM E1928-13.

L’algorithme Adaptive Multilevel Splitting (AMS) a récemment fait son apparition dans la littérature de mathématiques appliquées, en tant que méthode de réduction de variance pour la simulation Monte Carlo de chaı̂nes de Markov. Ce travail de thèse se propose d’implémenter cette méthode de réduction de variance adaptative dans le code Monte-Carlo de transport de particules TRIPOLI-4,dédié entre autres aux études de radioprotection et d’instrumentation nucléaire. Caractérisées par de fortes atténuations des rayonnements dans la matière, ces études entrent dans la problématique du traitement d’évènements rares. Outre son implémentation inédite dans ce domaine d’application, deux nouvelles fonctionnalités ont été développées pour l’AMS, testées puis validées. La première est une procédure d’encaissement au vol permettant d’optimiser plusieurs scores en une seule simulation AMS. La seconde est une extension de l’AMS aux processus branchants, courants dans les simulations de radioprotection, par exemple lors du transport couplé de neutrons et des photons induits par ces derniers. L’efficacité et la robustesse de l’AMS dans ce nouveau cadre applicatif ont été démontrées dans des configurations physiquement très sévères (atténuations du flux de particules de plus de 10 ordres de grandeur), mettant ainsi en évidence les avantages prometteurs de l’AMS par rapport aux méthodes de réduction de variance existantes. / The Adaptive Multilevel Splitting algorithm (AMS) has recently been introduced to the field of applied mathematics as a variance reduction scheme for Monte Carlo Markov chains simulation. This Ph.D. work intends to implement this adaptative variance reduction method in the particle transport Monte Carlo code TRIPOLI-4, dedicated among others to radiation shielding and nuclear instrumentation studies. Those studies are characterized by strong radiation attenuation in matter, so that they fall within the scope of rare events analysis. In addition to its unprecedented implementation in the field of particle transport, two new features were developed for the AMS. The first is an on-the-fly scoring procedure, designed to optimize the estimation of multiple scores in a single AMS simulation. The second is an extension of the AMS to branching processes, which are common in radiation shielding simulations. For example, in coupled neutron-photon simulations, the neutrons have to be transported alongside the photons they produce. The efficiency and robustness of AMS in this new framework have been demonstrated in physically challenging configurations (particle flux attenuations larger than 10 orders of magnitude), which highlights the promising advantages of the AMS algorithm over existing variance reduction techniques.

The diploma thesis focuses on comparation of taxation of family in the Czech Republic and selected OECD countries. The first part summarizes theoretical knowledge about personal income tax, its structural components and basic information about taxation of personal income according to national regulations. Second part analyses taxation of the incomes from employment in the Czech Republic, Ireland and Germany. The last part gives suggestions and recommendations for the Czech Republic.

Bc. Jaroslav Simcik Construction of hydraulic wood-splitting machine DP, Institute of production machines, systems and robotics, 2010, p. 60, fig. 30, appendices 7, This master ´s thesis is concerned with the wood-processing technology with a focus on the construction of hydraulic wood splitter machine with a force 120 kN.