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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
201

On some extensions of the Tutte polynomial

Kayibi, K. K. January 2002 (has links)
No description available.
202

Computing presentations of subgroups

Payne, Oliver January 2003 (has links)
No description available.
203

On degrees of alternating and special linear groups as quotients of triangle groups

Sun, Yongzhong January 2002 (has links)
No description available.
204

Instantons, topology, and chiral symmetry breaking in QCD

Cundy, Nigel January 2003 (has links)
No description available.
205

Cycle index methods for matrix groups over finite fields

Britnell, John R. January 2003 (has links)
No description available.
206

L#kappa#-equivalence and Hanf functions for finite structures

Barker, Russell January 2002 (has links)
No description available.
207

Representation theory of symmetric groups and related algebras

Paget, Rowena January 2003 (has links)
No description available.
208

Power subgroups of profinite groups

Nikolov, Nikolay January 2002 (has links)
No description available.
209

Parallel algorithms for computational fluid dynamics on unstructured meshes

Borrell Pol, Ricard 31 October 2012 (has links)
La simulació numèrica directa (DNS) de fluxos complexes és actualment una utopia per la majoria d'aplicacions industrials ja que els requeriments computacionals son massa elevats. Donat un flux, la diferència entre els recursos computacionals necessaris i els disponibles és cobreix mitjançant la modelització/simplificació d'alguns termes de les equacions originals que regeixen el seu comportament. El creixement continuat dels recursos computacionals disponibles, principalment en forma de super-ordinadors, contribueix a reduir la part del flux que és necessari aproximar. De totes maneres, obtenir la eficiència esperada dels nous super-ordinadors no és una tasca senzilla i, per aquest motiu, part de la recerca en el camp de la Mecànica de Fluids Computacional es centra en aquest objectiu. En aquest sentit, algunes contribucions s'han presentat en el marc d'aquesta tesis. El primer objectiu va ser el desenvolupament d'un codi de CFD de propòsit general i paral·lel, basat en la metodologia de volums finits en malles no estructurades, per resoldre problemes de multi-física. Aquest codi, anomenat TermoFluids (TF), té un disseny orientat a objectes i pensat per ser usat de forma altament eficient en els super-ordinadors actuals. Amb el temps, ha esdevingut pel grup una eina fonamental en projectes tant de recerca bàsica com d'interès industrial. En el context d'aquesta tesis, el treball s'ha focalitzat en el desenvolupament de dos de les llibreries més bàsiques de TermoFluids: i) La Basics Objects Library (BOL), que es una plataforma de software sobre la qual estan programades la resta de llibreries del codi, i que conté els mètodes algebraics i geomètrics fonamentals per la implementació paral·lela dels algoritmes de discretització, ii) la Linear Solvers Library (LSL), que conté un gran nombre de mètodes per resoldre els sistemes d'equacions lineals derivats de les discretitzacions. El primer capítol d'aquesta tesi conté les principals idees subjacents al disseny i la implementació de la BOL i la LSL, juntament amb alguns exemples i algunes aplicacions industrials. En els capítols posteriors hi ha una explicació detallada de solvers específics per algunes aplicacions concretes. En el segon capítol, es presenta un solver paral·lel i directe per la resolució de l'equació de Poisson per casos en els quals una de les direccions del domini té condicions d'homogeneïtat. En la simulació de fluxos incompressibles, l'equació de Poisson es resol almenys una vegada en cada pas de temps, convertint-se en una de les parts més costoses i difícils de paral·lelitzar del codi. El mètode que proposem és una combinació d'una descomposició directa de Schur (DDS) i una diagonalització de Fourier. La darrera descompon el sistema original en un conjunt de sub-sistemes 2D independents que es resolen mitjançant l'algorisme DDS. Atès que no s'imposen restriccions a les direccions no periòdiques del domini, aquest mètode és aplicable a la resolució de problemes discretitzats mitjançat l'extrusió de malles 2D no estructurades. L'escalabilitat d'aquest mètode ha estat provada amb èxit amb un màxim de 8192 CPU per malles de fins a ~10⁹ volums de control. En el darrer capitol capítol, es presenta un mètode de resolució per l'equació de Transport de Boltzmann (BTE). La estratègia emprada es basa en el mètode d'Ordenades Discretes i pot ser aplicat en discretitzacions no estructurades. El flux per a cada ordenada angular es resol amb un mètode de substitució equivalent a la resolució d'un sistema lineal triangular. La naturalesa seqüencial d'aquest procés fa de la paral·lelització de l'algoritme el principal repte. Diversos algorismes de substitució han estat analitzats, esdevenint una de les heurístiques proposades la millor opció en totes les situacions analitzades, amb excel·lents resultats. Els testos d'eficiència paral·lela s'han realitzat usant fins a 2560 CPU. / Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of complex flows is currently an utopia for most of industrial applications because computational requirements are too high. For a given flow, the gap between the required and the available computing resources is covered by modeling/simplifying of some terms of the original equations. On the other hand, the continuous growth of the computing power of modern supercomputers contributes to reduce this gap, reducing hence the unresolved physics that need to be attempted with approximated models. This growth, widely relies on parallel computing technologies. However, getting the expected performance from new complex computing systems is becoming more and more difficult, and therefore part of the CFD research is focused on this goal. Regarding to it, some contributions are presented in this thesis. The first objective was to contribute to the development of a general purpose multi-physics CFD code. referred to as TermoFluids (TF). TF is programmed following the object oriented paradigm and designed to run in modern parallel computing systems. It is also intensively involved in many different projects ranging from basic research to industry applications. Besides, one of the strengths of TF is its good parallel performance demonstrated in several supercomputers. In the context of this thesis, the work was focused on the development of two of the most basic libraries that compose TF: I) the Basic Objects Library (BOL), which is a parallel unstructured CFD application programming interface, on the top of which the rest of libraries that compose TF are written, ii) the Linear Solvers Library (LSL) containing many different algorithms to solve the linear systems arising from the discretization of the equations. The first chapter of this thesis contains the main ideas underlying the design and the implementation of the BOL and LSL libraries, together with some examples and some industrial applications. A detailed description of some application-specific linear solvers included in the LSL is carried out in the following chapters. In the second chapter, a parallel direct Poisson solver restricted to problems with one uniform periodic direction is presented. The Poisson equation is solved, at least, once per time-step when modeling incompressible flows, becoming one of the most time consuming and difficult to parallelize parts of the code. The solver here proposed is a combination of a direct Schur-complement based decomposition (DSD) and a Fourier diagonalization. The latter decomposes the original system into a set of mutually independent 2D sub-systems which are solved by means of the DSD algorithm. Since no restrictions are imposed in the non-periodic directions, the overall algorithm is well-suited for solving problems discretized on extruded 2D unstructured meshes. The scalability of the solver has been successfully tested using up to 8192 CPU cores for meshes with up to 10 9 grid points. In the last chapter, a solver for the Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE) is presented. It can be used to solve radiation phenomena interacting with flows. The solver is based on the Discrete Ordinates Method and can be applied to unstructured discretizations. The flux for each angular ordinate is swept across the computational grid, within a source iteration loop that accounts for the coupling between the different ordinates. The sequential nature of the sweep process makes the parallelization of the overall algorithm the most challenging aspect. Several parallel sweep algorithms, which represent different options of interleaving communications and calculations, are analyzed. One of the heuristics proposed consistently stands out as the best option in all the situations analyzed. With this algorithm, good scalability results have been achieved regarding both weak and strong speedup tests with up to 2560 CPUs.
210

Free products and continuous bundles of C*-algebras

Catterall, Stephen January 2003 (has links)
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the properties of free products of C*-algebras and continuous bundles of C*-algebras. We also consider how these two areas are connected. In the first chapter we present background material relevant to the thesis. We discuss nuclearity, exactness and Hilbert C*-modules. Then we review the definitions and properties of bundles and free products of C*-algebras. The second chapter considers reduced amalgamated free products of C*-algebras. We show that, if the initial conditional expectations involved are all faithful, then the resulting free product conditional expectation is also faithful. In the third chapter we are interested in the properties of reduced free product C*-algebras. We introduce the orthounitary basis concept for unital C*-algebras with faithful traces and show that reduced free products of C*-algebras with orthounitary bases are, except in a few special cases, not nuclear. Building on this, we then determine the ideals in a certain tensor product C v Cop of the reduced free product with its opposite C*-algebra. In the second half of the chapter, we use Cuntz-Pimsner C*-algebras to study reduced free products of nuclear C*-algebras with respect to pure states. We show that, if the G.N.S. representations of the C*-algebras involved contain the compact operators, then the reduced free product C* -algebra is also nuclear. Chapter four looks at the minimal tensor product operation on continuous bundles of C*-algebras. We construct, for any non-exact C*-algebra C, a continuous bundle A on the unit interval [0,1] such that A C is not continuous. This leads to a new characterisation of exactness for C*-algebras. These results are then extended to allow for any compact infinite metric space as the base space. Finally, we introduce free product operations on bundles of C*-algebras in chapter five. Both full and reduced free product bundles are constructed. We show that taking the free product (full or reduced) of two continuous bundles gives another continuous bundle, at least when the bundle C*-algebras are exact.

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