The subject of the submitted thesis „Low pressure water hammer“ is handling the problems of dynamic conduct of water in low pressures. In this work are developed problems of the effect of changing pressure on the speed of sound in liquid. The problem is solved in the time domain using the Lax - Wendroff method in the theoretical analysis. At the end the mathematical model solved using Lax - Wendroff method is confront with the experiment.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(農学) / 甲第23527号 / 農博第2474号 / 新制||農||1087(附属図書館) / 学位論文||R3||N5358(農学部図書室) / 京都大学大学院農学研究科地域環境科学専攻 / (主査)教授 藤原 正幸, 教授 中村 公人, 准教授 宇波 耕一 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Agricultural Science / Kyoto University / DGAM

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model is developed for pulsatile flows and particle transport to evaluate the possible thrombus trajectory in the feline aorta for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) heart conditions. An iterative target mass flow rate boundary condition is developed, and turbulent simulations with Lagrangian particle transport model are performed using up to 11M grids. The model is validated for human abdominal aorta flow, for which the results agree within 11.6% of the experimental data. The model is applied for flow predictions in a generalized feline aorta for healthy and HCM heart conditions. Results show that in the HCM case, the flow through the iliac arteries decreases by 50%, due to the large recirculation regions in the abdominal aorta compared to the healthy heart case. The flow recirculation also result in stronger vortices with slower decay, causing entrapment of particles in the thoracic aorta and trifurcation regions.

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京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第23717号 / 理博第4807号 / 新制||理||1688(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科化学専攻 / (主査)教授 谷村 吉隆, 教授 林 重彦, 教授 渡邊 一也 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DGAM

Yes / The aquatic vegetation patch plays a significant role on sediment net deposition in the vegetated channels. Particularly, the flow is decelerated at the leading edge of a patch that tends to induce vertical updraft, that is, a diverging flow region, in which vegetation greatly affects the pattern of sediment net deposition. This study focuses on the simulation of the sediment net deposition in the whole vegetation patch region through an innovative random displacement model, a Lagrange method, with probability-based boundary conditions, instead of the reflection or sorption boundary at the channel bottom. The probability model of deposition and resuspension is proposed according to the flow field characteristics in the different regions of the vegetation patch. The variation of the sediment deposition and resuspension with the turbulent kinetic energy is analyzed to illustrate the effect of the turbulence induced by vegetation, represented by the dimensionless turbulent kinetic energy (ψ), on the sediment deposition and resuspension. The sediment deposition predicted by the proposed model agrees well with the experimental measurements. Results show that the effect of vegetation on the sediment deposition and resuspension motions begins to prevail when the vegetation-induced ψ is larger than its threshold, ψ *. The threshold of ψ is predicted to be within 6.8–10 according to the simulation results in this study. As the turbulent kinetic energy increases, the deposition probability decreases continuously when ψ > ψ *. / ational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Grant Numbers: 52020105006, 11872285; UK Royal Society - International Exchanges Program. Grant Number: IES\R2\181122; Open Funding of State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science (WRHES), Wuhan University. Grant Number: 2018HLG01

The flow properties of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) melts at room temperature were studied by measurement of lubrication forces using an Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) colloidal force probe. A glass probe was driven toward a glass plate at piezo drive rates in the range of 12 – 120 μm/s, which produced shear rates up to ~10⁴ s⁻¹. The forces on the probe and the separation from the plate were measured. Two hypotheses were examined: (1) when a hydrophilic glass is immersed in a flow of polymer melt, does a thin layer of water form at the glass surface to lubricate the flow of polymer and (2) when a polymer melt is subject under a shear stress, do molecules within the melt spatially redistribute to form a lubrication layer of smaller molecules at the solid surface to enhance the flow? To examine the effect of a water lubrication layer, forces were compared in the presence and the absence of a thin water layer. The presence of the water layer was controlled by hydrophobization of the solid. In the second part, the possibility of forming a lubrication layer during shear was examined. Three polymer melts were compared: octamethyltrisiloxane (OMTS, n = 3), PDMS (n _avg = 322), and a mixture of 70 weight% PDMS and 30 weight% OMTS. We examined whether the spatial variation in the composition of the polymer melt would occur to relieve the shear stress. The prediction was that the trimer (OMTS) would become concentrated in the high shear stress region in the thin film, thereby decreasing the viscosity in that region, and mitigating the shear stress. / Master of Science

[pt] A principal meta desta tese é estudar os efeitos da chuva nos enlaces operando na faixa de micro-ondas e comprimentos de ondas milimétricas. Para realizar este estudo, é considerado o modelo de chuva que considera um meio de chuva realista composto por um conjunto de gotas com a relação formato-tamanho proposta por Chuang e Beard, uma distribuição de tamanho das gotas dada por de Wolf, o índice de refração complexo da água para uma frequência e temperatura dada sugerido por Ray e uma distribuição de orientação dos eixos de simetria da partícula. O Extended Boundary Condition Method (EBCM) foi aplicado ao modelo descrito para determinar a atenuação, depolarização e espalhamento devidos à chuva. O desenvolvimento foi validado com sucesso por intermédio de comparações de seus resultados com os correspondentes disponíveis na literatura. O modelo de chuva realista foi utilizado em duas aplicações diferentes. Na primeira, foi estudada a interferência devida à chuva entre enlaces de telecomunicações sem fio operando em frequências de ondas milimétricas em ambientes urbanos. Outra aplicação envolve a determinação da taxa de precipitação por intermédio de radares meteorológicos (em particular, radares banda-X). Considerando que seu custo é relativamente baixo e sua resolução elevada, os radares em banda-X estariam entre as melhores opções para monitorar eventos meteorológicos. Entretanto, são susceptíveis à atenuação devida a gases atmosféricos e chuva ao longo dos enlaces, que impedem que a taxa de precipitação seja estimada diretamente a partir da potência recebida correspondente a uma determinada posição. Desta forma, um modelo de chuva realista foi implementado para calcular a seção reta de retroespalhamento e estimar a atenuação específica por intermédio do EBCM em cada um dos volumes existentes entre o radar e a posição selecionada. Este desenvolvimento permite a correção dos efeitos da atenuação existente no enlace formado entre estas duas posições. / [en] The main goal of this research is to study the rain effects on microwave and millimeter wave radio links. Thus, the rain-induced attenuation, depolarization and scattering are studied. To carry out this study, a realistic rain model is proposed, which consider a realistic rain medium composed by a cluster of raindrops with the shape-size relation proposed by Chuang and Beard, a raindrop size distribution given by de Wolf, index of refraction of water for a given temperature and frequency suggested by Ray and a distribution of the orientation angle of the symmetry axis. The realistic rain model is evaluated with two different applications of systems operating at microwave and millimeter wave frequencies. One of the applications involves wireless telecommunication systems, which are strongly affected by the presence of precipitation. To design an efficient radio communication system, the realistic rain model is applied for the analysis and quantification of rain-induced effects on links operating at millimeterwave frequencies in urban environments. Another application involves weather radars (X-band radars in particular). Considering their relatively low cost and high resolution, X-band radars would be among the best options to monitor meteorological events. However, they are susceptible to attenuation by fog, snow or rain. To solve this problem, a realistic and improved rain model is implemented to compute backscattering cross sections and estimate rain attenuation at each range gate. The proposed method is evaluated using radar data provided by the CASA OTG X-band (lambda equal a 3cm) radar located in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, and X-band radar METEOR 50DX –Selex located in Belém, Brazil.

Šiame darbe pristatomi nauji rezultatai, gauti tiriant diskretųjį Šturmo ir Liuvilio uždavinį su viena klasikine o kita nelokaliąja integraline kraštine sąlyga. Pirmoje dalyje pristatomas diferencialinis Šturmo ir Liuvilio uždavinys su nelokaliąja integraline kraštine sąlyga. Šio uždavinio kompleksinė spektro dalis buvo ištirta bakalauro darbe. Antroje darbo dalyje diferencialinis uždavinys suvedamas į antros eilės baigtinių skirtumų schemą, kai nelokalioji integralinė sąlyga aproksimuojama pagal trapecijų arba Simpsono formulę. Ištirta skirtuminių operatorių su nelokaliosiomis kraštinėmis sąlygomis spektro struktūra, tikrinių reikšmių priklausomybė nuo parametrų γ ir ξ esančių nelokaliosiose sąlygose, reikšmių ir pasirinkto tinklo taškų skaičiaus n. Rezultatai pateikiami charakteristinių funkcijų grafikais ir jų projekcijomis. / In this paper we present a new result of the investigation discrete Sturm--Liuoville problem with one classical and the other nonlocal integral boundary condition. The first part of paper presents differential Sturm Liuoville problem with integral boundary condition. Complex part of spectrum for Sturm Liuoville problem with integral boundary condition was investigated in Bachelor Thesis. The second part of paper present result of investigation second-order finite difference scheme, when the integral conditions condition is approximated by the Trapezoid or Simpson's rules. There are investigated the spectrum of the finite-difference schemes and it dependence on the parameters γ and ξ from nonlocal boundary condition n,where n number of grid points. Simulation results are presented as graphs and projections of characteristic functions.

Nesse trabalho, usamos métodos da teoria de homogeneização para analisar o compor- tamento assintótico das soluções da equação do p-Laplaciano com condição de contorno de Neumann posto numa família de domínios finos do tipo. De maneira geral, trabalhamos com funções G:(0,1)\\ x R - R uniformemente limitadas, suaves e L-periódicas na segunda variável. Note que o efeito de domínio fino é estabelecido passando ao limite no parâmetro \\varepsilon>0 com \\varepsilon\\to 0. Além disso, introduzimos um parâmetro \\alpha>0 com o objetivo de representar rugosidades via comportamento oscilat\\\'orio na fronteira superior de R^\\varepsilon. Em nossos resultados mostramos que no limite, uma equação unidimensional é obtida, preservando a quasilinearidade do problema original e capturando tanto o efeito da compressão como das oscilações. / In this work we apply homogenization theory methods in order to analyze the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of a p-Laplacian equation with Neumann boundary condition set in bounded thin domains of the type. Generally, we with functions G:(0,1) x R - R uniformly bounded, smooth and L-periodic in the second variable. The thin domain situation is established passing to the limit in the positive parameter \\varepsilon with \\varepsilon \\to 0. In our results we obtain a one dimensional equation that preserves the quasilinearity from the original problem and capturing the effects of compression and oscillations.