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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.
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‘A Central Issue of Our Time’: Academic Freedom in Postwar American Thought

Nemeth, Julian T. 28 September 2007 (has links)
No description available.
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The Right, With Lincoln: Conservative Intellectuals Interpret Abraham Lincoln, c. 1945-89

Tait, Joshua Albury January 2013 (has links)
Analysing the repeated debates within American conservatism over the place of Abraham Lincoln within American history.
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Resolução numérica de equações diferenciais parciais hiperbólicas não lineares: um estudo visando a recuperação de petróleo / Resolution of numerical hyperbolic partial differential equations nonlinear: a study aiming at recovery at oil

Nelson Machado Barbosa 26 February 2010 (has links)
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / O processo de recuperação secundária de petróleo é comumente realizado com a injeção de água no reservatório a fim de manter a pressão necessária para sua extração. Para que o investimento seja viável, os gastos com a extração têm de ser menores do que o retorno financeiro obtido com o petróleo. Para tanto, tornam-se extremamente importantes as simulações dos processos de extração. Neste trabalho são estudados os problemas de Burgers e de Buckley-Leverett visando o escoamento imiscível água-óleo em meios porosos, onde o escoamento é incompressível e os efeitos difusivos (devido à pressão capilar) são desprezados. Com o objetivo de incorporar conhecimento matemático mais avançado, para em seguida utilizá-lo no entendimento do problema estudado, abordou-se com razoável profundidade a teoria das leis de conservação. Foram consideradas soluções fracas que, fisicamente, podem ser interpretadas como ondas de choque ou rarefações, então, para que fossem distinguidas as fisicamente admissíveis, foi utilizado o princípio de entropia, nas suas diversas formas. Inicialmente consideramos alguns exemplos clássicos de métodos numéricos para uma lei de conservação escalar, os quais podem ser vistos como esquemas conservativos de três pontos. Entre eles, o método de Lax-Friedrichs (LF) e o método de Lax-Wendroff (LW). Em seguida, um esquema composto foi testado, o qual inclui na sua formulação os métodos LF e LW (chamado de LWLF-4). Respeitando a condição CFL, foram obtidas soluções numéricas de todos os problemas tratados aqui. Com o objetivo de validar tais soluções, foram utilizadas soluções analíticas oriundas dos problemas de Burgers e Buckley- Leverett. Também foi feita uma comparação com os métodos do tipo TVDs com limitadores de fluxo, obtendo resultado satisfatório. Vale à pena ressaltar que o esquema LWLF-4, pelo que nos consta, nunca foi antes utilizado nas resoluções das equações de Burgers e Buckley- Leverett. / The secondary recovery of petroleum is usually performed with injection of water through an oil reservoir to keep the oil pressure for the exploration. In order to make the exploration profitable, the extraction cost must be less than the financial return, which means that the simulation of the exploration process is extremely relevant. In this work, the Burgers- and- Buckley-Leverett problems are studied seeking a two-phase displacement in porous media. The flow is considered incompressible and capillary effects are ignored. In order to analyze the problem, it was necessary to use the theory of conservation law in a spatial variable. Weak solutions, which can be understood as shock or rarefaction waves, are studied with the entropy condition, so that only the physically correct solutions are considered. Some classical numerical methods, which can be seen as conservative schemes of three points, are studied, among them the Lax-Friedrichs (LF) and Lax-Wendroff (LW) methods. A composite scheme, called LWLF-k, is tested using LF and LW methods, being respected the CFL condition, with satisfactory results. In order to validate the numerical schemes, we consider analytical solutions of the Burgers-and-Buckley-Leverett equations. Was also made a comparison with TVDs methods with flux limiters, obtaining satisfactory results. We emphasize that to the best of our knowledge, the LWLF-4 scheme has never been used to solve the Buckley-Leverett equation.
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Resolução numérica de equações diferenciais parciais hiperbólicas não lineares: um estudo visando a recuperação de petróleo / Resolution of numerical hyperbolic partial differential equations nonlinear: a study aiming at recovery at oil

Nelson Machado Barbosa 26 February 2010 (has links)
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / O processo de recuperação secundária de petróleo é comumente realizado com a injeção de água no reservatório a fim de manter a pressão necessária para sua extração. Para que o investimento seja viável, os gastos com a extração têm de ser menores do que o retorno financeiro obtido com o petróleo. Para tanto, tornam-se extremamente importantes as simulações dos processos de extração. Neste trabalho são estudados os problemas de Burgers e de Buckley-Leverett visando o escoamento imiscível água-óleo em meios porosos, onde o escoamento é incompressível e os efeitos difusivos (devido à pressão capilar) são desprezados. Com o objetivo de incorporar conhecimento matemático mais avançado, para em seguida utilizá-lo no entendimento do problema estudado, abordou-se com razoável profundidade a teoria das leis de conservação. Foram consideradas soluções fracas que, fisicamente, podem ser interpretadas como ondas de choque ou rarefações, então, para que fossem distinguidas as fisicamente admissíveis, foi utilizado o princípio de entropia, nas suas diversas formas. Inicialmente consideramos alguns exemplos clássicos de métodos numéricos para uma lei de conservação escalar, os quais podem ser vistos como esquemas conservativos de três pontos. Entre eles, o método de Lax-Friedrichs (LF) e o método de Lax-Wendroff (LW). Em seguida, um esquema composto foi testado, o qual inclui na sua formulação os métodos LF e LW (chamado de LWLF-4). Respeitando a condição CFL, foram obtidas soluções numéricas de todos os problemas tratados aqui. Com o objetivo de validar tais soluções, foram utilizadas soluções analíticas oriundas dos problemas de Burgers e Buckley- Leverett. Também foi feita uma comparação com os métodos do tipo TVDs com limitadores de fluxo, obtendo resultado satisfatório. Vale à pena ressaltar que o esquema LWLF-4, pelo que nos consta, nunca foi antes utilizado nas resoluções das equações de Burgers e Buckley- Leverett. / The secondary recovery of petroleum is usually performed with injection of water through an oil reservoir to keep the oil pressure for the exploration. In order to make the exploration profitable, the extraction cost must be less than the financial return, which means that the simulation of the exploration process is extremely relevant. In this work, the Burgers- and- Buckley-Leverett problems are studied seeking a two-phase displacement in porous media. The flow is considered incompressible and capillary effects are ignored. In order to analyze the problem, it was necessary to use the theory of conservation law in a spatial variable. Weak solutions, which can be understood as shock or rarefaction waves, are studied with the entropy condition, so that only the physically correct solutions are considered. Some classical numerical methods, which can be seen as conservative schemes of three points, are studied, among them the Lax-Friedrichs (LF) and Lax-Wendroff (LW) methods. A composite scheme, called LWLF-k, is tested using LF and LW methods, being respected the CFL condition, with satisfactory results. In order to validate the numerical schemes, we consider analytical solutions of the Burgers-and-Buckley-Leverett equations. Was also made a comparison with TVDs methods with flux limiters, obtaining satisfactory results. We emphasize that to the best of our knowledge, the LWLF-4 scheme has never been used to solve the Buckley-Leverett equation.
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Creative performer agency in the collaborative compositional process

Buckley, Morgan January 2018 (has links)
The early-twentieth-century culture in western art music of idolizing the composer as the autonomous creative genius has been challenged by recent developments across musicology and creativity research literature. The composer’s music is now regarded as the product of a collaborative network, influenced by all who come into contact with it—first and foremost the performer. Yet, the nature of the performer’s creative impact on the compositional process remains under-explored. This thesis is centred on a qualitative artistic research project, designed to identify and critically evaluate the prospective extent and scope of creative performer agency; it aims to ascertain how a typical lack of familiarity with the instrument may affect the composer’s creative practice, and to reveal key factors that shape the nature and the consequences of composer-performer interaction and collaboration. It proceeds by commissioning new works for guitar from a range of composers for different performers, and by documenting and analysing the processes of collaboration that result. This research agenda challenges the perception of distinct creative roles that remains resilient in present-day cultural understandings and discourse. The findings are intended to broaden understanding of contemporary collaborative practices in the compositional process for the guitar and generalize to the guitar repertoire of the long twentieth century, during which the majority of substantial works were composed in collaboration. The thesis also contributes to a developing and generalizable framework of practice-led research literature that analyses music-making by recognizing the multiple loci and their interactions that underpin all aspects of the creative processes. Chapter 1 discusses the establishment of the creative hegemony of the composer and its opposing currents across disciplines from the late romantic period to the late twentieth century. Chapter 2 comprises an indicative chronology of select collaborations in the long twentieth-century guitar repertoire and an overview of relevant practice-led research projects in performance studies. Ethnographic methodologies are reviewed in Chapter 3 and the fieldwork commissions are analysed in Chapters 4 and 5. Finally, Chapter 6 comprises an evaluation of the performer’s creative agency and its significance when placed in broader frameworks of contemporary guitar practices, contemporary composition across instrumentations, generalizing to historical guitar collaboration and its implications for creativity research.
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Contribution à la modélisation de phénomènes de frontière libre en mécanique des films minces

Martin, Sébastien 21 November 2005 (has links) (PDF)
Cette thèse est consacrée à l'analyse mathématique, à la modélisation et au calcul scientifique des problèmes d'interface dans des milieux fluides de faible épaisseur. Les problèmes d'interface liquide-gaz de type cavitation apparaissent dans la plupart des mécanismes lubrifiés et leur modélisation a toujours été un sujet très discuté en tribologie. Celle-ci a initialement utilisé (et utilise encore) des inéquations variationelles mais l'inadéquation de ce modèle qui est non conservatif a conduit à introduire de manière heuristique une modélisation basée sur un système hyperbolique-elliptique. Cependant, dans le cadre de cette nouvelle modélisation, des problèmes ouverts apparaissent, dès lors que l'on s'intéresse à des conditions de fonctionnement plus réalistes. Parmi ceux-ci, on peut citer :<br />1/ la possibilité d'utiliser ce modèle en présence de rugosités. Il s'agit, du point de vue mathématique, de l'homogénéisation d'une équation en pression-saturation, <br />2/ la prise en compte de la déformation élastique de surfaces solides due à la pression hydrodynamique du fluide adjacent. Pour cela, il est habituel en élastohydrodynamique (E.H.D.) de modifier les coefficients de l'équation de l'écoulement par l'introduction d'un terme intégral (déformation du type Hertz). La modélisation de la cavitation intervient dans la partie hydrodynamique et, par suite, sur l'ensemble du couplage.<br />3/ la possibilité de justifier ou non ce modèle à partir d'une description bifluide rigoureuse de l'écoulement et d'en déduire ainsi une procédure de calcul du frottement associé à l'écoulement mince.<br /><br />Nous étudions ces différents aspects qui permettent de justifier la pertinence du modèle de cavitation considéré.
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New Deal To New Majority: SDS’s Failure to Realign the Largest Political Coalition in the 20th Century

Hale, Michael T. 23 November 2015 (has links)
No description available.

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