Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University. / The purpose of this study is to examine the imagery and relationships between imagery and structure in the eight comedies that George Chapman wrote without collaboration. In the first chapter several underlying assumptions are set forth. These concern the appropriateness of formal criticism, the critical neglect of Chapman's adherence in comedy to philosophical as well as artistic decorum, and the significance of his expressed intention of creating ethical "coherents" for his age. The functions of dramatic imagery are classified, and Chapman's awareness of irony and decorum ls indicated by his commentaries on Homeric translations and his early non-dramatic poems. Finally, the usefulness of the commonplace symbolism of Fortune as an index to Chapman's ethical thought and comic structure is advanced in connection with his intellectual inheritance and moral predispositions. The Blind Beggar of Alexandria is shown to belie its apparent merely farcical content by Chapman's consistently ironic manipulation of imagery of the process of"knowing. [truncated]

Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Mecânica, Florianópolis, 2010 / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-24T22:38:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 282117.pdf: 4037789 bytes, checksum: 27a0af29d5c4ffcce813cbe3959ff1ec (MD5) / Shan e colaboradores (SHAN, X.; YUAN, X.-F.; CHEN, H. "Kinetic theory representation of hydrodynamics: a way beyond the Navier-Stokes equation". Journal of Fluid Mechanics, v. 550, p.413-441) e Philippi e colaboradores (PHILIPPI, P. C. et al. "From the continuous to the lattice Boltzmann equation: The discretization problem and thermal models". Physical Review E, v. 73, n. 5, p. 056702), em 2006, reabriram a perspectiva de uso do lattice Boltzmann para a simulação de escoamentos não isotérmicos e/ou a alto número de Knudsen através da resolução direta da equação de Boltzmann ao estabelecerem uma ligação sistemática e consistente entre a Teoria Cinética dos Gases e os métodos de lattice Boltzmann (LBM), determinando condições necessárias para a discretização do espaço de velocidades em diferentes ordens do número de Knudsen. As redes obtidas através do método proposto por eles, de abscissas prescritas, provaram ser estáveis em escoamentos em uma ampla faixa de parâmetros. Levando em consideração que as redes obtidas através deste método aumentaram significativamente o número de velocidades moleculares necessárias para a discretização do espaço de velocidades e os fenômenos físicos descritos por esta formulação possuem grande complexidade, exigindo uma maior quantidade de parâmetros para que os coeficientes de transporte do fluido simulado em várias escalas de Knudsen possam ser corretamente ajustados, diversas adaptações aos LBMs convencionais precisaram ser realizadas. Modelos de colisão a múltiplos tempos de relaxação, adequados ao ajuste dos coeficientes de transporte do fluido simulado, foram propostos. Um modelo de colisão a dois tempos de relaxação será discutido e analisado nesta tese. Do ponto de vista numérico, métodos mais acurados em relação a sua discretização espacial e temporal foram testados com o objetivo de melhorar a representação numérica dos efeitos físicos relacionados a números de Knudsen finitos, de forma que o comportamento do modelo de colisão utilizado fosse representado com mais acurácia, evitando que ele se confundisse com erros numéricos do método de solução. Condições de contorno adequadas à simulação destes escoamentos também tiveram que ser propostas. Seu uso em simulações utilizando diferentes métodos numéricos revela a dificuldade em ajustá-las quando fenômenos em uma escala inferior a da fluidodinâmica são considerados. Todos os métodos propostos foram analisados através da expansão de Chapman-Enskog. O objetivo destas análises foi comparar os métodos numéricos e os modelos de colisão no contínuo teoricamente, prevendo as equações macroscópicas que eles deveriam obedecer em diversas ordens do número de Knudsen. Depois de uma extensa discussão teórica sobre o método de lattice Boltzmann, diversas simulações foram realizadas com o objetivo de testar: i) o efeito que a correta representação de ordens crescentes dos momentos da distribuição de equilíbrio do contínuo no espaço discreto de velocidades possui, ii) a acurácia dos diferentes métodos de diferenças finitas empregados em diversas ordens de Knudsen, iii) a acurácia das análises de Chapman-Enskog realizadas e por fim, iv) a influência das condições iniciais e de contorno na evolução de escoamentos simulados a diversas ordens do número de Knudsen.

abstract: This thesis examines Christopher Marlowe's poem Hero and Leander and George Chapman's Continuation thereof through a theoretical lens that includes theories of intimacy, sexuality and touch taken from Lee Edelman, Daniel Gil, James Bromley, Katherine Rowe and others. Hands are seen as the privileged organ of touch as well as synecdoche for human agency. Because it is all too often an unexamined sense, the theory of touch is dealt with in detail. The analysis of hands and touch leads to a discussion of how Marlowe's writing creates a picture of sexual intimacy that goes against traditional institutions and resists the traditional role of the couple in society. Marlowe's poem favors an equal, companionate intimacy that does not engage in traditional structures, while Chapman's Continuation to Marlowe's work serves to reaffirm the transgressive nature of Marlowe's poem by reasserting traditional social institutions surrounding the couple. Viewing the two pieces of literature together further supports the conclusion that Marlowe's work is transgressive because of how conservative Chapman's reaction to Hero and Leander is. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. English 2012

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1926. / Without thesis note. Bibliography: p. 161-170.

Musical instruments are not static, unchanging objects. They are, instead, things that materially evolve in symmetry with human practices. Alterations to an instrument's design often attend to its ergonomic or expressive capacity, but sometimes an innovator causes an entirely new instrument to arise. One such instrument is the Chapman Stick. This instrument's history is closely intertwined with global currents that have evolved into virtual, online scenes. Virtuality obfuscates embodiment, but the Stick's world, like any instrument's, is optimally related in intercorporeal exchanges. Stickists circumvent real and virtual obstacles to engage the Stick world. Using an organology informed by the work of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, this study examines how the Chapman Stick, as a material "thing," speaks in and through a virtual, representational environment.

Historically, studying the Martian ionosphere has been difficult due to the lack of dedicated instruments for electron density measurements in the orbit of Mars. However, since 2005, radio occultation measurements have been supplemented by Mars Express MARSIS remote sounder data and, more recently, by data from the MAVEN LPW Langmuir probe since 2014. The ionosphere of Mars is an interesting system, because Mars as one of the two solar system planetary bodies without an intrinsic magnetic field has highly localised crustal magnetic fields. The Chapman model describes the main layer of the ionosphere surprisingly well. Nevertheless, the crustal magnetic fields and other parameters potentially influence the ionosphere formation and topology. Combining the recent vast electron density data set, the Mars Global Surveyor crustal magnetic field map, and F10.7 solar radio flux measurements carried out at the Earth, a detailed study of the influence of these parameters can be conducted. To study the influence of these parameters as well as solar zenith angle on electron densities in the Martian ionosphere, we study magnitude of deviations from the established Chapman model. Furthermore, we use the Kolmogorov's 5/3 power law to investigate a possible dependence of its parameters characterising power and dissipation...

Perfection? - Recreating the Human is an exhibition of recent works of art by Orlan, Patricia Piccinini, Margi Geerlinks and Jake and Dinos Chapman. Each of the artists engages, in various ways, with issues relating to biotechnology and the body. The convergence of technology and the body arouses both utopian desires and dystopian nightmares; many of these desires and fears are prefigured in ancient myth and legend. The artists and artworks are therefore discussed with reference to reoccurring tropes from both ancient myth and science fiction.

This work is focused on the development of a hybrid DSMC/CFD solver to examine hypersonic boundary layer flow over discrete surface roughness. The purpose of these investigations is to identify and quantify the non-equilibrium effects that influence the roughness-induced disturbance field and surface quantities of interest for engineering applications. To this end, a new hybrid framework is developed for high-fidelity hybrid solutions involving five-species air hypersonic boundary layer flow applications. A novel approach is developed for DSMC particle generation at a hybrid interface for gas mixtures with internal degrees of freedom. The appropriate velocity distribution function is formulated in the framework of Generalized Chapman-Enskog Theory, and includes contributions from species mass diffusion, shear stress and heat fluxes (both translational and internal) on the perturbation of the equilibrium distribution function. This formulation introduces new breakdown parameters for use in hybrid DSMC/CFD applications, and the new sampling algorithm allows for the generation of DSMC internal energies from the appropriate non-equilibrium distribution for the first time in the literature. The contribution of the internal heat fluxes to the overall perturbation is found to be of the same order as the stress tensor components, underscoring the importance of DSMC particle generation from the Generalized Chapman-Enskog distribution. A detailed comparison of the transport coefficients is made between the DSMC and CFD solvers, and a general best-fit approach is developed for the consistent treatment of diffusion, viscosity and thermal conductivity for a five-species air gas mixture. The DSMC VHS/VSS model parameters are calibrated through an iterative fitting approach using the Nelder-Mead Simplex Algorithm. The VSS model is found to provide the best fit (within 5% over the temperature range) to the transport models used in the CFD solver. The best-fit five-species air parameters are provided for general use by the DSMC community, either for hybrid applications or to provide improved consistency in general DSMC/CFD applications. This hybrid approach has been applied to examine hypersonic boundary layer flow over discrete surface roughness for a variety of roughness geometries and flow conditions. An (asymmetric) elongated hump geometry and (symmetric) diamond shaped roughness geometry are examined at high and low altitude conditions. Detailed comparisons among the hybrid solution and the CFD no-slip and slip wall solutions were made to examine the differences in surface heating, translational/vibrational non-equilibrium in the flow near the roughness, and the vortex structures in the wake through the Q-criterion. In all cases examined, the hybrid solution predicts a lower peak surface heating to the roughness compared to either CFD solution, and a higher peak surface heating in the wake due to vortex heating. The observed differences in vortex heating are a result of the predicted vortex structures which are highlighted using the Q-criterion. The disturbance field modeled by the hybrid solution organizes into a system of streamwise-oriented vortices which are slightly stronger and have a greater spanwise extent compared to the CFD solutions. As a general trend, it was observed that these differences in the predicted heating by the hybrid and CFD solutions increase with increasing Knudsen number. This trend is found for both peak heating values on the roughness and in the wake. / text

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth’s last favorite and the last man she executed for treason, has been harshly treated by posterity. Given his leading role at court in what Patrick Collinson calls the “nasty nineties,” Essex has taken much of the blame for the divisive factional politics of Elizabeth’s final decade. However, leading recent efforts to salvage Essex’s reputation, historian Paul Hammer has uncovered a sophisticated bureaucracy operated by highly educated scholars and led by an intelligent, cultivated statesman. A considerable number of high-profile literary figures, moreover, willingly engaged with this ambitiously expanding Essex faction. This thesis proposes that evidence of interference by the censor and the Privy Council, sensitive to a politicized historiography promoting the Earl’s interests chiefly on London’s stages, discloses the presence of a loose, autonomous federation of authors associated with the Essex and post-Essex factions between 1590 and 1610. This thesis considers the suspected works of an eclectic group of writers bonded by their ideological affiliations with Essex’s “radical moderatism”: civil lawyer John Hayward’s prose history of The Life and Raigne of Henrie IIII (1599); William Shakespeare’s second “tetralogy” (1595-99) dealing with the same historical period; Samuel Daniel’s closet drama of the downfall of the Greek general Philotas (1605); and innovative playwright George Chapman’s double tragedy set in France, The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608). I situate these authors within the intellectual and public relations wing of the Essex circle in order to consider how they made contact with the center and with each other, and where they resided within the broader operation of the faction; what they offered and what they expected in return; how they shaped political thinking and how their dramaturgy developed as a consequence; whether they were attracted by the purse or the person; and to what extent they were artistically or ideologically motivated. In considering, finally, whether these writers worked in collaboration or alone, on message or off-the-cuff, as propagandists or political commentators, I illuminate the critically neglected role of the factional writer in early modern England. / text

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1956. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-211).