In the present work we study different approaches for solving the nuclear dy- namics of resonant electron molecule collisions. Namely, we review two methods addressing this phenomenon which are a local complex potential (LCP) approxi- mation and a nonlocal resonance model (NRM). We briefly discuss a numerical implementation of these methods. We show how to derive model parameters for both of them from fixed-nuclei scattering calculations and we implement them in the time independent picture of quantum mechanics. We compare their vibrational excitation cross sections for the diatomic molecule CO. Then we generalize the non- local resonance model for systems with more nuclear degrees of freedom. Output of our work is a computer code producing the vibrational excitation cross sections for systems with two degrees of freedom. We aim to use this code for studying a threshold behavior of the low-energy electron collisions with the CO2 molecule and therefore we review a current state of understanding for this phenomenon. Mea- nwhile we test the functionality of the code by comparing results with those of the LCP approximation on a simple 2D model system.

Several technologies involve the coating of a bulk material with a thin layer made up of another material, so as to achieve enhanced mechanical properties for the composite system. The use of coated solids embraces a broad field of applications, so that a strong research effort has been devoted to these systems. From a mechanical point of view, a coating layer diffuses the load on an attached solid in a non-local way, thus introducing a characteristic length, and profoundly affects the mechanical response and failure mechanisms of the coated object. Therefore, the development of mechanical models to describe the behaviour of coated materials plays an important role in engineering design. In the framework of linear elasticity, the case of an elastic thin layer, perfectly bonded to an elastic disk, is analyzed in the present thesis by providing a mathematical tool with which to determine the mechanical response of the coating/bulk complex, which may find application in micro and nano technologies, for instance in the characterization of nanowires via nanoindentation. The coating is modelled by means of an Euler-Bernoulli curved rod, assumed to be perfectly bonded on the boundary of a circular elastic disk. The elastic rod acts as a coating for the disk and its axial inextensibility imposes an isoperimetric constraint on the internal disk, which is constrained to maintain its perimeter constant during the deformation process. The mechanical model for the coating/disk system is formulated for general loading, using the complex potential formalism. The elastic rod becomes equivalent to a Benveniste-Miloh interface characterized by the bending stiffness of the rod; in this way the problem can be solved entirely on the disk through the complex potential formalism and Kolosov- Muskhelishvili potentials. The kinematics and statics of the rod, together with its axial inextensibility, lead to the formulation of a 5th-order differential equation governing the mechanical state at every point on the boundary of the disk. The solution of this equation is obtained by means of a complex Fourier series expansion for the unknown fields on the boundary of the disk, when a particular distribution of the external load is prescribed. The complex variables method shows that the unknown complex coefficients involved in the series expansion depend only on the external load. Hence, all the elastic fields become known on the coating and on the boundary and within the disk. The analytical results are complemented with experiments related to a load distribution which models two equal and opposite concentrated forces. In this regard, two coated disks were designed and then manufactured (with a CNC engraving machine) from a single block of polymethyl methacrylate so that the bonding between the coating and disk was perfect and residual stresses were absent. The samples were tested in a circular polariscope and the results strongly supported the coated disk model, so the photoelastic fringes were very well captured by the elastic solution. Different situations were investigated in order to study the non-local stress diffusion of the coating. The limit case of an isoperimetric disk was also investigated by imposing a vanishing bending stiffness for the coating. This limit situation corresponded to a disk equipped with a device able to preserve the perimeter of the disk during the deformation. Exploiting the framework developed, the bifurcation problem of the coated disk was analyzed, assuming that the coating was subject to a radial pressure of three different types. A closed-form analytical solution was obtained for the bifurcation pressure and modes, showing that the presence of the disk profoundly changed the bifurcation landscape of the coating, forming a circular elastic rod. In fact, the circular rod admits only oval modes, while the coating/disk system displays high-frequency circumferential undulations. The experimental, analytical, and numerical results presented open new possibilities for the design of coated solids of cylindrical geometry, which may find applications in micro and nano technologies, for instance in the characterization of nanowires via nanoindentation.

Este trabalho apresenta uma dedução das equações para a dinâmica de vórtices em superfícies utilizando argumentos físicos e balanço de momento, obtendo o resultado já conhecido devido a Boatto/Koiller e Hally. Na primeira parte, elaboramos uma releitura da contribuição de diversos pesquisadores incluindo, além dos já citados, o trabalho de Marchioro e Pulvirenti sobre a propriedade de localização para a equação de Euler e também a importante contribuição de Flucher e Gustafsson no que diz respeito à determinação da função de Green e função de Robin hidrodinâmicas em domínios do plano. Na segunda parte revisamos o problema da dinâmica de um traçador passivo induzida por um vórtice no disco unitário e estendemos para o caso com vorticidade de fundo constante. Por fim, analisamos a dinâmica de dois vórtices no toro plano, a qual reduz-se ao estudo da dinâmica do centro de vorticidade com hamiltoniana dada pela função de Green. É feita uma descrição das bifurcações das curvas de níveis desta hamiltoniana com respeito a variações do parâmetro modular. Mostramos que o campo hamiltoniano em questão é preservado por biholomorfismos e, portanto, o espaço dos parâmetros pode ser reduzido ao espaço de Moduli do toro plano. Mudanças dentro de uma mesma classe de equivalência por biholomorfismos podem alterar apenas a classe de homotopia das curvas de nível. / In this thesis the equations for the motion of vortices on Riemannian surfaces is studied. Using conservation of momentum and physical arguments, the classical equations of Hally and Boatto/Koiller are recovered. Then the localization result for the Euler\'s equation with flat metric (Marchioro and Pulvirenti) and the determination of the Green\'s and Robin\'s functions on plane domains are revisited in the context of Riemannian surfaces. On a second part of the thesis two examples are analyzed. At first the dynamics of a passive tracer in the unit disk on the flat plane with constant background vorticity. At second the dynamics of two vortices on flat tori. This last system is integrable. The dynamics is determined by the level sets of the Green\'s function which depends on the modular parameter of the torus. The full bifurcation diagram of the system as a function of the module parameter is determined.

Este trabalho apresenta uma dedução das equações para a dinâmica de vórtices em superfícies utilizando argumentos físicos e balanço de momento, obtendo o resultado já conhecido devido a Boatto/Koiller e Hally. Na primeira parte, elaboramos uma releitura da contribuição de diversos pesquisadores incluindo, além dos já citados, o trabalho de Marchioro e Pulvirenti sobre a propriedade de localização para a equação de Euler e também a importante contribuição de Flucher e Gustafsson no que diz respeito à determinação da função de Green e função de Robin hidrodinâmicas em domínios do plano. Na segunda parte revisamos o problema da dinâmica de um traçador passivo induzida por um vórtice no disco unitário e estendemos para o caso com vorticidade de fundo constante. Por fim, analisamos a dinâmica de dois vórtices no toro plano, a qual reduz-se ao estudo da dinâmica do centro de vorticidade com hamiltoniana dada pela função de Green. É feita uma descrição das bifurcações das curvas de níveis desta hamiltoniana com respeito a variações do parâmetro modular. Mostramos que o campo hamiltoniano em questão é preservado por biholomorfismos e, portanto, o espaço dos parâmetros pode ser reduzido ao espaço de Moduli do toro plano. Mudanças dentro de uma mesma classe de equivalência por biholomorfismos podem alterar apenas a classe de homotopia das curvas de nível. / In this thesis the equations for the motion of vortices on Riemannian surfaces is studied. Using conservation of momentum and physical arguments, the classical equations of Hally and Boatto/Koiller are recovered. Then the localization result for the Euler\'s equation with flat metric (Marchioro and Pulvirenti) and the determination of the Green\'s and Robin\'s functions on plane domains are revisited in the context of Riemannian surfaces. On a second part of the thesis two examples are analyzed. At first the dynamics of a passive tracer in the unit disk on the flat plane with constant background vorticity. At second the dynamics of two vortices on flat tori. This last system is integrable. The dynamics is determined by the level sets of the Green\'s function which depends on the modular parameter of the torus. The full bifurcation diagram of the system as a function of the module parameter is determined.

This work aims at calculating the cross sections for vibrational excitation of the oxygen molecules by collisons with electrons. Potential energy curves are obtained with standard quantum chemistry methods and the R-matrix method with good agreement with measurable molecular properties, the cross sections are calculated within the local complex potential approximation. It was shown that the results obtained with different, but seemingly satisfactory settings can vary by a significant degree. Comparison with experimental data then point out the insufficiency of the local complex potential approximation. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The presented diploma thesis deals with a problem of a generalized stress intensity factor determination and a consecutive study of stress distribution around the bimaterial notch tip, combining analytical and numerical methods. This task is possible to sectionalize into three parts. The first part is dedicated to the fundamentals of the linear fracture mechanics and the mechanics of composite materials. The second part deals with methods of anisotropic plane elasticity solution. Pursuant to the solution the computational models in the third part are created. The first model makes for determination of a singularity exponent eigenvalue by dint of Lekhnitskii-Eshelby-Stroh formalism. The second model makes for determination of the generalized stress intensity factor using psi-integral method, which is based on the Betti reciprocal theorem. All needed calculation are performed in the software ANSYS 12, Maple 12 and Silverforst FTN95. Results will be compared with the values obtained from a direct method of the generalised stress intensity factor determination.

The Counter-Rotating Open Rotors (CROR) are identified as a possible alternative to turbofan engines for middle-range aircrafts. Providing significant fuel savings and reducing the green-house gas emissions, they may lead however to an increased noise radiation due to the absence of nacelle shielding. To properly predict the acoustic radiation of such systems is then mandatory both to reduce the source mechanisms of the isolated engine and to offer an optimal noise installation solution. Such an objective is tackled in the present thesis in two steps. In a first part, the research aims at predicting the tonal noise radiated from the first propeller of CROR mounted on the rear fuselage by means of a pylon (pusher configuration), considering both the pylon-wake and the uniform ow effects. From the Ffowcs Williams & Hawkings' formalism, three noise sources are identified. First the unsteady loading is computed using a similar procedure to the one used for the rotor-rotor wake interaction noise prediction. The velocity deficit in the pylon wake is locally expanded in two-dimensional Fourier gusts in a reference frame attached to the front rotor. The unsteady lift induced by each gust on a blade segment is calculated using a linearized analytical response function that accounts for a realistic geometry. The steady loading is the second source contribution and is evaluated using both a software based on the lifting-line theory and some numerical simulations for different reference source surfaces. Finally the thickness noise due to the blade volume displacement is included in the analysis using Isom's formulation. From the linear acoustic assumptions, all these sources modelled as equivalent acoustic dipoles rotating in a uniformly moving atmosphere are then summed to calculate the far-field noise. The whole methodology is assessed against wind-tunnel test data and reference software predictions. A parametric study considering several pylon positionings and pylon-wake configurations with blowing is performed in order to emphasize the relative contribution of the three noise sources. Secondly, the rotor- rotor wake interaction noise being recognized as the most significant contribution in isolated configuration, its modelling is completed by introducing the dynamics of the vortex occurring near the rear-rotor leading edge. A semi-analytical methodology is developed to determine a vortex attached over a at plate embedded in a uniform ow with incidence. Applied to the case of a rear blade going through a front-rotor wake, it provides a first estimate of the noise contribution of the vortex. / Les hélices contrarotatives constituent une alternative possible aux turboréacteurs pour les avions moyens- courriers. Réduisant significativement la consommation de carburant et les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, ils peuvent néanmoins conduire à un rayonnement sonore accru de par l'absence de carénage. Prédire correctement le rayonnement sonore de telles motorisations est donc indispensable pour réduire les mécanismes sources propres au moteur isolé ou assurer une solution d'installation acoustique optimale. Un tel objectif est abordé dans cette thèse en deux temps. Dans un premier temps, l’étude vise à prédire le bruit tonal rayonné par la première hélice d'un moteur monté à l'arrière du fuselage (configuration dite en pousseur), en considérant les effets du sillage du pylône supportant le moteur et de l'écoulement moyen. Partant du formalisme de Ffowcs Williams & Hawkings, trois sources sonores sont identifiées à cet effet. La charge instationnaire, tout d'abord, est calculée en s'appuyant sur une méthodologie similaire à celle utilisée pour la prédiction du bruit d'interaction de sillages entre les deux rotors. Le déficit de vitesse dans le sillage du mât est décomposé localement en rafales bidimensionnelles dans un repère attaché au rotor amont. La portance instationnaire induite par chaque rafale sur un segment de pale est calculée en utilisant une fonction de réponse analytique linéarisée considérant une géométrie réaliste. Deuxième contribution, la charge stationnaire est évaluée au moyen d'un logiciel s'appuyant sur la théorie de la ligne portante mais également via des simulations numériques pour différentes surfaces sources de référence. Enfin, le bruit d'épaisseur associé au déplacement du volume de la pale est inclus dans l'analyse à partir de la formulation d'Isom. D'après les hypothèses de l'acoustique linéaire, toutes ces sources modélisées comme des dipôles acoustiques tournant dans une atmosphère uniforme en mouvement sont ensuite sommées pour calculer le bruit en champ lointain. L'ensemble de la méthodologie est comparé à des données d'essai et des prédictions d'un logiciel de référence. Une étude paramétrique considérant plusieurs positionnements du pylône et des configurations avec soufflage est effectuée afin de bien mettre en évidence les contributions relatives des trois sources sonores. Dans un deuxième temps, le bruit d'interaction de sillages étant reconnu comme la contribution majoritaire en configuration isolée, sa modélisation est complétée en introduisant la dynamique du tourbillon se développant au voisinage du bord d'attaque du rotor aval. Une méthodologie semi-analytique est développée pour déterminer un tourbillon attaché au-dessus d'une plaque plane plongée dans un écoulement uniforme avec incidence. Appliquée au cas d'une pale aval traversant le sillage du rotor amont, elle fournit une première estimation de la contribution sonore du tourbillon.