The Arctic large-scale circulation is governed by a wide range of factor. In order to investigate the sensitivity of the Arctic large-scale circulation to the regional radiative forcing over Europe, we conducted sensitivity experiments using a state-of-the-art atmosphere-land-ocean coupled model. Using advanced Deep Learning (DL) algorithms, we analyzed the Arctic circulation regimes response to negative radiative forcing anomalies over Europe. We examined different architectures for our DL algorithm to find the most suitable one for our analysis. We simultaneously layer Thickness (300-700-T) and their spatiotemporal patterns with the DL algorithm. The DL algorithm showed good skills in capturing the general structure of the large-scale circulation. The radiative forcing over Europe doesn't seem to induce the occurrence frequency of preferred circulation regimes. / Die arktische großräumige Zirkulation wird von einer Vielzahl von Faktoren bestimmt. Um die Sensitivität der arktischen großräumigen Zirkulation auf den regionalen Strahlungsantrieb über Europa zu untersuchen, haben wir Sensitivitätsexperimente mit einem hochmodernen gekoppelten Atmosphäre-Land-Ozean-Modell untersucht. Unter Verwendung neuer Deep-Learning-Algorithmen (DL) analysierten wir die Reaktion der arktischen Zirkulationsregime auf negativen Strahlungsantriebsanomalien über Europa. Wir haben verhsciedene Architekturen für unseren DL-Algorithmus untersucht, um die am besten geeignete für unsere Analyse zu finden. Wir haben die Felder des mittleren Drucks auf Meeresspiegelniveau und der Schichtdicke von 700 bis 300 hPa und ihre raumzeitlichen Muster mit dem DL-Algorithmus analysiert. Die DL-Algorithmen zeigten gute Ergebnisse bei der Erfassung der allgmeinen Struktur der großräumigen Zirkulation. Der Strahlungsantrieb über Europa scheint der großräumigen Zirkulation keine neuen raumzeitlichen Muster zuzufügen, veränderte aber die Häufigkeit des Auftretens bevorzugter Zirkulationsmuster.

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<p>In this thesis, we consider a coherent MIMO system, emphasizing on the simplicity of implementation at both the code generator and the receiver. Specifically, we consider the transmission of a space-time block code (STBC) that is a linear combination of coding matrices weighted by the information symbols through a receiver-correlated flat-fading channel and received by a linear ZF detector. Our target is the design of a code which, while maintaining full data-transmission rate, minimizes the asymptotic average (over all the random channel coefficients) bit error probability of an ZF detector. To this end, we first ensure that the full data rate of symbols is maintained, and then, based on the BER for 4-QAM signals, we derive the conditions for optimal codes and establish a code structure that minimizes the asymptotic average bit error probability. We also prove that the diversity gain of our M × N MIMO system is N − M + 1. The resulting optimum code structure requires the individual coding matrices to be mutually orthogonal when vectorized and is related to covariance matrix of correlated channel. The first optimum structural characteristics of the coding matrices is described as trace-orthogonal. A new approach to express expected value of random correlated channel has been proposed as well. From simulation results we can see that advantage of optimum code over uncoded system is more apparent as channel correlation is higher.</p> / Master of Applied Science (MASc)

There is a need to investigate and improve upon existing methods to predict response of sensors due to flow-induced vibrations in a pipe flow. The aim was to develop a tool which would enable an engineer to quickly evaluate the suitability of a particular design for a certain pipe flow application, without sacrificing fidelity. The primary methods, found in guides published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), of simple response prediction of sensors were found to be lacking in several key areas, which prompted development of the tool described herein. A particular limitation of the existing guidelines deals with complex stochastic stationary and non-stationary modeling and required much further study, therefore providing direction for the second portion of this body of work. A tool for response prediction of fluid-induced vibrations of sensors was developed which allowed for analysis of low aspect ratio sensors. Results from the tool were compared to experimental lift and drag data, recorded for a range of flow velocities. The model was found to perform well over the majority of the velocity range showing superiority in prediction of response as compared to ASME guidelines. The tool was then applied to a design problem given by an industrial partner, showing several of their designs to be inadequate for the proposed flow regime. This immediate identification of unsuitable designs no doubt saved significant time in the product development process. Work to investigate stochastic modeling in structural dynamics was undertaken to understand the reasons for the limitations found in fluid-structure interaction models. A particular weakness, non-stationary forcing, was found to be the most lacking in terms of use in the design stage of structures. A method was developed using the Karhunen Loeve expansion as its base to close the gap between prohibitively simple (stationary only) models and those which require too much computation time. Models were developed from SDOF through continuous systems and shown to perform well at each stage. Further work is needed in this area to bring this work full circle such that the lessons learned can improve design level turbulent response calculations. / Ph. D.

Commercial aircraft are subject to noise regulations imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration. Currently, the FAA limits overland flight of supersonic airplanes due to the negative effect of the sonic boom on communities. The annoyance produced by the impulsive signature of sonic booms, particularly indoors, cannot exceed that of the broadband, low-overpressure noise produced by subsonic airplanes for the restriction to be lifted. Therefore, the ability to understand and accurately reproduce the acoustic response of a sonic boom is important for psychoacoustic classification of their tolerability within residences. This thesis presents and interprets results of the propagation and transmission of simulated sonic booms incident on wood-framed structures. The testing environment, sonic boom simulation method, and associated instrumentation are described. The effects of the traveling blast on the structure are investigated through pressure loading and structural response measurements. The ensuing interior acoustic responses for several different configurations are presented, including the effects of room cavity interaction and exposure of the room cavities to the traveling wave through an open door. Calculated transfer functions between the interior acoustic response and the free-field incident wave are computed to assess the extent to which wood-framed buildings transmit energy to their cavities. In all cases tested, significant transmission of the sonic boom's low frequency content into the structures was apparent through direct apertures and the excitation of structural components. The data show that sonic booms provide significant excitation of structural and acoustic modes that drives the interior acoustic response in residential structures. / Master of Science

No / In this work we present the work on the equalization algorithms to be used in future orthogonally multiplexed wavelets based multi signaling communication systems. The performance of ZF and MMSE algorithms has been analyzed using SISO and MIMO communication models. The transmitted electromagnetic waves were subjected through Rayleigh multipath fading channel with AWGN. The results showed that the performance of both of the above mentioned algorithms is the same in SISO channel but in MIMO environment MMSE has better performance.

In this paper, we prove that it is consistent with ZFC that GCH holds and that every pair of normal Aronszajn trees contain club isomorphic subtrees.

L’étage Valanginien est caractérisé dans le registre sédimentaire par une excursion positive des isotopes du carbone (amplitude 1,5-2‰), appelée « Episode Weissert ». Cet événement coïncide avec des changements paléoenvironnementaux et paléoclimatiques majeurs. La formation de la province volcanique ignée du Paraná-Etendeka a été proposée comme principal facteur forçant contrôlant ces changements. Cependant, de récentes études démontrent que l’Episode Weissert précède systématiquement l’activité volcanique. Ainsi, les facteurs déclenchant qui contrôlent ces changements sont encore source de débat. Dans cette étude des analyses cyclostratigraphique, biostratigraphique, minéralogique et géochimique ont été réalisés sur des sites de moyennes et hautes latitudes (coupes d’Orpierre et de La Charce/Arnayon dans le Bassin Vocontien, site 765C dans la plaine abyssale Argo) dans le but (i) d’explorer la dynamique des changements paléoenvironnementaux à l’échelle locale versus globale et (ii) de discuter des possibles facteurs forçant contrôlant l’épisode Weissert. Les processus diagénétiques et sédimentologiques locaux, qui pouvaient modifier le signal paléoclimatique, ont été discuté avant des interprétations paléoenvironnementales. La calibration astronomique de l’épisode Weissert, réalisée sur la coupe d’Orpierre, a permis pour la première fois le calcul de flux détritiques et de nutriments dans le Bassin Vocontien. Ces résultats indiquent de rapides changements climatiques aux moyennes latitudes, marqués par des conditions plus humides pendant l’Episode Weissert et des conditions plus sèches au Valanginien supérieur. En parallèle de nouvelles données géochimiques et minéralogiques, réalisés sur le site ODP 765C, ont été intégrées à une compilation globale de données géochimique et minéralogique sur 23 coupes répartie dans cinq grands environnements. Trois ceintures climatiques latitudinales majeures ont été identifié durant le Valanginien : (i) une ceinture aride dans l’océan proto Nord Atlantique (~15-17°N), (ii) une ceinture climatique subtropical dans la marge NW téthysienne (~25-30°N), et (iii) une ceinture climatique chaude et tempéré aux sites de hautes latitudes (~53°S et ~40 à ~70°N). Il apparaît que durant cette période, des facteurs orbitaux et tectoniques peuvent avoir contrôlé la distribution de ces ceintures et les principaux changements durant l’Episode Weissert. / The Valanginian stage witnesses a positive carbon isotope excursion (amplitude 1.5-2‰) in the sedimentary records, the so-called « Weissert Episode ». This event coincides with major palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic changes. The formation of the Paraná-Etendeka large igneous province has widely been proposed as the major driving force behind these changes. However recent investigations demonstrate that the Weissert Episode precedes the volcanic activity. Thus the driving force(s) behind these changes are still under debate. In the herein study, cyclostratigraphic, biostratigraphic, mineralogical and geochemical analyses have been performed on mid- and high latitudes sites (the Orpierre and Arnayon/La Charce sections in the Vocontian Basin, and the ODP hole 765C in the Argo abyssal plain) in order (i) to explore the dynamic of the local versus global processes in the palaeoenvironmental changes and (ii) to discuss the possible forcing factors behind the Weissert Episode. Local diagenetic and sedimentological processes that might bias the palaeoclimatic signals are highlighted and discussed before any palaeoenvironmental interpretation. The astronomical calibration of the Weissert Episode performed at Orpierre, allowed for the first time, the calculation of detrital and nutrient influxes into the Vocontian basin. They highlight rapid climate changes at mid latitudes, characterized by pronounced humid conditions during the Weissert Event (Early–Late Valanginian transition) and drier conditions in the Late Valanginian. In parallel, new geochemical and mineralogical analyses performed on the ODP hole 765C have been integrated to a global compilation of published geochemical and mineralogical data from 23 sections, located in five depositional environments. Three latitudinal belts have been recognized during the Valanginian : (i) an arid palaeolatitudinal belt in the Proto North Atlantic Ocean (~15–17°N), (ii) a subtropical climatic belt in the Northwestern Tethyan margin (~25–30°N) ; and (iii) a warm temperate palaeoclimatic belt in the high latitudes site (~53°S and ~40 to 70°N). It appears that during this period, both tectonic and orbital factors might have controlled the distribution of the palaeoclimatic belts and the major palaeoenvironmental changes during the Weissert Episode.

Neste trabalho consideramos um método de construções genéricas de espaços compactos e dispersos não-metrizáveis, desenvolvido por Baumgartner, Shelah, Rabus, Juhasz e Soukup. Introduzimos novas técnicas e obtemos novas aplicações relevantes tanto para a topologia dos espaços compactos quanto para a geometria dos espaços de Banach de funções contínuas. As novas técnicas dizem respeito a novas amalgamações de condições do forcing que adiciona os espaços dispersos, bem como a generalizações dos argumentos dos autores acima citados de pontos de um espaço compacto K para medidas de Radon sobre K. Como aplicações, obtemos dois novos espaços compactos e dispersos K_1 e K_2, com as propriedades abaixo. K_1 é um espaço hereditariamente separável de peso aleph_1 tal que C(K_1) possui a propriedade (C) de Corson e não possui a propriedade (E) de Efremov. K_2 é o primeiro exemplo de um espaço compacto disperso, hereditariamente separável, de altura omega_2. Segue que o grau de Lindelöf hereditário de K_2 é aleph_2, mostrando a consistência de que hL(K) é estritamente maior que o sucessor de hd(K) para espaços compactos K. C(K_2) é o primeiro exemplo consistente de um espaço de densidade aleph_2 que não possui um sistema biortogonal não-enumerável. / In this work we consider a method of generic constructions of compact scattered non-metrizable spaces developed by Baumgartner, Shelah, Rabus, Juhasz and Soukup. We introduce new techniques and obtain new applications both relevant to topology of compact spaces and the geometry of Banach spaces of continuous functions. The new techniques concern new amalgamations of conditions of forcing which add the dispersed spaces as well as the generalizations of arguments of the above-mentioned authors from points of a compact space K to Radon measures on K. As applications we obtain two compact scattered spaces K_1 and K_2 with the properties below. K_1 is a hereditarily separable space of weight aleph_1 such that C(K_1) has property (C) of Corson and does not have property (E) of Efremov. K_2 is the first (consistent) example of a compact scattered space which is hereditarily separable and whose height is omega_2. It follows that its hereditary Lindelöf degree is aleph_2, showing the consistency of hL(K) can me strictly greater than the successor of hd(K) for compact spaces K. C(K_2) is the first consistent example of a Banach space of density aleph_2 without uncountable biorthogonal systems.

Neste trabalho consideramos um método de construções genéricas de espaços compactos e dispersos não-metrizáveis, desenvolvido por Baumgartner, Shelah, Rabus, Juhasz e Soukup. Introduzimos novas técnicas e obtemos novas aplicações relevantes tanto para a topologia dos espaços compactos quanto para a geometria dos espaços de Banach de funções contínuas. As novas técnicas dizem respeito a novas amalgamações de condições do forcing que adiciona os espaços dispersos, bem como a generalizações dos argumentos dos autores acima citados de pontos de um espaço compacto K para medidas de Radon sobre K. Como aplicações, obtemos dois novos espaços compactos e dispersos K_1 e K_2, com as propriedades abaixo. K_1 é um espaço hereditariamente separável de peso aleph_1 tal que C(K_1) possui a propriedade (C) de Corson e não possui a propriedade (E) de Efremov. K_2 é o primeiro exemplo de um espaço compacto disperso, hereditariamente separável, de altura omega_2. Segue que o grau de Lindelöf hereditário de K_2 é aleph_2, mostrando a consistência de que hL(K) é estritamente maior que o sucessor de hd(K) para espaços compactos K. C(K_2) é o primeiro exemplo consistente de um espaço de densidade aleph_2 que não possui um sistema biortogonal não-enumerável. / In this work we consider a method of generic constructions of compact scattered non-metrizable spaces developed by Baumgartner, Shelah, Rabus, Juhasz and Soukup. We introduce new techniques and obtain new applications both relevant to topology of compact spaces and the geometry of Banach spaces of continuous functions. The new techniques concern new amalgamations of conditions of forcing which add the dispersed spaces as well as the generalizations of arguments of the above-mentioned authors from points of a compact space K to Radon measures on K. As applications we obtain two compact scattered spaces K_1 and K_2 with the properties below. K_1 is a hereditarily separable space of weight aleph_1 such that C(K_1) has property (C) of Corson and does not have property (E) of Efremov. K_2 is the first (consistent) example of a compact scattered space which is hereditarily separable and whose height is omega_2. It follows that its hereditary Lindelöf degree is aleph_2, showing the consistency of hL(K) can me strictly greater than the successor of hd(K) for compact spaces K. C(K_2) is the first consistent example of a Banach space of density aleph_2 without uncountable biorthogonal systems.