Recent theoretical and experimental studies have demonstrated that an estimate of the Green's function between two hydrophones can be extracted passively from the cross‐correlation of ambient noise recorded at these two points. Hence monitoring the temporal evolution of these estimated Green's functions can provide a means for noise‐based acoustic tomography using a distributed sensor network. However, obtaining unbiased Green's function estimate requires a sufficiently spatially and temporally diffuse ambient noise field. Broadband ambient noise ([200 Hz-20 kHz]) was recorded continuously for 2 days during the SWAMSI09 experiment (next to Panama City, FL) using two moored vertical line arrays (VLAs) spanning 7.5m of the 20‐m water column and separated by 150 m. The feasibility of noise‐based acoustic tomography ([300-1000 Hz]) was assessed in this dynamic coastal environment over the whole recording period. Furthermore, coherent array processing of the computed ocean noise cross‐correlations between all pairwise combinations of hydrophones was used to separate acoustic variations between the VLAs caused by genuine environmental fluctuations-such as internal waves-from the apparent variations in the same coherent arrivals caused when the ambient noise field becomes strongly directional, e.g., due to an isolated ship passing in the vicinity of the VLAs.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009. / Includes abstract. Title from first page of PDF file (viewed March 12, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-136). Also issued in print.

An approximate of the Green's function can be obtained by taking the cross-correlation of ambient noise that has been simultaneously recorded on separate sensors. This method is applied for two experiments, which illustrate the advantages and challenges of this technique. The first experiment is in the ultrasonic regime [5-30] MHz and uses capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer arrays to image the near field and compares the passive imaging to the conventional pulse-echo imaging. Both the array and target are immersed in a fluid with the sensors recording the fluid's random thermal-mechanical motion as the ambient noise. The second experiment is a passive ocean monitoring experiment, which uses spatiotemporal filtering to rapidly extract coherent arrivals between two vertical line arrays. In this case the ambient noise in the frequency band [250 1500] Hz is dominated by non-stationary shipping noise. For imaging purposes, the cross-correlation needs to extract the Green's function so that the imaging can be done correctly. While for monitoring purposes, the important feature is the change in arrivals, which corresponds to the environment changing. Results of both experiments are presented along with the advantages of this passive method over the more accepted active methods.

The purpose of this thesis is to report a theoretical investigation on the current-current correlation and noise in the tmnsient quantum transport regime. In particular, we calculate current correlations when the bias voltage of a LDL quantum device is suddenly turned off. Namely, we consider the situation that when time t < 0 the device is in a steady-state under bias Vb, when t > 0 the bias is turned off to zero. Under such a bias, the transport current l goes from a finite steady-state value 10 at t < 0 to zero at large times. When electronic structure of the leads as well as well as the device scattering region are to be taken into account, it is a difficult problem to calculate the time dependent current-current correlation. However, for the sharp step-down bias shape, we discover that the time-dependent problem can be solved exactly for non-interacting systems.

Errata inserted inside back end-paper. / Bibliography: p. 243-249. / xvi, 249 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / This thesis presents a brief overview of microstrip antenna analysis and describes the connections between spectral and spatial domain periodic Green's functions in integral equation methods. A hybrid formulation is applied to a variety of problems from simple metal strip dipoles to more complicated microstrip geometries. A further development to finite array analysis is described. An improvement in the accuracy of this approximative technique is explored. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1997

Errata inserted inside back end-paper. / Bibliography: p. 243-249. / xvi, 249 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / This thesis presents a brief overview of microstrip antenna analysis and describes the connections between spectral and spatial domain periodic Green's functions in integral equation methods. A hybrid formulation is applied to a variety of problems from simple metal strip dipoles to more complicated microstrip geometries. A further development to finite array analysis is described. An improvement in the accuracy of this approximative technique is explored. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1997

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, March, 2004. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-62).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1997. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [106]-113).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xv, 210 p.; also includes graphics (some col.). Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-210). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

Orientador: Euclides de Mesquita Neto / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T07:13:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adolph_Marco_D.pdf: 9999341 bytes, checksum: 0336316213626e1dcf851637c49e82be (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho foi desenvolver uma formulação para obtenção de Funções de Green e estados auxiliares para os problemas viscoelastodinâmicos tridimensionais. Os problemas são descritos com auxílio de equações diferenciais, as quais foram solucionadas utilizando as transformadas de Radon e Fourier, bem como condições de contorno específicas. A transformada inversa é realizada numericamente. Essa formulação resulta em soluções com apenas uma integral imprópria e uma limitada, porém, quando se adota transformada de Fourier, são obtidas duas integrais ilimitadas. Para os problemas isotrópicos, essa formulação permite o desacoplamento do problema tridimensional em dois problemas auxiliares bidimensionais. As respostas de tensão e deslocamento foram deduzidas para os problemas de semi-espaço com cargas concentrada e distribuída, bem como de espaços completos submetidos a carregamento distribuído. A implementação numérica foi validada com auxílio das soluções estáticas de Cerruti, Boussinesq e Kelvin, bem como com implementações numéricas dinâmicas baseadas na transformada dupla de Fourier. Foram obtidos bons resultados. É apresentada a formulação para semi-espaços anisotrópicos / Abstract: The purpose of this study was to develop a formulation to obtain Green's functions and auxiliary states in order to solve three-dimensional viscoelastodynamic problems. The problems are described with the aid of differential equations, which were solved by using the Radon and Fourier transforms, as well as specific boundary conditions. The inverse transform was numerically accomplished. This formulation resulted in solutions with a single (one) improper integral and a finite one, however, in case of using the Fourier transform, two infinite integrals are obtained. As for the isotropic-related problems, this formulation allows to break up the threedimensional problem into two auxiliary two-dimensional problems. The stress and displacement solutions were obtained for problems related to half-space under concentrated and distributed loads, as well as to whole-spaces under a distributed load. The numerical implementation was validated by using the Cerruti, Boussinesq and Kelvin¿s static solutions, and numerical dynamic responses based on the double Fourier transform. Thus, effective results were obtained. In addition, it was included the formulation for anisotropy half-spaces / Doutorado / Mecanica dos Solidos / Doutor em Engenharia Mecânica