DevOps is an ill-defined but trending approach to software development. Many companies are seduced by its promises of reduced costs and risks. DevOps life-cycle is often represented as a continuous everything, but very little is said about how to get the ball rolling. This report examines how DevOps definitions are represented in the initiation of Agile projects. By interviewing developers and mapping their project initiation activities in a DevOps context, a set of guidelines was formed. Continuous Integration and Deployment were found most prominent DevOps attributes from a developer’s perspective. The operational responsibility is skewed toward maintenance, with low interest in further adjustment.

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In this investigation, casing mounted high frequency response pressure transducers are used to characterize the flow behavior near the aerodynamic stability limit of a low speed single stage axial flow compressor. Time variant pressure measurements are acquired at discrete operating points up to the stall inception point and during the transition to rotating stall, for a length of time no shorter than 900 rotor revolutions. The experimental data is analyzed using multiple techniques in the time and frequency domains. Experimental results have shown an increase in the breakdown of flow periodicity as the flow coefficient is reduced. Below a flow coefficient of 0.40 a two node rotating disturbance develops with a propagation velocity of approximately 23% rotor speed in the direction of rotation. During rotating stall, a single stall cell is present with a propagation velocity of approximately 35% rotor speed. The stall inception events present are indicative of a modal stall inception.

Accurately predicting fan performance, including bounds of operation, is an important function of any Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) package. The presented research uses a CFD code developed as part of the Computational Research and Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environment (CREATE), known as Kestrel, to evaluate a single stage compressor at various operating conditions. Steady-state, single-passage simulations are carried out to validate capabilities recently added to Kestrel. The analysis includes generating speedlines of total pressure ratio and efficiency, as well as radial total temperature and total pressure profiles at two axial locations in the compressor at various operating conditions and fan speeds, and simulation data from the single-passage runs is compared to experimental data. Time-accurate, full annulus simulations are also carried out to capture and analyze the processes leading to stall inception for both uniform and distorted inlet conditions. The distortion profile used contains a 90 degree sector of lower total pressure at the inlet. The observed fan behavior at stall inception is compared to previous research, and it is concluded that the inlet distortion significantly changes the behavior of the part-span stall cells that develop after stall inception. Understanding the physical processes that lead to stall inception allows fan designers to design more robust fans that can safely take advantage of the better performance associated with operating closer to stall.

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Dans le cadre du projet d’avion plus électrique entamé depuis quelques années, l’objectif visé est le remplacement des énergies hydraulique et pneumatique par l’énergie électrique. Cette transition technologique drastique nécessite une augmentation de puissance électrique à bord des avions, qui se traduit par une élévation des niveaux de tension du réseau embarqué (+/- 270 VDC et 230 VAC). Dans ces conditions, les phénomènes de décharges électriques doivent être considérés, en particulier pour les systèmes présents dans les zones non pressurisées des appareils. Les travaux de thèse ont porté sur l’étude des décharges partielles dans des connecteurs aéronautiques aujourd’hui exploités et susceptibles d’être mis en oeuvre dans les nouvelles conditions de tension. Une modélisation électrostatique du connecteur a été effectuée dans le but de mettre en évidence les zones où règne un fort champ électrique pouvant être à l’origine de l’apparition de décharges partielles. L’influence de paramètres, tels que la géométrie des conducteurs, la pression et la température, a été examinée d’un point de vue théorique par adaptation de la courbe de Paschen. Des mesures expérimentales, effectuées dans différentes conditions d’alimentation électrique, de pression, de température et d’état de vieillissement des connecteurs, ont permis de déterminer les tensions seuil d’apparition des décharges partielles. Ces mesures ont également permis de localiser les décharges au sein du connecteur, et ainsi d’identifier les points faibles de la structure. Des solutions visant à repousser les seuils d’apparition de décharges partielles sont alors proposées. / The objective of the more electrical aircraft project is the replacement certain of the hydraulic and pneumatic systems by electrical ones. This drastic technological transition will require the increase of the onboard electrical power, which will result in the increase of voltage levels of the embedded networks. Current systems of 28 VDC and 115 VAC (400 Hz) are to be replaced by +/- 270 VDC and 230 VAC (360 to 1000 Hz). These new conditions of voltage levels will have a significant impact on the appearance of partial discharges that were almost absent up until present. Aeronautical grade electrical connectors being one of the major elements of embedded networks, the aim of this thesis is to study the conditions of occurrence of partial discharges in them. In this work, electrostatic modeling is carried out in order to identify the zones within the connectors where there is a strong electric field facilitating the appearance of partial discharges. Also presented are the results of experiments under both DC and AC voltage in which the ignition voltages of partial discharges and their location within the structure of the connector were studied.

This thesis analyses Hans Zimmer’s film music in Inception (2010) and Interstellar (2014) that resulted from his collaboration with director Christopher Nolan. The focus lies on the narrative and temporal functions that film music can attain when used in temporal complex narratives. The analysis looks into how time is presented, manipulated, and connected through the music. Three aspects that are examined are: 1) how musical motifs function as a guide for understanding narrative themes, 2) how music gives temporal clarity within a narrative, and 3) how sound design contributes to an understanding of the temporal structure of the narrative. This thesis offers more insight into how music can function temporally, a subject worthy of more academic attention. It concludes that Zimmer’s “minimalistic maximalism” style and his creative process with Nolan are essential to how the music of Inception and Interstellarfunctions.

The quest to accurately capture flow phenomena with length-scales both short and long and to accurately represent complex flow phenomena within disparately sized geometry inspires a need for an efficient, highidelity, multi-block structured computational fluid dynamics (CFD) parallel computational scheme. This research presents and demonstrates a more efficient computational method by which to perform multi-block structured CFD parallel computational simulations, thus facilitating higheridelity solutions of complicated geometries (due to the inclusion of grids for "small" flow areas which are often merely modeled) and their associated flows. This computational framework offers greater flexibility and user-control in allocating the resource balance between process count and wallclock computation time. The principal modifications implemented in this revision consist of a "multiple grid-block per processing core" software infrastructure and an analytic computation of viscous flux Jacobians. The development of this scheme is largely motivated by the desire to simulate axial compressor stall inception with more complete gridding of the flow passages (including rotor tip clearance regions) than has been previously done while maintaining high computational efficiency (i.e., minimal consumption of computational resources), and thus this paradigm shall be demonstrated with an examination of instability in a transonic axial compressor. However, the paradigm presented herein facilitates CFD simulation of myriad previously impractical geometries and flows and is not limited to detailed analyses of axial compressor flows. While the simulations presented herein were technically possible under the previous structure of the subject software, they were much less computationally efficient and thus not pragmatically feasible; the previous research using this software to perform three-dimensional, full-annulus, timeurate, unsteady, full-stage (with sliding-interface) simulations of rotating stall inception in axial compressors utilized tip clearance periodic models, while the scheme here is demonstrated by a simulation of axial compressor stall inception utilizing gridded rotor tip clearance regions. As will be discussed, much previous research --- experimental, theoretical, and computational --- has suggested that understanding clearance flow behavior is critical to understanding stall inception, and previous computational research efforts which have used tip clearance models have begged the question, "What about the clearance flows?". This research begins to address that question.

<p dir="ltr">This thesis delves into the dynamics and driving factors of thermal transport via natural convection, the onset and severity of quiescent cavitation and its impact of auto-injector device performance, and the controlled release of rapidly swelling pharmaceutical tablets. In each of these instances showcases how variations in external conditions or the introduction of new variables can disrupt the equilibrium of fluid systems, leading to complex behaviors. Vertical thermal convection illustrates how temperature gradients induce fluid movement and patterns; cavitation inception focuses on the formation of vapor cavities due to pressure drops within a fluid; and rapid tablet swelling explores the interaction between solid materials and liquids, leading to significant changes in concentration and mass transfer. These studies collectively enhance our understanding of transport dynamics, highlighting pathways to achieve optimal transport and delivery conditions for various industrial and pharmaceutical processes.</p>