Cette thèse a pour but l’étude de la rotation de l’écoulement des grandes échelles dans deux configurations. La première configuration se concentre sur l’effet de la rotation de l’écoulement sur une flamme laminaire. Elle est stabilisée dans le sillage d’un cylindre. La rotation de l’écoulement est introduite en faisant tourner le cylindre autour de son axe. La simulation numérique directe (Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS)) montre que la rotation du cylindre rompt la symétrie des deux branches de la flamme. La fonction de transfert de flamme (Flame Transfer Function (FTF)), obtenue grâce à l’inversion de Wiener-Hopf, indique qu’un faible taux de rotation réduit le gain de la FTF et donc la flamme devient presque insensible aux perturbations acoustiques à une fréquence donnée. De plus, il est démontré que cette diminution du gain est due à une interférence destructive des fluctuations de chaleur produites par les deux branches de la flamme. La fréquence à laquelle le gain de la FTF devient presque nul est ajustable par la vitesse de rotation du cylindre. Cette étude suggère que le contrôle de la symétrie de la flamme pourrait être un outil de contrôle en boucle ouverte des instabilités thermoacoustiques. Dans le cas de la deuxième configuration, la rotation de l’écoulement est induite par une instabilité hydrodynamique, aussi nommée Precessing Vortex Core (PVC) dans un système d’injection de carburant industriel. Des expériences et des simulations aux grandes échelles (Large Eddy Simulation (LES)) montrent que l’écoulement non-réactif dans l’injecteur pri- maire peut être décomposé en une contribution moyenne et un PVC. Cette instabilité hydro- dynamique est étudiée par l’analyse de stabilité linéaire (Linear Stability Analysis (LSA)) en utilisant deux approches différentes (locale et BiGlobale). Les résultats de l’expérience, de la LES et de la LSA démontrent que le montage d’une tige centrale à l’intérieur de l’injecteur stabilise le PVC. De plus, le même injecteur industriel est étudié dans le cas d’un écoule- ment réactif par LES. Les résultats démontrent que la flamme stabilise le PVC. L’analyse de stabilité BiGlobal montre que le gradient de densité dans le front moyen de la flamme a un effet important sur l’amortissement du PVC. Enfin, l’impact de la tige centrale est également étudié pour le cas réactif. La tige centrale impacte marginalement la forme globale de la flamme, mais a un effet positif sur l’accrochage de la flamme dans la zone de combustion pauvre. En comparant deux cas par LSA, celui avec la tige et celui sans la tige, les résultats suggèrent que la tige augmente considérablement l’amortissement du PVC. Cela pourrait causer une diminution de la turbulence dans l’écoulement et empêcher l’extinction de la flamme et donc expliquer l’influence bénéfique de la tige sur la stabilisation de la flamme. / This thesis investigates large scale flow rotation in two configurations. In the first, the effect of flow rotation on a laminar flame is investigated. The flame is anchored in the wake of a cylindrical bluff body. The flow rotation is introduced by turning the cylinder along its axis. It is shown by Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS), that the cylinder rotation breaks the symmetry of both flame branches. Flame Transfer Function (FTF) measurements performed by the Wiener-Hopf Inversion suggest, that low rotation rates lead to deep gaps in the gain and the flame becomes almost insensitive to acoustic perturbation at a specific frequency. It furthermore is demonstrated that this decrease in gain of the FTF is due to destructive interference of the heat release signals caused by the two flame branches. The frequency at which the gain becomes almost zero can be adjusted by tuning the cylinder rotation rate. The study suggests that controlling the symmetry of the flame could be a tool of open-loop control of thermoacoustic instabilities.

La fragmentation d’enveloppes métalliques en expansion dynamique intéresse tant l’industrie civile que celle de la défense. Pour les deux domaines d’application, il s’agit de pouvoir prédire la taille et la vitesse des fragments, résultant de la destruction des enveloppes, afin de mesurer les conséquences que ceux-ci peuvent avoir sur des structures de sécurité. Les modèles de prédiction existants étudient le développement d’un défaut au sein du matériau et arrivent à déterminer une taille caractéristique des fragments. Néanmoins, ces modèles nécessitent une hypothèse dont la validité est remise en cause lorsque la vitesse de déformation est importante. Dans ce travail, nous proposons un nouveau modèle analytique pour des cylindres (sollicitation en traction plane) permettant de s’affranchir de cette hypothèse et d’étudier l’influence du défaut initial en suivant son évolution. Le modèle développé est comparé avec succès à des résultats issus de simulations numériques par éléments finis. Nos travaux permettent notamment de préciser les cadres d’application et de validité des approches classiques. Comme résultats majeurs, la nouvelle approche permet d’analyser les évolutions des perturbations aux faibles déformations mais aussi d’estimer le temps d’apparition des premières décharges élastiques, synonymes de strictions localisées. / This work deals with the fragmentation of dynamically expanding metal shells and covers a problem of interest for both civil and military industries. For both fields of application, it is crucial to predict the size and the speed of fragments, resulting from the destruction of shells in order to measure the consequences that it could have on structures. Current models study the growth of a defect within the material and are able to determine a characteristic size of fragments. Nevertheless, these models require a hypothesis whose validity is questionable when the rate of deformation is important. In this work, we propose a new analytical model for cylinders (equivalent to the dynamic extension of a plate) to overcome this hypothesis and study the influence of the initial defect by following its time evolution. The model is compared successfully with results performed with a finite element method. Our work notably expands the framework of classical linear stability analyses. As a major outcome, the proposed approach is able to track the evolution of a perturbation even for small plastic strain, when the flow may be stable. In addition it is shown that the present approach can predict accurately the time where the elastic unloading is observed in finite element simulations.

Doctor of Philosophy(PhD) / Complex (dusty) plasmas are a subject of growing interest. They areionized gases containing charged dust particles. In capacitively-coupled RF discharges, dust growth can occur naturally and two methods can be used to grow dust particles: chemically active plasmas or sputtering. The growth of dust particles in argon discharges by RF sputtering and the effect of dust particles on theplasma have been investigated from the plasma ignition to the afterglow. It was shown that plasma and discharge parameters are greatly affected by the dust particles. Furthermore, plasma instabilities can be triggered by the presence of the dust particles. These instabilities can be due to dust particle growth or they can be instabilities of a well established dust cloud filling the interelectrode space. When the discharge is switched off, the dust particles act like a sink for the charge carrier and consequently affect the plasma losses. It was shown that the dust particles do keep residual chargeswhich values are greatly affected by the diffusion of the charge carriers and especially the transition from ambipolar to free diffusion.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-120).

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Plasma physics governs the area of interactions between charged particles. As 99% of the visible universe is in a plasma state, it is an important topic in astronomy and space physics, where we already at an altitude of 60 km reach the plasma environment surrounding our planet in the form of the ionosphere. The search for fusion, the source of power for the sun, as well as industrial use have been the main topics for earth bound plasma reasurch. A plasma is composed of charged particles which interact by the electromagnetic force. In the kinetic description, via the Vlasov-Maxwell equations, the system is described in terms of probability distribution functions for each particle species, expressed in terms of particles position and velocity. The particles interact via self-consistent fields as determined by Maxwell's equations. For understanding the complex behaviour of the system, we need numerical solvers. These come in two flavours, Lagrangian methods, dealing with the moving around of synthetic particles, and Eulerian methods, which solve the set of partial differential, Vlasov and Maxwell equations. To perform the computations within reasonable time, we need to distribute our calculations on multiple machines, i.e. parallel programming, with the best possible matching between our computational needs and the need of splitting algorithms to adapt to our processing environment. Paper I studies electron and ion beams within a Lagrangian and fluid model and compare the results with experimental observations. This is continued with studies of a full kinetic system, using an Eulerian solver, for a closer look at electron-ion interactions in relation to ionospheric observations, (Papers II and IV). To improve the performance of the Eulerian solver it was parallelised (Paper III). The thesis is ending with the possibility to observe ultrahigh energy neutrinos from an orbiting satellite by using the Moon's surface as a detector Paper V.

In this thesis the stability of generic boundary layer flows is studied from a global viewpoint using optimization methods. Global eigenmodes of the incompressible linearized Navier-Stokes equations are computed using the Krylov subspace Arnoldi method. These modes serve as a tool both to study asymptotic stability and as a reduced basis to study transient growth. Transient growth is also studied using adjoint iterations. The knowledge obtained from the stability analysis is used to device systematic feedback control in the Linear Quadratic Gaussian framework. The dynamics is assumed to be described by the linearized Navier-Stokes equations. Actuators and sensors are designed and a Kalman filtering technique is used to reconstruct the unknown flow state from noisy measurements. This reconstructed flow state is used to determine the control feedback which is applied to the Navier-Stokes equations through properly designed actuators. Since the control and estimation gains are obtained through an optimization process, and the Navier-Stokes equations typically forms a very high-dimensional system when discretized there is an interest in reducing the complexity of the equations. A standard method to construct a reduced order model is to perform a Galerkin projection of the full equations onto the subspace spanned by a suitable set of vectors, such as global eigenmodes and balanced truncation modes. / QC 20100924

Esta tesis se dedica en un estudio de estabilidad no lineal de la morfodinàmica de la zona de rompientes de playas de arena. El modelo numérico MORFO55 resuelve las ecuaciones de aguas someras no lineales para la hidrodinámica y actualiza la topografía a partir del transporte de sedimento. En primer lugar, se aplica en el caso de playas complejas longitudinalmente no uniformes con objeto de probar sus distintas formulaciones. En secundo lugar, se usa para estudiar la generación de estructuras rítmicas en playas longitudinalmente uniformes. Entre estos patrones se distinguen las barras transversales y oblicuas, las barras crescenticas y los sistemas de barras/surcos (ridges/runnels). La hipótesis de que emergen a partir de inestabilidades internas del acoplamiento entre la topografía y la hidrodinámica se investiga. Los estudios previos de modelización numérica se limitaban a las etapas iniciales de la generación de las barras. En particular, mostraban que las barras transversales y oblicuas pueden formarse en playas planas mientras que las barras crecenticas aparecen en playas con barra. La formación de los sistemas de barras/surcos se explica con modelos conceptuales de la observación mediante satélite según los cuales emergerán a partir de la deformación de la barra intermareal. Esta tesis estudia el régimen no lineal de la evolución de todos estos sistemas. Particularmente se obtiene un estado 'nal de equilibrio. Los resultados generales coinciden cualitativamente con las barras observadas en la naturaleza. Se da una interpretación física de la formación, de la evolución y de la saturación del crecimiento de las barras. / This thesis performs a nonlinear stability study of the surf zone morphodynamics of sandy beaches. To this end the MORFO55 model based on a wave and depth averaged nonlinear shallow water equations solver with wave driver, sediment transport and bed updating is presented. It is first applied to complex longitudinally non-uniform beaches in order to test different model formulations. Second, it is applied to study the generation of surf zone rhythmic features on alongshore uniform beaches. Shore-attached transverse or oblique bars, crescentic bars and ridge and runnel systems are well known examples of such features. The hypothesis that they emerge by self organisation of the coupling between topography, waves and currents is here tested. In absence of shore-parallel bars, the initial formation of transverse and oblique bars had been shown by previous modelling studies of linear stability analysis but is now extended to the finite amplitude regime. In most of barred beaches, crescentic bars and ridge and runnel systems appear. Conceptual models based on field observations suggest that ridges and runnels could emerge by the deformation of the alongshore intertidal bar intercepted by crescentic bars. Up to now, only the formation of crescentic bars had numerically succeeded with linear and non linear models. This study shows that a dynamical equilibrium state of each of these rhythmic bar systems may be described with a numerical model. General results are in qualitative agreement with the bar systems observed in nature. A physical explanation for their formation, their evolution and the saturation of their growth is given.

<p>The Duke storage has been developed as a dedicated driver for the storage ring based free-electron lasers (FEL) and a high flux Compton gamma-ray source, the High Intensity Gamma-ray Source. The storage ring can be operated from about 250 MeV to 1.2 GeV, which can produces FEL lasers over a wide range of wavelengths and gamma-rays with a tunable energy from 1 MeV to 100 MeV. The Duke light source facility conducts world-class researches across a wide range of scientific disciplines and technological applications.</p><p> In a storage ring, beam instabilities can cause a signifcant degradation in machine performance. In the Duke storage ring, coupled-bunch instabilities (CBIs) are the main source which limit ultimately achievable beam current in multi-bunch operations. In order to to suppress CBIs in the Duke storage, we developed a bunch-bybunch longitudinal feedback (LFB) system which is based on a field programmable gate array (FPGA) embedded system. During the design and implementation of the LFB system, several novel methods and techniques are developed in numerical analysis of feedback control and kicker cavity design/fabrication. High current are realized at low energies by using the LFB system. In addition, after the successful commissioning of the LFB system, a analog transverse feedback (TFB) system has been upgraded to a digital one using the same technique as the LFB system. </p><p>The LFB system has been routinely operated for HIGS. Additional,the LFB and TFB feedback systems become an useful diagnostic tools in researches of electron beam dynamics, FEL lasing process, and background of HIGS. The control of CIBs in different operation modes are studied using the feedback system. Furthermore, based on the TFB system, a novel bunch cleaning method has been developed to reduce the background of gamma-ray.</p> / Dissertation

Combustion instabilities are a significant problem in combustion systems, particularly in Low NOx Gas Turbine combustors. These instabilities result in large-scale pressure oscillations in the combustor, leading to degraded combustor performance, shortened lifetime, and catastrophic combustor failure. The objective of this research was to develop a practical adaptive active control system that, coupled with an appropriate actuator, is capable of controlling the combustor pressure oscillations without a priori knowledge of the combustor design, operating conditions or instability characteristics. The adaptive controller utilizes an observer that determines the frequencies, phases and amplitudes of the dominant modes of the oscillations in real time. The research included development and testing of the adaptive controller on several combustors and on an unstable acoustic feedback system in order to analyze its performance. The research also included investigations of combustor controllability and combustor stability margin, which are critical issues for practical implementation of an active control system on an industrial combustor. The results of this research are directly applicable to a variety of combustors and can be implemented on full-scale industrial combustion systems.