This thesis is dealing with problem of brain images registration aquired by computed tomography. At the beginning is explanation of image geometrical transformation methods, notably affine transformation. Following part of text the is dealing with interpolation methods issues, calculation of similarity criterion and subsequent optimalization. All issues are handled especially for three-dimensional data. Second part of this work is practical sample of MatLab® program enviroment for registration of acquired frames by affine tranformation. In this program is algorithm for removement of stair-step artefact, under head pillow and patient’s desk, too. As an optimalization algorithm is used control random search (CRS) methode. Due to medical images type, which are distributed in DICOM format, is included process for their load and save at this work.

Nous présentons dans cette thèse nos travaux sur la réduction d'ordre appliquée à des simulations d'aérothermie. Nous considérons le couplage entre les équations de Navier-Stokes et une équations d'énergie de type advection-diffusion. Les paramètres physiques considérés nous obligent à considéré l'introduction d'opérateurs de stabilisation de type SUPG ou GLS. Le but étant d'ajouter une diffusion numérique dans la direction du champs de convection, afin de supprimer les oscillations non-phyisques. Nous présentons également notre stratégie de résolution basée sur la méthode des bases réduite (RBM). Afin de retrouver une décomposition affine, essentielle pour l'application de la RBM, nous avons implémenté une version discrète de la méthode d'interpolation empirique (EIM). Cette variante permet de la construction d'approximation affine pour des opérateurs complexes. Nous utilisons notamment cette méthode pour la réduction des opérateurs de stabilisations. Cependant, la construction des bases EIM pour des problèmes non-linéaires implique un grand nombre de résolution éléments finis. Pour pallier à ce problème, nous mettons en oeuvre les récents développement de l'algorithme de coconstruction entre EIM et RBM (SER). / We present in this thesis our work on model order reduction for aerothermal simulations. We consider the coupling between the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and an advection-diffusion equation for the temperature. Since the physical parameters induce high Reynolds and Peclet numbers, we have to introduce stabilization operators in the formulation to deal with the well known numerical stability issue. The chosen stabilization, applied to both fluid and heat equations, is the usual Streamline-Upwind/Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG) which add artificial diffusivity in the direction of the convection field. We also introduce our order reduction strategy for this model, based on the Reduced Basis Method (RBM). To recover an affine decomposition for this complex model, we implemented a discrete variation of the Empirical Interpolation Method (EIM) which is a discrete version of the original EIM. This variant allows building an approximated affine decomposition for complex operators such as in the case of SUPG. We also use this method for the non-linear operators induced by the shock capturing method. The construction of an EIM basis for non-linear operators involves a potentially huge number of non-linear FEM resolutions - depending on the size of the sampling. Even if this basis is built during an offline phase, we usually can not afford such expensive computational cost. We took advantage of the recent development of the Simultaneous EIM Reduced basis algorithm (SER) to tackle this issue.

The central aim for the research undertaken in this PhD thesis is the development of a model for simulating water droplet movement on a leaf surface and to compare the model behavior with experimental observations. A series of five papers has been presented to explain systematically the way in which this droplet modelling work has been realised. Knowing the path of the droplet on the leaf surface is important for understanding how a droplet of water, pesticide, or nutrient will be absorbed through the leaf surface. An important aspect of the research is the generation of a leaf surface representation that acts as the foundation of the droplet model. Initially a laser scanner is used to capture the surface characteristics for two types of leaves in the form of a large scattered data set. After the identification of the leaf surface boundary, a set of internal points is chosen over which a triangulation of the surface is constructed. We present a novel hybrid approach for leaf surface fitting on this triangulation that combines Clough-Tocher (CT) and radial basis function (RBF) methods to achieve a surface with a continuously turning normal. The accuracy of the hybrid technique is assessed using numerical experimentation. The hybrid CT-RBF method is shown to give good representations of Frangipani and Anthurium leaves. Such leaf models facilitate an understanding of plant development and permit the modelling of the interaction of plants with their environment. The motion of a droplet traversing this virtual leaf surface is affected by various forces including gravity, friction and resistance between the surface and the droplet. The innovation of our model is the use of thin-film theory in the context of droplet movement to determine the thickness of the droplet as it moves on the surface. Experimental verification shows that the droplet model captures reality quite well and produces realistic droplet motion on the leaf surface. Most importantly, we observed that the simulated droplet motion follows the contours of the surface and spreads as a thin film. In the future, the model may be applied to determine the path of a droplet of pesticide along a leaf surface before it falls from or comes to a standstill on the surface. It will also be used to study the paths of many droplets of water or pesticide moving and colliding on the surface.

Apesar de serem intensamente estudados em muitos países que caminham na vanguarda do conhecimento, os métodos sem malha ainda são pouco explorados pelas universidades brasileiras. De modo a gerar uma maior difusão ou, para a maioria, fazer sua introdução, esta dissertação objetiva efetuar o entendimento dos métodos sem malha baseando-se em aplicações atinentes à mecânica dos sólidos. Para tanto, são apresentados os conceitos primários dos métodos sem malha e o seu desenvolvimento histórico desde sua origem no método smooth particle hydrodynamic até o método da partição da unidade, sua forma mais abrangente. Dentro deste contexto, foi investigada detalhadamente a forma mais tradicional dos métodos sem malha: o método de Galerkin sem elementos, e também um método diferenciado: o método de interpolação de ponto. Assim, por meio de aplicações em análises de barras e chapas em estado plano de tensão, são apresentadas as características, virtudes e deficiências desses métodos em comparação aos métodos tradicionais, como o método dos elementos finitos. É realizado ainda um estudo em uma importante área de aplicação dos métodos sem malha, a mecânica da fratura, buscando compreender como é efetuada a representação computacional da trinca, com especialidade, por meio dos critérios de visibilidade e de difração. Utilizando-se esses critérios e os conceitos da mecânica da fratura, é calculado o fator de intensidade de tensão através do conceito da integral J. / Meshless are certainly very researched in many countries that are in state of art of scientific knowledge. However these methods are still unknown by many brazilian universities. To create more diffusion or, for many people, to introduce them, this work tries to understand the meshless based on solid mechanic applications. So basic concepts of meshless and its historic development are introduced since its origin, with smooth particle hydrodynamic until partition of unity, its more general form. In this context, most traditional form of meshless was investigated deeply: element free Galerkin method and also another different method: point interpolation method. This way characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, comparing to finite elements methods, are introduced by applications in analyses in bars and plates in state of plane stress. This work still researched an important area of meshless application, fracture mechanical, to understand how a crack is computationally represented, particularly, with visibility and diffraction criterions. By these criterions and using fracture mechanical concepts, stress intensity factor is calculated by J-integral concept.

Apesar de serem intensamente estudados em muitos países que caminham na vanguarda do conhecimento, os métodos sem malha ainda são pouco explorados pelas universidades brasileiras. De modo a gerar uma maior difusão ou, para a maioria, fazer sua introdução, esta dissertação objetiva efetuar o entendimento dos métodos sem malha baseando-se em aplicações atinentes à mecânica dos sólidos. Para tanto, são apresentados os conceitos primários dos métodos sem malha e o seu desenvolvimento histórico desde sua origem no método smooth particle hydrodynamic até o método da partição da unidade, sua forma mais abrangente. Dentro deste contexto, foi investigada detalhadamente a forma mais tradicional dos métodos sem malha: o método de Galerkin sem elementos, e também um método diferenciado: o método de interpolação de ponto. Assim, por meio de aplicações em análises de barras e chapas em estado plano de tensão, são apresentadas as características, virtudes e deficiências desses métodos em comparação aos métodos tradicionais, como o método dos elementos finitos. É realizado ainda um estudo em uma importante área de aplicação dos métodos sem malha, a mecânica da fratura, buscando compreender como é efetuada a representação computacional da trinca, com especialidade, por meio dos critérios de visibilidade e de difração. Utilizando-se esses critérios e os conceitos da mecânica da fratura, é calculado o fator de intensidade de tensão através do conceito da integral J. / Meshless are certainly very researched in many countries that are in state of art of scientific knowledge. However these methods are still unknown by many brazilian universities. To create more diffusion or, for many people, to introduce them, this work tries to understand the meshless based on solid mechanic applications. So basic concepts of meshless and its historic development are introduced since its origin, with smooth particle hydrodynamic until partition of unity, its more general form. In this context, most traditional form of meshless was investigated deeply: element free Galerkin method and also another different method: point interpolation method. This way characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, comparing to finite elements methods, are introduced by applications in analyses in bars and plates in state of plane stress. This work still researched an important area of meshless application, fracture mechanical, to understand how a crack is computationally represented, particularly, with visibility and diffraction criterions. By these criterions and using fracture mechanical concepts, stress intensity factor is calculated by J-integral concept.

Cette thèse aborde deux thématiques différentes. On s’intéresse d’abord au développement et à l’analyse de méthodes pour le sens électrique appliqué à la robotique. On considère en particulier la méthode des réflexions permettant, à l’image de la méthode de Schwarz, de résoudre des problèmes linéaires à partir de sous-problèmes plus simples. Ces deniers sont obtenus par décomposition des frontières du problème de départ. Nous en présentons des preuves de convergence et des applications. Dans le but d’implémenter un simulateur du problème direct d’électrolocation dans un robot autonome, on s’intéresse également à une méthode de bases réduites pour obtenir des algorithmes peu coûteux en temps et en place mémoire. La seconde thématique traite d’un problème inverse dans le domaine de la chimie quantique. Nous cherchons ici à déterminer les caractéristiques d’un système quantique. Celui-ci est éclairé par un champ laser connu et fixé. Dans ce cadre, les données du problème inverse sont les états avant et après éclairage. Un résultat d’existence locale est présenté, ainsi que des méthodes de résolution numériques. / This thesis tackle two different topics.We first design and analyze algorithms related to the electrical sense for applications in robotics. We consider in particular the method of reflections, which allows, like the Schwartz method, to solve linear problems using simpler sub-problems. These ones are obtained by decomposing the boundaries of the original problem. We give proofs of convergence and applications. In order to implement an electrolocation simulator of the direct problem in an autonomous robot, we build a reduced basis method devoted to electrolocation problems. In this way, we obtain algorithms which satisfy the constraints of limited memory and time resources. The second topic is an inverse problem in quantum chemistry. Here, we want to determine some features of a quantum system. To this aim, the system is ligthed by a known and fixed Laser field. In this framework, the data of the inverse problem are the states before and after the Laser lighting. A local existence result is given, together with numerical methods for the solving.