A comprehensive study of the soil shaking under the seismic wave-field ex- citation is presented. It includes theoretical, geological, geotechnical, data analysis and numerical simulations aspects. The aim is to quantify the main parameters allowing the estimate of the soil shaking in urban areas for better mitigating seismic risk due to future earthquakes. The city of Rome has been chosen as a case study because of its high density of popula- tion and large concentration of historical monuments with high earthquake vulnerability. This study improves significantly the knowledge concerning the detailed near-surface geology of the chosen study area of Rome, ful- fills the absence both of knowledge concerning its geotechnical properties and earthquake data recordings in the city. Among others, it allows for a better explanation of the spatial damage pattern observed in the city due to earthquakes in the past. The main innovations include the construction and long-term operation a seismic array in the city, analysis of the natural seismic noise, and instrumental recordings of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake sequence. The 3D array (including a borehole sensor at 70-m depth) is the first one in Italy planned, realized and operated within an urban area, and the first one that recorded a significant earthquake in...

La spectroscopie ro-vibrationelle de haute résolution de l’ion moleculaire H2+ par REMPD requiert une source sélective en état interne. Dans cette thèse nous présentons notre travail de conception et de réalisation d’une telle source utilisant la photo-ionisation multiphotonique résonante (REMPI) de H2 à l’aide d’un laser pulsé à 303 nm.Dans un deuxième temps nous présentons nos simulations numériques de refroidissement sympathique dans un piège de Paul linéaire, avec pour application principale le projet GBAR qui implique le refroidissement sympathique d’un ion d’antimatière H̄+ par des ions Be+ refroidis par laser. Nous avons dévelopé un code GPU utilisant un pas de temps variable permettant de décrire les interactions coulombiennes de façon efficace. Nous discutons de l’influence du chauffage RF et de lois d’échelles entre le temps de capture, l’énergie initiale et le nombre d’ions dans le cristal. Nous montrons que le refroidissement sympathique de H̄ requis pour GBAR pourrait fonctionner avec un cristal dissymétrique de Be+/HD+ qui semble plus efficace que le Be+ seul. Nous montrons qu’avec un tel cristal la capture du H̄+ pourrait être détectée expérimentalement par analyse de Fourier des données de fluorescence. / The high-resolution ro-vibrational spectroscopy of the H2+ molecular ion by resonance-enhanced multiphoton dissociation (REMPD) requires a state-selective source of H2+. In this thesis we present work on a functional state selective H2+ ion source using resonance enhanced multiphoton ionisation (REMPI) with a 303 nm pulsed laser.The second part of the thesis presents numerical simulations of sympathetic cooling in linear RF traps, whose main application is the GBAR project (Gravitational Behaviour of Antihydrogen at Rest) which involves sympathetic cooling of an antimatter H̄+ ion by laser-cooled Be+ ions. We developed a GPU code using a variable timestep technique enabling a fast description of Coulomb interactions. We discuss the influence of RF heating and scaling laws between cooling times, initial energy and ion numbers in the cooling crystal. We show that the H̄ sympathetic cooling step of GBAR could be feasible using a rotationally asymmetric two-component Be+/HD+ crystal which appears more effective than a single-component Be+ crystal. We find that the H̄+ ion’s capture by this crystal could be detected experimentally by Fourier analysis of the fluorescence data.

Dans le contexte du calcul scientique, l'équilibrage de la charge est un problème crucial qui conditionne la performance des simulations numériques parallèles. L'objectif est de répartir la charge de travail entre un nombre de processeurs donné, afin de minimiser le temps global d'exécution. Une stratégie populaire pour résoudre ce problème consiste à modéliser la simulation à l'aide d'un graphe et à appliquer des algorithmes de partitionnement. En outre, les simulations numériques tendent à se complexifier, notamment en mixant plusieurs codes représentant des physiques différentes ou des échelles différentes. On parle alors de couplage de codes multi-physiques ou multi-échelles. Dans ce contexte, le problème de l'équilibrage de charge devient également plus difficile, car il ne s'agit plus d'équilibrer chacun des codes séparément, mais l'ensemble de ces codes pris dans leur globalité. Dans ce travail, on propose de resoudre ce problème en utilisant le modèle de partitionnement à sommets fixes qui pourrait représenter efficacement les contraintes supplémentaires imposées par les codes couplés (co-partitionnement). Nous avons donc développé un algorithme direct de partitionnement de graphe qui gère des sommets fixes. L'algorithme a été implémenté dans le partitionneur Scotch et une série d'expériences ont été menées sur la collection des graphes DIMACS. Ensuite nous avons proposé trois algorithmes de co-partitionnement qui respectent les contraintes issues des codes couplés respectifs. Nous avons egalement validé nos algorithmes par une étude expérimentale en comparant nos méthodes aux strategies actuelles sur des cas artificiels ainsi que sur des codes réels couplés. / Load balancing is an important step conditioning the performance of parallel applications. The goal is to distribute roughly equal amounts of computational load across a number of processors, while minimising interprocessor communication. A common approach to model the problem is based on graph structures and graph partitioning algorithms. Moreover, new challenges involve the simulation of more complex physical phenomena, where different parts of the computational domain exhibit different physical behavior. Such simulations follow the paradigm of multi-physics or multi-scale modeling approaches. Combining such different models in massively parallel computations is still a challenge to reach high performance. Additionally, traditional load balancing algorithms are often inadequate, and more sophisticated solutions should be explored. In this thesis, we propose new graph partitioning algorithms that balance the load of such simulations, refered to as co-partitioning. We formulate this problem with the use of graph partitioning with initially fixed vertices which we believe represents efficiently the additional constraints of coupled simulations. We have therefore developed a direct algorithm for graph partitioning that manages successfully problems with fixed vertices. The algorithm is implemented inside Scotch partitioner and a series of experiments were carried out on the DIMACS graph collection. Moreover we proposed three copartitioning algorithms that respect the constraints of the respective coupled codes. We finally validated our algorithms by an experimental study comparing our methods with current strategies on artificial cases and on real-life coupled simulations.

The subject of this thesis is the numerical simulation of magneto hydro dynamic waves in the neutral current layer. In the first part, attention is described to the description of basic characteristics and Sun. The next section describes introduction to the theory of MHD equations suitable for solution of wave propagation in a neutral current layer. Then we deal with the numerical simulations of fast magnetoacoustic waves in the neutral current layer. The last section is devoted to the results obtained, their analysis and conclusion.

Orientador: Prof. Dr. Germán Lugones / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Física, 2015. / Durante sua expansão inicial e consequente resfriamento o Universo passou por diversas transições. Uma delas, conhecida como transição de fase da QCD, prevista pelo modelo cosmológico padrão e pela física de partículas, ocorreu por volta de 10 s após o Big Bang, em temperaturas da ordem de 150-200MeV, atuou em quarks e gluôns inicialmente em estado quasi-livre confinando-os em hádrons. A maneira na qual esse processo se deu, pode ter gerado inúmeras implicações nas fases subsequentes e relíquias a serem observadas atualmente. Com o intuito de entender esse processo, resolvemos numericamente as equações de Euler no contexto da relatividade restrita com um código numérico multidimensional desenvolvido durante o trabalho, baseado no método de diferença finita com esquemas de alta ordem para os casos hidrodinâmicos newtoniano e relativístico. Nele empregamos métodos de reconstrução espacial no espaço característico de até sétima ordem, três diferentes separadores de fluxo e esquemas Runge-Kutta de alta estabilidade de terceira e quarta ordem para evolução temporal. Para implementação do caso multidimensional, utilizamos o método "dimensionally unsplit". Os primeiros trabalhos a respeito dessa época partiam do pressuposto que a transição era de primeira ordem e faziam uma análise semi-analítica da nucleação e colisão entre bolhas hadrônicas. Nesses trabalhos era conjecturado que a turbulência criada por esses mecanismos teria um perfil Komolgorov, ou alguma variação, e a partir disso calculava a radiação gravitacional produzida. Contudo resultados obtidos pelos grandes experimentos de colisão de íons pesados no RHIC e LHC, cuja condições geradas possuem algumas similaridades àquelas esperadas no Universo Primordial e nos cálculos feitos pela colaboração Wuppertal-Budapest com teoria da QCD na rede sugerem que, pelos parâmetros provenientes do modelo padrão, essa transição foi analítica, caracterizada por uma transformação suave entre as fases. Nesse cenário, não há mecanismos intrínsecos da transição que possam transferir energias para as escalas maiores para produzir e manter a turbulência no fluido,formando assim espectro diferente dos analisados trabalhos anteriores e consequentemente uma outra evolução do plasma primordial. Através de análises estatísticas e espectrais, propusemos entender a dinâmica de iii um fluido primordial que passa por um transição analítica, estudando a geração de ondas gravitacionais geradas a partir da evolução de um fluido com estado inicial formado por distribuições randômicas de temperatura e velocidade e comparando-as com a curva de sensibilidade do eLISA/NGO. Procuramos entender também como a presença da instabilidade de Kelvin-Helmholtz bidimensional engatilhada a partir das flutuações provenientes de outras eras pode ter influenciado no crescimento de perturbações e da turbulência e suas consequências para o espectro da radiação gravitacional. / During its initial expansion and cooling, the Universe passed through several transitions. One of them, know as QCD phase transition occurred around 10 s after the Big Bang, at a temperature of the order of 150-200MeV, confining quarks and gluons that were initially in a quasi-free state into hadrons. The study of this transition is important for understanding the evolution of the Universe, because depending of the manner in which this process took place, we can expect several types of consequences for the subsequent phases as well as different observable relics. In order to understand this process, we solved numerically the Euler equations in the frame of special relativity with a multi-dimensional numerical code developed during the work, based on the finite differences method with high order schemes. We used spatial reconstruction methods in the characteristic space up to seventh order, three different flux-split and Runge-Kutta schemes of high stability of third and fourth order for time evolution. To implement the multidimensional case, we use the dimensionally unsplit method. Most of previous studies on this topic were based on the assumption of a first order transition. Several studies focused on a semi-analytical analysis of the nucleation, growth and collision of bubbles and their relation to the generation of gravitational waves. In these works it was conjectured that the turbulence created by such mechanisms would have a Komolgorov slope, or some variation of it, and from it the gravitational radiation was estimated. However results obtained in large heavy ion collision experiments at RHIC and LHC, whose conditions have some similarities to those expected in the Early Universe, and calculations made by the Wuppertal-Budapest collaboration with Lattice QCD suggest that, with parameters from the standard cosmological model, the transition it is a crossover characterized by a smooth transformation between phases. In this scenario, no intrinsic mechanisms of the transition could transfer the energy to larger scales to produce and maintain turbulence in the fluid, thereby generating a different spectrum of previous work and therefore another evolution of the primordial plasma. Using statistical and spectral analysis, we study the dynamics of a primordial fluid passing through an analytic transition. We study the gravitational waves generated from the motion of a fluid with an initial state consisting of random distributions of temperature and velocity and compare the results with the sensitivity curve of the eLISA/NGO. We also investigate how the presence of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability may have influenced the growth of perturbations and turbulence and analyze its consequences for the spectrum of gravitational radiation.

Ce travail de thèse est consacré à l'étude de la corrélation entre la microstructure des matériaux granulaires cimentés, la morphologie des fissures qui peuvent y apparaître et leur perméabilité apparente. Une approche numérique par discrétisation sur réseau a permis de prendre en compte la structure polyphasique hétérogène de ces matériaux et d'étudier les mécanismes qui contrôlent leur comportement et leur rupture. Trois régimes de rupture ont été identifiés en fonction de la fraction volumique de la phase cimentaire et de l'adhésion aux interfaces inclusions/matrice cimentaire. Dans le cadre de la sûreté nucléaire, et dans une optique d'analyse d'étanchéité sur des bétons fissurés, une méthodologie de génération de microstructures représentatives du béton, combinant les fractions volumiques des phases et les distributions des tailles des grains, a été proposée. Cette méthodologie permet d'analyser le réseau de fissures qui peut y apparaitre sous chargement en fonction de la microstructure. En particulier, la tortuosité des fissures est analysée en fonction de la fraction volumique des inclusions et de la distribution de leurs diamètres. Enfin, la perméabilité apparente des des fissures a été étudiée par la simulation de l'écoulement d'un liquide par la methode Lattice Boltzmann. Une corrélation microstructure-tortuosité-perméabilité a été ainsi obtenue. Les outils de modélisation et d'analyse proposés sont suffisamment génériques pour permettre de prendre en compte la complexité microstructurelle d'autres types de matériaux polyphasiques et leurs évolutions. / In this work, we investigate the relationships between the microstructure of cemented granular materials, morphology of cracks that may appear under tensile loading and their apparent permeability. In order to simulate the complexity of the multiphase heterogeneous structure of these materials, a numerical approach based on a lattice discretization was developed and used to study the mechanisms that control their behavior and rupture. Three distinct regimes of crack propagation were evidenced in terms of the combined influence of the matrix volume fraction and particle/matrix adherence. In the context of nuclear safety and in view of analyzing cracked concrete toughness, a methodology is proposed for generating representative microstructures with controlled phase volume fractions and particle size distributions. The cracks obtained under tensile loading are analyzed and a relationship is obtained between the microstructure of concrete and the tortuosity of the cracks. The permeability of cracked numerical microstructures was obtained by the simulation of liquid flow through the cracks by means of the Lattice Boltzmann method. Finally, a microstructure-tortuosity-permeability relation is proposed. The modeling and analysis tools developed in this work are generic enough to be applied to other complex multiphase heterogeneous materials.

Cette thèse s'inscrit dans le cadre des énergies renouvelables au sein du programme HARVEST du laboratoire LEGI, qui consiste à développer un concept d'hydrolienne de type Darrieus. L'hydrolienne peut être équipée d'un dispositif appelé carénage afin de transformer une portion plus grande de l'énergie cinétique contenue dans le courant d'eau en électricité. Les travaux présentés se sont focalisés sur ces systèmes de carénage, autour de trois axes : l'explication du principe de fonctionnement hydrodynamique du carénage, la quantification des performances de l'hydrolienne carénée et la mise en évidence des grandeurs géométriques clés du carénage permettant d'améliorer ou d'optimiser la performance du système. Toutes les études ont été réalisées à l'aide des calculs RANS 2D et des données expérimentales mises à disposition et, comparées aux résultats obtenus pour une hydrolienne non-carénée. / The general context of the present thesis is renewable energies within the HARVEST program initialized at LEGI laboratory, which consists in developing a Darrieus-type water current turbine (WCT). The WTC can be equipped with a channelling device which allows transforming a bigger amount of the kinetic energy contained in the flowstream into electricity. The present work is focused on the channelling devices. Studies concern three main topics: the explanation of the channelling device hydrodynamic functioning, the evaluation of the performance of the shrouded WCT and the revealing of the system geometrical parameters which allow its improvement or optimisation. All studies have been carried out by 2D RANS calculations and available experimental data, and have been compared to bare WTC results.

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Orientador: Fábio Roberto Chavarette / Resumo: Uma das formas de eliminar as vibrações excessivas em uma estrutura é através de um controle passivo com o uso de amortecedores de massas sintonizados (AMS), ou também denominados, absorvedores dinâmicos. Um sistema passivo típico não tem suas propriedades mecânicas modificadas, em função da excitação de entrada. O sistema passivo utiliza o movimento da estrutura para produzir um movimento relativo nos dispositivos de amortecimento, pelo qual a energia é dissipada. Neste trabalho, destaca-se que o dispositivo considerado apresenta dependência cúbica do deslocamento proporcional à sua rigidez. O problema é modelado através de equações diferenciais ordinárias não lineares que são linearizadas em torno de seu ponto de equilíbrio. Mediante simulação numérica, utilizando o software Octave, demonstra-se a eficiência de um AMS aplicado a uma estrutura sob influência de oscilações sísmicas inseridas através do modelo de Kanai-Tajimi, que simulam uma situação real, em que as propriedades de solos são introduzidas. Estas oscilações promovem alterações nas propriedades dinâmicas, causando assim uma instabilidade na estrutura, em que foram utilizados parâmetros para encontrar o comportamento caótico no sistema. Como forma de minimizar as vibrações causadas pela excitação sísmica foi proposto um controle híbrido estrutural. Basicamente o controle estrutural se dá pela adição de dispositivos e/ou forças externas que promovem alterações nas propriedades de rigidez e amortecimento da estrutu... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: One of the ways to eliminate excessive vibrations in a structure is through a passive control with the use of shock absorbers tuned mass (ATM) or also called, dynamic absorbers. A typical passive system does not have its mechanical properties modified in function of an excitation input. The passive system uses the movement of the structure to produce a relative movement in the absorbers device, where by the energy is dissipated. In this work, it is noteworthy that the considered device introduces a cubic dependence of the proportional displacement to its rigidity. The problem is modeled through out nonlinear ordinary differential equations that are linearized around their equilibrium point. By numerical simulations, using Octave software, it demonstrates the efficiency of a ATM applied to a structure under the influence of seismic oscillations inserted over Kanai-Tajimi’s model, that simulates a real situation in which the properties of the soils are introduced. These oscillations promote changes in the dynamic properties, thus causing an instability in the structure where there were used parameters to find chaotic behavior in the system. In order to minimize the vibrations caused by seismic excitation it is proposed a hybrid structural control. Basically structural control takes place by addition devices and/or external forces that promote alterations in the stiffness properties and the structure absorber. For minimize vibrations and reduce the chaotic motion of the system t... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre