Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-187).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:30:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-04-20Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T21:01:08Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 costa_ms_dr_sjrp.pdf: 483356 bytes, checksum: 419685de4f1e8815285a084ae4cecf61 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Neste trabalho são obtidos diversos resultados sobre duas classes distintas de po-linômios ortogonais de Laurent, uma delas definida na reta real, chamados de polinômios L-ortogonais, e a outra definida no círculo unitário. Primeiramente, analisamos a conexão existente entre duas sequências de polinômios L-ortogonais {Q (0) n } e {Q (1) n } associados a duas medidas positivas fortes dψ0 e dψ1 definidas em [a,b] e relacionadas por (t −κ)dψ1 = γdψ0 , onde (t −κ)/γ é positivo para t ∈(a,b). Nossos estudos podem ser aplicados à geração de novos exemplos de polinômios L-ortogonais. Dentre os resultados obtidos, temos também a monotonicidade dos zeros dos polinômios {Q (1) n }. Em seguida, consideramos a classe de polinômios ortogonais de Laurent no cír-culo unitário {2 Φ1 ( q−n ,qb+1 ; q−c + b− n ; q,q− c+ d −1 z)}∞ n=0 , definidos a partir de funções q-hip ergeométricas, onde 0 < q < 1 e os parâmetros complexos b,c e d são tais que b ̸= −1,−2 ,..., c −b + 1 ̸= −1,−2,..., Re( d) > 0 e Re(c −d + 2) > 0. Obtivemos várias propriedades desses polinômios, dentre elas expressões explícitas para os co eficien-tes da relação de recorrência, momentos e ortogonalidade, além de seu comportamento assintótico. Fazendo uma escolha... / Several results concerning two different classes of orthogonal Laurent polynomials are obtained, one defined on the real line, called L-orthogonal p olynomials, and another class defined on the unit circle. First, we lo ok at the connection b etween two sequences of L-orthogonal p olynomials {Q (0) n } and {Q (1) n } asso ciated with two strong p ositive measures dψ0 and dψ1 defined on [a,b] and related to each other by ( t −κ)dψ1 = γdψ0 , where ( t −κ)/γ is p ositive when t ∈(a,b). As applications of our study, numerical generation of new L-orthogonal p olynomials and monotonicity prop erties of the zeros of the p olynomials {Q (1) n }are lo oked at. Then, we consider the class of orthogonal Laurent p olynomials on the unit circle {2 Φ 1 (q− n ,qb+1 ; q− c +b− n ; q,q− c +d − 1 z)}∞ n=0 , defined from q-hyp ergeometric functions, where 0 < q < 1 and the complex parameters b,c and d are such that b ̸= −1,−2 ,..., c−b+ 1 ̸= −1,−2 ,..., Re( d) > 0 e Re(c−d+ 2) > 0. Several prop erties of these p olynomi-als are given, like explicit expressions for recurrence co efficients, moments, orthogonality and also asymptotics. By sp ecial choice of... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005-02-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:07:00Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 martins_as_me_sjrp.pdf: 695393 bytes, checksum: abbd8a0e71a38c139382646baf4d9850 (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / O principal objetivo deste trabalho é estudar um problema de eletrostática geral que envolve ambos, um campo externo e restrições sobre cargas livres. Foram fornecidas condições necessárias e suficientes para o mínimo da energia em termos de soluções polinomiais de uma equação diferencial de Lamé modificada. Além disso, foram dadas novas demonstrações, mais simples, de resultados clássicos de Stieltjes e Szego. Finalmente, foi obtida uma interpretação eletrostática para os zeros dos polinômios comumente chamados de Hermite-Laurent. / A general electrostatic problem which involves both an external field and restrictions on the free charges is studied. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the minimum of the energy are furnished in terms of polynomial solutions of a modified Lamé differential equation. New simplified proofs of classical results of Sitieltjes and Szego are given. An electrostatic interpretation of the so-called Hermite-Laurent polynomials is obtained.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:27:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-02-16Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:34:53Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 rafaeli_fr_me_sjrp.pdf: 475737 bytes, checksum: dae8459d8e40a6b31ed9a1e30e8ab905 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Neste trabalho estudamos o Teorema de Sturm para zeros de soluções de equações diferenciais lineares de segunda ordem e suas extensões. Estes resultados clássicos são aplicados para análise de monotonicidade e convexidade de zeros de polinômios ortogonais clássicos. / We study Sturm's theorem on zeros of solution of linear second-order differential equations as well as its extension. These classical results are applied to analyze monotonicity and convexity of zeros of classical orthogonal polynomials.

abstract: Structural features of canonical wall-bounded turbulent flows are described using several techniques, including proper orthogonal decomposition (POD). The canonical wall-bounded turbulent flows of channels, pipes, and flat-plate boundary layers include physics important to a wide variety of practical fluid flows with a minimum of geometric complications. Yet, significant questions remain for their turbulent motions' form, organization to compose very long motions, and relationship to vortical structures. POD extracts highly energetic structures from flow fields and is one tool to further understand the turbulence physics. A variety of direct numerical simulations provide velocity fields suitable for detailed analysis. Since POD modes require significant interpretation, this study begins with wall-normal, one-dimensional POD for a set of turbulent channel flows. Important features of the modes and their scaling are interpreted in light of flow physics, also leading to a method of synthesizing one-dimensional POD modes. Properties of a pipe flow simulation are then studied via several methods. The presence of very long streamwise motions is assessed using a number of statistical quantities, including energy spectra, which are compared to experiments. Further properties of energy spectra, including their relation to fictitious forces associated with mean Reynolds stress, are considered in depth. After reviewing salient features of turbulent structures previously observed in relevant experiments, structures in the pipe flow are examined in greater detail. A variety of methods reveal organization patterns of structures in instantaneous fields and their associated vortical structures. Properties of POD modes for a boundary layer flow are considered. Finally, very wide modes that occur when computing POD modes in all three canonical flows are compared. The results demonstrate that POD extracts structures relevant to characterizing wall-bounded turbulent flows. However, significant care is necessary in interpreting POD results, for which modes can be categorized according to their self-similarity. Additional analysis techniques reveal the organization of smaller motions in characteristic patterns to compose very long motions in pipe flows. The very large scale motions are observed to contribute large fractions of turbulent kinetic energy and Reynolds stress. The associated vortical structures possess characteristics of hairpins, but are commonly distorted from pristine hairpin geometries. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering 2012

vii, 99 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / We investigate Cesàro summability of the Fourier orthogonal expansion of functions on B d × I m , where B d is the closed unit ball in [Special characters omitted] and I m is the m -fold Cartesian product of the interval [-1, 1], in terms of orthogonal polynomials with respect to the weight functions (1 - z ) α (1 + z ) β (1 - |x| 2 ) λ-1/2 , with z ∈ I m and x ∈ B d . In addition, we study a discretized Fourier orthogonal expansion on the cylinder B 2 × [-1, 1], which uses a finite number of Radon projections. The Lebesgue constant of this operator is obtained, and the proof utilizes generating functions for associated orthogonal series. / Committee in charge: Yuan Xu, Chairperson, Mathematics; Huaxin Lin, Member, Mathematics Jonathan Brundan, Member, Mathematics; Marcin Bownik, Member, Mathematics; Jun Li, Outside Member, Computer & Information Science

abstract: The Pearson and likelihood ratio statistics are well-known in goodness-of-fit testing and are commonly used for models applied to multinomial count data. When data are from a table formed by the cross-classification of a large number of variables, these goodness-of-fit statistics may have lower power and inaccurate Type I error rate due to sparseness. Pearson's statistic can be decomposed into orthogonal components associated with the marginal distributions of observed variables, and an omnibus fit statistic can be obtained as a sum of these components. When the statistic is a sum of components for lower-order marginals, it has good performance for Type I error rate and statistical power even when applied to a sparse table. In this dissertation, goodness-of-fit statistics using orthogonal components based on second- third- and fourth-order marginals were examined. If lack-of-fit is present in higher-order marginals, then a test that incorporates the higher-order marginals may have a higher power than a test that incorporates only first- and/or second-order marginals. To this end, two new statistics based on the orthogonal components of Pearson's chi-square that incorporate third- and fourth-order marginals were developed, and the Type I error, empirical power, and asymptotic power under different sparseness conditions were investigated. Individual orthogonal components as test statistics to identify lack-of-fit were also studied. The performance of individual orthogonal components to other popular lack-of-fit statistics were also compared. When the number of manifest variables becomes larger than 20, most of the statistics based on marginal distributions have limitations in terms of computer resources and CPU time. Under this problem, when the number manifest variables is larger than or equal to 20, the performance of a bootstrap based method to obtain p-values for Pearson-Fisher statistic, fit to confirmatory dichotomous variable factor analysis model, and the performance of Tollenaar and Mooijaart (2003) statistic were investigated. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Statistics 2018

abstract: Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) are widely used for modeling responses with non-normal error distributions. When the values of the covariates in such models are controllable, finding an optimal (or at least efficient) design could greatly facilitate the work of collecting and analyzing data. In fact, many theoretical results are obtained on a case-by-case basis, while in other situations, researchers also rely heavily on computational tools for design selection. Three topics are investigated in this dissertation with each one focusing on one type of GLMs. Topic I considers GLMs with factorial effects and one continuous covariate. Factors can have interactions among each other and there is no restriction on the possible values of the continuous covariate. The locally D-optimal design structures for such models are identified and results for obtaining smaller optimal designs using orthogonal arrays (OAs) are presented. Topic II considers GLMs with multiple covariates under the assumptions that all but one covariate are bounded within specified intervals and interaction effects among those bounded covariates may also exist. An explicit formula for D-optimal designs is derived and OA-based smaller D-optimal designs for models with one or two two-factor interactions are also constructed. Topic III considers multiple-covariate logistic models. All covariates are nonnegative and there is no interaction among them. Two types of D-optimal design structures are identified and their global D-optimality is proved using the celebrated equivalence theorem. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Statistics 2018

Orientador: Dimitar Kolev Dimitrov / Banca: Valdir Antonio Menegatto / Banca: Alagocone Sri Ranga / Resumo: Neste trabalho estudamos o Teorema de Sturm para zeros de soluções de equações diferenciais lineares de segunda ordem e suas extensões. Estes resultados clássicos são aplicados para análise de monotonicidade e convexidade de zeros de polinômios ortogonais clássicos. / Abstract: We study Sturm's theorem on zeros of solution of linear second-order differential equations as well as its extension. These classical results are applied to analyze monotonicity and convexity of zeros of classical orthogonal polynomials. / Mestre