Repetitive stress injuries are common in the workplace where workers perform repetitive tasks continuously throughout the day. Muscle fatigue may lead to injury either directly through muscle damage or indirectly through changes in coordination, development of muscle imbalances, kinematic and muscle activation variability, and/or movement instability. To better understand the role of muscle fatigue in changes in movement parameters, we studied how muscle fatigue and muscle imbalances affected the control of movement timing, variability, and stability during a repetitive upper extremity sawing task. Since muscle fatigue leads to delayed muscle and cognitive response times, we might expect the ability to maintain movement timing would decline with muscle fatigue. We compared timing errors pre- and post-fatigue as subjects performed this repetitive sawing task synchronized with a metronome using standard techniques and a goal-equivalent manifold (GEM) approach. No differences in basic performance parameters were found. Significant decreases in the temporal correlations of the timing errors and velocities indicated that subjects made more frequent corrections to their movements post-fatigue. Muscle fatigue may lead to movement instability through a variety of mechanisms including delayed muscle response times and muscle imbalances. To measure movement stability, we must first define a state space that describes the movement. We compared a variety of different state space definitions and found that state spaces composed of angles and velocities with little redundant information provide the most consistent results. We then studied the affect of fatigue on the shoulder flexor muscles and general fatigue of the arm on movement stability. Subjects were able to maintain stability in spite of muscle fatigue, shoulder strength imbalance and decreased muscle cocontraction. Little is known about the time course for adaptations in response to fatigue. We studied the effect of muscle fatigue on movement coordination, kinematic variability and movement stability while subjects performed the same sawing task at two work heights. Increasing the height of the task caused subjects to make more adjustments to their movement patterns in response to muscle fatigue. Subjects also exhibited some increases in kinematic variability at the shoulder but no changes in movement stability. These findings suggest that people alter their kinematic patterns in response to fatigue possibly to maintain stability at the expense of increased variability. / text

Rhythmic motion is ubiquitous in nature and technology. Various motions of organisms like the heart beating and walking require stable periodic execution. The stability of the rhythmic execution of human movement can be altered by neurological or orthopedic impairment. In robotics, successful development of legged robots heavily depends on the stability of the controlled limit-cycle. An accurate measure of the stability of rhythmic execution is critical to the diagnosis of several performed tasks like walking in human locomotion. Floquet multipliers have been widely used to assess the stability of a periodic motion. The conventional approach to extract the Floquet multipliers from actual data depends on the least squares method. We devise a new way to measure the Floquet multipliers with reduced bias and estimate orbital stability more accurately. We show that the conventional measure of the orbital stability has bias in the presence of noise, which is inevitable in every experiment and observation. Compared with previous method, the new method substantially reduces the bias, providing acceptable estimate of the orbital stability with fewer cycles even with different noise distributions or higher or lower noise levels. The new method can provide an unbiased estimate of orbital stability within a reasonably small number of cycles. This is important for experiments with human subjects or clinical evaluation of patients that require effective assessment of locomotor stability in planning rehabilitation programs. / Graduate / 2018-11-22

This thesis is concerned with analysis of spectral and orbital stability of solitary wave solutions to discrete and continuous PT-symmetric nonlinear Schroedinger equations. The main tools of this analysis are inspired by Hamiltonian systems, where conserved quantities can be used for proving orbital stability and Krein signature can be computed for prediction of instabilities in the spectrum of linearization. The main results are obtained for the chain of coupled pendula represented by a discrete NLS model, and for the trapped atomic gas represented by a continuous NLS model. Analytical results are illustrated with various numerical examples. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Dans cette thèse, on étudie la stabilité orbitale d’états stationnaires de modèles mathématiques de type "Hamiltonian mean-field", dits modèles HMF. Cette étude est d’abord menée d’un point de vue théorique en utilisant des méthodes variationnelles. Puis, elle est menée d’un point de vue numérique en commençant par l’élaboration de schémas conservant exactement des états stationnaires. Le Chapitre 2 présente une étude théorique de la stabilité orbitale des états stationnaires du modèle HMF Poisson. Plus précisément, on prouve la stabilité orbitale d’une grande classe d’états stationnaires solutions du système HMF avec potentiel de Poisson. Ces états stationnaires sont des minimiseurs d’un problème à une, deux ou une infinité de contraintes d’une certaine fonctionnelle. La preuve s’appuie sur une approche variationnelle. Cependant le caractère borné du domaine empêche l’utilisation des techniques usuelles basées sur des invariances d’échelles. On introduit alors de nouvelles méthodes, spécifiques à ce problème, mais demeurant dans l’esprit des outils de réarrangements introduits pour le système de Vlasov-Poisson. En particulier, ces méthodes permettent de considérer un nombre arbitraire de contraintes et aboutissent à un résultat de stabilité pour une grande classe d’états stationnaires. Dans le Chapitre 3, on construit des schémas numériques conservant exactement des états stationnaires donnés. Ces schémas modélisent mieux la propriété de stabilité orbitale que les schémas classiques. Puis, on propose un schéma plus général en construisant un schéma qui conserve tous les états stationnaires des modèles HMF. Pour finir, à l’aide de ces schémas, est menée une étude numérique de la stabilité des états stationnaires du système de HMF Poisson qui vient compléter l’étude théorique du Chapitre 2. / In this thesis, we study the nonlinear orbital stability of steady states of "Hamiltonian mean-field" models, called HMF models. First, this study is being done theoretically by using variational methods. It is then carried out numerically by building numerical schemes wich exactly preserve steady states. Chapter 2 presents a theoretical study of the orbital stability of steady states which are solutions to the HMF Poisson system. More specifically, the orbital stability of a large class of steady states which are solutions to the HMF system with Poisson potential is proved. These steady states are obtained as minimizers of an energy functional under one, two or infinitely many constraints. The proof relies on a variational approach. However the boundedness of the space domain prevents us from using usal technics based on scale invariance. Therefore, we introduce new methods which, although specific to our context, remain somehow in the same spirit of rearrangements tools introduced for the Vlasov-Poisson system. In particular, these methods allow for the incorporation of an arbitrary number of constraints, and yield a stability result for a large class of steady states. In Chapter 3, numerical schemes exactly preserving given steady states are built. These schemes model the orbital stability property better than the classic ones. Then, a more general scheme is introduced by building a scheme wich preserves all steady states of HMF models. Lastly, by means of these schemes, we conduct a numerical study of stability of steady states solutions to HMF Poisson system. This completes the theoretical study in Chapter 2.

Na primeira parte do trabalho estudamos a equação de Schrödinger logarítmica com um delta potencial; $V(x)=-\\gamma \\,\\delta(x)$, onde $\\delta$ é a distribuição de Dirac na origem e o parâmetro real $\\gamma$ descreve a intensidade do potencial. Estabelecemos a existência e unicidade das soluções do problema de Cauchy associado em um espaço de funções adequado. No caso do potencial atrativo ($\\gamma>0$), calculamos de forma explícita o seu único ground state e mostramos a sua estabilidade orbital.\\\\ A segunda parte trata detalhadamente da equação de Schrödinger logarítmica com um delta derivada potencial; $V(x)=-\\gamma\\, \\delta^{\\prime}(x)$. A boa colocação global para o problema de Cauchy é verificada em um espaço de funções adequado. No caso do potencial atrativo ($\\gamma>0$), o conjunto dos ground states é completamente determinado. Mais precisamente: se $0<\\gamma\\leq2$, então há um único ground state e é uma função ímpar; se $\\gamma>2$, então existem dois ground states não-simétricos. Em adição, provamos que cada ground state é orbitalmente estável através de uma abordagem variacional. Finalmente, usando a teoria de extensão de operadores simétricos, também mostramos um resultado de instabilidade para $\\gamma>2$. / The first part of this thesis deals with the logarithmic Schrödinger equation with a delta potential; $V(x)=-\\gamma \\,\\delta(x)$, where $\\delta$ is the Dirac distribution at the origin and the real parameter $\\gamma$ is interpreted as the strength of the potential. We establish the existence and uniqueness of the solutions of the associated Cauchy problem in a suitable functional framework. In the attractive potential case ($\\gamma>0$), we explicitly compute the unique ground state and we show their orbital stability .\\\\ The second part deals with the case of the logarithmic Schrödinger equation with a delta prime potential; $V(x)=-\\gamma\\, \\delta^{\\prime}(x)$. Global well-posedness is verified for the Cauchy problem in a suitable functional space. In the attractive potential case ($\\gamma>0$), the set of the ground state is completely determined. More precisely: if $0<\\gamma\\leq2$, then there is a single ground state and it is an odd function; if $\\gamma>2$, then there exist two non-symmetric ground states. Moreover, we show that every ground state is orbitally stable via a variational approach. Finally, by applying the theory of extensions of symetric operators, we also prove a result of instability for $\\gamma>2$.

Na primeira parte do trabalho estudamos a equação de Schrödinger logarítmica com um delta potencial; $V(x)=-\\gamma \\,\\delta(x)$, onde $\\delta$ é a distribuição de Dirac na origem e o parâmetro real $\\gamma$ descreve a intensidade do potencial. Estabelecemos a existência e unicidade das soluções do problema de Cauchy associado em um espaço de funções adequado. No caso do potencial atrativo ($\\gamma>0$), calculamos de forma explícita o seu único ground state e mostramos a sua estabilidade orbital.\\\\ A segunda parte trata detalhadamente da equação de Schrödinger logarítmica com um delta derivada potencial; $V(x)=-\\gamma\\, \\delta^{\\prime}(x)$. A boa colocação global para o problema de Cauchy é verificada em um espaço de funções adequado. No caso do potencial atrativo ($\\gamma>0$), o conjunto dos ground states é completamente determinado. Mais precisamente: se $0<\\gamma\\leq2$, então há um único ground state e é uma função ímpar; se $\\gamma>2$, então existem dois ground states não-simétricos. Em adição, provamos que cada ground state é orbitalmente estável através de uma abordagem variacional. Finalmente, usando a teoria de extensão de operadores simétricos, também mostramos um resultado de instabilidade para $\\gamma>2$. / The first part of this thesis deals with the logarithmic Schrödinger equation with a delta potential; $V(x)=-\\gamma \\,\\delta(x)$, where $\\delta$ is the Dirac distribution at the origin and the real parameter $\\gamma$ is interpreted as the strength of the potential. We establish the existence and uniqueness of the solutions of the associated Cauchy problem in a suitable functional framework. In the attractive potential case ($\\gamma>0$), we explicitly compute the unique ground state and we show their orbital stability .\\\\ The second part deals with the case of the logarithmic Schrödinger equation with a delta prime potential; $V(x)=-\\gamma\\, \\delta^{\\prime}(x)$. Global well-posedness is verified for the Cauchy problem in a suitable functional space. In the attractive potential case ($\\gamma>0$), the set of the ground state is completely determined. More precisely: if $0<\\gamma\\leq2$, then there is a single ground state and it is an odd function; if $\\gamma>2$, then there exist two non-symmetric ground states. Moreover, we show that every ground state is orbitally stable via a variational approach. Finally, by applying the theory of extensions of symetric operators, we also prove a result of instability for $\\gamma>2$.

Este trabalho consiste, fundamentalmente, em estabelecer de forma analítica a existência e estabilidade orbital de soluções standing-wave de tipo peakon, para a seguinte equação de Schrödinger com dois pontos de interação, determinados por duas deltas de Dirac centradas nos pontos x = ±c (NLS-), i t u(x, t) + x 2 u(x, t) + Z[ c (x) + c (x)]u(x, t) = |u(x, t)| 2 u(x, t), (1) onde u : R×R C, Z R e c é a distribuição delta de Dirac agindo em x = c > 0, a saber, para H 1 (R), h c , i = (c). Para as soluções standing waves (ondas estacionárias) associadas à equação (1), i.e., u(x, t) = e it (x), mostramos que é possível determinar o perfil (x) da seguinte maneira: entre os pontos c e c o perfil admite, pelos menos, duas funções suaves e positivas dadas pelas funções elípticas de Jacobi conhecidas como dnoidal e cnoidal. Já para c < |x|, o perfil coincide com uma determinada translação do soliton-perfil secante hiperbólica\" (é bem conhecido na literatura que o perfil secante hiperbólica está associado à equação (1), no caso em que Z = 0). De fato, mostramos que para o caso Z > 0 é possível ajustar, entre os pontos de interação c e c, um perfil periódico de tipo dnoidal ; e para o caso Z < 0 mostramos como é construído entre os pontos de interação um perfil de tipo cnoidal. Uma questão crucial que surge no problema da existência de um perfil conveniente é aquela relacionada com a localização do ponto de interação c > 0. A maneira como respondimos a esta questão foi, de fato, determinante para a obtenção do nosso resultado de estabilidade/instabilidade. Isto se deve a que permitiu o uso de técnicas conhecidas na literatura no desenvolvimento do trabalho. En concreto, a escolha da localização do ponto de interação c, faz com que a segunda derivada do perfil , seja contínua neste ponto. Baseados em argumentos da teoria de Floquet, teoria de representação de formas bi- lineares, teoria de extensão de operadores simétricos e a teoria de perturbação analítica para operadores lineares, bem como nos resultados desenvolvidos por Weinstein e Grilla- kis&Shatah&Strauss, mostramos resultados sobre a estabilidade/instabilidade orbital des- sas ondas. Mais precisamente, mostramos que aquelas com um perfil dnoidal são instáveis e aquelas um perfil cnoidal são estáveis. Além disto, estudamos o problema de Cauchy para (1) no espaço de energia H 1 (R). Para tanto, usaremos informações do espectro do operador com interações pontuais d 2 ±c,Z = 2 Z[ c + c ], dx o qual representa formalmente uma das famílias de extensões auto-adjuntas do operador iii simétrico ( d 2 = dx 2 D() = {f H 1 (R) H 2 (R {±c}) : f (±c) = 0}. / This work consists mainly in establishing an analytical way the existence and orbital stability for the standing-wave solutions of \"peakon\"type of the following Schrödinger equation with two points of interaction, determined by two Diracs delta centered at the points x = ±c (NLS-), i t u(x, t) + x 2 u(x, t) + Z[ c + c ]u(x, t) = |u(x, t)| 2 u(x, t), (2) where u : R × R C, Z R and c is the Diracs delta distribution in x = c > 0, namely, for H 1 (R), h c , i = (c). For the standing-wave solutions associated to equation (2), i.e., u(x, t) = e it (x), we show that is possible to determine the profile (x) as follows: between the points c and c, the profile admits at least two smooth positive functions given by the Jacobi elliptic functions of dnoidal and cnoidal type. For c < |x|, the profile coincides with an specific shift of the soliton-profile hiperbolic secant profile (it is well-known in the literature that the hiperbolic secant profile is associated to the equation (2) for the case Z = 0). Indeed, we show for the case Z > 0 that it is possible to determine a periodic dnoidal profile between the points c and c. On the other hand, for the case Z < 0 we establish a periodic cnoidal profile between the points c and c. A crucial question arises in the problem of the existence of a suitable profile is the one related to the location of the interaction point c > 0. This question was crucial to the achievement of our stability/instability result. In fact, the choice of location of the interaction point c implies that the second derivative of the porfile is continuous at c. The stability/instability theory of these specific profiles are based on the analityc per- turbation theory and the framework developed by Weinstein and Grillakis&Shatah&Strauss. More precisely, we show that those ones with a dnoidal profile are unstable and those ones with a cnoidal profile are stable. In addition, we study the Cauchy problem in the energy space H 1 (R) for equation (2). For this purpose, it is necessary to study the spectrum of the operator d 2 ±c,Z = 2 Z[ c + c ]. dx This operator can be understood as the family of self-adjoint extension of the symmetric operator ( d 2 = dx 2 D() = {f H 1 (R) H 2 (R {±c}) : f (±c) = 0}.

Dans cette thèse nous étudions l’existence et la stabilité orbitale de solutions ayant une norme prescrite pour deux types d’équations Schrödinger non linéaires dans , à savoir, une classe de systèmes non linéaires couplés de Schrödinger dans et une classe d’équations non linéaires de Schrödinger du quatrième ordre dans . Ces deux types d’équations non linéaires de Schrödinger surviennent dans de nombreuses applications en mathématiques et physique, et sont devenus une grande attention dans les années récentes. D’un point de vue physique, de telles solutions sont souvent référées comme des solutions normalisées, qui sont obtenues comme points critiques d’énergie fonctionnelle associée sous contrainte avec une norme. Les éléments clés de nos preuves sont les méthodes variationnelles. / In this thesis, we are concerned with the existence and orbital stability of solutions having prescribed -norm for two types of nonlinear Schrödinger equations in , namely a class of coupled nonlinear Schrödinger systems in and a class of fourth-order nonlinear Schrödinger equations in . These two types of nonlinear Schrödinger equations arise in a variety of mathematical and physical models, and have drawn wide attention to research in recent years. From a physical point of view, such solutions are often referred as normalized solutions, which correspond to critical points of the underlying energy functional restricted to -norm constraint. The main ingredients of our proofs are variational methods.

Orientador: Ademir Pastor Ferreira / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matemática Estatística e Computação Científica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T19:57:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andrade_ThiagoPinguellode_D.pdf: 2608603 bytes, checksum: 20935cf463b03d1c5c1390b127a42f4f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Nesta tese estudamos estabilidade orbital de ondas viajantes periódicas para modelos dispersivos. O estudo de ondas viajantes iniciou-se em meados do século XVIII quando John S. Russell estabeleceu que ondas de água em um canal raso possui evolução constante. A estratégia geral para se obter a estabilidade consiste em provar que a onda viajante em questão minimiza um funcional conservado restrito a uma certa variedade. No nosso contexto, seguindo tais ideias, minimizamos o funcional restrito a uma nova variedade. Embora acreditamos que a teoria possa ser aplicada a outros modelos, nos restringimos às equações de Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) com termo não linear fracionário e Korteweg-de Vries modificada (mKdV). Além disso, resultados similares para a equação de Gardner são obtidos, usando uma estreita relação que esta possui com a mKdV / Abstract: In this thesis we study the orbital stability of periodic traveling waves for dispersive models. The study of traveling waves started in the mid-18th century when John S. Russel established that the flow of water waves in a shallow channel has constant evolution. The general strategy to obtain stability consists in proving that the traveling wave in question minimizes a conserved functional restricted to a certain manifold. In our context, following such ideas, we minimize such a functional restricted to a new manifold. Although we believe our theory can be applied to other models, we deal with the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation with fractional nonlinear terms and modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation. Besides, similar stability results for the Gardner equation are obtained, using a close relation between this equation and the mKdV / Doutorado / Matematica / Doutor em Matemática