There are two critical research needs for the study of hydrocarbon combustion in high speed flows: 1) combustion diagnostics with adequate temporal and spatial resolution, and 2) mathematical techniques that can extract key information from large datasets. The goal of this work is to address these needs, respectively, by the use of high speed and multi-perspective chemiluminescence and advanced mathematical algorithms. To obtain the measurements, this work explored the application of high speed chemiluminescence diagnostics and the use of fiber-based endoscopes (FBEs) for non-intrusive and multi-perspective chemiluminescence imaging up to 20 kHz. Non-intrusive and full-field imaging measurements provide a wealth of information for model validation and design optimization of propulsion systems. However, it is challenging to obtain such measurements due to various implementation difficulties such as optical access, thermal management, and equipment cost. This work therefore explores the application of FBEs for non-intrusive imaging to supersonic propulsion systems. The FBEs used in this work are demonstrated to overcome many of the aforementioned difficulties and provided datasets from multiple angular positions up to 20 kHz in a supersonic combustor. The combustor operated on ethylene fuel at Mach 2 with an inlet stagnation temperature and pressure of approximately 640 degrees Fahrenheit and 70 psia, respectively. The imaging measurements were obtained from eight perspectives simultaneously, providing full-field datasets under such flow conditions for the first time, allowing the possibility of inferring multi-dimensional measurements. Due to the high speed and multi-perspective nature, such new diagnostic capability generates a large volume of data and calls for analysis algorithms that can process the data and extract key physics effectively. To extract the key combustion dynamics from the measurements, three mathematical methods were investigated in this work: Fourier analysis, proper orthogonal decomposition (POD), and wavelet analysis (WA). These algorithms were first demonstrated and tested on imaging measurements obtained from one perspective in a sub-sonic combustor (up to Mach 0.2). The results show that these algorithms are effective in extracting the key physics from large datasets, including the characteristic frequencies of flow—flame interactions especially during transient processes such as lean blow off and ignition. After these relatively simple tests and demonstrations, these algorithms were applied to process the measurements obtained from multi-perspective in the supersonic combustor. compared to past analyses (which have been limited to data obtained from one perspective only), the availability of data at multiple perspective provide further insights into the flame and flow structures in high speed flows. In summary, this work shows that high speed chemiluminescence is a simple yet powerful combustion diagnostic. Especially when combined with FBEs and the analyses algorithms described in this work, such diagnostics provide full-field imaging at high repetition rate in challenging flows. Based on such measurements, a wealth of information can be obtained from proper analysis algorithms, including characteristic frequency, dominating flame modes, and even multi-dimensional flame and flow structures. / Ph. D.

The object of this thesis is to define special orthogonal polynomials and develop efficient methods for employing them which have the same advantages with respect to functions of the type (1.2) as do univariate orthogonal polynomials in the simple case k=1. These new polynomials may be usefully termed “multivariate orthogonal polynomials.” / Master of Science

In this thesis we conduct a numerical study of the 1D viscous Burgers' equation and several Reduced Order Models (ROMs) over a range of parameter values. This study is motivated by the need for robust reduced order models that can be used both for design and control. Thus the model should first, allow for selection of optimal parameter values in a trade space and second, identify impacts from changes of parameter values that occur during development, production and sustainment of the designs. To facilitate this study we apply a Finite Element Method (FEM) and where applicable, the Group Finite Element Method (GFE) due its demonstrated stability and reduced complexity over the standard FEM. We also utilize Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) as a model reduction technique and modifications of POD that include Global POD, and the sensitivity based modifications Extrapolated POD and Expanded POD. We then use a single baseline parameter in the parameter range to develop a ROM basis for each method above and investigate the error of each ROM method against a full order "truth" solution for the full parameter range. / Master of Science

In the emerging arena of face-to-face collaboration using large, wall-size screens, a good videoconferencing system would be useful for two locations which both have a large screen. But as screens get bigger, a single camera becomes less than adequate to drive a videoconferencing system for the entire screen. Even if a wide-angle camera is placed in the center of the screen, it's possible for people standing at the sides to be hidden. We can fix this problem by placing several cameras evenly distributed in a grid pattern (what we call a sparse camera array) and merging the photos into one image. With a single camera, people standing near the sides of the screen are viewing an image with a viewpoint at the middle of the screen. Any perspective projection used in this system will look distorted when standing at a different viewpoint. If an orthogonal projection is used, there will be no perspective distortion, and the image will look correct no matter where the viewer stands. As a first step in creating this videoconferencing system, we use stereo matching to find the real world coordinates of objects in the scene, from which an orthogonal projection can be generated. / Master of Science

In chapter 1, we present some background knowledge about random matrices, Coulomb gas, orthogonal polynomials, asymptotics of planar orthogonal polynomials and the Riemann-Hilbert problem. In chapter 2, we consider the monic orthogonal polynomials, $\{P_{n,N}(z)\}_{n=0,1,\cdots},$ that satisfy the orthogonality condition, \begin{equation}\nonumber \int_\mathbb{C}P_{n,N}(z)\overline{P_{m,N}(z)}e^{-N Q(z)}dA(z)=h_{n,N}\delta_{nm} \quad(n,m=0,1,2,\cdots), \end{equation} where $h_{n,N}$ is a (positive) norming constant and the external potential is given by $$Q(z)=|z|^2+ \frac{2c}{N}\log \frac{1}{|z-a|},\quad c>-1,\quad a>0.$$ The orthogonal polynomial is related to the interacting Coulomb particles with charge $+1$ for each, in the presence of an extra particle with charge $+c$ at $a.$ For $N$ large and a fixed ``c'' this can be a small perturbation of the Gaussian weight. The polynomial $P_{n,N}(z)$ can be characterized by a matrix Riemann--Hilbert problem \cite{Ba 2015}. We then apply the standard nonlinear steepest descent method \cite{Deift 1999, DKMVZ 1999} to derive the strong asymptotics of $P_{n,N}(z)$ when $n$ and $N$ go to $\infty.$ From the asymptotic behavior of $P_{n,N}(z),$ we find that, as we vary $c,$ the limiting distribution behaves discontinuously at $c=0.$ We observe that the mother body (a kind of potential theoretic skeleton) also behaves discontinuously at $c=0.$ The smooth interpolation of the discontinuity is obtained by further scaling of $c=e^{-\eta N}$ in terms of the parameter $\eta\in[0,\infty).$ To obtain the results for arbitrary values of $c$, we used the ``partial Schlesinger transform'' method developed in \cite{BL 2008} to derive an arbitrary order correction in the Riemann--Hilbert analysis. In chapter 3, we consider the case of multiple logarithmic singularities. The planar orthogonal polynomials $\{p_n(z)\}_{n=0,1,\cdots}$ with respect to the external potential that is given by $$Q(z)=|z|^2+ 2\sum_{j=1}^lc_j\log \frac{1}{|z-a_j|},$$ where $\{a_1, a_2, \cdots, a_l\}$ is a set of nonzero complex numbers and $\{c_1, c_2, \cdots, c_l\}$ is a set of positive real numbers. We show that the planar orthogonal polynomials $p_{n}(z)$ with $l$ logarithmic singularities in the potential are the multiple orthogonal polynomials $p_{{\bf{n}}}(z)$ (Hermite-Pad\'e polynomials) of Type II with $l$ measures of degree $|{\bf{n}}|=n=\kappa l+r,$ ${\bf{n}}=(n_1,\cdots,n_l)$ satisfying the orthogonality condition, $$ \frac{1}{2\ii}\int_{\Gamma}p_{{\bf{n}}}(z) z^k\chi_{{\bf{n}}-{\bf{e}}_j}(z)\dd z=0, \quad 0\leq k\leq n_j-1,\quad 1\leq j\leq l,$$ where $\Gamma$ is a certain simple closed curve with counterclockwise orientation and $$ \chi_{{\bf{n}}-{\bf{e}}_j}(z):= \prod_{i=1}^l(z-a_i)^{c_i }\int_{0}^{\overline{z}\times\infty}\frac{\prod_{i=1}^l(s-\bar{a}_i)^{n_i+c_i}}{(s-\bar{a}_j)\ee^{zs}}\,\dd s. $$ Such equivalence allows us to formulate the $(l+1)\times(l+1)$ Riemann--Hilbert problem for $p_n(z)$. We also find the ratio between the determinant of the moment matrix corresponding to the multiple orthogonal polynomials and the determinant of the moment matrix from the original planar measure.

A generalization of multigroup energy condensation theory has been developed. The new method generates a solution within the few-group framework which exhibits the energy spectrum characteristic of a many-group transport solution, without the computational time usually associated with such solutions. This is accomplished by expanding the energy dependence of the angular flux in a set of general orthogonal functions. The expansion leads to a set of equations for the angular flux moments in the few-group framework. The 0th moment generates the standard few-group equation while the higher moment equations generate the detailed spectral resolution within the few-group structure. It is shown that by carefully choosing the orthogonal function set (e.g., Legendre polynomials), the higher moment equations are only coupled to the 0th-order equation and not to each other. The decoupling makes the new method highly competitive with the standard few-group method since the computation time associated with determining the higher moments become negligible as a result of the decoupling. The method is verified in several 1-D benchmark problems typical of BWR configurations with mild to high heterogeneity.

We study computational theory and methods for finding multiple unstable solutions (corresponding to saddle points) to three types of nonlinear variational elliptic systems: cooperative, noncooperative, and Hamiltonian. We first propose a new Lorthogonal selection in a product Hilbert space so that a solution manifold can be defined. Then, we establish, respectively, a local characterization for saddle points of finite Morse index and of infinite Morse index. Based on these characterizations, two methods, called the local min-orthogonal method and the local min-max-orthogonal method, are developed and applied to solve those three types of elliptic systems for multiple solutions. Under suitable assumptions, a subsequence convergence result is established for each method. Numerical experiments for different types of model problems are carried out, showing that both methods are very reliable and efficient in computing coexisting saddle points or saddle points of infinite Morse index. We also analyze the instability of saddle points in both single and product Hilbert spaces. In particular, we establish several estimates of the Morse index of both coexisting and non-coexisting saddle points via the local min-orthogonal method developed and propose a local instability index to measure the local instability of both degenerate and nondegenerate saddle points. Finally, we suggest two extensions of an L-orthogonal selection for future research so that multiple solutions to more general elliptic systems such as nonvariational elliptic systems may also be found in a stable way.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-02-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:06:37Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 barros_mc_me_sjrp.pdf: 547514 bytes, checksum: eb85ffc4b82cf33a3b73f60814c6355f (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Sejam Sn(x); n ¸ 0; os polinômios de Sobolev, ortogonais com relação ao produto interno hf; giS = ZR f(x)g(x)dÃ0(x) + ¸ ZR f0(x)g0(x)dÃ1(x); ¸ > 0; onde fdÃ0; dÃ1g forma um par coerente de medidas relacionadas às medidas de Jacobi ou de Laguerre. Denotemos por PÃ0 n (x) e PÃ1 n (x); n ¸ 0; os polinômios ortogonais com respeito a dÃ0 e dÃ1; respectivamente. Neste trabalho, estudamos o comportamento assintótico, quando n ! 1; das razões entre os polinômios de Sobolev, Sn(x); e os polinômios ortogonais PÃ0 n (x) e PÃ1 n (x); além do comportamento limite da razão entre esses dois últimos polinômios. Propriedades assintóticas para os coeficientes da relação de recorrência satisfeita pelos polinômios de Sobolev também foram estudadas. / Let Sn(x); n ¸ 0; be the Sobolev polynomials, orthogonal with respect to the inner product hf; giS = ZR f(x)g(x)dÃ0(x) + ¸ ZR f0(x)g0(x)dÃ1(x); ¸ > 0; where fdÃ0; dÃ1g forms a coherent pair of measures related to the Jacobi measure or Laguerre measure. Let PÃ0 n (x) and PÃ1 n (x); n ¸ 0; denote the orthogonal polynomials with respect to dÃ0 and dÃ1; respectively. In this work we study the asymptotic behaviour, as n ! 1; of the ratio between the Sobolev polynomials, Sn(x); and the ortogonal polynomials PÃ0 n (x) and PÃ1 n (x); as well as the limit behaviour of the ratio between the last two polynomials. Furthermore, we also give asymptotic results for the coefficients of the recurrence relation satisfied by the Sobolev polynomials.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:27:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005-02-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:08:12Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 martins_fa_me_sjrp.pdf: 451924 bytes, checksum: c1a2a18101f8ff7b018fcfef32d93920 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar uma aplicação de polinômios conhecidos, como polinômios para-ortogonais, na solução do problema de análise de freqüência. Para isto, estudamos os polinômios de Szegö que são ortogonais no cýrculo unitário e que dão origem aos polinômios para-ortogonais. Estudamos casos especiais de polinômios para-ortogonais que, através de uma transformação do cýrculo unitário no intervalo [-1, 1], estão associados a certos polinômios ortogonais. Apresentamos também uma abordagem do problema de análise de freqüência utilizando esses polinômios ortogonais em [-1, 1]. / The purpose of this work is to study an application of some polynomials, known as para-orthogonal polynomials, in the solution of the frequency analysis problem. We study the Szeguo polynomials that are orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle and give origin to the para-orthogonal polynomials. We investigate some special cases of para-orthogonal polynomials that are associate with certain orthogonal polynomials on [-1, 1] through a transformation from the unit circle to the real interval [-1, 1]. We also present an approach of the frequency analysis problem using these orthogonal polynomials on [-1, 1].

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