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Cette étude, menée principalement par des moyens expérimentaux, analyse la dynamique des fluctuations de concentration produites au sein d’un panache d’un scalaire passif émis par une source ponctuelle dans une couche limite turbulente. En étendant le travail de Fackrell and Robins (1982) sur les fluctuations de concentration, on décrit l’évolution des quatre premiers moments de la concentration et on étudie l’influence des conditions à la source (telles que la taille et la hauteur de la source et la vitesse de sortie) sur les moments mêmes. L’étude est complétée par une description détaillée des statistiques du champ de vitesse dans la couche limite, comprenant des informations sur la structure spatiale et temporelle de la turbulence. Cette base de données expérimentale a été utilisée pour valider deux différentes approches à la modélisation de la dispersion: un modèle analytique de meandering et un modèle Lagrangien stochastique avec un schéma de micro mélange. / This experimental study analyses the dynamics of concentration fluctuations in a passive plume emitted by a point source within the turbulent boundary layer. We aim to extend the popular study of Fackrell and Robins (1982) about concentration fluctuations and fluxes from point sources by including third and fourth moments of concentration. We also further inquire into the influence of source conditions, such as the source size, source elevation and emission velocity, on higher order concentration moments. The data set is completed by a detailed description of the velocity statistics within the TBL, with exhaustive information on both the temporal and spatial structure of the flow. The experimental data-set has been used to test two different modeling ap- proaches: an analytical meandering plume model (in one and in three dimen- sions) and a Lagrangian stochastic micro-mixing model.

Cette thèse se propose d’étudier le surréalisme bruxellois durant les années 1940, à travers le prisme de l’objet. Les termes d’héritage, de poncif, de génération, d’avant-garde et de scandale en façonnent le cadre. Le poids des événements historiques s’y fait continuellement ressentir. Particulièrement peu unifiées sur le plan politique et artistique, les années 1940 sont synonymes d’intenses turbulences pour le surréalisme, officiellement lancé en 1924. Les jeunes poètes qui entament leur parcours à cette époque sont pratiquement nés au même moment que le mouvement dans lequel ils s’insèrent. La rencontre entre ces surréalistes débutants et un mouvement ayant ses principaux coups d’éclat derrière lui crée une dynamique à laquelle l’énergie de ces années difficiles est en grande partie redevable. Divers phénomènes sont observés : la constitution d’une « deuxième génération » surréaliste, une interrogation sur la pertinence et les moyens d’action du mouvement, des modifications dans les relations avec les surréalistes parisiens. Enfin, l’instabilité politique force chaque membre du mouvement à repenser ses rapports au réel. L’utilisation de l’objet par les surréalistes est intimement liée à ces soubresauts continuels. Suivant un déroulement chronologique, la thèse aborde quatre épisodes de l’histoire du groupe surréaliste bruxellois durant cette décennie, en suivant plus particulièrement le parcours de Marcel Mariën, Christian Dotremont et René Magritte. Elle s’ouvre à la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale ; la deuxième partie est consacrée à l’Occupation. La troisième partie étudie l’année 1945 et en particulier une exposition organisée par René Magritte en décembre 1945 et janvier 1946, dans laquelle les objets sont présents en nombre. La quatrième partie se consacre aux dernières années de la décennie. Christian Dotremont quitte le surréalisme via la création du surréalisme-révolutionnaire et de Cobra avant de réaliser une exposition d’objets en été 1949. L'étude de cette décennie dans sa globalité permet plus largement de donner un éclairage inédit sur cette partie de l'histoire du surréalisme. / Doctorat en Histoire, histoire de l'art et archéologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Les contaminants, dissouts ou adsorbés sur les particules, sont principalement délivrés au milieu marin par les fleuves. La dynamique sédimentaire constitue alors un proxy de la dynamique de ces contaminants. Cette thèse s'inscrit dans le projet ANR AMORAD, et se focalise sur la dynamique du matériel particulaire délivré par le Rhône au Golfe du Lion (Méditerranée nord-occidentale), principal contributeur d'apports solides au Golfe (80 % des sédiments). Alors que des études antérieures ont permis de bien représenter les processus au niveau du fond, les processus régissant les comportements des matières en supension (MES), majoritairement rencontrées dans le panache turbide du Rhône, sont encore mal apréhendés. En vue de mieux décrire la dynamique de ces MES et d'améliorer les modèles hydrosédimentaires existants, l'objectif est de mieux caractériser ces particules. À cette fin, un vaste jeu de données issu de capteurs déployés in situ (données collectées pour 12 campagnes en mer, réalisées de 2011 à 2016) a été exploité, permettant d’obtenir une vision 2D verticale mais seulement ponctuelle (spatialement et temporellement). De façon complémentaire, une base de données d'images satellitaires (donnée couleur de l'eau du capteur MERIS-300m acquise entre 2002 et 2012), offrant une vue plus synoptique et long terme mais uniquement en surface, a été exploitée. Le jeu de données d'images satellitaire (plus de 800 images) a été traité de façon innovante par l'application d'un traitement semi-automatique permettant l'extraction de différentes métriques du panache turbide du Rhône (e.g. aire, limites d'extension, forme, centres géométriques, concentrations). La distribution spatiale et les caractéristiques physiques des MES telles que leur concentration dans l'eau, leur diamètre médian ou encore leur vitesse de chute ont été étudiées et estimées en fonction des différents forçages hydrométéorologiques actifs sur la zone d'étude (e.g. débit du Rhône, vents dominants). Un nouveau modèle hydrosédimentaire reposant sur le couplage du modèle hydrodynamique MARS-3D et du module sédimentaire multiclasse MIXSED a été configuré et les données in situ et satellitaires ont pu être mobilisées afin de contraindre la vitesse de chute des sédiments, paramètre clef de la modélisation de la dynamique hydrosédimentaire. / Contaminants, which can be dissolved in water or adsorbed on particles, are mainly delivered to the coastal environment by rivers. Thus, sediment dynamics reperesent a relevant proxy of contaminants dynamics. ThisPhD thesis is part of the ANR AMORAD project, of which one workpackage focuses on the fate of sediments in the coastal environment. This work focuses on the dynamics of Rhône River sediments in the Gulf of Lions (north-western mediterranean), this river delivering 80 % of the sediments of the Gulf. While previous studies over the area allowed a better understanding of physical processes at the water-sediment interface, processes driving suspended particulate matter (SPM) dynamics are still poorly understood. To better describe this SPM dynamics and improve hydrosedimentary models, the aim is to better characterize these particles. To this end, a large dataset collected from in situ deployed sensors (data collected for 12 field campaigns, conducted from 2011 to 2016) was analyzed to get a 2D vertical but ponctual view (both spatially and temporally). Complementary, a satellite images dataset (MERIS-300m ocean colour archive from 2002 to 2012) was built in order to get a long term and more synoptic view (but limited to surface).This dataset (more than 800 images) was originaly studied, applying a semi-empirical process to extract various Rhône River turbid plume metrics (e.g. area of extension, south-east-westernmost points, shape, centroids, SPM concentrations). Plume metrics and physical properties of SPM such as their concentration in water, their median diameter or their settling velocity were investigated regarding the different hydrometeorological forcings (e.g. Rhône River discharge, prevailing winds). A new hydrosedimentary model, based on the coupling of the 3D hydrodynamical model MARS-3D and the sedimentary module MIXSED, was set and ocean color and in situ data were used to constrain the settling velocity of particles, key parameter of hydrosedimentary modelling.

<p>There has been a long-standing need in the marketplace for the economic production of small lots of components that have complex geometry. A potential solution is additive manufacturing (AM). AM is a manufacturing process that adds material bottom-up. It has the distinct advantages of low preparation cost and high geometric creation capability. Components fabricated via AM are now being selectively used for less-demanding applications in motor vehicles, consumer products, medical products, aerospace devices, and even some military projects.</p><p><br></p> <p>For engineering applications, high value-added components require consistency in the fatigue properties. However, components fabricated by AM have large variation in the fatigue properties compared to those by conventional manufacturing processes. To alleviate unpredictable catastrophic failures of components, it is essential to study and predict fatigue life. Previous study reported that fatigue crack initiation process accounts for a large portion of fatigue life, especially for low loading amplitude and high cycle fatigue. However, this major portion of fatigue life prediction is mostly ignored by main stream researchers working on fatigue modeling. For industrial applications, engineers often specify a lower stress condition to obtain a higher safety factor. Under these circumstances, fatigue crack initiation becomes even more important, so it is essential to further study of crack initiation.</p><p><br></p> <p>The objective of this research is to develop a fatigue crack initiation model for metal components produced by AM. To improve life prediction accuracy, the model must incorporate the effect of different microstructures, which are typically produced by AM due to a large number of repetitive cycles of re-heating and re-cooling processes. To fulfill this objective, the tasks are separated into three studies: (1) developing a temperature model to simulate temperature history, (2) modeling the component’s microstructure for the potential crack initiation zone, and (3) developing a fatigue crack initiation model for life estimation. A summary of each task is provided in the following.</p> <p>First, the role of temperature model is to understand the mechanism that leads to the variation of microstructures. The existing temperature models are computationally expensive to obtain an accurate prediction of the temperature history due to repetitive heating and cooling. The main reason is that these models considered entire boundary conditions of all the material points. In this section, we proposed and employed the concept of effective computation zone, which can save the computational time significantly for AM process. </p><p><br></p> <p>Second, it is critical to include the effect of microstructure in the fatigue life model since the microstructure variation at different locations within the real AM component is large. The grain size variation is modeled by using representative volume element, which is defined as a volume of heterogeneous material that is sufficiently large to be statistically representative of the real component’s microstructure. Regarding phase transformation, a continuous cooling transformation (CCT) diagram is a useful tool that can be used with a thermal model for microstructure design and manufacturing process control. However, traditional CCT diagrams are developed based on slow and monotonic cooling processes such as furnace cooling and air cooling, which are greatly different from the repetitive heating and cooling processes in AM. In this study, a new general methodology is presented to create CCT diagrams for materials fabricated by AM. We showed that the effect of the segmented duration within the critical temperature range, which induced precipitate formation, could be cumulative. </p><p><br></p> <p>Third, the existing fatigue crack initiation life model has poor accuracy. One of the reasons for the poor accuracy is the coefficients change due to the variation in microstructure is not accounted for. In this section, a semi-empirical fatigue crack initiation model is presented. The important coefficients include maximum persistent slipband width, energy efficiency coefficient, resolved shear stress and plastic slip rate per cycle. These coefficients are modeled and determined as a function of microstructure, which can improve the accuracy of life estimation.</p><p><br></p> <p>The contribution of this study is to provide a new engineering tool for designing the melting AM process based on scientific research. With this tool, the fundamental mechanism contributing to a large variation of the fatigue life of the metal components made by AM process can be understood, attributed, predicted and improved. The seemly ‘stochastic’ nature of fatigue life of the AM components can be changed to be more deterministic and predictable. This approach represents a major advance in fatigue research on AM materials. The model developed is considered as a tool for research, design, and control for laser-based AM process applications. </p>

Les estuaires sont des zones à l’interface terre-mer au coeur de la question du devenir des apports continentaux drainés par les grands bassins versants. L’objet de cette étude est focalisé sur l’estuaire de la Loire et ses zones adjacentes (i.e. baie de Bourgneuf et le Mor-Bras) situés dans le nord-est du Golfe de Gascogne. C’est un environnement soumis à l’influence significative de la marée qui se propage en amont de l’embouchure à plus de 100 km, de forçages météorologiques de moyennes latitudes donc hautement variables qui induisent en particulier des débits fluviaux pouvant varier d’un facteur dix. Cette variabilité est étudiée à l’aide d’un modèle numérique et des outils de description de la circulation qui permettent de mieux cerner les temps de séjours et de transits des eaux continentales dans l’estuaire et vers les baies riveraines. L’approche s’appuie sur un modèle en grille structurée mais dont la malléabilité pour décrire la complexité du domaine à simuler est donnée par le caractère non orthogonal des mailles employées pour la discrétisation. Le choix d’un système de coordonnées optimale (covariantes ou contravariantes) est discuté puis implémenté dans le code MARS-3D. Ce nouvel outil est qualifié et validé sur des cas-test puis implémenté en conditions réelles sur un domaine à la géométrie particulièrement accidentée. Les simulations reproduisent très finement la dynamique du grand panache de la Loire et confirment sa très grande variabilité spatiale et temporelle que décrivent partiellement des observations à haute fréquence et ponctuelles ; elles permettent de décrire les chemins privilégiés des masses d’eau à travers les sections de références choisies. / Estuaries are key areas in between land and ocean which play a major role in the spreading ofcontinental runoff drained by large watershed. This study focused on the Loire Estuary and its adjacentbays (i.e. Bourgneuf bay and Mor-Braz sea) all located in the north-east side of the bay of Biscay. It isinfluenced by the large tidal wave that propagates upstream the mouth on more than a 100 km, by highlymid-latitude meteorological forcing that may not only induced High variability in the circulation driversbut also on the river runoffs that may vary from 1 to 10 from early spring to late summer. This Highvariability is studied thanks to numerical simulation and tools dedicated to describe the circulation withsynthetic index such as transit time and mean age of water. The approach lies on a numerical modeldiscretized on a structure grid which constraints have been relaxed to better fit the fractal coastal lineusing non orthogonal grid cells. The optimal coordinate framework (co or contra-variant) have beendiscussed, and implemented within a pre-existing code (i.e. MARS-3D). This tools was validated withtest cases and implemented on a domain with a particular complex geometry. The numerical simulationscatch very accurately the dynamic of this large plume at least as it is described by available in situobservations. This numerical solution allowed to exhibit the main path of water masses through the areaand from place to place and their variability according to the main forcings.

This thesis presents an experimental study which investigates the behaviour of gas bubbles rising in a liquid metal and the related bubble-driven flow under the influence of external DC magnetic fields. The experimental configuration considered here concerns a cylindrical container filled with the eutectic alloy GaInSn. Argon gas bubbles are injected through a single orifice located at the container bottom in the centre of the circular cross-section. A homogeneous magnetic field was generated by a Helmholtz configuration of a pair of water-cooled copper coils. The magnetic field has been imposed either in vertical direction parallel to the main bubble motion or in horizontal direction, respectively. A vertical magnetic field stabilizes and damps the liquid metal flow effectively. The temporal variations of the fluid velocity with time become smaller with increasing magnetic induction. The velocity magnitudes are decreased, and the velocity distributions along the magnetic field lines are smoothed. The flow field keeps the axisymmetric distribution. A horizontal magnetic field destabilizes and enhances the flow within a range of moderate Hartmann numbers (100 &amp;lt; Ha &amp;lt; 400). The flow becomes non-axisymmetric due to the non-isotropic influence of the magnetic field. In the meridional plane parallel to the field lines, the flow changes its direction from a downward to an upward motion. Enhanced downward flows were observed in the meridional plane perpendicular to the field lines. The liquid velocity in both planes shows strong, periodic oscillations. The fluid motion is dominated by large-scale structures elongated along the magnetic field lines over the entire chord lengths of the circular cross-section.

The phenomenon of gas entrainment, as a result of impinging liquid jets, was experimentally investigated. The purpose of these investigations was to create a solid experimental database necessary for the development and validation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes. In this work, various experimental setups were built to allow employing various imaging measurement techniques with high spatial and temporal resolution. High-speed imaging was applied for characterizing the flow structure that develops under the free surface. It was found that gas entrainment takes place as soon as the jet impact velocity overcomes the value of 1.2 m/s. The bubble plume, formed as a result of impingement, consists of two distinct regions: an inner region with high turbulence and fine freely dispersed bubbles and an outer region, where larger bubbles move towards the free surface. Two mechanisms are responsible for the occurrence of gas entrainment. High-speed camera observations were validated by means of ultrafast x-ray computed tomography, an innovative non-intrusive measurement technique. Also, quantitative information regarding the bubble plume was acquired from the high-speed observations, in terms of: penetration depth, width and spreading angle of the bubble plume. Measurements, based on two wire-mesh sensors, were performed to assess the gas entrainment rate. In these measurements, void fraction distributions and gas velocities were quantified. The entrainment rate was calculated as an integral over the entrained volumetric gas fraction. It was found to be a function of the jet velocity and length. Results were validated using dual-plane x-ray computed tomography. Results were in agreement with the ones obtained from the wire-mesh sensors and approximately four to six times smaller than predictions found in related publications. Instantaneous as well as time-averaged velocity fields of the continuous phase were gained by means of particle image velocimetry (PIV). Axial time-averaged velocities followed a power law profile, typical for fully developed flow conditions. Two recirculating vortices were found in the flow: one occurs as a result of the water adhering to the lateral wall of the tank and the flow being confined by the bottom wall, while the second one is generated in the wake of rising bubbles. Bubble entrainment was found to reduce liquid phase mean velocities and to enhance fluctuations in the streamwise direction. This is reflected in the distribution of the turbulence kinetic energy. Last but not least, several examples of comparisons between experimental data and CFD results stand to demonstrate the importance of the experimental observations gathered in the frame of this work. It is shown that the experimental data provides a good basis not only for qualitative comparisons, but also for quantitative correlations.

Plume-spacecraft interactions play an important role in the performance and integrity of spacecraft during their missions in space. The study encompasses a thruster’s plume simulation and its impact on spacecraft geometries to understand and predict the effects and consequences of the impingement on spacecraft surfaces, such as erosion, contamination, forces, and torques. The initial focus of the thesis is to simulate an electric thruster current density for both space and vacuum chamber measurements. This estimates the artificial broadening of the plume produced by low-pressure background air particles inside a vacuum chamber. Subsequently, the study adopts a conservative approach by considering a current density obtained from vacuum chamber measurements, which allowed for an evaluation of the potential effects on spacecraft surfaces, thus delivering insights into erosion, contamination, as well as the distribution of forces and torques. The results highlight the importance of considering spacecraft charging in plume interactions, as the surface potential significantly affects the impact of the thruster’s plume on spacecraft surfaces. The outcome obtained throughout this project suggests that the effects of particle impingement on erosion, contamination, forces, and torques in plume-spacecraft interactions are influenced by the thruster location and the spacecraft’s surface potential. It is important to note that additional factors, including thermal effects, radiation, and magnetic fields, which were not addressed in this thesis, may also pose potential threats to spacecraft performance and should be considered in future investigations. / Interaktioner mellan plym och rymdfarkoster spelar en viktig roll i rymdfarkosternas prestanda och integritet under deras uppdrag i rymden. Studien omfattar simulering av en raketmotors plym och dess inverkan på rymdfarkostens geometrier för att förstå och förutsäga effekterna och konsekvenserna av kollisionen på rymdfarkostens ytor, såsom erosion, förorening, krafter och vridmoment. Avhandlingens initiala fokus är att simulera strömtäthet i plymen från en elektrisk raketmotor för både rymd- och vakuumkammarmätningar. Detta uppskattar den artificiella expansionen av plymen som produceras av de molekyler som närvarar i det låga trycket inuti en vakuumkammare. Därefter antar studien ett konservativt tillvägagångssätt genom att överväga en strömtäthet erhållen från vakuumkammarmätningar, vilket möjliggjorde en utvärdering av de potentiella effekterna på ytorna på en rymdfarkost, och därmed leverera insikter om erosion, förorening, såväl som fördelningen av krafter och vridmoment. Resultaten understryker vikten av att överväga laddning av rymdfarkoster i plyminteraktioner, eftersom ytpotentialen signifikant påverkar raketmotorplymens påverkan på rymdfarkostens ytor. Resultatet som erhållits genom hela detta projekt tyder på att effekterna av partikelkollision på erosion, förorening, krafter och vridmoment i växelverkan mellan plym och rymdfarkoster påverkas av raketmotorns placering och rymdfarkostens ytpotential.

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