Este trabalho tem por objetivo estudar e analisar a influência do parâmetro de barreira e de seu fator de correção no processo de convergência dos métodos de pontos interiores primal-dual, primal-dual barreira modificada e primal-dual barreira modificada com as técnicas preditor-corretor e Newton composto. A grande motivação para o desenvolvimento desta pesquisa está relacionada com a busca de métodos eficientes para resolver problemas de otimização de programação não-linear, existentes na área de engenharia elétrica mais especificamente na operação de sistemas elétricos de potência. Esses métodos foram aplicados a um problema de programação não-linear e aos sistemas elétricos de três e de trinta barras para analisar a sensibilidade em relação ao parâmetro de barreira e ao seu fator de correção. / This work has for objective to study and to analyze the influence of the barrier parameter and its correction factor in the convergence process of the methods primal-dual interior point, primal-dual modified barrier and primal-dual barrier modified with the techniques predictor-corrector and composed Newton. The great motivation for the development of this research is related with the search of efficient methods to solve nonlinear programming optimization problems, existent in the area of electric engineering more specifically in the operation of power systems. Those methods were applied to a nonlinear programming problem and the electric systems of three and thirty buses to analyze the sensibility in relation to the barrier parameter and its correction factor.

Este trabalho tem por objetivo estudar e analisar a influência do parâmetro de barreira e de seu fator de correção no processo de convergência dos métodos de pontos interiores primal-dual, primal-dual barreira modificada e primal-dual barreira modificada com as técnicas preditor-corretor e Newton composto. A grande motivação para o desenvolvimento desta pesquisa está relacionada com a busca de métodos eficientes para resolver problemas de otimização de programação não-linear, existentes na área de engenharia elétrica mais especificamente na operação de sistemas elétricos de potência. Esses métodos foram aplicados a um problema de programação não-linear e aos sistemas elétricos de três e de trinta barras para analisar a sensibilidade em relação ao parâmetro de barreira e ao seu fator de correção. / This work has for objective to study and to analyze the influence of the barrier parameter and its correction factor in the convergence process of the methods primal-dual interior point, primal-dual modified barrier and primal-dual barrier modified with the techniques predictor-corrector and composed Newton. The great motivation for the development of this research is related with the search of efficient methods to solve nonlinear programming optimization problems, existent in the area of electric engineering more specifically in the operation of power systems. Those methods were applied to a nonlinear programming problem and the electric systems of three and thirty buses to analyze the sensibility in relation to the barrier parameter and its correction factor.

Several targeting algorithms are developed and analyzed for possible future use onboard a spacecraft. Each targeter is designed to determine the appropriate propulsive burn for translunar injection to obtain desired orbital parameters upon arrival at the moon. Primary design objectives are to minimize the computational requirements for each algorithm but also to ensure reasonable accuracy, so that the algorithm’s errors do not force the craft to conduct large mid-course corrections. Several levels of accuracy for dynamical models are explored, the convergence range and speed of each algorithm are compared, and the possible benefits of the Broyden and trust-region targeters are evaluated. These targeters provide a proof of concept for the feasibility of a translunar injection targeting algorithm. Anticipating some future improvements, these algorithms could serve as a viable alternative to uploading ground-based targeting solutions and bypass the problems of delays and disruptions in communication, enabling the craft to conduct a translunar injection burn autonomously.

The aim of this work is to develop and validate a continuum model for the simulation of the thermomechanical response of a shape memory polymer (SMP). Rather than integral type viscoelastic model, the approach here is based on the idea of two inter-penetrating networks, one which is permanent and the other which is transient together with rate equations for the time evolution of the transient network. We find that the activation stress for network breakage and formation of the material controls the gross features of the response of the model, and exhibits a "thermal Bauschinger effect". The model developed here is similar to a thermoviscoelastic model, and is developed with an eye towards ease of numerical solutions to boundary value problems. The primary hypothesis of this model is that the hysteresis of temperature dependent activation-stress plays a lead role in controlling its main response features. Validation of this hypothesis is carried out for the uniaxial response from the experimental data available in the literature for two different SMP samples: shape memory polyurethane and Veriflex, to show the control of the evolution of the temperature sensitive activation stress on the response. We extend the validated 1D model to a three dimensional small strain continuum SMP model and carry out a systematic parameter optimization method for the identification of the activation stress coefficients, with different weights given to different features of the response to match the parameters with experimental data. A comprehensive parametric study is carried out, that varies each of the model material and loading parameters, and observes their effect on design-relevant response characteristics of the model undergoing a thermomechanical cycle. We develop "response charts" for the response characteristics: shape fixity, shape recovery and maximum stress rise during cooling, to give the designer an idea of how the simultaneous variation of two of the most influential material parameters changes a specific response parameter. To exemplify the efficacy of the model in practical applications, a thermoviscoelastic extension of a beam theory model will be developed. This SMP beam theory will account for activation stress governed inelastic response of a SMP beam. An example of a three point bend test is simulated using the beam theory model. The numerical solution is implemented by using an operator split technique that utilizes an elastic predictor and dissipative corrector. This algorithm is validated by using a three-point bending experiment for three different material cases: elastic, plastic and thermoplastic response. Time step convergence and mesh density convergence studies are carried out for the thermoviscoelastic FEM model. We implement and study this model for a SMP beam undergoing three-point bending strain recovery, stress recovery and cyclic thermomechanical loading. Finally we develop a thermodynamically consistent finite continuum model to simulate the thermomechanical response of SMPs. The SMP is modeled as an isotropic viscoplastic material where thermal changes govern the evolution of the activation stress of the material. The response of the SMP in a thermomechanical cycle is modeled as a combination of a rubbery and a glassy element in series. Using these assumptions, we propose a specific form for the Helmholtz potential and the rate of dissipation. We use the technique of upper triangular decomposition for developing the constitutive equations of the finite strain SMP model. The resulting model is implemented in an ODE solver in MATLAB, and solved for a simple shear problem. We study the response of the SMP model for shear deformation as well as cyclic shear deformation at different initial temperatures. Finally, we implement the thermomechanical cycle under shear deformations and study the behavior of the model.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-08-23Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:48:01Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 souza_mas_me_bauru.pdf: 1718716 bytes, checksum: 06558a2073d16192fb7eaf1e9f95ca28 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho visa a investigação e implementação de métodos Primal - Dual Previsor-Corretor de Pontos Interiores com a estratégia de busca unidimensional, e a aplicação destes em problemas de Despacho Econômico e Ambiental. Objetiva-se utilizar estes métodos para determinar soluções aproximadas e consistentes dos problemas causados citados, que forneçam a solução de minimização dos custos dos combustíveis empregados na geração termoelétrica de energia, otimizando um processo de alocação da demanda de energia elétrica entre as unidades geradoras disponíveis, de tal forma que as restrições operacionais sejam atendidas e que o custo de geração é minimizado. Pretende-se também, analisar o problema de Despacho Ambiental com um objetivo único quando se acopla a este o Problema de Despacho Econômico e busca-se, simultaneamente, a minimização dos custos de geração e a redução da emissão de poluentes na natureza. Os métodos foram implementados, testados em Problemas de Despacho Econômico e Ambiental, e o seu desempenho foi comparado com outros métodos já utilizados, cujos resultados são encontrados na literatura / This work aims the investigation and implementation of Primal-Dual Predictor-Corrector interior points methods, with the strategy of one-dimensional search, and its application in Economic and Environmental Dispatch Problems. It pretends to use these methods to determine approximate and consistent solutions of the mentioned problems, that provide the solution to minimize the fuel costs used in thermoelectric power generation, optimizing an allocations process of eletric power demand among available generation units, such that the operational constraints are attended and that generation cost is minimized. It too pretends to analyze the Environmental Dispatch Problem with the one objective when it is joined with the Dispatch Problems and it searchs, simultaneously, the minimization of the generation costs and the reduction of emission of the polluants in the nature. The methods were implemented, tested on the Economic and Environemental Dispatch Problems and its performance was compared with others method currently used, whose results are found in the literature

Orientador: Maurílio Boaventura / Banca: Antonio Castelo Filho / Banca: Heloisa Helena Marino Silva / Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho þe aplicar Mþetodos Numþericos de ordem de precisão mais alta ao problema de Retoque Digital, visando melhorar a qualidade da aproximação quando comparada com o Método de Euler, que þe geralmente utilizado para esse tipo de problema. Para testar a eficiência de tais métodos, utilizamos três modelos de Retoque Digital: o modelo proposto por Bertalmþýo, Sapiro, Ballester e Caselles (BSBC), o modelo de Rudin, Osher e Fatemi conhecido como Variacional Total (TV) e o modelo de Chan e Shen, chamado de Difusão Guiada pela Curvatura (CDD). / Abstract: The purpose of this work is to apply Numerical Methods of higher order to the problem of Digital Inpainting, aiming to improve the quality of the approach when compared with the Euler’s Method which is generally used for this kind of problem. To test the e ciency of these methods we use three models of Digital Inpainting: the model considered by Bertalmþýo, Sapiro, Ballester and Caselles (BSBC), the model of Rudin, Osher and Fatemi known as Total Variation (TV) and the model of Chan and Shen, named Curvature Driven Di usion (CDD) / Mestre

Direct Machining And Control (DMAC) is a new method of controlling machine tools directly from process planning software. A motion planning module is developed for the DMAC system that operates directly off path geometry without pre-tessellation. The motion planner is developed with the intent to process Bezier curves. The motion planning module includes a deterministic predictor-corrector-type curve interpolator, a dynamics limiting module, and a two-pass jerk-limited speed profiling algorithm. The methods are verified by machining an automotive surface in a clay medium and evaluating the resultant machine dynamics, feed rate, and chordal error throughout the machining process.

Stochastic differential equations(SDEs) play an important role in many branches of engineering and science including economics, finance, chemistry, biology, mechanics etc. SDEs (with m-dimensional Wiener process) arising in many applications do not have explicit solutions, which implies the development of effective numerical methods for such systems. For SDEs, one can classify the numerical methods into three classes: fully implicit methods, semi-implicit methods and explicit methods. In order to solve SDEs, the computation of Newton iteration is necessary for the implicit and semi-implicit methods whereas for the explicit methods we do not need such computation. In this thesis the common theme is to construct explicit numerical methods with strong order 1.0 and 1.5 for solving Itˆo SDEs. The five-stage Milstein(FSM)methods, split-step forward Milstein(SSFM)methods and M-stage split-step strong Taylor(M-SSST) methods are constructed for solving SDEs. The FSM, SSFM and M-SSST methods are fully explicit methods. It is proved that the FSM and SSFM methods are convergent with strong order 1.0, and M-SSST methods are convergent with strong order 1.5.Stiffness is a very important issue for the numerical treatment of SDEs, similar to the case of deterministic ordinary differential equations. Stochastic stiffness can lead someone to use smaller step-size for the numerical simulation of the SDEs. However, such issues can be handled using numerical methods with better stability properties. The analysis of stability (with multidimensional Wiener process) shows that the mean-square stable regions of the FSM methods are unbounded. The analysis of stability shows that the mean-square stable regions of the FSM and SSFM methods are larger than the Milstein and three-stage Milstein methods. The M-SSST methods possess large mean square stability region as compared to the order 1.5 strong Itˆo-Taylor method. SDE systems simulated with the FSM, SSFM and M-SSST methods show the computational efficiency of the methods. In this work, we also consider the problem of computing numerical solutions for stochastic delay differential equations(SDDEs) of Itˆo form with a constant lag in the argument. The fully explicit methods, the predictor-corrector Euler(PCE)methods, are constructed for solving SDDEs. It is proved that the PCE methods are convergent with strong order γ = ½ in the mean-square sense. The conditions under which the PCE methods are MS-stable and GMS-stable are less restrictive as compared to the conditions for the Euler method.

Tato disertační práce se zabývá analýzou stability a konvergence klasických numerických metod pro řešení obyčejných diferenciálních rovnic. Jsou představeny klasické jednokrokové metody, jako je Eulerova metoda, Runge-Kuttovy metody a nepříliš známá, ale rychlá a přesná metoda Taylorovy řady. V práci uvažujeme zobecnění jednokrokových metod do vícekrokových metod, jako jsou Adamsovy metody, a jejich implementaci ve dvojicích prediktor-korektor. Dále uvádíme generalizaci do vícekrokových metod vyšších derivací, jako jsou např. Obreshkovovy metody. Dvojice prediktor-korektor jsou často implementovány v kombinacích modů, v práci uvažujeme tzv. módy PEC a PECE. Hlavním cílem a přínosem této práce je nová metoda čtvrtého řádu, která se skládá z dvoukrokového prediktoru a jednokrokového korektoru, jejichž formule využívají druhých derivací. V práci je diskutována Nordsieckova reprezentace, algoritmus pro výběr proměnlivého integračního kroku nebo odhad lokálních a globálních chyb. Navržený přístup je vhodně upraven pro použití proměnlivého integračního kroku s přístupe vyšších derivací. Uvádíme srovnání s klasickými metodami a provedené experimenty pro lineární a nelineární problémy.