Dans le domaine de la modélisation des écoulements turbulents, les approche hybrides RANS/LES ont reçu récemment beaucoup d’attention car ils combinent le coût de calcul raisonnable du RANS et la précision de la LES.Parmi elles, le TPITM (Temporal Partially Integrated Transport Model) est une approche hybride RANS/LES temporelle qui surmonte les inconsistances du raccordement continu du RANS et de la LES grâce à un formalisme de filtrage temporel. Cependant, le modèle TPITM est relativement difficile à mettre en œuvre et, en particulier, nécessite l’utilisation d’une correction dynamique, contrairement à d’autres approches, notamment la DES (Detached Eddy Simulation).Cette thèse propose alors une approche hybride RANS/LES similaire à la DES, mais basée sur un filtrage temporel, déduite du modèle TPITM par équivalence, c’est-à-dire en imposant la même partition entre énergies résolue et modélisée. Ce modèle HTLES (Hybrid Temporal LES) combine les caractéristiques de la DES (facilité de mise en œuvre) et du TPITM (formalisme consistant, justification théorique des coefficients).Après calibration en turbulence homogène, l’approche est appliquée à des cas d’écoulements autour de cylindres carrés puis rectangulaires. La modélisation des tensions de sous-filtre est une adaptation au contexte hybride du modèle RANS k-wSST. / In the field of modelling of turbulent flows, hybrid RANS/LES approaches have recently received a considerable attention due to the combination of the computational cost of RANS and the accuracy of LES.Among them, TPITM (Temporal Partially Integrated Transport Model) is a hybrid RANS/Temporal LES approach that overcomes the inconsistency of the continuous bridging of RANS and LES by using a temporal filtering formalism. However, TPITIM is relatively difficult to implement and, in particular, requires a dynamic correction, contrary to other approaches, in particular DES (Detached Eddy Simulation).The present thesis then proposes a hybrid RANS/LES approach similar to DES, but based on temporal filtering, derived from TPITM using an equivalence criterion, i. e., imposing the same partition of among resolved and modeled energies. This HTLES approach (Hybrid Temporal LES) combines the characteristics of DES (ease of implementation) and of TPITM (consistent formalism, theoretical justification of the coefficients).

Der inelastische Streuquerschnitt von Neutronen mit 7Li weist keine scharfen Resonanzen und eine relativ niedrige Schwelle von 546 keV auf. Bis zur Aufbruchschwelle von 5291 keV findet die inelastische Streuung ausschließlich durch Emission eines 𝛾 -Quants mit 𝐸𝛾 = 477,6 keV statt. Er ist daher als Referenzquerschnitt geeignet. Lithium ist als 3H-Produzent von technischer Bedeutung für die Entwicklung zukünftiger Fusionsreaktoren oder Salzschmelzenreaktoren. Neuere Messungen des inelastischen Streuquerschnitts weichen signifikant von den bisher evaluierten Daten ab. Daher wurden an der Neutronenflugzeitanlage nELBE am HZDR in einem 170 Stunden dauernden Experiment mittels Flugzeit-Methode an einer 4 mm dicken LiF-Scheibe der Streuquerschnitt von 7Li(n,n’𝛾)7Li bestimmt. Die Flugstrecke der Neutronen beträgt 8,3 m. Es wurden 2 Zoll und 3 Zoll-LaBr3-Szintillatoren sowie HPGe- Miniball-Detektoren zum Nachweis der Gammastrahlung in zwei verschiedenen Datenacquisitionen verwendet. Es wird die Abregung von 7Li★ (477,6 keV) gemessen. Das Experiment profitiert von einem hohen Neutronenfluss (ca. 80 n/s/keV @ 1 MeV) sowie einer genauen Spaltkammer der PTB (H19) zur Neutronenflussbestimmung. Die Energie der Neutronen wird mittels Flugzeit-Methode bestimmt. Eine Geant4-Simulation dient der Korrektur der Transmission der Neutronen zum Target, sowie der Mehrfachstreuung und Selbstabsorption. Die bestimmten Wechselwirkungsquerschnitte der LaBr3- und HPGe-Detektoren sind untereinander konsistent, können die Ergebnisse aus [NBI+16] aber nicht bestätigen, die Abweichungen betragen bis zu 20 %. Die Halbwertszeit der gleichzeitig durch Bremsstrahlung in Luft erzeugten Positroniums wurde auf 116(7) ns bestimmt.:1. Einleitung und Motivation 1 2. Theoretische Vorbetrachtungen 3 2.1. Inelastische Neutronenstreuung 3 2.2. Wechselwirkungsquerschnitt 4 2.3. Bisherige Messungen 5 3. Aufbau und Beschreibung des Experimentes 9 3.1. Photoneutronenquelle 10 3.2. Detektoren und Target 11 3.3. Parallelplattenionisationskammer H19 13 3.4. Datenaufnahme 14 3.5. Triggermechanismen 15 4. Auswertung 19 4.1. Kalibrierung 19 4.1.1. Energiekalibrierung 21 4.1.2. Summing-Korrekturen 21 4.1.3. Effizienz-Kalibrierung 22 4.1.4. Effizienzsimulation 27 4.2. Stabilität der Impulshöhen 33 4.3. Totzeitkorrektur 34 4.4. Neutronenflussbestimmung 35 4.4.1. Spaltereignisbestimmung 35 4.4.2. Transmissionskorrektur 38 4.4.3. Mehrfachstreuung 41 4.5. Energieauflösungskorrektur 43 4.6. Bestimmung der Anzahl der 478 keV γ-Quanten 45 4.7. Gammaproduktionswirkungsquerschnitt 7Li (𝑛,𝑛′𝛾) 49 4.8. Anisotropie der Gamma-Emission 53 4.9. Systematische Unsicherheiten 54 5. Ergebnisse und Ausblick 57 A. Anhang 59 A.1. Dopplereffekt 59 A.2. CFD vs. LED Effizienz 63 A.3. Elektronik 64 A.4. Mehrfachstreuung im LiF 66 A.5. Wechselwirkungsquerschnitte für 7Li(n,n’𝛾) 66 A.6. Addendum zur Bestimmung der 478 keV 𝛾-Quanten 68 Literaturverzeichnis 71 / The inelastic neutron cross section of 7Li has no sharp resonances and a fairly low threshold of 546keV.Below the breakup threshold at 5291keV only one 𝛾-ray is emitted at 𝐸𝛾 =477, 6keV. It is therefore suited as a reference cross section. Lithium has technical usage as a 3H-producer in future fusion reactors as well as in molten salt reactors. But there are recent measurements [NBI+16] disagreeing with already evaluated data. To resolve this dissonance, an 170 h Experiment was carried out at the nELBE facility of the HZDR. A 4 mm thick LiF-disk was used as a target, the neutron flux was determined with a 235U parallel plate fission chamber. The flight path for the 7Li(n,n’𝛾)7Li reaction was 8,3 m. As detectors four two-inch LaBr3-detectors as well as three three-inch LaBr3-detectors and two miniball-type HPGe detectors with three 60 % crystals each were used. The measurement of the cross section is solely a measurement of the de-excitation of the first exited 7Li-State at 477,6 keV. The second exited state at 4,63 MeV already decays via particle emission and thus does not contribute any 𝛾-radiation. The experiment benefits from the high neutron flux at nELBE (80 n/s/keV @ 1 MeV) as well as from the precise fission chamber of the PTB (H19) for the neutron flux calibration. A Geant4- Simulation is used to determine correction factors as the transmission from the H19 to the target as well as the multiple scattering correction and the self absorption of the 477,6 keV 𝛾-Rays. The deduced cross section from both detector types are consistent, but they can’t reproduce the data from Nyman et al. PRC93 (2016). The deviations are up to 20 %. The half life of the by means of bremsstrahlung in air produced positroniums in the experiment is 116(7) ns.:1. Einleitung und Motivation 1 2. Theoretische Vorbetrachtungen 3 2.1. Inelastische Neutronenstreuung 3 2.2. Wechselwirkungsquerschnitt 4 2.3. Bisherige Messungen 5 3. Aufbau und Beschreibung des Experimentes 9 3.1. Photoneutronenquelle 10 3.2. Detektoren und Target 11 3.3. Parallelplattenionisationskammer H19 13 3.4. Datenaufnahme 14 3.5. Triggermechanismen 15 4. Auswertung 19 4.1. Kalibrierung 19 4.1.1. Energiekalibrierung 21 4.1.2. Summing-Korrekturen 21 4.1.3. Effizienz-Kalibrierung 22 4.1.4. Effizienzsimulation 27 4.2. Stabilität der Impulshöhen 33 4.3. Totzeitkorrektur 34 4.4. Neutronenflussbestimmung 35 4.4.1. Spaltereignisbestimmung 35 4.4.2. Transmissionskorrektur 38 4.4.3. Mehrfachstreuung 41 4.5. Energieauflösungskorrektur 43 4.6. Bestimmung der Anzahl der 478 keV γ-Quanten 45 4.7. Gammaproduktionswirkungsquerschnitt 7Li (𝑛,𝑛′𝛾) 49 4.8. Anisotropie der Gamma-Emission 53 4.9. Systematische Unsicherheiten 54 5. Ergebnisse und Ausblick 57 A. Anhang 59 A.1. Dopplereffekt 59 A.2. CFD vs. LED Effizienz 63 A.3. Elektronik 64 A.4. Mehrfachstreuung im LiF 66 A.5. Wechselwirkungsquerschnitte für 7Li(n,n’𝛾) 66 A.6. Addendum zur Bestimmung der 478 keV 𝛾-Quanten 68 Literaturverzeichnis 71

A new method for constructing probability tables in the Unresolved Resonance Region (URR) has been developed. This new methodology is an extensive modification of the Single-Level Breit-Wigner (SLBW) resonance-pair sequence method commonly used to generate probability tables in the URR. Using a Monte Carlo process, many resonance-pair sequences are generated by sampling the average resonance parameter data for the unresolved resonance region from the ENDF data file. The resonance parameters are then converted to the Reich-Moore format to take advantage of the more robust R-Matrix Limited (RML) format. For each sampled set of resonance-pair sequences, the temperature-dependent cross sections are calculated on a small grid around the energy of reference using the RML formalism and the Leal-Hwang Doppler broadening methodology. The effective cross sections calculated at the energy of reference are then used to construct probability tables in the unresolved resonance region. The RML cross section reconstruction algorithm has been rigorously tested for a variety of isotopes, including O-16, F-19, Cl-35, Fe-56, Cu-63, and Cu-65. The new URR method also produced normalized cross-section factor probability tables for U-238 that were found to be in agreement with current standards. The modified U-238 probability tables were shown to produce k-eff results in excellent agreement with several standard benchmarks, including the IEU-MET-FAST-007, IEU-MET-FAST-003, and IEU-COMP-FAST-004 benchmarks.

Musica Stellarum is an original composition for full symphony orchestra. It seeks to evoke the life of a star from its birth in a gaseous nebula to its death as a massive supernova using musical parallels. The chemical processes involved in stellar nucleosynthesis are represented through an exploration of TC relationships. Lighter elements are represented by smaller pitch class sets and as they combine together through processes such as inversion and transposition, larger, "heavier" sets are created. Elements of Sonata Form and a strong structural emphasis on Golden Section (GS) relationships are also major features of Musica Stellarum. Section and phrase length are determined by GS measurements of time. This piece also uses delayed aggregate completion to build tension. Inspired by a theory by astrophysicist Dr. Adam Burrows, who argued that supernovae could be triggered by sound waves resonating at approximately F4, the F above middle C is used to complete the aggregate at the climax of the piece.

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Many technical hurdles remain to be overcome before an advanced fuel cycle in which minor actinides from spent nuclear fuel are used to generate power. Three such issues were addressed: criticality safety of minor actinides as compared to currently used fissile isotopes; accuracy of evaluated nuclear data for selected minor actinide high energy fission cross-sections; and the preliminary design optimization of a minor actinide burning/breeding fission blanket in a fission fusion hybrid reactor concept. For minor actinide compositions found in spent fuel, current safety measures for actinide solutions were found to be adequate, though concerns may remain for unmoderated transuranic materials. Additionally, computational results indicated a 5-10% error in the fission cross-section of some minor actinides above the fast fission threshold. Finally, a relatively tall annular fission blanket was found to be the most ideal configuration for the UT fission- fusion hybrid reactor concept, satisfying criticality and power output criteria. / text

SgrAI is a restriction endonuclease (ENase) that cuts a long recognition sequence and exhibits self-modulation of cleavage activity and sequence specificity. Previous research has shown that SgrAI forms large oligomers when bound to particular DNA sequences and under the same conditions where SgrAI exhibits accelerated DNA cleavage kinetics. However, the detailed structure and stoichiometry of SgrAI:DNA as well as the basic building block of the oligomers, has not been fully characterized. Ion mobility mass spectrometry (IM-MS) was employed to analyze SgrAI/DNA complexes and show that the basic building block of the oligomers is the DNA-bound SgrAI dimer (DBD). The oligomers are heterogeneous containing a mixture of species with variable numbers of DBD. The collision cross sections (CCS) of the oligomers were found to have a linear relationship with the number of DBD. Models of the SgrAI/DNA oligomers were constructed and a head-to-tail arrangement was most consistent with the experimental CCS.

Type I X-ray bursts (XRB) are highly energetic and explosive astrophysical events, observed as very sudden and intense emissions of X-rays. X-ray bursts are believed to be powered by a thermonuclear runaway on the surface of a neutron star in a binary system. XRB models are dependent on the accurate information of the nuclear reactions involved. The 18Ne(α,p)21Na reaction is considered to be of great importance as a possible breakout route from the Hot-CNO cycle preceding the thermonuclear runaway. In this thesis work, the 18Ne(α,p)21Na reaction cross-section was indirectly measured at Ecm(α,p) = 2568, 1970, 1758, 1683, 1379 and 1194 keV, using the time-reverse 21Na(p,α)18Ne reaction. Since the time-reverse approach only connects the ground states of 21Na and 18Ne, the cross sections measured here represent lower limits of the 18Ne(α,p)21Na cross-section. An experiment was performed using the the ISAC-II facility at TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada. A beam of 21Na ions was delivered to a polyethylene (CH2)n target placed within the TUDA scattering chamber. The reaction 18Ne and 4He ions were detected using silicon strip detectors, with time-of-flight and ΔE/E particle identification techniques used to distinguish the ions from background. The measurement at Ecm = 1194 keV is the lowest energy measurement to date of the 18Ne(α,p)21Na cross section. The measured cross sections presented in this thesis were compared to the NON-SMOKER Hauser-Feshbach statistical calculations of the cross section and to the unpublished results of another time-reverse investigation performed by a collaboration at the Argonne National Laboratory. A 18Ne(α,p)21Na reaction rate calculation based on the measured cross sections was performed. In comparison with previous reaction rate estimates, our results indicate a rate that is about a factor 2-3 lower than Hauser-Feshbach calculations, suggesting that a statistical approach may not be appropriate for cross section calculations for nuclei in this mass region. The astrophysical consequences of our new results appear to remain nevertheless negligible. These are also presented in this thesis.

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / In this thesis a clutter voltage model for scattering from the sea surface is developed. A model for the scattering from a whitecap and a wave breaking occurrence model re combined to simulate the back scattered signal from one radar resolution cell. The simulation performed obtained the probability density function of sea clutter under different assumptions of wind velocities and wave breaking conditions. This model incorporates some measured quantities such as the mean clutter voltage and the correlation time as parameters. The probability density function depends on the parameters of this model. The obtained probability density functions do not confirm to any familiar simple density function. / http://archive.org/details/seaspikemodeling00kuoc / Lieutenant, Taiwan Navy

Xenoliths are pieces from the surrounding bedrock, brought to the surface of the earth by host magma. On Gran Canaria, the largest island in the Canary Islands archipelago, strange xenoliths have been found. They are light in color, porous and very different from the basaltic magma carrying them. By studying petrological features and oxygen isotope content of the xenoliths, the focus of this report will be to investigate their origin. The minerals and texture of 14 samples were studied in thin section, and the δ18O–value was determined for 17 samples. The mineralogical composition of xenolith glass was examined by EPMa. The results show that the xenoliths are rich in silica rich glass, quartz and feldspars, but also have high calcium content. 9 of 14 xenoliths have textures and δ18O–values from 8.1 ‰ to 16.77 ‰, similar to sedimentary rocks. The remaining xenoliths are metamorphosed and exhibit altered phenocrysts, indicating they have been melted and recrystallized. The latter group also has extremely low δ18O–value, which could be explained by the effects of hydrothermal processes. Most likely all the xenoliths originate from the prevolcanic sedimentary deposits beneath Gran Canaria.