Cette thèse présente une étude expérimentale sur un voilier instrumenté, menée pour décrire le comportement aéro-élastique des voiles et du gréement pour des navigations au portant. Les formes des voiles utilisées sont des surfaces non développables avec de fortes courbures provoquant une séparation massive de l’écoulement. De plus, les spinnakers sont des voiles fines et souples rendant l’interaction fluide-structure fortement couplée. A cause du non-respect de certaines règles de similitude, le comportement dynamique d’un spinnaker se prête mal à l’étude en soufflerie et nécessite une comparaison avec des mesures in-situ. Les simulations numériques instationnaires modélisant le comportement aéro-élastique des voiles et du gréement doivent être qualifiées et demandent également des validations. C’est pourquoi un système d’instrumentation embarquée est mis en place sur un J/80, un voilier de huit mètres de long. Il s’agit de mesurer dynamiquement la forme en navigation du spinnaker, les efforts dans les gréements dormant et courant, la répartition de pression sur la voile ainsi que le vent et les attitudes du bateau. La forme du spinnaker en navigation est obtenue grâce à un système de mesure photogrammétrique développé pendant la thèse. La précision de ce système, meilleure que 1,5%, permet de mesurer la forme générale de la voile ainsi que les déformations importantes telles que celles liées au faseyement du guindant. L’effort aérodynamique produit par le spinnaker est obtenu grâce à la mesure de l’intensité des efforts et de leurs directions aux trois extrémités (drisse, amure, écoute) ainsi que par la mesure des pressions sur la voile. Le comportement général du spinnaker est analysé en fonction de l’angle du vent apparent. Une nouvelle représentation utilisant les surfaces de Bézier triangulaires est développée pour décrire la forme tridimensionnelle du spinnaker. Quelques points de contrôles suffisent pour représenter la voile et caractériser le type de voile. Un comportement dynamique propre au spinnaker est également étudié. Le réglage supposé optimal d’un spinnaker est à la limite du faseyement, en laissant le guindant se replier légèrement. Cependant ce réglage n’a jamais été scientifiquement étudié auparavant. Nous avons montré qu’il s’agit d’une forte interaction fluide-structure tridimensionnelle où une importante dépression apparaît au bord d’attaque, qui augmente temporairement les efforts, ce qui n’est pas observé avec un réglage plus bordé. / A full-scale experimental study on an instrumented sailing yacht is conducted to better assess the aero-elastic behaviour of the sails and rigging in downwind navigations. The downwind sail shape is a non-developable surface with high curvature leading to massive flow separation. In addition, spinnakers are thin and flexible sails leading to a strongly coupled Fluid-Structure Interaction. Due to the non-respect of some rules of similitude, the unsteady behaviour of downwind sails cannot be easily investigated with wind tunnel tests that would need comparison with full-scale experiments. Moreover unsteady numerical simulations modelling the aero-elastic behaviour of the sails and rigging require validations. An inboard instrumentation system has been developed on a 8 meter J/80 sailboat to simultaneously and dynamically measure the flying shape of the spinnaker, the aerodynamic loads transmitted to the rigging, the pressure distribution on the sail as well as the boat and wind data. The shape of the spinnaker while sailing is acquired by a photogrammetric system developed during this PhD. The accuracy of this new system, better than 1.5%, is used to measure the global shape and the main dynamic deformations, such as the flapping of the luff. The aerodynamic load produced by the spinnaker is assessed by the measurements of the load magnitudes and directions on the three corners of the sail (head, tack and clew), and also by the pressure distribution on the spinnaker. The global behaviour of the spinnaker is analysed according to the apparent wind angle. A new representation using Bézier triangular surfaces defines the spinnaker 3D shape. A few control points enable to represent the sail and can easily characterise the type of sail. A typical unsteady behaviour of the spinnaker is also analysed. Letting the luff of the sail flap is known by sailors as the optimal trim but has never been scientifically studied before. It is found that it is a complex three dimensional fluid-structure interaction problem where a high suction near the leading edge occurs, producing a temporary increase of the force coefficient that would not be possible otherwise.

The proposed leisure center building Rowing Club bellows is located in southern part of the Brněnské přehrady between section Rakovec and Kozí horka. The building stands on existing club Lodní sporty Brno in the parcel čp. 1236. The idea of building is a ship sailing on the mainland, whose sails it look like waves. Student accommodation is designed to the second, third and fourth floor. Restaurant and administrative facilities connected to the terrace is designed in the basement. In the first underground floors are designed locker rooms, athletic facilities, kitchen and in the second underground floors is designed rowing pools and rowing boatyards connected to the ground. On the eastern side is a wooden rack tribune. Roads and pavements around the building are designed with simplicity and function.

No description available.

This thesis describes the design, implementation and analysis for a preliminary study for DLR's MASCOT lander's next mission to Small Solar System Bodies (SSSB). MASCOT (Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout) is a nano-lander that flew aboard Hayabusa2 (JAXA) to an asteroid, Ryugu. It is a passive nano-spacecraft that can only be deployed ballistically from a hovering spacecraft. Current research focusses on optimizing similar close-approach missions for deploying landers or small cubesats into periodic orbits but does not provide solutions with semi-autonomous small landers deployed from farther distances. This study aims to overcome this short-coming by proposing novel yet simple Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) and Propulsion systems for MASCOT. Due to its independent functioning and customisable anatomy, MASCOT can be adapted for several mission scenarios. In this thesis, a particular case-study is modelled for the HERA (ESA) mission. The first phase of the study involves the design of a landing trajectory to the moon of the Didymos binary asteroid system. For a preliminary analysis, the system - Didymain (primary body), Didymoon (secondary body) and MASCOT (third body) - are modelled as a Planar Circular Restricted Three Body Problem (PCR3BP). The numerical integration methodology used for the trajectory is the variable-step Dormand–Prince (Runge Kutta) ODE-4,5 (Ordinary Differential Equation) solver. The model is built in MATLAB-Simulink (2019a) and refined iteratively by conducting a Monte Carlo analysis using the Sensitivity Analysis Tool. Two models - a thruster-controlled system and an alternative hybrid propulsion system of solar sails and thrusters - are simulated and proven to be feasible. The results show that the stable manifold near Lagrange 2 points proposed by Tardivel et. al. for ballistic landings can still be exploited for distant deployments if a single impulse retro-burn is done at an altitude of 65 m to 210 m above ground with error margins of 50 m in position, 5 cm/s in velocity and 0.1 rad in attitude. The next phase is the conceptual design of a MASCOT-variant with GNC abilities. Based on the constraints and requirements of the flown spacecraft, novel GNC and Propulsion systems are chosen. To identify the overriding factors in using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) for MASCOT, a market survey is conducted and the manufacturers of short-listed products are consulted. The final phase of the study is to analyse the proposed equipment in terms of parameter scope and capability-oriented trade-offs. Two traceability matrices, one for devised solutions and system and another for solutions versus capabilities, are constructed. The final proposed system is coherent with the given mass, volume and power constraints. A distant deployment of MASCOT-like landers for in-situ observation is suggested as an advantageous and risk-reducing addition to large spacecraft missions to unknown micro-gravity target bodies. Lastly, the implications of this study and the unique advantages of an enhanced MASCOT lander are explored for currently planned SSSB missions ranging from multiple rendezvous, fly-by or sample-return missions. Concluding, this study lays the foundation for future work on advanced GNC concepts for unconventional spacecraft topology for the highly integrated small landers. / <p>This thesis is submitted as per the requirements for the Spacemaster (Round 13) dual master's degree under the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Degree Programme. </p> / MASCOT team, DLR

The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is perhaps the largest protein complex in the eukaryotic cell, and controls the movement of molecules across the nuclear envelope. The NPC is composed of up to 30 proteins termed nucleoporins (Nups), each grouped in different sub-complexes. The transmembrane ring sub-complex is composed of Nups responsible for anchoring the NPC to the nuclear envelope. Bioinformatic analysis has traced all major sub-complexes of the NPC back to the last eukaryotic common ancestor, meaning that the nuclear pore structure and function is conserved amongst all eukaryotes. In this study Arabidopsis T-DNA knockout lines for these genes were investigated to characterise gene function. Differences in plant growth and development were observed for the ndc1 knockout line compared to wild-type but gp210 plants showed no phenotypic differences. The double knockout line gp210 ndc1 was generated through crosses to observe plant response to the knockout of two anchoring-Nup genes. No synergistic affect from this double knockout was observed, suggesting that more, as yet unidentified Nups function the transmembrane ring in plants. The sensitivity to nuclear export inhibitor leptomycin B (LMB) was tested also for knockout lines, although growth sensitivity to the drug was not observed. Nucleocytoplasmic transport of knockout lines was measured in cells transformed by particle bombardment. To express fluorescent protein constructs actively transported through the NPC, localisation of protein determined the nucleocytoplasmic transport of the cell. The ndc1single knockout and the double knockout gp210 ndc1 exhibited decreased nuclear export. Further experiments in determining NDC1 localisation and identification of other Nups in the transmembrane ring sub-complex would bring a more comprehensive understanding to the plant NPC.