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Die Wechselwirkung intensiver Laserstrahlung mit Festkörperoberflächen ruft oberhalb einer bestimmten Leistungsdichte eine Materialablation hervor und führt schließlich zur Herausbildung sogenannter laserinduzierter Plasmen. In diesem Zusammenhang wird in der Literatur über nichtlinear-optische Phänomene wie Selbstfokussierung und -Kanalisierung der Laserstrahlung, sowie Ausbildung beschleunigter Plasmafragmente berichtet. Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Untersuchung der Form und der Dynamik solcher laserinduzierten Plasmen an verschiedenen metallischen Targets (Al, Cu, W, Ta) in verschiedenen Umgebungen (Luft, Vakuum, Argon) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Vor-pulskonfigurationen des Laserstrahles. Es ist festzustellen, daß sich nach der Einwirkung eines Vorpulses der Energie 10¹²...10¹³ W/cm² auf das metallische Target in Luft und Argon eine Stoßwelle ausbildet, die im Falle von Luft zu einem Plasmakanal der Elektronendichte um 10²º 1/cm³, im Falle von Argon zu mehreren pulsierenden Kanälen führt. In der Arbeitsregime des Lasers mit einigen Vorpulsen wird in Luft und Argon die Herausbildung einer entsprechenden Anzahl von Stoßwellen im Plasma beobachtet. Als Ergebnis der Einwirkung des nachfolgenden Hauptpulses auf die entstandene Stoßwellenstruktur formiert sich ein Plasmakanal. Infolge der komplexen hydrodynamischen Wechselwirkung zwischen dem Hauptpuls und den Stoßwellen, sowie der Einwirkung starker Magnetfelder, erfolgt ein Auswurf von Plasmafragmenten entgegengesetzt dem Vektor der einfallenden Laserstrahlung. Die Fragestellung nach Abhängigkeit der Anzahl der Plasmafragmente von der Anzahl der Stoßwellen und der Pulsenergie des Lasers wird in dieser Arbeit verfolgt. Im Vakuum rufen die Vorpulse dagegen lediglich eine flache Plasmawolke hervor, in der sich als Ergebnis der Einwirkung des Hauptlaserimpulses wiederum eine Stoßwelle bildet. Weiter wird die Herausbildung von Plasmakanälen beobachtet, die in einem stumpfen Winkel zum Vektor des einfallenden Laserausstrahles geneigt sind. Mittels röntgenspektroskopischer Untersuchungen werden für die Plasmakanäle Elektronentemperaturen bis zu 2.7 keV ermittelt, was als Nachweis einer Vorbedingung zur Schaffung eines Röntgenlasers auf der Basis der vorliegenden Effekte gelten kann.

Infectious pathogens are a prominent threat to human health in the world. There is a ubiquitous need for safe and reliable pathogen inactivation in the entire health care sector and pharmaceutical industry. Unfortunately, existing chemical treatment methods for virus inactivation have shortcomings as they introduce toxic chemicals or alter the structure of the products, which often pose significant side effects. Furthermore, considering the alarming growth of antibiotic resistances and hospital associated microbial infections, there is an urgent need for alternative pathogen inactivation strategies. Femtosecond (fs) pulsed laser irradiation technique is a promising solution free of added toxic chemicals and does not require the invention of new antibiotics for inactivation of virus contaminations in biological samples. Conventional pulsed laser techniques require relatively long irradiation times to achieve a significant viral inactivation. This thesis is focused on developing a novel photonic inactivation approach that is selective to pathogens, doesn’t compromise the protein-based pharmaceuticals, and is obtained without specific targeting to the pathogens. In our study, we report comparative studies using femtosecond laser pulses generated using Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) centered at either 800 nm or frequency-doubled 400 nm wavelengths, on the model bacteriophage φX174. We show that photonic inactivation is wavelength dependent and a Log Reduction Value (LRV) of > 6 in a 2 ml bacteriophage sample volume is achieved with less than 1 min of 400 nm laser exposure. Traditional methods for assaying viral inactivation require cell culture studies that can take up to 48–72 hours. We describe a solid-state nanopore technique that can monitor the effect of this optical viral therapy in under 10 minutes. By developing a statistical model based on the probability distribution function obtained from nanopore data, we monitor the survival fraction of viruses with low sample volume, high precision and fast assay time. Lastly, the purely photonic virus inactivation requires UV fs laser irradiation, which can risk photodamage to biologics. In our research, we introduce a novel inactivation approach that takes advantage of the strong light-matter interactions provided by noble metal nanoparticle (NP) structures that sustain plasmons. We report a plasmonically enhanced virus inactivation of Murine Leukemia Virus (MLV) via 10 s laser exposure with 800 nm fs pulses through gold nanorods, with LRV>3.7. We demonstrate that this NP-enhanced, physical inactivation approach is effective against a diverse group of pathogens, including both enveloped and non-enveloped viruses, and a variety of bacteria and mycoplasma. Importantly, the fs-pulse induced inactivation was selective to the pathogens and did not induce any measurable damage to co-incubated antibodies, or to large mammalian cells. Based on the observations, a model of selective pathogen inactivation based on plasmon enhanced cavitation is proposed.

The presented research investigates the effects of shock wave boundary layer interaction on the unsteady pressure response of the surface of an oscillating structure. A simplified structure, a 2D prismatic bump, located in a straight channel is used to better understand the bending flutter phenomenon. Time-resolved measurements of the unsteady surface pressures and the instantaneous model geometry measurements are performed in order to study the effect of the shock wave on the aerodynamic load acting over the flexible generic bump. The bump is oscillated in a controlled manner with amplitude of ±0.5mm for four reduced frequencies ranging from k=0.123 to k=0.492. The experiments are performed for a transonic flow operating point characterized by an inlet Mach number of 0.69 and a total inlet pressure of 160 kPa, with an outlet Mach number and outlet static pressure of 0.79 and 106 kPa, respectively. The unsteady pressure measurements were performed using recessed mounted pressure transducers with Kulite fast response sensors. The presented results demonstrate that the shock wave induces a strong amplification of the unsteady pressure at the foot of the shock. This amplification was shown to decrease with the increase in reduced frequency, specifically between k=0.123 and k=0.246.

Fluid-structure interactions appear in many industrial applications in the field of energy technology. As the components are more and more pushed to higher performance, taking fluid-structure interaction phenomena into account has a great impact on the design as well as in the cost and safety. Internal flows related to propulsion systems in aerodynamics area are of our interest; and particularly aeroelasticity and flutter phenomena. A new 2D flexible generic model, so called bump, based on previous studies at the division of Heat and Power Technology about fluid-structure interactions is here presented. The overall goal is to enhance comprehension of flutter phenomenon. The current study exposes a preliminary experimental campaign regarding mechanical behaviour on two different test objects: an existing one made of polyurethane and a new one of aluminium. The setup is built in such a way that it allows the bumps to oscillate until 500Hz. The objective is to reach this frequency range by remaining in the first bending mode shape which is indeed considered as fundamental for flutter study. In this manner being as close as possible to the bending flutter configuration in high-subsonic and transonic flows will provide a deeper understanding of the shock wave boundary layer interaction and the force phase angle related to it. The results have pointed out that the bumps can reach a frequency of 250Hz by remaining in the first bending mode shape. The one in polyurethane can even reach frequency up to 350Hz; however, amplitude is higher than the theoretical one fixed to 0.5mm. Then unsteady pressure measurements for one operating point have been performed based on using recessed-mounted pressure transducers with Kulite fast response sensors. Variation amplitudes and phases of the unsteady pressure are thus correlated with the vibrations of the model. The operating point has been defined with respect to previous studies on the same static geometric model in order to use steady state base line; the steady flows appear consistent with each other. The results have pointed out that the shock wave induces strong amplification of the steady static pressure; however, this rise decreases when the reduced frequency increases. Finally some elements regarding propagating waves are suggested in the analysis for deeper investigations on such complex phenomena.

La détermination des propriétés des matériaux soumis à des chocs est un enjeu essentiel dans de nombreux domaines industriels. L’objectif de cette thèse est de proposer une nouvelle méthode fondée sur l’interrogation en bande millimétrique d’un solide soumis à un choc. Deux paramètres doivent être mesurés simultanément, la vitesse du choc et la vitesse matérielle associée afin de pouvoir construire la polaire de choc du matériau d’étude. Dans un premier temps, un état de l’art des techniques de mesure existantes est réalisé pour cibler les performances et limites de l’existant. Dans un second temps, on s’intéresse à la modélisation de la propagation des ondes électromagnétiques dans des milieux à plusieurs interfaces en mouvement et avec un gradient d’indice pour représenter des cas de choc soutenu et non soutenu. Enfin, des campagnes expérimentales d’impact plan sont présentées sur différents matériaux, inertes et explosifs, pour confronter la théorie développée aux résultats de mesure. Pour le cas des chocs soutenus, les résultats sont en très bon accord et permettent de valider le modèle. Le cas des chocs non soutenus est plus complexe. Une approche par réseau de neurones est envisagée pour permettre de remonter aux vitesses et aux indices de réfraction. Enfin, des mesures de la permittivité complexe de nombreux explosifs sont présentées. / The mechanical properties of solids under shock wave loading are a key factor in many industrial applications. This work aims at defining a new approach for the simultaneous measurement of shock wave and particle velocity during a shock event, using millimeter wave interrogation. With the two determined parameters, the shock polar of any material can be derived. First, a review of the classical methods to determine these quantities is presented, to identify the advantages and limits of such techniques. A modelization work is then performed to understand the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a stratified mediumwith moving interfaces and different refractive index in each of the layers. Such a configuration can be used to describe both steady and unsteady shocks on solids. Last, experimental results of plane impact tests on both inert and reactive materials are presented and analyzed to comfort the modelization. For steady shocks, the results are in very good agreement and prove the developed model to be adequate. The case of unsteady shocks is more complex, and a neural network approach is described to solve the problem. Finally, new data on the permittivity of high explosives and a new setup are described.

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This dissertation focuses on the development and application of numerical algorithms for solving compressible multiphase fluid-material interaction problems. The first part of this dissertation is motivated by the extraordinary shock-resisting ability of elastomer coating materials (e.g., polyurea) under explosive loading conditions. Their performance, however, highly depends on their dynamic interaction with the substrate (e.g., metal) and ambient fluid (e.g., air or liquid); and the detailed interaction process is still unclear. Therefore, to certify the application of these materials, a fluid-structure coupled computational framework is needed. The first part of this dissertation developes such a framework. In particualr, the hyper-viscoelastic constitutive relation of polyurea is incorporated into a high-fidelity computational framework which couples a finite volume compressible multiphase fluid dynamics solver and a nonlinear finite element structural dynamics solver. Within this framework, the fluid-structure and liquid-gas interfaces are tracked using embedded boundary and level set methods. Then, the developed computational framework is applied to study the behavior a bilayer coating–substrate (i.e., polyurea-aluminum) system under various loading conditions. The observed two-way coupling between the structure and the bubble generated in a near-field underwater explosion motivates the next part of this dissertation. The second part of this dissertation investigates the yielding and collapse of an underwater thin-walled aluminum cylinder in near-field explosions. As the explosion intensity varies by two orders of magnitude, three different modes of collapse are discovered, including one that appears counterintuitive (i.e., one lobe extending towards the explosive charge), yet has been observed in previous laboratory experiments. Because of the transition of modes, the time it takes for the structure to reach self-contact does not decrease monotonically as the explosion intensity increases. Detailed analysis of the bubble-structure interaction suggests that, in addition to the incident shock wave, the second pressure pulse resulting from the contraction of the explosion bubble also has a significant effect on the structure's collapse. The phase difference between the structural vibration and the bubble's expansion and contraction strongly influences the structure's mode of collapse. The third part focuses on the development of efficient solution algorithms for compressible multi-material flow simulations. In these simulations, an unresolved challenge is the computation of advective fluxes across material interfaces that separate drastically different thermodynamic states and relations. A popular class of methods in this regard is to locally construct bimaterial Riemann problems, and to apply their exact solutions in flux computation, such as the one used in the preceding parts of the dissertation. For general equations of state, however, finding the exact solution of a Riemann problem is expensive as it requires nested loops. Multiplied by the large number of Riemann problems constructed during a simulation, the computational cost often becomes prohibitive. This dissertation accelerates the solution of bimaterial Riemann problems without introducing approximations or offline precomputation tasks. The basic idea is to exploit some special properties of the Riemann problem equations, and to recycle previous solutions as much as possible. Following this idea, four acceleration methods are developed. The performance of these acceleration methods is assessed using four example problems that exhibit strong shock waves, large interface deformation, contact of multiple (>2) interfaces, and interaction between gases and condensed matters. For all the problems, the solution of bimaterial Riemann problems is accelerated by 37 to 87 times. As a result, the total cost of advective flux computation, which includes the exact Riemann problem solution at material interfaces and the numerical flux calculation over the entire computational domain, is accelerated by 18 to 81 times. / Doctor of Philosophy / This dissertation focuses on the development and application of numerical methods for solving multiphase fluid-material interaction problems. The first part of this dissertation is motivated by the extraordinary shock-resisting ability of elastomer coating materials (e.g., polyurea) under explosive loading conditions. Their performance, however, highly depends on their dynamic interaction with the underlying structure and the ambient water or air; and the detailed interaction process is still unclear. Therefore, the first part of this dissertation developes a fluid-structure coupled computational framework to certify the application of these materials. In particular, the special material property of the coating material is incorparated into a state-of-the-art fluid-structure coupled computational framework that is able to model large deformation under extreme physical conditions. Then, the developed computational framework is applied to study how a thin-walled aluminum cylinder with polyurea coating responds to various loading conditions. The observed two-way coupling between the structure and the bubble generated in a near-field underwater explosion motivates the next part of this dissertation. The second part of this dissertation investigates the failure (i.e., yielding and collapse) of an underwater thin-walled aluminum cylinder in near-field explosions. As the explosion intensity varies by two orders of magnitude, three different modes of collapse are discovered, including one that appears counterintuitive (i.e., one lobe extending towards the explosive charge), yet has been observed in previous laboratory experiments. Via a detailed analysis of the interaction between the explosion gas bubble, the aluminum cylinder, and the ambient liquid water, this dissertation elucidated the role of bubble dynamics in the structure's different failure behaviors and revealed the transition mechanism between these behaviors. The third part of this dissertation presents efficient solution algorithms for the simulations of compressible multi-material flows. Many problems involving bubbles, droplets, phase transitions, and chemical reactions fall into this category. In these problems, discontinuities in fluid state variables (e.g., density) and material properties arise across the material interfaces, challenging numerical schemes' accuracy and robustness. In this regard, a promising class of methods that emerges in the recent decade is to resolve the exact wave structure at material interfaces, such as the one used in the preceding parts of the dissertation. However, the computational cost of these methods is prohibitive due to the nested loops invoked at every mesh edge along the material interface. To address this issue, the dissertation develops four efficient solution methods, following the idea of exploiting special properties of governing equations and recycling previous solutions. Then, the acceleration effect of these methods is assessed using various challenging multi-material flow problems. In different test cases, significant reduction in computational cost (acceleration of 18 to 81 times) is achieved, without sacrificing solver robustness and solution accuracy.

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