Understanding crystallisation in magma chambers is a key challenge for igneous petrology. It is particularly important to understand the origins of layering in peralkaline rocks, e.g. the kakortokite (nepheline syenite), Ilímaussaq Complex, S. Greenland, as these are commonly associated with high value multi-element economic deposits. The kakortokite is a spectacular example of macrorhythmic (>5 m) layering. Each unit consists of three layers comprising arfvedsonite-rich (sodic-amphibole) black kakortokite at the base, grading into eudialyte-rich (sodic-zirconosilicate) red kakortokite, then alkali feldspar- and nepheline-rich white kakortokite. Each unit is numbered -19 to +17 relative to a characteristic well-developed horizon (Unit 0), however there is little consensus on their development. This project applies a multidisciplinary approach through field observations combined with petrography, crystal size distributions (CSDs), mineral and whole rock chemistries on Units 0, -8 to -11 and a phonolite/micro-nephelinolite (“hybrid”) sequence that crosscuts the layered kakortokite. Textures and compositions are laterally consistent across outcrop and indicators of current activity are rare. CSDs indicate in situ crystallisation with gravitational settling as a minor process. Chemical discontinuities occur across unit boundaries. The layering developed through large-scale processes under exceptionally quiescent conditions. The discontinuities reflect open-system behaviour; units were formed by an influx of volatile-rich magma that initiated crystallisation in a bottom layer. Nucleation was initially suppressed by high volatile element concentrations, which decreased to allow for crystallisation of arfvedsonite, followed by eudialyte, then alkali feldspar and nepheline to form each tripartite unit. The chemistry of the hybrid indicates mixing between a primitive (sub-alkaline) magma and kakortokite. Thus injections of magmas of varying compositions occurred, indicating a complex plumbing system below current exposure. The lessons learned at Ilímaussaq, which is extremely well exposed and preserved, are relevant to understanding magma chamber dynamics in the more common instances of pervasively altered peralkaline rocks.

La mousse est un matériau fascinant nous accompagnant au quotidien depuis des siècles, mais sa complexité fait qu’il est difficile de comprendre et contrôler ses propriétés. L’objet de cette thèse expérimentale est de montrer par deux exemples que si l’on contrôle les écoulements ayant lieu lors de la génération de la mousse et pendant sa vie on peut alors avoir un très bon contrôle de ses propriétés structurelles et sa stabilité. Dans la première partie j’étudie la génération de mousse constituée de bulles micrométriques par un écoulement diphasique cyclique dans un tuyau connectant deux seringues. Cette technique permet de varier la fraction liquide sans affecter les distributions de tailles de bulle. Je montre que ces distributions sont essentiellement contrôlées par la présence de constrictions dans le tuyau connectant les seringues et par les propriétés physico-chimiques de la solution moussante. Mes résultats montrent que ce n’est pas le vieillissement de la mousse mais bien les instabilités hydrodynamiques qui contrôlent la taille caractéristique des bulles. Avec diverses expériences modèles de millifluidique en régime inertiel je mets en évidence ce qui semble être un nouveau processus de fragmentation de bulles. L’accélération et la décélération des bulles lors de leur passage dans une constriction seraient le moteur de cette fragmentation. Le lien précis reste à quantifier dans de futurs travaux. Dans un second temps je montre qu’il est possible de faire des films minces, libres et d’une grande stabilité avec un fondu de copolymère en peigne de PDMS-g-PEG-PPG à température ambiante, sans ajout d’agents stabilisants. Les expériences de caractérisation indiquent que c’est un liquide newtonien ayant une faible tension de surface ne présentant pas de transition de phase à température ambiante. J’ai étudié de manière approfondie le drainage de films verticaux et horizontaux, qui se fait par un écoulement laminaire du liquide confiné entre les deux interfaces liquide/air. A l’aide d’une balance à film mince microfluidique développée pour l’étude des liquides visqueux je rapporte l’apparition de stratifications dans les films très minces. Celles-ci ont la même taille que la longueur caractéristique du fondu, lié soit à la taille du polymère, soit à une micro-séparation de phase. Le drainage et la stabilité sont donc potentiellement contrôlés par cet écoulement stratifié, mais il reste à comprendre si la stratification est la conséquence d’un simple effet de confinement ou d’une micro-séparation de phase près de l’interface. / Foam is a fascinating matter which has been broadly used for centuries, but its complexity makes it difficult to understand and control its properties. The subject of this experimental thesis is to show through two examples that by controlling the flows during the generation and lifetime of the foam its stability and structural properties may be better controlled. In the first part I study the generation of foams made of microscopic bubbles by a cyclic diphasic flow in a tube connecting two syringes. With this technique one can vary the liquid fractions without changing the bubble size distributions. I show that these distributions are mainly controlled by the presence of constrictions in the tubing connecting the syringes and by the physico-chemical properties of the foaming solution. My results show that the characteristic bubble size is not fixed by foam ageing effects but by hydrodynamic instabilities. With various millifluidic model experiments in the inertial regime I highlight what seems to be a new mechanism of bubble fragmentation. The acceleration and deceleration of the bubbles when going through a constriction would be the driving effect of this process. The precise link still has to be established. In the second part I show that it is possible to make highly stable free-standing films made of a comb-copolymer melt of PDMS-g-PEG-PPG, at room temperature, and without stabilising agents. The characterisation of this melt reveals that it is a newtonian liquid with a low surface tension and not subject to phase transitions at room temperature. I studied intensively the drainage of vertical and horizontal films, which is a laminar flow of the liquid confined between its two liquid/air interfaces. Using a millifluidic thin film pressure balance, developed for the study of viscous liquids, I report the formation of stratifications in very thin films. Theses stratifications have the same step hight than the characteristic length of the melt which we measured for the bulk, linked either to the size of the macromolecules or to micro-phase separation. The drainage and stability might be controlled by this stratified flow, but we still have to understand if it results from a simple confinement effect or from an interfacially driven micro-phase separation.

Emissions from airport operations are of significant concern because of their potential impact on local air quality and human health. The currently limited scientific knowledge of aircraft emissions is an important issue worldwide, when considering air pollution associated with airport operation, and this is especially so for ultrafine particles. This limited knowledge is due to scientific complexities associated with measuring aircraft emissions during normal operations on the ground. In particular this type of research has required the development of novel sampling techniques which must take into account aircraft plume dispersion and dilution as well as the various particle dynamics that can affect the measurements of the aircraft engine plume from an operational aircraft. In order to address this scientific problem, a novel mobile emission measurement method called the Plume Capture and Analysis System (PCAS), was developed and tested. The PCAS permits the capture and analysis of aircraft exhaust during ground level operations including landing, taxiing, takeoff and idle. The PCAS uses a sampling bag to temporarily store a sample, providing sufficient time to utilize sensitive but slow instrumental techniques to be employed to measure gas and particle emissions simultaneously and to record detailed particle size distributions. The challenges in relation to the development of the technique include complexities associated with the assessment of the various particle loss and deposition mechanisms which are active during storage in the PCAS. Laboratory based assessment of the method showed that the bag sampling technique can be used to accurately measure particle emissions (e.g. particle number, mass and size distribution) from a moving aircraft or vehicle. Further assessment of the sensitivity of PCAS results to distance from the source and plume concentration was conducted in the airfield with taxiing aircraft. The results showed that the PCAS is a robust method capable of capturing the plume in only 10 seconds. The PCAS is able to account for aircraft plume dispersion and dilution at distances of 60 to 180 meters downwind of moving a aircraft along with particle deposition loss mechanisms during the measurements. Characterization of the plume in terms of particle number, mass (PM2.5), gaseous emissions and particle size distribution takes only 5 minutes allowing large numbers of tests to be completed in a short time. The results were broadly consistent and compared well with the available data. Comprehensive measurements and analyses of the aircraft plumes during various modes of the landing and takeoff (LTO) cycle (e.g. idle, taxi, landing and takeoff) were conducted at Brisbane Airport (BNE). Gaseous (NOx, CO2) emission factors, particle number and mass (PM2.5) emission factors and size distributions were determined for a range of Boeing and Airbus aircraft, as a function of aircraft type and engine thrust level. The scientific complexities including the analysis of the often multimodal particle size distributions to describe the contributions of different particle source processes during the various stages of aircraft operation were addressed through comprehensive data analysis and interpretation. The measurement results were used to develop an inventory of aircraft emissions at BNE, including all modes of the aircraft LTO cycle and ground running procedures (GRP). Measurements of the actual duration of aircraft activity in each mode of operation (time-in-mode) and compiling a comprehensive matrix of gas and particle emission rates as a function of aircraft type and engine thrust level for real world situations was crucial for developing the inventory. The significance of the resulting matrix of emission rates in this study lies in the estimate it provides of the annual particle emissions due to aircraft operations, especially in terms of particle number. In summary, this PhD thesis presents for the first time a comprehensive study of the particle and NOx emission factors and rates along with the particle size distributions from aircraft operations and provides a basis for estimating such emissions at other airports. This is a significant addition to the scientific knowledge in terms of particle emissions from aircraft operations, since the standard particle number emissions rates are not currently available for aircraft activities.

<p>  </p> <p>Part I studies the lubricant sprays and droplets in a rotary compressor. Air conditioning (AC) systems are now widely used in residential and commercial environments, while the compressor is the most important element in the AC system, and rotary compressors are often used in split AC appliances, whose number is estimated to reach 3.7 billion in 2050. In a rotary compressor, the lubricant oil atomizes into small droplets due to the differential pressure in and out of the cylinder. Part of the lubricant oil droplets carried by the refrigerant vapor will ultimately exhaust from the compressor through the discharge pipe. The ratio of the discharged oil volume to the total oil volume is characterized as the Oil Discharge Ratio (ODR). High ODR will reduce the reliability of the compressor and deteriorate the heat transfer of the condenser and the evaporator, resulting in decreased efficiency. Thus, controlling the ODR is a key issue for the design of the rotary compressor.</p> <p>In Part I, rotary compressors were modified to provide optical access into its internal space, i.e., the lower cavity (refers to the space between the cylinder and the motor), above the rotor/stator, and at the discharge tube level. The modified rotary compressors’ operation was supported by a test rig which provided a wide range of operating conditions, e.g., pressure and frequency. Thus, in-situ optical measurements, e.g., shadowgraph and holograph, can be performed to visualize the lubricant sprays and droplets in the rotary compressor. An image processing routine containing the Canny operator and Convolutional Neural-Network was developed to identify droplets from high-resolution shadowgraph images, while Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Optical Flow Velocimetry (OFV) were applied to calculate the spray and droplet’s velocities with time-resolved shadowgraph images. Parallel Four-Step Phase Shifting Holograph (PFSPSH) located the droplets’ positions in a three-dimensional volume under the specific operating condition.</p> <p>Both primary and secondary atomization were observed in the rotary compressor, while primary atomization is the major source of droplet production. The droplet size distributions versus the frequency, vertical direction, radial direction, and pressure are obtained. It is observed that the droplet characteristic mean diameters increase with the frequency and pressure. They also become larger in the outer region above the rotor/stator and keep constant in the radial direction at the discharge tube level. The penetration velocity of the lubricant spray is calculated in the lower cavity. An outward shift of the jet core combined with an outward velocity component was observed. Additionally, horizontal swirling velocity above the rotor/stator and at the discharge tube level and the vertical recirculation velocity above the rotor/stator are characterized. The volume fraction of droplets was also characterized under the specific operating condition. The results provide detailed experimental data to set up the boundary conditions used in CFD. They also show that the droplets in the upper cavity are mostly from the discharge process of the cylinder in the lower cavity. The results support a droplet pathway model in the rotary compressor, which can guide the optimization of future rotary compressors.</p> <p>Evaporation is commonly seen in hydrology, agriculture, combustion, refrigeration, welding, etc. And it always accompanies heat and mass transfer at the liquid-gas interface and is affected by the substance’s properties, the environment’s pressure, temperature, convection, and so on. PFSPSH in Part I aims to retrieve the phase information for holograph reconstruction. Part II further explores the application of the PFSPSH technology in Part I to observe the evaporation process of acetone, where the phase disturbance caused by the vapor is used to reconstruct the vapor concentration in space. The method is called Parallel Four-Step Phase Shifting Interferometer (PFSPSI). The first case studies the evaporation process of the acetone contained in a liquid pool with uniform air flow in a low-speed wind tunnel. The mole fractions of the acetone vapor near the liquid-air interface with different air speeds are characterized. The second case studies the evaporation process of acetone droplets levitated by an ultrasound levitator. The mole fraction of the acetone vapor near the liquid-air interface is characterized by assuming an axisymmetric field and using the analytical solution of the inverse Abel transform. The asymmetric pattern of the acetone vapor field is observed, which is considered due to the drastic sound pressure change at the stand wave location produced by the ultrasound levitator. The mass transfer of the evaporation process by the vapor’s mole fraction is calculated and compared with the mass transfer calculated by the droplet size change. It is observed that the mass transfer by the vapor’s mole fraction is generally smaller than the mass transfer calculated by the droplet size change, which can be explained by the convection process induced by the acoustic streaming.</p>