In the late 1970s, a method was developed to estimate acoustic intensity in one dimension by taking the cross-spectral density of two closely-spaced microphone signals. Since then, multimicrophone probes have been developed to measure three-dimensional intensity as well as energy density. Their usefulness has led to the design of various types of multimicrophone probes, the most common being the four-microphone orthogonal, the four-microphone regular tetrahedron, and the six-microphone designs. These designs generally either consist of microphones suspended in space near each other or mounted on the surface of a sphere. This work analytically compares the relative merits of each probe design in measuring acoustic intensity and investigates the various finite-sum and finite-difference processing methods used with each. The analysis is limited to probes consisting of perfect point sensors in plane wave fields. The comparison is given in terms of average and maximum errors for intensity magnitude and direction as a function of angle of incidence as well as the spread between maximum and minimum errors for intensity magnitude. After existent probe geometries are reviewed, optimization techniques are introduced to predict what the optimal probe geometry would be for any given scenario. The probe is optimized to give the lowest intensity error averaged over angle of incidence of plane waves. This is done for full-space and half-space scenarios.

The thesis deals with the evaluation of the investment in the fast closing valve replacement in The dam Vranov using Computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The final effects of the fast closing valve replacement will be examined on three different types of valves with regard to the turbine output in operation zone and without the influence of water intake runner and turbine draft tube. The aim of the thesis is to theoretically evaluate alternatives of the fast closing valve replacement and define its basic characteristics and classifications.

L’effet des inclusions sur la turbulence de l’écoulement est un élément clé à comprendre afin de maîtriser le transport de milieux dispersés, dans le domaine du génie pétrolier, environnemental, agroalimentaire, génie de la réaction chimique ou transformation du solide. Les expériences de Matas et al. (PRL, 2003) ont mis en évidence un effet non monotone des particules isodenses (de densité égale à celle du fluide) sur la transition laminaire-turbulent, cet effet dépendant de la taille des particules et de leur concentration dans la suspension. Une petite quantité de particules de taille finie s’est avérée suffisante pour diminuer considérablement le seuil de transition laminaire turbulent. Nous avons utilisé des simulations numériques, basées sur une approche de type “Force Coupling Method” afin de comprendre cet effet. Les domaines de simulations étaient choisis pour accommoder le minimum de structures cohérentes suffisantes pour entretenir la turbulence. Nous avons particulièrement étudié la corrélation entre le comportement instationnaire de l’écoulement et la distribution instantanée de particules, en fonction de la configuration de l’écoulement (Couette plan ou écoulement en canal), de la forme des particules ainsi que leur inertie et concentration. Dans un écoulement de Couette plan turbulent, la contrainte pariétale est augmentée en présence des particules. Les profiles (dans la direction normale aux parois) de vitesse moyenne et des contraintes de Reynolds ne sont pas significativement modifiés en présence des particules, si la viscosité du fluide est remplacée par la viscosité effective de la suspension dans le calcul du nombre de Reynolds de l’écoulement. Par contre l’analyse temporelle et modale des fluctuations de l’écoulement suggère que les particules modifient légèrement le cycle de régénération de la turbulence, à travers l’augmentation d’énergie à petites échelles. En effet, la forme des streaks et le caractère intermittent de l’écoulement sont impactés par la présence des particules, surtout quand elles sont inertielles (de densité supérieure à celle du fluide). Ces résultats ont été publiés dans le journal Physical Review F (Wang et al., 2017). En outre, nous avons montré qu’à fraction volumique égale, les propriétés d’écoulement turbulent des suspensions de particules sphéroïdales de rapport de taille compris entre 0.5 et 2, sont similaires à celles des suspensions de particules sphériques. Le transfert de particules entre les différentes structures cohérentes de l’écoulement est analysé à la fin de la thèse. Néanmoins dans un écoulement en canal, les particules iso denses augmentent l’intensité des contraintes de Reynolds dans le plan transverse. Nous montrons que par leur concentration préférentielle dans les structures cohérentes à côté des parois (les éjections), elles influencent significativement le cycle de régénération en agissant sur tous les processus à la fois linéaires et non linéaires du cycle: la formation des streaks, puis leur rupture et la régénération des vortex alignés avec l’écoulement. La diminution du seuil de transition est la conséquence directe de cette modulation du cycle. / The effect of particles on turbulence is a key phenomenon in many practical industrial applications encountered in petroleum engineering, chemical reactors and food or solid processing (transport of slurries in pipes, reactive fluidized beds, and pneumatic transport of particles), environmental engineering (such as sand storm and Particulate Matter (PM) Pollution), and biological fluid mechanics (e.g. drug delivery in blood flow and inhaled particles through the respiratory system). The experiments of Matas et al. (PRL, 2003) have highlighted the non-monotonous effect of neutrally buoyant particles on the laminar-turbulent flow transition, depending on the particle-to-pipe size ratio and on the suspension volumetric concentration. A small amount of finite size particles allowed sustaining the turbulent state and decreasing the transition threshold significantly. The complex mechanisms related to particle flow interactions are often difficult to elucidate experimentally. During the last 4 decades, direct numerical simulations have proven to be a powerful tool for understanding the features of single-phase turbulent flows. Currently, it starts to play an important role in the investigation of suspension flows as well. Almost a decade after the experiments of Matas et al. (PRL, 2003), particle-resolved numerical simulations are able to evidence that at moderate concentration, particles have a significant impact on the unsteady nature of the flow, enhancing the transverse turbulent stress components and modifying the flow vortical structures (Loisel et al. Phys. Fluids, 2013; Yu et al. Phys. Fluids, 2013; Lashgari et al. PRL, 2015). In this work, we use particleresolved numerical simulations to understand the effect of finite sized particles on wall-bounded (pressure-driven or plane Couette) turbulent flows, slightly above the laminar-turbulent transition limit. We find that in turbulent Couette flow, wall-normal profiles of the flow velocity and Reynolds stress components reveal that there is no significant difference between single phase and two-phase flows at equivalent effective Reynolds number, except that the wall shear stress is higher for the two-phase flow. At concentration up to 10%, neutrally buoyant spherical particles have a negligible effect on both the intensity and intermittency of the Reynolds stress. However temporal and modal analysis of flow fluctuations, suggest that besides increasing small scale perturbation due to their rigidity, particles have an effect on the regeneration cycle of turbulence (streak formation, streak breakdown and streamwise vortex regeneration). Indeed, the shape of the streaks and the intermittent character of the flow (amplitude and period of oscillation of the modal fluctuation energy) are all altered by the particle presence, and especially by the inertial particles (Wang et al. Phys. Rev. Fluid, 2017). When the particle shape deviates from sphericity (spheroids with aspect ratios ranging between 0.5 and 2), the features of turbulent suspension flow are not significantly impacted. The transfer of particles between different coherent structures (along the regeneration cycle period) is analyzed at the end of the thesis. Nevertheless in channel flow, neutrally-buoyant spherical particles have a drastic impact on the regeneration cycle of turbulence, decreasing thereby the transition threshold. Particles enhance the intensity of the Reynolds stress although the frequency of burst events is decreased. Particles enhance the lift-up effect and act continuously within the buffer layer. Moreover, they increase the vorticity stretching, leading to smaller and more numerous wavy streaks for suspension flows compared to the single-phase configuration.

Tensors occur in many areas of science and engineering. Especially, they are used to describe charge, mass and energy transport (i.e. electrical conductivity tensor, diffusion tensor, thermal conduction tensor resp.) If the locale transport pattern is complicated, usual second order tensor representation is not sufficient. So far, there are no appropriate visualization methods for this case. We point out similarities of symmetric higher order tensors and spherical harmonics. A spherical harmonic representation is used to improve tensor glyphs. This paper unites the definition of streamlines and tensor lines and generalizes tensor lines to those applications where second order tensors representations fail. The algorithm is tested on the tractography problem in diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) and improved for this special application.

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Es sei Γ eine torsionsfreie arithmetische Untergruppe der symplektischen Gruppe Sp(n,R), die auf dem Siegelschen oberen Halbraum H_n vom Grad n wirkt. Wir betrachten den d-dimensionalen Raum der Siegelschen Spitzenformen vom Gewicht k zur Gruppe Γ, mit einer Orthonormalbasis {f_1,…,f_d}. In der vorliegenden Dissertation zeigen wir mit Hilfe des Wärmeleitungskerns, dass die Supremumsnorm von S_k(Z):=det(Y)^k (|f_1(Z)|^2+…+|f_d(Z)|^2) (Z∈H_n) für n=2 ohne zusätzliche Bedingungen und für n>2 unter Annahme einer vermuteten Determinanten-Ungleichung nach oben beschränkt ist. Wenn M:=Γ\H_n kompakt ist, dann ist die obere Schranke durch c_(n,Γ) k^{n(n+1)/2} gegeben. Wenn M nicht kompakt und von endlichem Volumen ist, dann ist die obere Schranke durch c_(n,Γ) k^{3n(n+1)/4} gegeben. In beiden Fällen ist c_(n,Γ) eine positive reelle Konstante, die nur vom Grad n und der Gruppe Γ abhängt. Wir zeigen weiter, dass die obere Schranke in dem Sinne gleichmäßig ist, dass bei fixierter Gruppe Γ_0 die Konstante c_(n,Γ) für Untergruppen Γ von endlichem Index nur vom Grad n und der Gruppe Γ_0 abhängt. / Let Γ be a torsion-free arithmetic subgroup of the symplectic group Sp(n,R) acting on the Siegel upper half-space H_n of degree n. Consider the d-dimensional space of Siegel cusp forms of weight k for Γ with an orthonormal basis {f_1,…,f_d}. In this thesis we show using the heat kernel method that for n=2 unconditionally and for n>2 subject to a conjectural determinant-inequality, the sup-norm of the quantity S_k(Z):=det(Y)^k (|f1(Z)|^2+…+|f_d(Z)|^2) (Z∈H_n) is bounded above by c_(n,Γ) k^{n(n+1)/2} when M:=Γ\H_n is compact and by c_(n,Γ) k^{3n(n+1)/4} when M is non-compact of finite volume, where c_(n,Γ) denotes a positive real constant depending only on the degree n and the group Γ. Furthermore, we show that this bound is uniform in the sense that if we fix a group Γ_0 and take Γ to be a subgroup of Γ_0 of finite index, then the constant c_(n,Γ) in these bounds depends only on the degree n and the fixed group Γ_0.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Introduction: Multiphoton fluorescence excitation microscopy (MPM) is an invaluable tool for studying processes in tissue in live animals by enabling biologists to view tissues up to hundreds of microns in depth. Unfortunately, imaging depth in MPM is limited to less than a millimeter in tissue due to spherical aberration, light scattering, and light absorption. Spherical aberration is caused by refractive index mismatch between the objective immersion medium and sample. Refractive index heterogeneities within the sample cause light scattering. We investigate the effects of refractive index mismatch on imaging depth in MPM. Methods: The effects of spherical aberration on signal attenuation and resolution degradation with depth are characterized with minimal light absorption and scattering using sub-resolution microspheres mounted in test sample of agarose with varied refractive index. The effects of light scattering on signal attenuation and resolution degradation with depth are characterized using sub-resolution microspheres in kidney tissue samples mounted in optical clearing media to alter the refractive index heterogeneities within the tissue. Results: The studies demonstrate that signal levels and axial resolution both rapidly decline with depth into refractive index mismatched samples. Interestingly, studies of optical clearing with a water immersion objective show that reducing scattering increases reach even when it increases refractive index mismatch degrading axial resolution. Scattering, in the absence of spherical aberration, does not degrade axial resolution. The largest improvements in imaging depth are obtained when both scattering and refractive index mismatch are reduced. Conclusions: Spherical aberration, caused by refractive index mismatch between the immersion media and sample, and scattering, caused by refractive index heterogeneity within the sample, both cause signal to rapidly attenuate with depth in MPM. Scattering, however, seems to be the predominant cause of signal attenuation with depth in kidney tissue. Kenneth W. Dunn, Ph.D., Chair

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