Transient regimes experienced by dynamic systems may have severe impacts on the operation of the aircraft. They are often regulated by dynamic constraints, requiring the dynamic signals to remain within bounds whose values vary with time. The verification of these peculiar types of constraints, which generally requires high-fidelity time-domain simulation, intervenes late in the system development process, thus potentially causing costly design iterations. The research objective of this thesis is to develop a methodology that integrates the verification of dynamic constraints in the early specification of dynamic systems. In order to circumvent the inefficiencies of time-domain simulation, multivariate dynamic surrogate models of the original time-domain simulation models are generated using wavelet neural networks (or wavenets). Concurrently, an alternate approach is formulated, in which the envelope of the dynamic response, extracted via a wavelet-based multiresolution analysis scheme, is subject to transient constraints. Dynamic surrogate models using sigmoid-based neural networks are generated to emulate the transient behavior of the envelope of the time-domain response. The run-time efficiency of the resulting dynamic surrogate models enables the implementation of a data farming approach, in which the full design space is sampled through a Monte-Carlo Simulation. An interactive visualization environment, enabling what-if analyses, is developed; the user can thereby instantaneously comprehend the transient response of the system (or its envelope) and its sensitivities to design and operation variables, as well as filter the design space to have it exhibit only the design scenarios verifying the dynamic constraints. The proposed methodology, along with its foundational hypotheses, is tested on the design and optimization of a 350VDC network, where a generator and its control system are concurrently designed in order to minimize the electrical losses, while ensuring that the transient undervoltage induced by peak demands in the consumption of a motor does not violate transient power quality constraints.

L'objectif de cette thèse est d'étudier les différents régimes d'ébullition transitoires rencontrés lors de la mise en froid d'un tube chauffé par un écoulement interne de fluide. Le dispositif expérimental LORETA a été conçu pour réaliser des expériences au sol en écoulement vertical ascendant et en microgravité lors de vols paraboliques. L'effet du débit, de la température du liquide et du niveau de gravité dans les différents régimes d'ébullition a pu être clairement mis en évidence. Une dégradation des transferts thermiques en microgravité est observée, en particulier lors de l'ébullition en film. Une modélisation basée sur la résolution des équations du modèle à deux fluides permet la prédiction pour les deux niveaux de gravité. L'ensemble de la courbe d'ébullition a put être modélisée par des lois adaptées de la littérature. L'utilisation de ces lois pour des fluides cryogéniques semble raisonnable, au vu de la comparaison avec quelques données de la bibliographie. / The objective of this thesis is to study the boiling regimes encountered during the transient cooling of a heated tube by an internal fluid flow. The experimental apparatus LORETA was designed for experiments on ground in vertical upward flow and on microgravity during parabolic flights. The effect of flow rate, liquid temperature and level of gravity in different boiling regimes has been clearly shown. A decrease of heat transfer in microgravity is observed, especially during film boiling. Models based on solving equations of two-fluid model allow the prediction for the two levels of gravity. The entire boiling curve could be modeled by modified laws of literature. The use of these laws for cryogenic fluids seems reasonable, given the comparison with some data from the bibliography.