The idea underlying the present study was to apply twisting in order to introduce different levels of transverse pressure. The modified structure affected both the bonding level and the evolution of the damage in the yarn. In order to isolate this effect in a broader context, additional parameters were included in the experiment design, namely effects of loading rate, specimen length and filament diameter (directly linked to the fineness of the yarn). These factors have been studied in various contexts by several authors. Some related studies on involved factors will be briefly reviewed.

Les dernières années ont vu l'avènement des couches cristallines bidimensionnelles, appelées matériaux 2D. L'exemple le plus connu est le graphène, d'autres étant le nitrure de bore hexagonal isolant et le diséléniure de niobium supraconducteur. Ces matériaux 2D peuvent être empilés de manière contrôlée sous la forme d'hétérostructures de van der Waals pour obtenir les propriétés électroniques désirées. L’une des plus simples hétérostructures de van der Waals est l'empilement de deux couches de graphène tournées. Cet empilement donne naissance à un moiré qui peut être vu comme un potentiel superpériodique dépendant de l'angle entre les deux couches. Les propriétés électroniques des couches tournées de graphène sont intimement liées à ce moiré.Le sujet de cette thèse est l'étude expérimentale du lien entre la structure et les propriétés électroniques des couches tournées de graphène par Microscopie et Spectroscopie à effet tunnel à basse température.Alors que l'effet de l'angle entre les couches sur les propriétés électroniques a déjà été étudié en détail, la modification de celles-ci par une déformation des couches n'a été envisagée que récemment. La première partie de ce travail expérimental étudie la modification par la déformation des propriétés électroniques de couches de graphène tournées d'un angle de 1.26° crûes sur carbure de silicium. La déformation en question est différente dans les deux couches et son effet apparait clairement dans la densité locale d'états électroniques du moiré. Contrairement à une déformation appliquée identiquement aux deux couches, une différence de déformations entre les couches (déformation relative) modifie fortement la structure de bandes même à faibles valeurs de déformations. Alors que la déformation relative était spontanément présente, la deuxième partie de cette thèse s'intéresse à l'effet d'une déformation appliquée directement aux couches de graphène. Cette déformation vient d'une interaction induite par l'approche de la pointe STM vers la surface de graphène. La modification active de la densité d'états qui en résulte dépend de la position de la pointe dans le moiré avec l'apparition d'instabilités périodiques lorsque la distance entre la pointe et l'échantillon est très faible.La troisième partie de cette thèse concerne l'étude d'un autre type de modification des propriétés électroniques consistant en l'induction de supraconductivité dans les couches de graphène. Cette modification est effectuée par une croissance du graphène en une seule étape sur du carbure de tantale supraconducteur. Les résultats montrent la formation d'une couche de carbure de tantale de grande qualité sur laquelle les couches de graphène forment des moirés. La mesure à basse température de la densité d'états de ces moirés montre la présence d'un effet de proximité supraconducteur induit par le carbure de tantale. / Recent years have seen the emergence of two-dimensional crystalline layers, called 2D materials. Examples include the well-known graphene, insulating hexagonal boron nitride and superconducting niobium diselenide. The stacking of these 2D materials can be controlled to achieve desirable electronic properties under the form of van der Waals heterostructures. One of the simplest van der Waals heterostructures is the misaligned stacking of two graphene layers. Twisted graphene layers show a moiré pattern which can be viewed as a superperiodic potential that depends on the twist angle. The electronic properties of the twisted graphene layers are strongly linked to this moiré pattern.The subject of the present thesis is the experimental study of the link between the structural and the electronic properties of twisted graphene layers by means of low-temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy (STM/STS).While the effect of the twist angle has already been studied in great details, the modulation of the electronic properties by the deformation of the layers has been explored only recently. In the first part of this experimental work, a strain-driven modification of the electronic properties is probed in graphene layers with a twist angle of 1.26° grown on silicon carbide. The determined strain is found to be different in the two layers leading to a clear signature in the local electronic density of states of the moiré even at low strain magnitudes. Contrary to a strain applied in the two layers, this difference of strain between the layers (relative strain) modifies strongly the electronic band structure even at low strain magnitudes. While this relative strain is natively present, the second part of the work explores the effect of an applied strain in the layers. This is realized by approaching the STM tip to the graphene surface to trigger an interaction between the two. The resulting active modification of the density of states is shown to depend on the position on the moiré, leading to periodic instabilities at very low tip-sample distances.In the third part of the work, another type of modification of the electronic properties is studied when superconductivity was induced in the graphene layers. This is done by growing graphene on superconducting tantalum carbide in a single-step annealing. The results show the formation of a high-quality tantalum carbide layer on which graphene layers form moiré patterns. The low-temperature density of states of these moirés show evidence of a superconducting proximity effect induced by the tantalum carbide.

Generalized geometry of type B_n is the study of geometric structures in T+T^*+1, the sum of the tangent and cotangent bundles of a manifold and a trivial rank 1 bundle. The symmetries of this theory include, apart from B-fields, the novel A-fields. The relation between B_n-geometry and usual generalized geometry is stated via generalized reduction. We show that it is possible to twist T+T^*+1 by choosing a closed 2-form F and a 3-form H such that dH+F²=0. This motivates the definition of an odd exact Courant algebroid. When twisting, the differential on forms gets twisted by d+Fτ+H. We compute the cohomology of this differential, give some examples, and state its relation with T-duality when F is integral. We define B_n-generalized complex structures (B_n-gcs), which exist both in even and odd dimensional manifolds. We show that complex, symplectic, cosymplectic and normal almost contact structures are examples of B_n-gcs. A B_n-gcs is equivalent to a decomposition (T+T^*+1)_ℂ= L + L + U. We show that there is a differential operator on the exterior bundle of L+U, which turns L+U into a Lie algebroid by considering the derived bracket. We state and prove the Maurer-Cartan equation for a B_n-gcs. We then work on surfaces. By the irreducibility of the spinor representations for signature (n+1,n), there is no distinction between even and odd B_n-gcs, so the type change phenomenon already occurs on surfaces. We deal with normal forms and L+U-cohomology. We finish by defining G²₂-structures on 3-manifolds, a structure with no analogue in usual generalized geometry. We prove an analogue of the Moser argument and describe the cone of G²₂-structures in cohomology.

Submitted by ANA KARLA PEREIRA RODRIGUES (anakarla_@hotmail.com) on 2017-08-17T12:22:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 697305 bytes, checksum: 0b28f8f8c4f8b4509047eb441817be7c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-17T12:22:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 697305 bytes, checksum: 0b28f8f8c4f8b4509047eb441817be7c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-09 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / In this work, we present an explicit geometric characterization for the space of quadratcs form vanishing precisely on a twisted cubic. We show that the set of degenerate quadrics lying on a net of quadrics containing a twisted cubic is described by a curve whose equation is given by the square of an irreducible conic. Conversely, if is a net of quadrics whosw intersection with the set of degenerate quadrics is a curve given by the square of an irreducible conic, we furnish conditions under which the cammon zero locus of turns out to be a twisted cubic. It is enough to require that does not contain a pair of planes. / Neste trabalho, apresentamos uma caracteriza c~ao geom etrica expl cita para o espa co das formas quadr aticas que se anulam precisamente sobre uma c ubica reversa. Mostramos que o conjunto das qu adricas degeneradas pertencentes a uma rede de qu adricas que cont em a c ubica reversa e descrita por uma curva cuja equa c~ao e dada pelo quadrado de uma c^onica irredut vel. Rec procamente, se e uma rede de qu adricas cuja interse c~ao com o conjunto das qu adricas n~ao degeneradas e uma curva dada pelo quadrado de uma c^onica irredut vel, fornecemos condi c~oes sob as quais o lugar dos zeros comuns de seja uma c ubica reversa. E su ciente que n~ao contenha um par de plano.

Orientador: Reginaldo Palazzo Junior / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T09:02:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cavalcante_RodrigoGusmao_D.pdf: 1972914 bytes, checksum: 6cdc127efe5cbfcb242fe471138f03f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Em geral, o espaço EucIidiano é utilizado no projeto e na análise de desempenho da maior parte dos sistemas de comunicações atuais. Nesta tese, verificamos que o modelo de um sistema de comunicação não necessariamente está restrito ao espaço Euclidiano, mas sim a uma variedade Riemanniana. Com isso, os sistemas de comunicaçoes podun ser analisados em um contexto mais geral, no qual constatamos que a curvatura do espaço influencia em seus desempenhos. Corno exemplo, estudamos a curvatura de meios ópticos e propomos novos perfis de guias de ondas, fibras ópticas e lentes de interesse prático. Além disso, caracterizamos a curvatura de modulações não-lineares (twisted) e verificamos que o valor máximo permitido para a energia média do ruído está relacionada ao valor da curvatura da modulação. Neste contexto, as moclulações associadas a superfícies mínimas apresentaram bons desempenhos, pois tais modulações são pontos críticos do erro quadrático médio. Mostramos também que o espaço de sinais possui métrica induzida da superfície associada à modulação. Com isso, foi possível demonstrar que os espaços de sinais com curvatura negativa são os que apresentam melhor desempenho segundo a probabilidade média de erro. Dessa forma, alguns exemplos de constelações de sinais geometricamente uniformes foram construídos e analisados em variedades Riemannianas. Finalizamos este trabalho notando que na maioria das vezes que o espaço hiperbólico é utilizado nos blocos ele um sistema ele comunicações, o desempenho desse sistema tende a se aproximar do ponto ótimo de operação / Abstract: ln general, the Euclidian space is used in the design and performance analysis in most of the current communication systems. ln this thesis, we note that the model of a communication system is not necessarily restricted to the Euclidian space, more precisely, the model can be linked to Riemannian manifolds. Thus, the communication systems could be analyed in a broader context, in which the curvature of space influence on their performance. As an example, we studied the curvature of optical medium and propose new profiles of waveguides, optical fibers and lenses of practical interest. Moreover, we have characterized the curvature of twisted modulations and found that the maximum value allowed for the average energy of noise is related to the value of the curvature of the modulation. ln this context, the modulation associatecl with minimal surfaces showed good performance, because these modulations are critical points of minimum the mean-square error. VVe show that the signal space has induced metric associated with surface of the modulation. Thus, we have shown that the signal space with negative curvature is the space where the average error probability decrease a function of the curvature. Thus, some examples of geometrically uniform signal constellations were constructecl and analyzed on Riemannian manifolds. Finally we note that most of the time that hyperbolic space is considered in blocks of a communication system, then the performance of this system tends to be closer to the optimum point of operation / Doutorado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Doutor em Engenharia Elétrica

This research comprises an experimental and theoretical study on convective boiling inside tubes containing twisted-tape inserts. The demand for more compact and efficient thermal systems, in which the heat exchangers plays an important role, has led to the development and use of various heat transfer enhancement techniques. Among them twisted-tape insert as a swirl flow device is one of the most used. Twisted-tape inserts have been used for over more than one century ago as a technique of heat transfer enhancement applied to heat exchangers. However, the heat transfer augmentation comes together with pressure drop increment, impacting the pumping power and, consequently, the system efficiency. Moreover, until now it is not clear, the operational conditions under which the heat transfer coefficient augmentation by the use of twisted-tape inserts overcomes pressure drop penalty. In the present study, initially, extensive investigations of the literature concerning convective boiling inside plain tubes with and without twisted-tape inserts were performed. This literature review covers pressure drop, heat transfer coefficient and the leading frictional pressure drop gradient and heat transfer coefficient predictive methods during convective boiling inside tubes with and without twisted-tape inserts. Then, pressure drop and heat transfer coefficient results acquired in the present study were obtained in an experimental apparatus of 12.7 and 15.9 mm ID tubes during flow boiling of R134a for twisted-tape ratios of 3, 4, 9, 14 and tubes without inserts, mass velocities ranging from 75 to 200 kg/m2 s, saturation temperatures of 5 and 15°C and heat fluxes of 5 and 10 kW/m2. The experimental results were parametrically analyzed and compared against the predictive methods from literature. An analysis of the enhancement of the heat transfer coefficient and the pressure drop penalty is presented. Heat transfer coefficient increments up to 45% keeping the same pumping power and pressure drop penalty of about 35% were obtained by using twisted-tape relative to tubes without inserts. Additionally, through comparison of the present study experimental results with the predictive methods from the literature for heat transfer coefficient during two-phase flow inside tube containing twisted-tape inserts, it was verified that non of these methods predict satisfactory well the experimental results. However, a new method was develop for predicting the heat transfer coefficient during flow boiling inside tubes containing twisted-tape inserts based on the experimental results obtained in the present study. The predictive method takes into account the physical picture of the swirl flow phenomenon by including swirl flow effects promoted by the twisted-tape inserts. The proposed method predicts satisfactorily well the data obtained in the present study, predicting 89.1% of the experimental data within an error band of ± 30% and absolute mean deviation of 15.7%. / A presente pesquisa trata-se de um estudo teórico e experimental sobre a ebulição convectiva no interior de tubos com fitas retorcidas. A crescente demanda por sistemas térmicos mais compactos e eficientes, nos quais os trocadores de calor apresentam elevada relevância, tem motivado o desenvolvimento de inúmeras técnicas de intensificação de troca de calor, sendo que a utilização de fitas retorcidas é uma das técnicas mais adotadas. Fitas retorcidas são utilizadas como técnicas de intensificação de troca de calor há mais de um século. Entretanto o incremento da transferência de calor é acompanhado do aumento da perda de pressão, que por sua vez implica em aumento da potência de bombeamento, e consequentemente afeta a eficiência global do sistema. Adicionalmente, até os dias de hoje não há consenso sobre as condições operacionais em que o ganho com o incremento do coeficiente de transferência de calor é superior à perda devido ao aumento da perda de pressão. Neste estudo, inicialmente foi realizada uma extensa revisão da literatura sobre a ebulição convectiva no interior de tubos com e sem fitas retorcidas. Esta revisão aborda aspectos relacionados à perda de pressão e ao coeficiente de transferência de calor, juntamente com os métodos de previsão destes parâmetros. Foram realizados experimentos para determinação experimental de perda de pressão e coeficiente de transferência de calor, em aparato experimental contando com tubos horizontais com diâmetros internos iguais a 12,7 e 15,9 mm, para escoamento bifásico de R134a, razões de retorcimento iguais a 3, 4, 9, 14 e tubo sem fita, velocidades mássicas entre 75 e 200 kg/m²s, temperaturas de saturação iguais a 5 e 15°C, e fluxo de calor iguais a 5 e 10 kW/m². Os resultados experimentais foram analisados e comparados com estimativas segundo métodos disponíveis na literatura. Uma análise do aumento do coeficiente de transferência de calor e da perda de pressão friccional é apresentada. Foram verificados incrementos do coeficiente de transferência de calor de até 45% para a mesma potência de bombeamento, e aumento de perda de pressão de aproximadamente 35% para tubos com fitas retorcidas em relação aos tubos sem fita. Adicionalmente, através da comparação dos resultados experimentais com os métodos de previsão para coeficiente de transferência de calor, foi verificado que nenhuma metodologia apresentava previsões satisfatórias dos resultados. Portanto um novo método para previsão do coeficiente de transferência de calor durante ebulição convectiva no interior de tubos com fitas retorcidas foi desenvolvido com base nos resultados experimentais obtidos durante o presente estudo. O método proposto é função de parâmetros geométricos e do escoamento, e também de parâmetros físicos do escoamento rotacional induzido pela fita. A metodologia desenvolvida apresenta previsões satisfatórias dos resultados experimentais, prevendo 89,1% dos resultados experimentais com erro inferior a ± 30% e erro médio absoluto igual a 15,7%.

Nous présentons une étude de la cohomologie à coefficients tordus de la réalisation géométrique des systèmes de liaison. Plus précisément, si (S, Ƒ, ℒ) est un groupe fini p-local, nous travaillons sur la cohomologie H*(\ℒ\, M) de la réalisation géométrique de ℒ, avec un Z(p)[π₁(\ℒ\)]-module M en coefficients, et ses liens avec les éléments Fᶜ-stables H* (Ƒᶜ, M) ⊆ H*(S, M) à travers l’inclusion de BS dans \ℒ\. Après avoir donné la définition des éléments Ƒᶜ-stables, nous étudions l’endomorphisme de H*(S, M) induit par un (S, S)-bi-ensemble Ƒᶜ-caractéristique et nous montrons que sous certaine hypothèse et si l’action est nilpotent, alors on a un isomorphisme naturel H*(\ℒ\, M) ≌ H* (Ƒᶜ,M). Ensuite, nous regardons les actions p-résolubles à travers la notion de sous-groupe p-local d’index premier à p ou une puissance de p. Nous montrons que si l’action de π₁(\ℒ\) sur M se factorise par un p'-groupe alors on a aussi un isomorphisme naturel. Pour une action p-résoluble plus général, nous obtenons un résultat dans le cas des systèmes réalisables. Ces résultats nous conduisent à la conjecture qu’on a un isomorphisme naturel pour tout groupe fini p-local et toute action p-résoluble. Nous donnons quelque outils pour étudier cette conjecture. Nous travaillons sur les produits de groupes finis p-locaux avec la formule de Kunneth et les systèmes de liaison que se décomposent bien vis-à-vis de la suite exacte longue de Mayer-Vietoris. Finalement, nous étudions les sous-groupes essentiels d’un produit couronné par Cp. Nous finissons par des exemples qui soulignent, qu’en général, on ne peut espérer un isomorphisme entre H*(\ℒ\, M) et H*(Ƒᶜ, M). / The aim of this work is to study the cohomology with twisted coefficients of the geometric realization of linking systems. More precisely, if (S, Ƒ, ℒ) is a p-local finite group, we work on the cohomology H*(\ℒ\, M) of the geometric realization of ℒ with coefficients in a Z(p)[π₁(\ℒ\)]-module M and its links with the Ƒᶜ-stables H*(Ƒᶜ, M) ⊆ H*(S, M) trough the inclusion of BS in \ℒ\. After we give the definition of Ƒᶜ-stable elements , we study the endomorphism of H*(S, M) induced by an Fc-characteristic (S, S)-biset and we show that, if the action is nilpotent- and we assume an hypothesis, we have a natural isomorphism H*(\ℒ\, M) ≌ H* (Fᶜ;M). Secondly, we look at p-solvable actions of π₁(\ℒ\) on M through the notion of p-local subgroups of index a power of p or prime to p. If the action factors through a p'-group, we show that there si also a natural isomorphism. We then work on extending this to any-p-solvable action and we get some positive answer then the p-local finite groupis realizable. Theses leads to the conjecture that it is true for any-p-local finite group and any-p-solvable actions. We also give some tools to study this conjecture on examples. We look at products of p-local finite groups with Kunneth Formula and linking system which can be decomposed in a way which behaves well with Mayer-Vietoris long exact sequence. Finally, we study essential subgroups of wreath productsby Cp. We finish with some examples which illustrate that, in general, we cannot hope an isomorphism between H*(\ℒ\, M) and H*(Ƒᶜ, M).

Dans cette thèse, nous montrons deux résultats d'analyse harmonique sur un groupe réductif p-adique tordu.Le premier résultat est un analogue non connexe au théorème matriciel de Paley Wiener. Soit G réductif p-adique (non nécessairement connexe). L'algèbre de Hecke des fonctions complexes sur G localement constantes à support compact agit les représentations complexe lisses irréductibles de G. L'action d'une fonction est vue comme sa transformée de Fourier. Le théorème fournit une caractérisation de l'image de l'algèbre de Hecke par la transformée de Fourier, ainsi qu'une formule d'inversion.Le second résultat établit une identité spectrale sur le groupe GLn tordu (avec n pair, sur un corps p-adique) pour l'intégrale orbitale tordue sur la classe de conjugaison tordue stable des matrices antisymétriques inversibles. Cette dernière s'exprime comme une intégrale sur les représentations irréductibles tempérées auto-duales de GLn dont le paramètre de Langlands est symplectique. La preuve repose sur le transfert endoscopique. / In this thesis, we show tow results of Harmonic Analysis on réductive p-adic group.The first results extends the matrix Paley-Wiener theorem to the non-connected case. Let G be reductive (non necessarily connected) p-adic group. The Hecke algebra of compactly supported locally constant complex functions on G acts on complex smooth irreducible representations of G. The action of a given function is seen as its Fourier transform. The theorem characterizes the image of the Hecke algebra under the Fourier transform and provides an inversion formula.The second result is the proof of a spectral identity on the so-called twisted GLn group (where n is even, on a p-adic field) for the twisted orbital integral over the twisted stable conjugacy class of antisymetric invertible matrices. We express it as an integral over those irreducible tempered auto-dual representations of GLn whose Langlands' parameter is symplectic. Our proof uses endoscopic transfer.

Please read the abstract in the front matter this document / Dissertation (M Eng (Electronic Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering / unrestricted

The thesis comprises two parts. In the first part, we investigate various cohomological aspects of hypercomplex manifolds and analyse the existence of special metrics. In the second part, we define Seiberg-Witten equations on the leaf space of manifolds which admit a Riemannian foliation of codimension four. / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished