Este trabalho consiste no desenvolvimento de ferramentas computacionais para análise não linear geométrica de interação fluido-casca utilizando o Método dos Elementos Finitos (MEF). O algoritmo para dinâmica dos fluidos é explícito e a integração temporal é baseada em linhas características. O código computacional é capaz de simular as equações de Navier-Stokes para escoamentos compressíveis tanto na descrição Euleriana como na descrição Lagrangeana-Euleriana arbitrária (ALE), na qual é possível prescrever movimentos para a malha do fluido. A estrutura é modelada em descrição Lagrangeana total através de uma formulação de MEF para análise dinâmica não linear geométrica de cascas baseada no teorema da mínima energia potencial total escrito em função das posições nodais e vetores generalizados e não em deslocamentos e rotações. Essa característica evita o uso de aproximações de grandes rotações. Dois modelos de acoplamentos são desenvolvidos. O primeiro modelo, ideal para problemas onde a escala de deslocamentos não é muito grande comparada com as dimensões do domínio do fluido, é baseado na descrição ALE e o acoplamento entre as duas diferentes malhas é feito através do mapeamento das posições locais dos nós do contorno do fluido sobre os elementos de casca e vice-versa, evitando a necessidade de coincidência entre os nós da casca e do fluido. A malha do fluido é adaptada dinamicamente usando um procedimento simples baseado nas posições e velocidades nodais da casca. O segundo modelo de acoplamento, ideal para problemas com grande escala de deslocamentos tais como estruturas infláveis, considera a casca imersa na malha do fluido e consiste em um procedimento robusto baseado em curvas de nível da função distância assinalada do contorno, o qual integra o algoritmo Lagrangeano de casca com o Fluido em descrição Euleriana, sem necessidade de movimentação da malha do fluido, onde a representação computacional do fluido se resume a uma malha não estruturada maior ou igual ao domínio inicial do fluido e a interface fluido-casca dentro da malha do fluido é identificada por meio de curvas de nível da função distância assinalada do contorno. Ambos os modelos são testados através de exemplos numéricos mostrando robustez e eficiência. Finalmente, como uma sugestão para o futuro desenvolvimento desta pesquisa, iniciaram-se estudos relativos a funções B-splines. O uso desse tipo de funções deverá resolver problemas de estabilidade relativos a oscilações espúrias devidas ao uso de polinômios de Lagrange para a representação de descontinuidades. / This work consists of the development of computational tools for nonlinear geometric fluid-shell interaction analysis using the Finite Element Method (FEM). The fluid solver is explicit and its time integration based on characteristics. The computational code is able to simulate the Navier-Stokes equations for compressible flows written in the Eulerian description as well as in the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) description, enabling movements prescription for the fluid mesh. The structure is modeled in a total Lagrangian description, using a FEM formulation to deal with geometrical nonlinear dynamics of shells based on the minimum potential energy theorem written regarding nodal positions and generalized unconstrained vectors, not displacements and rotations, avoiding the use of large rotation approximations. Two partitioned coupling models are developed. The first model, ideal for simulations where the displacements scale is not very large compared to the fluid domain, is based on the ALE description and the coupling between the two different meshes is done by mapping the fluid boundary nodes local positions over the shell elements and vice-versa, avoiding the need for matching fluid and shell nodes. The fluid mesh is adapted using a simple approach based on shell nodal positions and velocities. The second model, ideal for problems with large scales of displacements such as inflatable structures, is based on immersed boundary and consists of a robust level-set based approach that integrates the Lagrangian shell finite and the Eulerian finite element high speed fluid flow solver, with no need for mesh adaptation, where the fluid representation relies on a fixed unstructured mesh larger or equal to the initial fluid domain and the fluid-shell interface inside the fluid mesh is tracked with level sets of a boundary signed distance function. Both models are tested with numerical examples, showing efficiency and robustness. Finally, as a suggestion for future development of this research, we started studies relatives to B-Spline functions. The use of this kind of functions should solve stability problems related to spurious oscillations due to the use of Lagrange polynomials for representing discontinuities.

A interação entre fluidos e estruturas caracteriza um problema multi-físico não linear e está presente numa grande variedade de áreas da engenharia. Este trabalho apresenta o desenvolvi mento de ferramentas computacionais com base no Método dos Elementos Finitos (MEF) para a análise de interação fluido-estrutura (IFE) considerando escoamentos com baixas velocidades. Dada a interdisciplinaridade do tema, se faz necessário o estudo em três diferentes assuntos: a dinâmica das estruturas computacional, a dinâmica dos fluidos computacional, e o problema de acoplamento. No caso da dinâmica das estruturas empregar-se um elemento finito que seja adequado para a simulação de problemas de IFE, que claramente demandam uma análise não linear geométrica, optando-se pelo emprego de uma formulação descrita em posições, a qual evita problemas relativos à aproximação de rotações finitas. Quanto à dinâmica dos fluidos computacional, é empregado um método estável e ao mesmo tempo sensível à movimentação da estrutura, utilizando a descrição Lagrangeana-Euleriana Arbitrária (ALE). Os casos considerados neste trabalho, assim como muitos dos problemas de engenharia, ocorrem com escoamentos em baixas velocidades, implicando na incompressibilidade do fluido, o que demanda, para um método estável, a utilização de elementos que atendam à condição de Ladyzhenskaya-Babuska-Brezzi (LBB). Além disso, é necessário também o emprego de métodos que consigam neutralizar as variações espúrias decorrentes da não-linearidade de possíveis escoamentos com convecção dominante e que surgem com a aplicação do processo clássico de Galerkin. Para superar esse problema, é aplicado o método Streamline-Upwind/Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG), que adiciona difusividade artificial na direção do escoamento, controlando a amplitude dos termos convectivos. No que se refere ao acoplamento fluido-casca, buscam-se modularidade e versatilidade adotando-se o modelo particionado. O modelo de acoplamento implementado garante ainda a utilização de malhas do fluido e da estrutura sem a necessidade de coincidência de nós. / Interaction between fluids and structures characterizes a nonlinear multi-physics problem presente in a wide range of engineering fields. This works presets the development of computational tools based on finite element method (FEM) for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis considering low speed flows (incompressible), as a great part of the engineering problems. Given the topic multidisciplinary nature, it is necessary to study three different subjects: the computational structural dynamics, the computational fluid mechanics and the coupling problem. Regarding structural mechanics, we seek to employ a finite element adequate to FSI simulation, what clearly demands a geometric nonlinear analysis. We chose to employ shell elements with formulation in terms of positions, which avoids problems related to finite rotations approximations. Concerning computational fluid dynamics, we employ a stable method, at same time sensible o structural movements, which is written in the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) description. The flow incompressibility demands, for a stable method, the use of elements according to the Ladyzhenskaya-Bbuska-Brezzi (LBB) condition. It is also necessary to employ methods able to neutralize the spurious variations that appears from convection dominated flows when applying the standard Galerking method. In order to overcome this problem, we apply the Streamline-Upwind/Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG) method, which adds artificial diffusivity to the streamline direction, controlling spurious variations. Considering the fluid-shell coupling, we seek modularity and versatility, adopting the partitioned model. The developed coupling model ensure the use of fluid and structure meshes with no need for matching nodes.

Um método lagrangeano-euleriano arbitrário para a resolução de escoamentos dominados por tensão superficial é apresentado neste trabalho. Tais escoamentos são importantes em muitas aplicações, especialmente em canais capilares que frequentemente aparecem em escoamentos em microescala. A resolução deste tipo de escoamento apresenta vários desafios que são abordados neste trabalho. O escoamento é resolvido somente para a fase líquida, com condições de contorno apropriadas para a superfície livre que delimita o líquido e o gás, que é representada por arestas e vértices da malha computacional. Esta se move e se deforma, sendo que sua qualidade é mantida sob controle para não degradar a solução numérica. As equações de Navier-Stokes são discretizadas pelo método de elementos finitos em um referencial arbitrário. O método de incorporação dos efeitos de tensão superficial e linha de contato é explicado em detalhes. Validações comprovam a precisão do método proposto, com comparações através de soluções pseudo-analíticas para casos simples. Finalmente alguns resultados sobre escoamentos em capilares são apresentados / An arbitrary lagrangian-eulerian finite element method to solve surface tension dominated flows is presented. Such flows are important in many applications, particularly in capillary channels, that appear in microscale flows. The resolution of such flows presents several challenges that are addressed in this work. The flow is solved only in the liquid phase, and proper boundary conditions are applied on the free-surface, bounding the liquid and gas, which is explicitly represented by vertices and edges of the computational mesh. The mesh is moved and deformed, but its quality is kept under control in order to control errors in the numerical solution. The Navier-Stokes equations are discretized by standard Galerkin finite element method in an arbitrary reference. Details of the computation of surface tension and contact line effects are presented. The methodology is validated for a number of simple test cases against known pseudo-analytical solutions, and numerical results are presented, showing the robustness and accuracy of the methodology. Finally, some results about surface-tension-driven flows in capillaries are presented

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O estudo da relação entre o atrito e os parâmetros de rugosidade é um problema difícil e de interesse tanto industrial como acadêmico e trabalhos experimentais e teóricos têm mostrado que uma película de fluido entre duas superfícies rugosas em movimento relativo impede o contato sólido - sólido e pode proporcionar atrito muito baixo e desgaste desprezível. A modelagem matemática utilizada neste trabalho é baseada em modelos clássicos, tais como a equação de Reynolds para a descrição dos fenômenos hidrodinâmicos e as formulações de Hertz (1896) e Greenwood e Williamson (1966) para a modelagem do contato das asperezas entre as superfícies rugosas. Para tratar a complexidade das interações entre o fluido e os pares sólidos contactados, a descrição Lagrangiana-Euleriana Arbitrária é apresentada nesta pesquisa. Através do Método dos Elementos Finitos um modelo tridimensional é gerado no Abaqus ®, a fim de identificar as pressões de contato, as tensões tangenciais e normais resultantes e os coeficientes de atrito decorrrentes do deslizamento entre uma superfície texturizada e lubrificada e um plano rígido (em analogia aos modelos de contato clássicos), cujos perfis de rugosidade são construídos a partir de informações da rugosidade média quadrática de superfícies dentárias. São avaliados também a sensibilidade de alguns parâmetros do lubrificante na determinação do coeficiente de atrito e são propostos modelos com condições de contorno distintas. Entretanto, para a verificação destes últimos busca-se reproduzir qualitativamente o resultado encontrado por Lorentz (2013) na investigação numérica de sistemas tribológicos no regime misto de lubrificação. A metodologia aqui proposta emerge como uma alternativa eficaz no campo da Tribologia, na predição do coeficiente de atrito e outras variáveis pertinentes a um fenômeno ainda pouco compreendido. Realiza-se uma análise de sensibilidade dos parâmetros de modelagem, a fim de identificar como os mesmos afetam consideravelmente o comportamento mecânico na interface de contato. / The knowledge of the topography of surfaces and an understanding of the interaction between them is essential for any study involving the phenomena of friction, wear and lubrication. The study of the relationship between friction and roughness parameters is a difficult problem of both industrial and academic interest and experimental and theoretical works have shown that a fluid film between two rough surfaces in relative motion prevents solid - solid contact and can provide very low friction and negligible wear. The mathematical modeling used in this paper is based on classical models, such as the Reynolds equation for the description of the hydrodynamic phenomena and the formulations of Hertz (1896) and Greenwood e Williamson (1966) of the contact between the asperities of rough surfaces. To address the complexity of the interactions between the fluid and the contacted solid pairs, the Lagrangian-Eulerian Arbitrary description is presented in this research. Through the Finite Element Method, a three-dimensional model is generated in Abaqus ®R to identify contact pressures, resulting tangential and normal stresses, and friction coefficients resulting from sliding between a textured and lubricated surface and a rigid plane (in analogy to classic contact models), whose roughness profiles are constructed from information on the quadratic roughness of dental surfaces. The sensitivity of some lubricant parameters in the determination of the coefficient of friction is also evaluated and models with different boundary conditions are proposed. However, for the vefrification of the latter, it is sought to qualitatively reproduce the result found by Lorentz (2013) in the numerical investigation of tribological systems without mixed lubrication regime. A methodology proposed here emerges as an effective alternative in the field of Tribology, in the prediction of the coefficient of friction and other relevant variables to a phenomenon still little understood. A sensitivity analysis of the modeling parameters is performed, in order to identify how they considerably affect the mechanical behavior at the contact interface.

Ce présent travail a pour vocation de fournir une approche multidisciplinaire – historique, socio-politique, économique, et psychologique – pour comprendre l’intérêt général de la gestion constructive de conflit, et en particulier les opportunités liées à la méthode de la médiation. La thèse reflète le chemin parcouru - de la déconstruction à la reconstruction du sujet – débutant par une analyse théorique (les origines, les spécificités, les différences avec d’autres méthodes, les valeurs et principes), passant par une prise en considération des phénomènes individuels et collectifs inhérents au conflit et à sa gestion (les niveaux de conflit, les dimensions de la gestion, les fondements psychologiques individuels, les opportunités d’une démarche intégrative mais aussi les limites et risques liés à la méthode de médiation). Le travail tient également compte de l’évolution personnelle du chercheur, de sa pratique de médiateur, des échanges avec d'autres professionnels ainsi que ses constats de réalisabilité (conseils de mise en pratique, organisation logistique, outils concrets pour les différentes phases, et restitution des étapes clés d’un cas pratique).Mots clés : accompagnement, arbitrage, compréhension mutuelle, confidentialité, consensus, dialoguer, doubler, écoute active, empathie, facilitation de communication, gestion de conflit effective et constructive, impartialité, médiation, méthodes alternatives de règlement de conflit, modération, négociation intégrative, prévention/traitement auto-responsable de futures conflits, résolution créative de problèmes, solutions « pareto optimales », rétablissement de la paix, gestion des processus, rapprochement, réconciliation, science décisionnelle, supervision, zone d’accords possibles / This work aims to provide a multidisciplinary approach - historical, socio-political, economic, and psychological - to understand the general interest of constructive conflict management, and in particular the opportunities related to the method of mediation. The thesis reflects the path taken - from deconstruction to reconstruction of the subject - beginning with a theoretical analysis (origins, specificities, differences with other methods, values and principles) and considering the individual and collective phenomena inherent to each conflict and its management (levels of conflict, management dimensions, individual psychological foundations, opportunities of integrative bargaining, but also the limits and risks associated with the method of mediation). The present work also takes into account the personal evolution of the researcher, her practice as a mediator, exchanges with other professionals on this behalf and her personal findings of feasibility (practical advice, logistical organization, concrete tools for the various phases, and the restitution of the key steps of a practical case). Key words : active listening, alternative dispute resolution, arbitrary, communication facilitation, conciliation, confidentiality, consensus, constructive and effective conflict management, creative problem-solving, decision science, dialogue, empathy training, empowerment, Harvard negotiation model, impartiality, integrative bargaining, looping, mediative solutions, moderation, negotiation, “pareto optimal” solutions, peacemaking, process management, reconciliation, reframing, settlements, supervision, therapy, understanding, zone of possible agreements

The numerical modelling of the VKI-Longshot facility remains a challeng-ing task as it requires multi-physical numerical methods in order to simulate all the components. In the current dissertation, numerical tools were developed in order to study each component of the facility separately and a deep investigations of each stage of the shot were performed. This helped to better understand the different processes involved in the flow development inside this hypersonic wind tunnel. However the numerical computation of different regions of the facility treated as independent from each others remains an approximation at best.The accuracy of the rebuilding code for determining the free stream conditions and the total enthalpy in the VKI-Longshot facility was investigated by using a series of unsteady numerical computations of axisymmetric hypersonic flow over a heat flux probe. Good agreement was obtained between the numerical results and the measured data for both the stagnation pressure and the heat flux dur- ing the useful test time.The driver-driven part of the Longshot facility was modelled using the quasi one-dimensional Lagrangian solver L1d2. The three main conditions used for the experiments —low, medium and high Reynolds number —were considered.The chambrage effect due to the junction between the driver and the driven tubes in the VKI-Longshot facility was investigated. The computation showed great ben- efit of the chambrage in increasing the speed of the piston and thus the final compression ratio of the test gas.Two dimensional simulations of the flow in the driver and the driven tube were performed using Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) solver in COOLFLuiD. A parallel multi-domain strategy was developed in order to integrate the moving piston within the computational domain.The computed pressure in the reservoir is compared to the one provided by the experiment and good agreement was obtained for both con- editions.Finally, an attempt was made to compute the starting process of the flow in the contoured nozzle. The transient computation of the flow showed how the primary shock initiates the flow in the nozzle before reaching the exit plan at time of 1.5 [ms] after the diaphragm rupture. The complex interactions of the reflected shocks in the throat raise the temperature above 9500 [K] which was not expected. Chemical dissociation of Nitrogen was not taken into account during this transient investigation which may play a key role considering the range of temperature reached near the throat. / Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Cette thèse a pour objet l'étude de l'encadrement normatif de l'internement concentrationnaire. Ce concept désigne les règles et procédures produites et appliquées par les administrations concentrationnaires et encadrant le quotidien des détenus internés dans les camps de concentration nazis. Notre étude est pragmatique. Elle se fonde principalement sur l'analyse des archives des administrations concentrationnaires : les règles et procédures concernant l'internement des détenus édictées par les administrations centrales et leur application au niveau du camp de Buchenwald principalement. Cette approche permet de démontrer que l'internement du détenu n'est pas caractérisé par l'arbitraire. Il se déroule au contraire conformément à un encadrement normatif aux caractéristiques spécifiques. Malgré des imperfections formelles dues à leur fondement spécifique sur la Volonté du Führer (Führerwille), les règles et procédures concentrationnaires encadrent l'ensemble de l'internement du détenu : les contacts avec l'extérieur, la répression disciplinaire, le travail forcé et la mort. La participation du personnel SS et civil ou des détenus au fonctionnement du camp se fait ainsi conformément à un encadrement normatif. Cela explique en partie pourquoi les différents acteurs, croyant leurs actes fondés et justifiés par cet encadrement normatif d'allure pseudo-juridique, participèrent au fonctionnement des camps. / The object of this thesis is to study the normative framework of concentration camp internment. The term ‘normative framework’ refers to the rules and procedures established and applied by the concentration camp administrations and which governed the internment of those prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. Our study is pragmatic. It is based primarily on the analysis of concentration camps’ administrative archives: the rules and procedures issued by central administrations concerning the internment of prisoners and their application, mainly at the Buchenwald camp.This approach demonstrates that the period of internment was not characteristically arbitrary. Rather, it occurred in accordance with a normative framework with specific characteristics. Despite formal imperfections due to their specific foundation in the Führer’s Will (Führerwille), concentration camp rules and procedures governed the inmate’s entire internment: contacts with the outside, punishment, forced labor and death. The participation of SS members, or employees of firms using detainee labor or even detainees themselves, was carried out in accordance with a normative framework. This explains in part why the various actors, believing their actions grounded in and justified by this pseudo-legal framework, took part in camp operations.

Thesis is dedicated to evaluation of roundoff impact on numerical integration methods accuracy and effectivity. Contains theoretical expectations taken from existing literature, implementation of chosen methods, experimental measurement of attained accuracy under different circumstances and their comparison with regard to time complexity. Library contains Runge-Kutta methods to order 7 and Adams-Bashforth methods to order 20 implemented using C++ templates which allow optional arbitrary-precision arithmetic. Small models with known analytic solution were used for experiments.

Au XIXe siècle, l’obligation de motivation du juge, conquête lente et difficile de par son lien fort avec l’autorité de la justice, est présentée comme « une des conquêtes les plus heureuses dans l’administration de la justice ». Instaurée à l’époque révolutionnaire pour lutter contre l’arbitraire, quatre mots satisfont à l’énoncer « il doit être motivé ». Entendue comme la simple justification des mobiles du juge, elle s’appréhende selon une pure logique déductive. Or, divers chamboulements au sein de notre société révèlent les multiples facettes de ce principe. L’influence de la Cour européenne fait sortir la motivation de son carcan procédural où, la simple justification se mue en explication persuasive, pour devenir un acte fort de rhétorique. Parallèlement, la loi perd de sa sacralité. Sa complexité croissante démontre ses limites à une époque où notre société en mutation revendique une justice davantage démocratique. La motivation devient ainsi une condition de légitimité des décisions de justice et un gage de légitimation du juge. Étudiée en matière pénale, elle s’avère particulièrement propice de par son rôle particulier au sein de notre société, invitant notre justice contemporaine à considérer à l’inverse, la nature subjective, relative des émotions. Simple obligation processuelle rattachée aux droits de la défense, la demande de connaissance démontre l’émergence d’une obligation autonome qui, tiraillée entre technique rédactionnelle et outil politico-social, pousse notre réflexion sur la place de la justice pénale. Apparaissant en crise, ce principe, loin de s’amenuiser, ne s’avère être que le miroir d’une justice pénale nécessitant d’être redéfinie. / In the nineteenth century, the obligation to state reasons of the judge, slow and difficult conquest due to its strong link with the authority of justice, was presented as "one of the happiest conquests in the administration of justice". Introducing the revolutionary era to fight against the arbitrary, meet four words to state "it must be motivated." Understood as the simple proof of the judge’s mobile, she apréhende as a pure deductive logic. However, various upheavals in our society reveal the many facets of this principle. The influence of the European Court brings out the motivation of its procedural straitjacket where the simple justification turns into persuasive explanation, to become a strong act of speech. Parallèment, the law loses its sacredness. The increasing complexity seems to show its limits, at a time when our changing society claims a more democratic justice. Motivation becomes a condition of legitimacy of judicial decisions and judge the legitimacy of quality. Studied in criminal matters, it is particularly suitable because of its particular role within our society, inviting our contemporary Justice to consider on the contrary, the subjective nature on emotions. Simple procedural obligation attached to the defense of rights, the application for knowledge demonstrates the emergence of an autonomous obligation, editorial torn between technical and political-social tool, pushing our reflection on the role of criminal justice. Appearing in crisis, this principle far from dwindling, turns out to be not the mirror of criminal justice need to be redefined.

Le présent mémoire traite une variation de la mesure de Mahler où l'intégrale de définition est réalisée sur un tore plus général. Notre travail est basé sur une famille de polynômes tempérée originellement étudiée par Boyd, P_k (x, y) = x + 1/x + y + 1/y + k avec k ∈ R_{>4}. Pour le k = 4 cas, nous utilisons des valeurs spéciales du dilogarithme de Bloch-Wigner pour obtenir la mesure de Mahler de P_4 sur un tore arbitraire (T_ {a, b})^2 = {(x, y) ∈ C* X C* : | x | = a, | y | = b } avec a, b ∈ R_{> 0}. Ensuite, nous établissons une relation entre la mesure de Mahler de P_8 sur un tore (T_ {a, √a} )^2 et sa mesure de Mahler standard. La combinaison de cette relation avec des résultats de Lalin, Rogers et Zudilin conduit à une formule impliquant les mesures de Mahler généralisées de ce polynôme données en termes de L' (E, 0). Au final, nous proposons une stratégie pour prouver des résultats similaires dans le cas général k> 4 sur (T_ {a, b})^2 avec certaines restrictions sur a, b. / In this thesis we consider a variation of the Mahler measure where the defining integral is performed over a more general torus. Our work is based on a tempered family of polynomials originally studied by Boyd, Boyd P_k (x, y) = x + 1/x + y + 1/y + k with k ∈ R_{>4}. For the k = 4 case we use special values of the Bloch-Wigner dilogarithm to obtain the Mahler measure of P_4 over an arbitrary torus (T_ {a, b})^2 = {(x, y) ∈ C* X C* : | x | = a, | y | = b } with a, b ∈ R_{> 0}. Next we establish a relation between the Mahler measure of P_8 over a torus(T_ {a, √a} )^2 and its standard Mahler measure. The combination of this relation with results due to Lalin, Rogers, and Zudilin leads to a formula involving the generalized Mahler measure of this polynomial given in terms of L'(E, 0). In the end, we propose a strategy to prove some similar results for the general case k > 4 over (T_ {a, b})^2 with some restrictions on a, b.