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Issued also as thesis, Zürich. / Bibliography: p. 103-105.

Issued also as thesis, Zürich. / Bibliography: p. 103-105.

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Thomas Lovell Beddoes' female dramatic characters are, for the most part, objectified and static, but these passive women perform a crucial narrative and thematic function in the plays. Alongside the destructive activity of the male characters, they dramatize masculine-feminine unions as idealized and contrived and, thus, unstable. Desire, power and influence, as well as the constrictive aspects of physicality, all become gendered concepts in Beddoes' plays, and socially normative relationships between men and women, including heterosexual courtship and marriage, are scrutinized and found wanting. In The Brides' Tragedy, Floribel and Olivia, the eponymous brides, represent archetypes of innocence, purity, and Romantic nature. Their bridegroom, Hesperus, embodies Romantic masculinity, desiring the feminine and aspiring to androgyny, but ultimately unable to relinquish masculine power. The consequences of Hesperus' attempts to unite with the feminine other are the destruction of that other and of himself, with no hope for the spiritual union in death that the Romantic Hesperus espouses as his ultimate desire. Death's Jest-Book expands upon the theme of male-female incompatibility, presenting heterosexual relationships in the context of triangulated desire. The erotic triangles created by Melveric, Sibylla, and Wolfram and Athulf, Amala, and Adalmar are inherently unstable, because they depend upon the rivalries between the males. Once those rivalries end, with the deaths of Wolfram and Athulf, respectively, Sibylla and Amala fade into nothing, their function as conduits for male homosocial relations at an end. In effect, these failed heterosexual triangles function as a backdrop for the idealized relationship between Melveric and Wolfram, whose desire for each other is mediated through their common pursuit of Sibylla, as well as through their blood-brotherhood. Once Wolfram's physical masculinity is deferred through death, the mixing of his ashes with those of Melveric's dead wife, and reanimation, Melveric and Wolfram descend into the tomb together, united for eternity.

In this thesis, the Leishman-Beddoes method of determining airloads for an airfoil undergoing dynamic stall is studied over a range of Mach numbers. To validate the method for conditions where little experimental data is available, a computational fluid dynamics solver is utilized to provide airload predictions for comparison to the Leishman-Beddoes results. It is found that even for high Mach numbers the Leishman-Beddoes method provides reliable predictions for lift coefficient. However, at the higher Mach numbers pitching moment is sometimes overpredicted at high angle of attack. This is seemingly due to an inability to accurately determine the center of pressure in the high speed unsteady flow environment.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T14:16:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Valeria Heilbrun.pdf: 785658 bytes, checksum: c8ef6615553ed07216b65bc4a1999a54 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In this dissertation we approach pneumatic studies, made by James Watt (1736-1819) that led to the construction of a portable apparatus for gas inhalation in collaboration with the medical therapies of Dr.Thomas Beddoes (1760 - 1808). This apparatus was used in the pneumatic project of Dr.Thomas Beddoes, scientific research, the Pneumatic Medical Institution in Bristol, on the potential use of gases in pulmonary diseases. Analyzing the studies and experiments pneumatic of James Watt , focusing on his only work written in collaboration with Dr.Thomas Beddoes, Considerations on The Medicinal Use of factitious Air and Manner of Obtaining them in Large Quantities in Two Pats, 1794. At the same time we analyze the thinking of pneumatics Dr.Joseph Black English (1728 - 1799), Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) and Dr.Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), who contributed to the study of gases developed by James Watt. This analysis strengthens our argument that these studies have worsened the pneumatic medicine / Nesta dissertação abordamos os estudos pneumáticos, realizados por James Watt (1736-1819) que o conduziram na confecção de um aparato portátil de inalação de gases em colaboração com as terapias médicas do Dr.Thomas Beddoes (1760 - 1808). Este aparato foi utilizado no projeto pneumático do Dr.Thomas Beddoes, de investigação cientifica, o Pneumatic Medical Institution, em Bristol, sobre a potencialidade de utilização dos gases em enfermidades pulmonares. Analisando os estudos e experimentos pneumáticos de James Watt, enfocando sua única obra escrita em colaboração com Dr.Thomas Beddoes, Considerations on The Medicinal Use of factitious Air and Manner of obtaining them in Large Quantities in Two Pats, de 1794. Ao mesmo tempo analisamos o pensamento dos pneumáticos ingleses Dr.Joseph Black (1728 1799), Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) e Dr.Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), que contribuíram com os estudos dos gases desenvolvidos por James Watt. Esta análise fortalece nosso argumento de que estes estudos potencializaram a medicina pneumática