Surface gravity waves exist in the oceans as multi-directional nonlinear phenomena. Understanding how these two properties interact is intrinsically important in itself. Furthermore, an understanding of this relationship may be used to gain insight into other oceanic phenomena. This thesis first describes an experimental investigation into the relationship between directionality and non-linearity (Part I). This relationship was then used as a tool to estimate the directional spreading of field data (Part II). Experiments have been conducted in which directionally spread focused wave groups were created in a wave tank. The relationship between the degree of directional spreading and the second-order bound harmonics of the wave groups was examined, in particular the formation of a `set-up'. These measurements were then compared to predictions from second-order theories, finding good agreement. The two-dimensional structure of the bound waves was explored giving new insight into the underlying physics. Experiments were then carried out for directionally spread crossing wave groups. It is believed that the crossing of two sufficiently separated wave groups may be the cause of an anomalous set-up in the second-order bound waves observed for some extreme and potentially freak waves. This set-up is reproduced experimentally. Again, the results of these test agreed very well when compared to second-order theory. The insight gained from the foregoing experiments was then utilised in the analysis of field data. A method, which requires only a single measurement to estimate the observed degree of directional spreading, was applied to a large dataset of field measurements from the North Alwyn platform in the North Sea. This method was then compared to conventional approaches, which require multiple concurrent measurements. The method that requires only a single measurement was shown to be effective, and presents a promising approach to gaining additional insight about the directional spreading of point observations.

Kyoto University (京都大学) / 0048 / 新制・論文博士 / 博士(工学) / 乙第12200号 / 論工博第3989号 / 新制||工||1438(附属図書館) / 26272 / UT51-2008-C970 / (主査)教授 今中 忠行, 教授 青山 安宏, 教授 森 泰生 / 学位規則第4条第2項該当

Kyoto University (京都大学) / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第14049号 / 工博第2961号 / 新制||工||1439(附属図書館) / 26328 / UT51-2008-F441 / 京都大学大学院工学研究科電気工学専攻 / (主査)教授 和田 修己, 教授 引原 隆士, 准教授 久門 尚史, 教授 萩原 朋道 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当

In this paper we develop new and improved results in the numerical solution of the coupled algebraic Riccati equations. First we provide improved matrix upper bounds on the positive semidefinite solution of the unified coupled algebraic Riccati equations. Our approach is largely inspired by recent results established by Liu and Zhang. Our main results tighten the estimates of the relevant dominant eigenvalues. Also by relaxing the key restriction our upper bound applies to a larger number of situations. We also present an iterative algorithm to refine the new upper bounds and the lower bounds and numerically compute the solutions of the unified coupled algebraic Riccati equations. This construction follows the approach of Gao, Xue and Sun but we use different bounds. This leads to different analysis on convergence. Besides, we provide new matrix upper bounds for the positive semidefinite solution of the continuous coupled algebraic Riccati equations. By using an alternative primary assumption we present a new upper bound. We follow the idea of Davies, Shi and Wiltshire for the non-coupled equation and extend their results to the coupled case. We also present an iterative algorithm to improve our upper bounds. Finally we improve the classical Newton's method by the line search technique to compute the solutions of the continuous coupled algebraic Riccati equations. The Newton's method for couple Riccati equations is attributed to Salama and Gourishanar, but we construct the algorithm in a different way using the Fr\'echet derivative and we include line search too. Our algorithm leads to a faster convergence compared with the classical scheme. Numerical evidence is also provided to illustrate the performance of our algorithm.

Olofsfors AB beställer idag stålplåtar, remsor och stänger av stålleveran- törer för sin produktion av skop- och vägstål samt skogsband. Stålremsorna för produktion av skop- och vägstål beställs i dimensioner som är redo att skä- ras endimensionellt och vidarebehandlas till skopstålsdetaljer i fabriken. För att effektivisera produktionen i form av ekonomibesparingar och minskning av spill har Olofsfors AB köpt en ny maskin som kan behandla större plåtar och skära ut mindre remsor från dessa och de kan således göra ekonomiska besparingar tack vare billigare inköp. Företaget vill hitta en metod som minimerar spill av material vilket ska leda till ekonomiska besparingar. Syftet med projektet är att utveckla ett program som Olofsfors AB kan använda sig av i den dagliga verksamheten för att optimera materialanvändningen. Problemet att skära ut mindre bitar ur ett större råmaterial är vanligt i industrier och kallas Cutting stock problem. Vi har använt oss av en redan utvecklad modell bestående av en modifierad branch & bound-algoritm för att hitta möjliga mönster som kan skäras ut ur råmaterialet, implementerat den i MATLAB® samt förbättrat den. Vidare har det använts fyra olika optimeringsmodeller vilka lett till olika heltalsprogram som samtliga lösts med den inbyggda MATLAB®-metoden intlinprog, vilken använder sig av branch & bound som lösningsmetod. Resultatet gav ett för användaren lättanvänt program som ger förslag på en optimal dimension bland en mängd möjliga dimensioner på ett råmate- rial, utifrån årsvolym och dimensioner för remsor eller stänger. Föreslagen dimension är den dimension som resulterar i så låg materialförbrukning som möjligt. Utöver detta kan Olofsfors AB använda detta program för att hitta vilka mönster som ska skäras ut givet efterfrågan, samt använda utdata från programmet för att reda ut kapacitetsgräns i restbitslager och finna vilka lagerartiklar som är särskilt lämpliga att producera från restbitar.

COELHO, Marcelo Nunes. Espectroscopia Raman de policristais de clorohidrato de L-cisteína sob altas pressões. 2010. 65 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Física) - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Física, Departamento de Física, Centro de Ciências, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, 2010. / Submitted by Edvander Pires (edvanderpires@gmail.com) on 2015-05-20T20:21:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_dis_mncoelho.pdf: 7414214 bytes, checksum: 1516b206d2a72c00866229ec255a2361 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Edvander Pires(edvanderpires@gmail.com) on 2015-05-22T20:07:42Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_dis_mncoelho.pdf: 7414214 bytes, checksum: 1516b206d2a72c00866229ec255a2361 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-22T20:07:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_dis_mncoelho.pdf: 7414214 bytes, checksum: 1516b206d2a72c00866229ec255a2361 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Neste trabalho foi feito o estudo do comportamento dos modos vibracionais presentes nos espectros Raman de policristais de cloridrato de L-cisteína, submetidos a condições diversas de press~ao entre 0 e 6,86 GPa. Para as medidas de pressão foi utilizada uma célula de pressão com extremos de diamante do tipo National Bureau of Standard. Veri ficou-se uma mudança significativa em praticamente todas as regiões do espectro Raman da amostra, por volta de 0,8 GPa, inclusive na região relacionada aos modos da rede. Essa alteração nos espectros é um indicativo de que uma transição de fase estrutural ocorreu nesse valor de pressão. Neste valor de pressão também foi observado o surgimento de uma banda que foi associada a uma vibração de estiramento CC e uma banda entre 3300 e 3400cm-1. Entre 1,66 e 2,31 GPa ocorrem mudanças em alguns modos internos, embora não estejam associadas a alguma transicão de fase. Veri cou-se também, que algums espectros apresentam mudanças suaves entre 3,5 e 4,5 GPa. Embora elas não ocorram na região dos modos externos e, portanto, não estejam associadas à mudança de simetria do cristal. Finalmente, fazendo-se um estudo de descompressão, compreende-se que a transição de fase é reversível.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-05Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:08:09Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 castro_lrb_me_guara.pdf: 736041 bytes, checksum: 07f98e709059a4bc8372cdcfd09b4521 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / O estudo dos estados ligados das equações relativísticas têm muitas aplicações em física nuclear e em outras áreas da física, portanto as soluções que apresentam estados ligados usando as equações de Dirac e Klei-Gordon(KG) desempenham um papel importante no interesse dos pesquisadores. A redução a uma dimensão espacial das equações relativisticas permite melhorar o entendimento dos problemas equivalentes em três dimensões de uma maneira fisicamente mais transparente. Esta redução espacial traz como consequência alterações nas estruturas relativísticas dos potenciais que devem ser estudadas. A tarefa de achar estados ligados dessas emoções não é fácil para formas funcionais gerais para os potenciais externos. Neste trabalho as equações de Dirac e KG em um dimensão espacial são investigadas para diferentes tipos de acoplamento e formas funcionais para o potenciais externos que apresentam estados ligados.Um resultado relevantes que para certas misturas convenientes dos potenciais externos as equações de Dirac e KG apresentam as mesmas auto-energias mas diferentes autofunções. O problema em geral pode ser mapeado num problema de Sturm-Liouville encontrando-se soluções de estados ligados exatamente. Discutimos detalhadamente o comportamento das autofunções e auto-energias para partículas e antipartículas obtidas do problema de Sturm-Liouvillee as possíveis soluções isoladas no caso da equação de Dirac. Uma aparente violação do princípio da incerteza em algns casos é remediada com a introdução do conceito de comprimento de onda Compton efetivo, mostrando que a partícula pode ser localizada numa região do espaço arbitrariamente pequena sem a produção de pares partícula-antipartícula. / The study of bound states of the relativistic equations as many applications in nuclear physics and other areas of the physics, therefor the solutions that present bound states for the Dirac and the Klein-Gordon (KG) equations play an important role in the interest of the researches. The reduction to one space dimension of the relativistic equations allows to improve our understanding of the equivalent problems in three dimensionin a physically more transparent way. This space reduction brings as a consequence alterations in the relativistic structures of the potentials that must be studied. The task of findingof these equations is not easy for general functional forms for the external potentials. In this work the Dirac and the KG equationsin one space dimensions for different tpes of coupling and functional forms for the external potentials that present bound states are investigated. A relevant result is that for certain convenient mixtures of the external potentials the Dirac and the KG equations present the same eigenvalues but different eigenfunctins. The problem in general can be mapped into an exactly solvable Sturm-Liouville problem. The behavior of the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues for particles and antiparticles of the Sturn-Liouville problem and the possible isolated solutions in the case of the Dirac equation is discussed in detail. An apparent breaking of the uncertainty priniple in some cases is remedied by the introduction of the concept of effective Compton wavelength, showing that the particle can be located into a region of space arbitrarily small without producing particle-antiparticle pairs.

Outward Bound stands out amongst the rest of the wilderness organizations not only for its time-honored contribution to the field of wilderness education, but for its fundamental process and theories which contribute to its success. Academic attention in the field of wilderness programs largely overlooks the role of organizational culture. To fill the gap in our knowledge, this study synthesizes the academic conversation on Outward Bound programs and integrates it with the most consistent findings about organizational culture. Interviewing the participants and instructors of a 72-day long Outward Bound course conducted in 2015 provides clear insight into the role of organizational culture on Outward Bound, its formation, management, and impacts, as well as overall course outcomes for participants. My research finds that the culture within organizations that are built to dissolve can create meaningful and lasting cultural shifts in its members including increases in interpersonal dimensions such as open-mindedness, patience and improved relationships, as well as in intrapersonal dimensions such as independence, confidence and motivation. Drawing on participant responses, I further find that the role of subgroups, conflict, and exclusion can be contentious, contributing to instability and division in organizational culture. Conversely, shared values, familial themes, and compassion can coalesce to unify the culture so strongly that all participants reflect back on the culture as net positive and their experience with Outward Bound as one of growth and positive transformation.

abstract: In recent years, there has been an increased interest in sharing available bandwidth to avoid spectrum congestion. With an ever-increasing number wireless users, it is critical to develop signal processing based spectrum sharing algorithms to achieve cooperative use of the allocated spectrum among multiple systems in order to reduce interference between systems. This work studies the radar and communications systems coexistence problem using two main approaches. The first approach develops methodologies to increase radar target tracking performance under low signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) conditions due to the coexistence of strong communications interference. The second approach jointly optimizes the performance of both systems by co-designing a common transmit waveform. When concentrating on improving radar tracking performance, a pulsed radar that is tracking a single target coexisting with high powered communications interference is considered. Although the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) on the covariance of an unbiased estimator of deterministic parameters provides a bound on the estimation mean squared error (MSE), there exists an SINR threshold at which estimator covariance rapidly deviates from the CRLB. After demonstrating that different radar waveforms experience different estimation SINR thresholds using the Barankin bound (BB), a new radar waveform design method is proposed based on predicting the waveform-dependent BB SINR threshold under low SINR operating conditions. A novel method of predicting the SINR threshold value for maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is proposed. A relationship is shown to exist between the formulation of the BB kernel and the probability of selecting sidelobes for the MLE. This relationship is demonstrated as an accurate means of threshold prediction for the radar target parameter estimation of frequency, time-delay and angle-of-arrival. For the co-design radar and communications system problem, the use of a common transmit waveform for a pulse-Doppler radar and a multiuser communications system is proposed. The signaling scheme for each system is selected from a class of waveforms with nonlinear phase function by optimizing the waveform parameters to minimize interference between the two systems and interference among communications users. Using multi-objective optimization, a trade-off in system performance is demonstrated when selecting waveforms that minimize both system interference and tracking MSE. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Electrical Engineering 2016

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No. of bitstreams: 1 machado_rs_dr_ilha.pdf: 11541631 bytes, checksum: 95dc986f0b7db1798926b947044f32d2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-13 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Esta tese é dedicada ao estudo teórico das propriedades de transp orte eletrônico do grafeno hosp edando um par de átomos adsorvidos em diferentes geometrias. Na primeira delas, verificamos a densidade lo cal de estados (LDOS) do plano de grafeno hos p edando um par de átomos adsorvidos, distantes entre si, no centro de uma célula hexagonal da rede. Nesta primeira configuração, efeitos de correlação revelaram uma es trutura multiníveis na LDOS e padrõ es de batimentos na densidade de estados (DOS) induzida. Amb os efeitos são anisotrópicos e o correm na vizinhança dos p ontos de Dirac. Em um segundo arranjo, estudamos a formação de estados ligados ao contínuo (BICs) adsorvendo um par de átomos em lados op ostos do plano de grafeno e colineares com o centro de uma célula hexagonal. Mostramos que nesta configuração a LDOS é caracterizada p or uma dep endência cúbica na energia e que um mecanismo de interferência Fano destrutiva assistida p or uma correlação de Coulomb nas impurezas leva a formação de BICs. Na terceira geometria, analisamos os efeitos do acoplamento não-lo cal de um par de átomos adsorvidos colineares a um átomo de carb ono da rede na LDOS do grafeno. Em tal arranjo, canais de tunelamento eletrônico distintos dão origem a um fator de interferência Fano q0, que se torna um parâmetro de controle natural do sistema. Verificamos três regimes distintos para o sistema: (i) quando q0 < qc1 (ponto crítico) uma dependência mista do pseudogap, ∆ ∝ | ε| , | ε| 2, leva o sistema a uma fase que apresenta BICs spin-degenerados; (ii) próximo à q0 = qc1 quando ∆ ∝ | ε| 2 o sistema é conduzido a uma transição de fase quântica em que a nova fase é caracterizada por BICs magnéticos, e (iii) no segundo valor crítico, q0 > qc2, a dependência cúbica do pseudogap com a energia recupera a degenerescência de spin e a fase com BICs nãomagnéticos é restaurada. Verificamos ainda que um acoplamento local, nesta mesma geometria, não é propício a formação de BICs. No último caso, examinamos a afirmação de que o grafeno livre não demonstra qualquer propriedade ferróica, e mostramos que quando hospedando um par de impurezas ele pode ser conduzido a fases ferroelétrica e multiferróica por meio de um controle da inclinação dos cones de Dirac. A transição para a fase ferroelétrica ocorre gradativamente, enquanto que a fase multiferróica anômala surge abruptamente em uma transição de fase quântica. / In this thesis we present a detailed theoretical study of the electronic transp ort prop erties of graphene systems hosting a pair of adatoms in distinct geometries. In the first one, where the adatoms are placed distant from each other at the center of the hexagonal cell, we verify multilevels struture in the lo cal density of states (LDOS) and b eat patterns in the induced density of states (DOS) profiles due to correlation effects. The b oth findings are anissotropic and o ccour near the Dirac p oint. In the second system, we study the formation of b ound states in the continuum (BICs) in a pair of adatoms on opp osite sides of the graphene sheet and colinear with the center of the hexagonal cell. In such a set, we show that the LDOS is caracterized by a cubic dep endence in energy and that the Fano destrutive interference assisted by Coulomb correlation in the adatoms gives rise to the BICs formation. In the third configuration, we analyze the effects of the nonlo cal coupling in a pair of adatoms collinear to a carb on atom of the graphene sheet. In such a geometry, distinct tunneling paths lead to a Fano factor of interferance q0, which becomes a natural control parameter of the system. In this sense, we verify three distinct regimes: (i) when q0 < qc1 (critical point) a mixed dependence of the pseudogap, ∆ ∝ | ε| , | ε| 2, gives rise to a phase presenting spin-degenerates BICs; (ii) near to q0 = qc1, we find a pseudogap ∆ ∝ | ε| 2 , where the system is drives to a quantum phase transition exhibiting magnetics BICS, and (iii) for the second critical point (q0 > qc2) the cubic dependence of the pseudogap in energy recover the spin degeneracy, thus restoring the non-magnetic BICs phase. In such geometry, we also verify that the local coupling does not allow the BICs formation. At last, we show that a graphene sheet hosting a pair of impurities can present ferroic and multiferroic phases by controling the slope of the Dirac cones. The transition to the ferroic phase occurs gradatively, while the anomalous multiferroic phase emerges abruptaly by means a quantum phase transition.