This thesis presents a preliminary study on geochemical conditions within the Snapper Creek well field in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The study investigates the background groundwater chemistry within the Biscayne aquifer in order to provide information on the geochemical processes and water-rock interactions within the study site. In conjunction with hydraulic gradient information, major ion chemistry and deuterium and oxygen-18 data were used as environmental tracers to help describe the groundwater-surface water interactions between the well field and the Snapper Creek canal. Hydrologic data show there is potential for natural groundwater recharge from the canal within the shallow flow zone of the Biscayne aquifer and chemical data show evidence of canal-groundwater mixing within this zone. The limitations for the v environmental tracers employed within the study are addressed, as well as recommendations for further research involving natural geochemical tracers and groundwater-surface water interactions near municipal well fields. This study was part of a larger effort being conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey in order to assess municipal well field pumping effects on the Snapper Creek (C-2) canal. / by Dominick J. Antolino. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Att tillhandahålla termisk komfort är ett av de främsta kraven som ställs på byggnader i dagens samhälle. Stora delar av energianvändningen går därför åt till att styra inomhusklimatet för att upprätthålla en behaglig nivå. Det påstås att omkring 40 % av denna energi tillkommer på grund av energiförluster via öppningar och läckage genom byggnaders klimatskal. Med tanke på världens och Sveriges alltmer striktare energikrav där man bland annat vill bygga nära-nollenergibyggnader är detta någonting som bör förbättras. Det är därför viktigt att förstå hur men även varför denna luftinfiltration uppstår och vilka faktorer som har en påverkande effekt. Detta arbete innefattas av tre olika simuleringsstudier av en hög byggnad där inomhusluftens rörelsemönster samt yttre vindförhållanden har legat i fokus. En studie utfördes med hjälp av simuleringsverktyget IDA ICE där luftens infiltration undersöktes. De andra två utfördes med hjälp av CFD-programmet COMSOL Multiphysics v5.4. Den ena CFD-studien studerade termiska stigkrafter inuti byggnaden och den andra studerade vindens flödesmönster utanför byggnaden och varför infiltrationen beter sig som den gör. Resultatet av simuleringarna i IDA ICE visar att det är möjligt att minska infiltrationsmängden luft in i byggnaden från 1384 l/s till 804 l/s genom att ta hänsyn till ytterdörrens placering relativt den inkommande vinden riktning. De visar även att infiltrationens inflöde är som högst på bottenvåningen för att sedan minska och därefter övergå till ett utflöde på de högre våningsplanen.Resultatet från den första CFD-studien beskriver hur den varmare inomhusluftens rörelsemönster förändras då kallare luft tar sig in på byggnadens bottenvåning. Detta förändrade rörelsemönster resulterar i att den varmare luften stiger och därmed letar sig ut genom byggnadens högre våningsplan. Den andra CFD-studiens resultat beskriver hur den yttre vindens flödesmönster förändras då dess infallsvinkel mot byggnaden varierar. Flödesmönstrets förändring ger i sin tur upphov till en varierande tryckskillnader på utsidan samt inuti byggnaden. Detta är därför en av förklaringarna till varför infiltrationen är som högst då vinden blåser rakt mot byggnadens öppna dörr jämfört med när den kommer med en annan infallsvinkel. Slutsatsen är att ytterdörrens placering relativt den yttre vinden rörelsemönster bör tas i beaktning vid nybyggnation av höga byggnader eller renovering av redan befintliga byggnader. Detta för att minimera infiltrationen och därmed reducera den problematik som infiltrationen kan medföra. / One of the main requirements a building have is to provide thermal comfort inside it. Therefore, large parts of the energy consumptions is used to control the indoor climate in order to maintain a comfortable level in the building. It’s alleged that around 40 % of this energy is added due to energy losses through opening and leakages in the buildings enclosure. Considering the world’s increasing energy requirements, where among other things one future requirement is to build nearly-zero energy buildings, is this something that needs to be improved. It’s therefore important to understand how, and also why this air infiltration occurs and what’s affecting it. This master thesis contains of three different types of simulation studies where the air inside a high-rise building, and also the wind flow around it was analyzed. One of these three studies was performed with the simulation program IDA ICE, where the air infiltration was examined. The other two studies were performed with the CFD-software, COMSOL Multiphysics v5.4. One of these CFD-studies examined the thermal flow that occurs inside the building. The other one examined the wind’s flow pattern outside the building and why the air infiltration behavior is like it is. The results from the IDA ICE simulations shows that it’s possible to decrease the infiltration rate of air into the building from 1384 l/s to 804 l/s by taking the exterior door’s position relative the incoming wind’s direction into account. They also show that the infiltration inflow is highest on the ground floor before it starts to decrease and then change and becomes an outflow on the the higher floors. The results from the first CFD-study describes how the movements of the warmer air inside the building changes when colder air flows in on the ground floor. This changed air movement pattern makes the warmer air rise, and thus flow out through the enclosure on the higher parts of the building. The other CFD-study describes how the flow pattern of the outside wind changes around the building when the winds angle of incidence varies. The changed flow pattern causes varying pressure differences, both on the outside and the inside of the building. This is therefore the explanation to why the infiltration rate is greatest when the wind blows straight towards the opened door on the building instead of with other angles of incidence. The conclusion is that the placement of exterior doors on high-rise buildings relative to the outside wind should be taken into account when new buildings are built or when a renovation of an existing building should be made. This to minimize air infiltration through buildings and thereby reduce problems infiltration can cause.

The evaluation of the noise produced by flows has reached a high level of importance in the past years. The physics surrounding flow-induced noise is quite complex and sensitive to various flow conditions like temperature, shape. Empirical models were built in the past for some special geometries but they cannot be used in a general case for a shape optimization for instance. Experimental aeroacoustic facilities represent the main tool for acoustic analyses of flow fields, but are quite expensive because extreme care must be exercised not to introduce acoustic perturbations in the flow (silent facilities). These tools allow a good analysis of the physical phenomena responsible for noise generation in the flow by a comparison of the noise sources and the flow characteristics (pressure, turbulence,). Nevertheless, the identification and location of noise sources to compare with flow structures requires quite complex methods.<p><p>The numerical approach complements the experimental one in the sense that the flow characteristics are deeply analyzed where experiments suggest noise production. For the numerical approach, the turbulence modeling is quite important. In the past, some models were appreciated for their good prediction of some aerodynamic parameters as lift and drag for instance. The challenge is now to tune these models for a correct prediction of the noise sources. In the low subsonic range, the flow field is completely decoupled from acoustics, and noise sources can be computed from a purely hydrodynamic simulation before this information is transferred to an acoustical solver which will compute the acoustic field at the listener position. This post processing of the aerodynamic results is not obvious since it can introduce non-physical noise into the solution.<p><p>This project considers the aspect of noise generation in turbulent jets and especially the noise generated by vortex pairing, as it occurs for instance in jet flows. The axisymmetric version of the flow solver SFELES has been part of this PhD research, and numerical results obtained on the jet are similar to the experimental values. Analyses performed on the numerical results are interesting to go to complete turbulence modeling for aeroacoustics since vortex pairing is one of the basic acoustical processes in vortex dynamics.<p><p>Currently, a standard static Smagorinski model is used for turbulence modeling. However, this model has well known limitations, and its influence on the noise sources extracted from the flow field is not very clear. For this reason, it is planned to adopt a dynamic procedure in which the subgrid scale model automatically adapts to the flow. We planned also to perform simulations with the variational multiscale approach to better simulate the different interactions between large and unresolved scales. The commercial software ACTRAN distributed by Free Field Technologies is used for the computation of sound propagation inside the acoustic domain. / Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Dans cette thèse, l’étude des interactions entre des particules ultrafines émises par les pots d’échappement et l’écoulement de sillage créé par le véhicule émetteur a été réalisée principalement selon une approche numérique. Une campagne expérimentale a été conduite à des fins de validation. L’objet de la thèse vise à comprendre l’impact des particules issues des pots d’échappement sur l’environnement proche tant du côté piéton que du côté des passagers des véhicules suiveurs. Pour cela, l’écoulement du fluide a été traité avec une approche eulérienne type URANS (Unsteady Reynolds Average Navier-Stokes) combinée à un suivi lagrangien pour les nanoparticules. En effet, cette thèse est conduite en parallèle d’un projet collaboratif financé par l’ADEME (CAPTIHV) dont le but est d’évaluer la qualité de l’air des habitacles des véhicules automobiles, et en particulier de l’infiltration des particules ultrafines issues du trafic environnant. L’étude de la dispersion des particules fines en écoulements turbulents nécessite une analyse fine des structures turbulentes qui s’y développent. Notre étude numérique a donc consisté, en premier lieu, à analyser cette dispersion dans le cas d’un écoulement de sillage classique à l’aval d’un cylindre. Cela nous a permis de caractériser la dynamique d’interactions de nanoparticules solides de carbone avec les structures tourbillonnaires en considérant l’impact de la turbulence et de la diffusion brownienne. Cela a permis d’évaluer l’influence des principaux mécanismes influençant la dispersion. Les résultats de ces simulations nous ont permis de sélectionner les mécanismes/forces importants pouvant influencer la dispersion de telles particules dans le sillage d’un véhicule automobile ; Cela nous a facilité la mise en place et l’analyse des simulations relativement plus complexes de l’aérodynamique du corps d’Ahmed à culot droit en présence des nanoparticules simulant les suies des gaz d’échappement. Les interactions des particules ultrafines avec les structures tourbillonnaires se créant dans le sillage des véhicules ont été évaluées à partir de profils de concentrations et les coefficients de dispersions transversales. La dernière étape a consisté en une campagne d’essais en soufflerie qui nous a permis de caractériser les champs de vitesses moyens et turbulents ainsi que les champs de concentrations particulaires à l’aval du véhicule pour valider les résultats numériques / In this thesis, the study of the interactions between ultrafine particles emitted by the exhaust pipes and the wake flow generated by the emitting vehicle was carried out mainly using a numerical approach. An experimental campaign was conducted for validation purpose. The goal of the thesis is to understand the impact of exhaust particles on the surrounding environment on both the pedestrian and the passengers of the following vehicles. For this purpose, the fluid flow was resolved with an Eulerian type URANS model (Unsteady Reynolds Average Navier-Stokes) combined to the Lagrangian approach for the nanoparticles trajectories calculation. This thesis is conducted simultaneously with a collaborative project funded by ADEME (CAPTIHV) whose purpose is to assess the air quality of automotive car cabins, and particulate infiltration from the surrounding traffic in particular of ultrafine particles. The study of the dispersion of fine particles in turbulent flows requires a fine analysis of the turbulent structures that develop in such flows. Our numerical study therefore consisted, first, in analyzing this dispersion in the case of a classic wake flow downstream of a cylinder. This enabled us to characterize the interaction of solid carbon nanoparticles with vortical structures evaluating at the same time the impact of turbulence and Brownian diffusion. This allowed determining the influence of the main mechanisms influencing nanoparticles dispersion. In a second step, we replaced the cylinder configuration by a simplified geometry of a motor vehicle, Ahmed body configuration. Therefore, simulations with and without of particles presence have been conducted and have allowed to highlight the swirls structures and to characterize the particles dispersion through particle concentration profiles and the particles dispersion coefficients. The results of these simulations allowed us determining the important mechanisms / forces that can influence the dispersion of such particles in the wake of a ground vehicle; this facilitated the implementation and analysis of relatively more complex simulations of the aerodynamics of the square back Ahmed body in the presence of nanoparticles simulating soot from the exhaust gases. The interactions of ultrafine particles with vortical structures appearing in the wake of vehicles were evaluated from concentration profiles and transverse dispersion coefficients. The final step was a wind tunnel experimental campaign that allowed us to characterize the average and turbulent velocity fields as well as the particle concentration fields downstream of the vehicle to validate the numerical results