Evaluation of motion characteristics of ships and offshore structures at the early stage of design as well as during operation at the site is very important. Strip theory based programs and 3D panel method based programs are the most popular tools used in industry for vessel motion analysis. These programs use different variations of the Green’s function or Rankine sources to formulate the boundary element problem which solves the water wave radiation and diffraction problem in the frequency domain or the time domain. This study presents the development of a 3D frequency domain Green’s function method in infinite water depth for predicting hydrodynamic coefficients, wave induced forces and motions. The complete theory and its numerical implementation are discussed in detail. An in house application has been developed to verify the numerical implementation and facilitate further development of the program towards higher order methods, inclusion of forward speed effects, finite depth Green function, hydro elasticity, etc. The results were successfully compared and validated with analytical results where available and the industry standard computer program WAMIT v7.04 for simple structures such as floating hemisphere, cylinder and box barge as well as complex structures such as ship, spar and a tension leg platform.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-155).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2008. / "May 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-76). Online version available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Duke University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Applied Mathematics, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on July 8, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-131). Also issued in print.

Thesis (M. A.)--Marshall University, 2009. / Title from document title page. Includes abstract. Document formatted into pages: contains 43 p. Includes bibliographical references (p.42-43)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-201).

Thesis (Ph. D. in Interdisciplinary Materials Science)--Vanderbilt University, Aug. 2007. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Orientador: Guillermo Gerardo Cabrera Oyarzún / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T21:31:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernandes_ImaraLima_D.pdf: 2572980 bytes, checksum: 17e1019655bf7dc13c5d5180196e89db (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Esta tese de doutorado abordou principalmente o estudo teórico das propriedades de transporte dependente do spin em nanoestruturas magnéticas. As principais estruturas estudadas foram junções magnéticas de tunelamento e sistemas compostos por um arranjo de pontos quânticos acoplados a eletrodos ferromagnéticos. Com o intuito de obter propriedades físicas do sistema como, a corrente elétrica, a corrente de spin, a densidade local de estados, a ocupação média nos pontos quânticos e a corrente induzida por spin transfer-torque utilizamos o formalismo de funções de Green de não-equilíbrio. Na primeira parte deste trabalho, estudamos os efeitos da inversão do spin nas propriedades de transporte em junções de tunelamento. Para estes sistemas, o fenômeno da magnetorresistência tem origem na densidade de estados dos elétrons de condução dos eletrodos e mostramos que ela é fortemente afetada pela inversão do spin no tunelamento. Além disso, foi possível observar que a inversão do spin induz um spin-torqueadicional ao sistema. Na segunda parte deste trabalho, investigamos as propriedades de transporte em um sistema composto por dois pontos quânticos em forma de T acoplados a eletrodos ferromagnéticos. Com a mesma metodologia empregada anteriormente, encontramos que o aparecimento da ressonância de Fano e a formação de estados ligados dependem fortemente dos parâmetros do sistema. Explorando em detalhes o sistema, foi observado que é possível controlar a condutância elétrica do sistema através de um potencial de gate. Em particular, ao variar a posição do nível de energia do ponto quântico central é possível inverter a ressonância de Fano. Na última parte, apresentamos os resultados numéricos para o sistema considerando um ponto quântico com dois níveis de energia acoplado a dois eletrodos ferromagnéticos, e no interior do ponto quântico levamos em conta a interação e-e e a interação spin-órbita de Rashba. A interação de Rashba introduz a transição entre os níveis de energia com a inversão do spin, o que originou interessantes propriedades no transporte dependente do spin. Em particular, para eletrodos não magnéticos obtivemos que o acoplamento spin-órbita resultou na criação de corrente de spin polarizada / Abstract: In this work, we have studied the spin-dependent quantum transport in magnetic nanostructures. The main structures studied are magnetic tunneling junctions and systems composed of an arrangement of quantum dots coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes. Using the nonequilibrium Green's function techinique, we were able to calculate selected properties of the systems such as the electric current, the spin current, local density of states and the current-induced spin-transfer torque. In the first system, we have observed the effects of the spin-flip scattering in the transport properties considering tunneling junctions composed by an insulating layer between two ferromagnetic electrodes. The results obtained for this system showed that the magnetoresistance is related to density of state effects at the ferromagnetic electrodes, and we have found that it is strongly affected by the spin-flip scattering. Besides, we also observed that the spin-flip scattering gives rise to an additional spin-torque to the system. For the system composed of two quantum dots T-shaped electrodes coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes, we investigated the spin-dependent properties. We have observed that the appearance of the Fano resonance and the formation of bound states rely strongly on system parameters. Another interesting finding is the possibility to control the electrical conductance via a gate voltage. We figured out that changing the energy level of the central dot affected directly the Fano resonance peak intensities. Lastly, we have showed that for the system composed by a quantum-dot with two energy levels coupled to two ferromagnetic electrodes must be modified when the \textit{e-e} and the Rashba spin-orbit interaction are taken into account. The Rashba interaction induces level transitions with spin-flip resulting in interesting properties in the spin-dependent transport. We have found out that the spin-orbit interaction strongly contributes to the spin current even for non-magnetic electrodes / Doutorado / Física / Doutora em Ciências