Essentielle au développement de la civilisation pharaonique, l’eau a surtout été étudiée au travers de la place qu’elle occupe dans la religion mais rarement au travers de ses usages dans la vie quotidienne. Ainsi les aménagements hydrauliques ne sont-ils généralement que très brièvement mentionnés dans la littérature égyptologique. À partir des données fournies par l’archéologie (matériaux, modes de construction, etc.), cette thèse a donc pour premier objectif d’étudier dans le détail ces installations en s’appuyant sur un corpus qui recense, pour toute la période pharaonique, près de 400 structures, classées en quatre grandes catégories : puits, canalisations, bassins et aménagements sanitaires. Dans un second temps, cette analyse approfondie complétée d’un travail de synthèse, qui replace chacune de ces installations dans son contexte tout en les confrontant simultanément aux sources écrites et iconographiques, permet plus largement de comprendre comment l’eau s’intégrait dans la vie des Égyptiens. La présence ou l’absence de ces structures dans les maisons et plus largement dans l’agglomération reflète ainsi les besoins des habitants et les difficultés auxquelles il fallait faire face. Les installations hydrauliques se révèlent donc être une source d’informations à ne pas négliger puisqu’elles permettent d’appréhender sous un jour nouveau la ville pharaonique et la façon dont on y vit tout en dévoilant certains aspects de la société égyptienne. / Essential in the development of Pharaonic civilization, water was especially studied through the place it occupies in the religion but rarely through its everyday use. Generally, hydraulic layouts are thus only briefly mentioned in Egyptological literature. From the data supplied by archaeology (materials, construction methods, etc.), this thesis thus has for first objective to study these installations in detail by relying on a corpus which lists, for the whole Pharaonic period, more than 400 structures, classified in four categories: wells, pipes, ponds and sanitary layouts. In a second hand, this detailed analysis, completed by a synthesis work replacing each of these installations in its context while confronting them simultaneously with written and iconographic sources, allows more widely to understand how water became integrated into Egyptians life. The presence or absence of these structures in houses and more widely in town thus reflects the inhabitant’s needs and the difficulties they were facing. Hydraulic layouts therefore appear to be a source of information not to be neglected for they cast new light on the Pharaonic city and its way of life while revealing certain aspects of the Egyptian society.

Submitted by STEFANO ROCHA DA CRUZ null (stefrcruz@hotmail.com) on 2016-04-13T17:38:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação de mestrado.pdf: 7064284 bytes, checksum: 264b5a62dbaaeb5e0e8adf44be5a6dc9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Felipe Augusto Arakaki (arakaki@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-04-15T14:51:57Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 cruz_sr_me_fran.pdf: 7064284 bytes, checksum: 264b5a62dbaaeb5e0e8adf44be5a6dc9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-15T14:51:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 cruz_sr_me_fran.pdf: 7064284 bytes, checksum: 264b5a62dbaaeb5e0e8adf44be5a6dc9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-07 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Uma das múltiplas discussões em termos do papel do Estado enquanto formulador de políticas públicas gira em torno da perspectiva do desenvolvimento urbano e sua articulação com o planejamento habitacional de interesse social. Objetiva-se analisar de forma comparativa programas habitacionais vigentes na cidade de Franca/SP/ Brasil e cidade da Praia/Santiago/Cabo Verde, com foco nas convergências e discrepâncias. O plano habitacional brasileiro Minha Casa Minha Vida -MCMV se tornou um exemplo internacional ao passo que o programa cabo-verdiano Casa Para Todos - CPT foi formulado a partir de orientação técnica advinda da cooperação internacional com o Brasil. Propõe-se uma avaliação de resultados de desempenho, impactos e efeitos a partir de uma metodologia comparativa que analisa quantidade de unidades produzidas, número de famílias atendidas, localização e distância do centro principal da cidade e das áreas de emprego, infraestrutura e equipamentos públicos fornecidos, faixas de renda atendidas, valores das prestações mensais, custos das obras, tempo de construção e contrapartidas. Através de análises no campo das políticas públicas de cooperação internacional, habitação social, planejamento e ordenamento territorial urbano, utilizando pesquisa documental e abordagens de atores direta ou indiretamente envolvidos (governos, empresas, usuários, etc.), busca-se refletir acerca das deficiências atuais no setor em termos de qualidade e alcance social dos serviços e obter indicadores de desempenho que sejam úteis ao seu aperfeiçoamento. / One of the many discussions in terms of the State's role as a formulator of public policy it is about the urban development perspective and the articulation with the planning of social interest housing. The objective is to analyze comparatively housing programs in force in the city of Franca/SP/Brazil and Praia/Santiago/Cape Verde, focusing on the similarities and discrepancies. The Brazilian housing plan “my home, my life” became an international example while the Cape Verdean program “house for all”, was formulated from arising technical guidance of international cooperation with Brazil. We propose a performance evaluation results, impacts and effects from a comparative methodology which analyzes the amount of units produced, number of families served, location and distance from the main city center and areas of employment, infrastructure and public facilities provided , met income brackets, required monthly payments, engineering costs, construction time and counterparties. Through analysis of public policies in the field of international cooperation, social housing, urban planning and land use planning, using documentary research and approaches of actors directly or indirectly involved (governments, companies, users, etc.), seek to reflect on the shortcomings current in the industry in terms of quality and reach of social services and get performance indicators that are useful to its improvement. / FAPESP: 2014/23875

Partindo-se da hipótese da necessidade de haver uma relação entre o atual projeto de moradia e os hábitos domésticos contemporâneos, o objetivo deste trabalho é investigar o projeto de espaços habitáveis de apartamentos em São Paulo, avaliando-se a compatibilidade entre sua configuração tipológica e as transformações do uso da habitação, ocorridas nas últimas décadas do século 20 – aqui observadas a dinâmica e contínua alteração tipológica dos arranjos familiares e a invasão de novas tecnologias ao espaço doméstico. Constituindo-se uma tentativa de colaboração para o repensar do habitar metropolitano contemporâneo, esta dissertação está estruturada em quatro capítulos. O primeiro constitui-se de uma ambientação histórica do processo de modernização da indústria brasileira, englobando o início da cultura de habitar apartamentos na cidade de São Paulo, até a cristalização desse hábito, nas últimas décadas do século 20. Estabelece-se aí um paralelo entre a relação do usuário com sua moradia e a introdução de progressos tecnológicos no cotidiano doméstico. No segundo capítulo visitam-se as transformações dos modos de vida contemporâneos, dadas em função tanto das mudanças dos grupos domésticos, as quais passaram a alterar o conceito tradicional de família nuclear, quanto da invasão de novas tecnologias ao ambiente doméstico. O terceiro capítulo – etapa essencial deste trabalho – constitui-se do estudo de plantas de apartamentos de dois dormitórios lançados na Região Metroplitana de São Paulo nas décadas de 1980 e 1990 e do estudo de caso de apartamentos de dois dormitórios de um edifício situado na cidade de São Paulo, com a análise dos espaços habitados e dos diversos usos a eles atribuídos. Partindo-se do quarto capítulo, no qual se estabelecem reflexões sobre novas tendências de desenhos para o modelo do espaço habitável, este voltado à contemporaneidade urbana, estabelecem-se duas constatações básicas: Por um lado, diante das transformações dos grupos domésticos e do largo uso de novos aparatos tecnológicos no espaço da habitação, a produção de apartamentos do final do século 20 apresenta-se em descompasso com a diversidade dos novos modos de morar adquiridos, caracterizando-se por certa morosidade quanto ao surgimento de novas propostas que contemplem a variedade de perfis dos atuais grupos de usuários urbanos. Por outro lado, é definida como apenas relativa a contemporaneidade identificada no uso dos apartamentos, uma vez que antigas tradições ainda permanecem na produção do ambiente doméstico, não tendo sido totalmente substituídas pelos novos modos de viver contemporâneos. / Based on the hypothesis that there should be a close relation between today’s private-home design and the current habits of people living in those homes, this work sets out to investigate the design of the living space of apartments in São Paulo, Brazil. The objective is to analyze how well this design has kept up with changing lifestyles during the last decades of the 20th century, in especial shifting family arrangements and the permeation of new technologies in the home. This work intents to contribute towards a new assessment of contemporary metropolitan living and is divided into four chapters. The first presents a background of the modernization process of Brazilian industry, covering from the inception of apartment life in São Paulo to its widespread acceptance. This part also draws a parallel between this process and the user-home relationship, in light of the introduction of the first technological gadgets in everyday home living. The second chapter shows today’s changing ways of living, brought by both emerging demographic patterns, which have dramatically changed the conventional nuclear family, and the flood of new technologies in the domestic environment. The third chapter – an essential part of this work – analyzes floor plans of two-bedroom apartments launched in São Paulo during the 80s and 90s. It also includes a case study of two-bedroom apartments of a São Paulo building, with an examination of their living spaces and the use attributed thereto. The fourth chapter brings some reflections on current ideas on the reconfiguring domestic landscape and arrives at two basic conclusions. On the one hand, in light of shifting family patterns and the permeation of technological appliances in the domestic space, it can be said that there is a clear gap between apartments produced in the late 20th century and the new lifestyles incorporated by the users of such homes. Scarce new proposals have addressed the multiple facets of today’s metropolitan apartment dwellers. On the other hand, the use given to these apartments can be considered only relatively contemporary, since ingrained traditions are still quite present in the living space and have not been fully replaced by contemporary lifestyles.

The main theme of this dissertation is the phenomenon of home. The dissertation is intended to be thought-provoking about the issues of home. The aim of this paper is to clarify the phenomenon of home in relevance to present day and to find the answers to home-relevant questions and relating to the housing of man on this Earth. The dissertation itself is arranged into five chapters. The first chapter is dedicated to the ancient Greek roots of the term "home" and briefly describes how the subject is viewed by linguistic scientists and how it is defined by selected social sciences. The second and the third chapters are at the core of this dissertation and describe in detail the phenomenon of home in the conception of two significant phenomenological thinkers, Czech philosopher Jan Patočka and German philosopher Martin Heidegger. The fourth chapter describes the issues of home through a reception of poetry by famous Czech poets. The fifth chapter ponders over the question of the phenomenon of home with regard to the present day. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The objective of this study is to refine the understanding of micro-fluidics subject to micro-gravity in an attempt to support future space exploration efforts. A combination of experimental and numerical approaches were utilized to build a validated assessment approach. A quasi-pore geometry, inspired by CT scans of rat bones, was used in lieu of human bone structures. A quasi-1D assessment of the conservation of momentum was used to identify the dominant forces acting on the fluid at the operating length-scales. The dominant forces were surface tension, gravity, and shear stress. Experiments were conducted to visualize the flow moving through the quasi-pore geometry. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) was used to create a corresponding model of the experiments in order to illicit further insight. The CFD models were validated by using micro-fluidic experiments. Once validated, the CFD model was also used to study micro-fluids in micro-gravity conditions. The results showed that gravity has a significant effect on the flow pattern of fluids through micro-fluidic porous features. The results can be correlated to the fluid flow through bone pores on Earth versus in micro-gravity. This suggests that interstitial fluid flow is influenced by the effects of micro-gravity leading to physiological changes in astronaut bones.

With the use deployable drones becoming more common research into their improvement is necessary. Deployable drones that are launched from tubes have size limits on the diameter of the propeller during launch and storage. The purpose of this research is to develop deployable propeller blades for practical uses, such as tube launched propeller driven drones and easier to transport wind turbine blades. A deployable propeller will allow for the utilization of larger propellers when a large non-deployable blade isn't an option. Because deployable propellers need to fold, the deployable propeller blades were designed to be hollow and with a slit across the leading and trailing edges of the blades. Because of this unique design, a deployable propeller is not as structurally sound as a conventional propeller, and it requires pressure distributions to be sure the propeller can withstand operation without becoming deformed and compromised. My work will focus on using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling and physical testing to test the aerodynamic design concerns of the deployable propeller, the effects of the unique design requirements on its aerodynamics, and developing a model to quantify the aerodynamic drivers of the deployable propeller. The results indicated that the modifications used to make the propeller deployable did not prevent the propeller from functioning properly and that the model was accurate enough to be used as a method for testing potential designs before manufacturing and physically testing prototypes.

This currently presented work is an evaluation of the characteristics of different cooling hole geometries to particulate ingestion clogging. Experimentation was conducted using a premixed bluff body flame combustor facility to generate high temperature combustor flow conditions. Sand ingestion along the cooling path of the combustion liner was reproduced using an air-assisted seeder providing consistent sand ingestion. Mass flow rate of cooling air was controlled using a sonic orifice downstream of a pressure regulator so that the mass flow rate of the air and sand mixture is independent of the clogging state. Pressure data upstream of a small section of a combustion liner was recorded to quantify the clogging of the different combustion liner cooling geometries over time. Several geometries were tested including 3 "S" shaped slots with varying width and length, along with tapered straight slots, and compared to the traditional straight round hole. It was found that a diverging orientation of the tapered slot had the most promising performance mitigating particulate deposition. The displacement boundary layer growth interaction with the main flow within the diverging section of the slot is discussed as the main contributing factor to resist clogging. The use of such a clogging-resistant combustion liner could drastically reduce the maintenance necessary for vehicles operating in sandy and dusty environments, reducing the overall operational cost, and lowering risks of complete failure of the aircraft propulsion system.

This multidisciplinary study provides a comprehensive visualization of airborne aerosols and droplets coming into contact with a crossflow of moving air utilizing both experimental particle measuring methods and multiphase computational fluids dynamics (CFD). The aim of this research is to provide a Eulerian visualization of how ventilation can alter the position and density of an aerosol cloud, with the goal of applying this information to our understanding of social distancing ranges within outdoor settings and ventilated rooms. The results indicate that even minor perpendicular crossflows across the trajectory of an aerosol cloud can greatly reduce both the linear displacement and density of the cloud, with negligible increases in density along the flow path.

Aerodynamic optimization is a key step in designing planes, cars, and even buildings. Numerical modeling is used to automate the optimization process and can use different methods to iterate through designs. In this process, consideration of the starting design is paramount as a poor choice can use up computational time and effort. Often, these designs are made with the intention of being out in the open, for which studies on shape variations in freestream situations abound. However, for the case where an object must be placed in the wake of another, there is little research. The study presented here aims to help fill this gap, starting with a case of an elliptical fairing design placed around a cylinder in the wake of a D shaped tube. The fairing itself is parameterized to gain an understanding of how its shape and relative location to the D-tube influence both the fairing itself and the D-tube. The evaluations are done using numerical models that are both validated and measured for uncertainty. Following that, the results are used to provide an initial fairing design for a real case, that being of an instrument on NASA's Dragonfly drone. The example is also used to provide a brief comparison to the trends seen in the 2D characterization as compared to trends seen in freestream design. In total, this research aims to provide a starting point for understanding how design choices affect the aerodynamics of a fairing in a bluff body wake.

The following project involves the design of a series of row houses at Broce street in the town of Blacksburg. The proposed scheme can be described as a line of units that are parallel to the street. Though the project deals with issues that are related to housing at the scale of the unit as well as at the scale of the collective whole, the underlying concern is the issue of habitation in architecture. With this project I will propose architecture that encourages the individual to participate in the making of the living environment, and at the same time address habitation in terms of structure and meaning. / Master of Architecture