The presence of roughness on a surface subject to high Reynolds number flows promotes the formation of a turbulent boundary layer and the generation of a fluctuating pressure field imposed on the surface. While numerous studies have investigated the wall pressure fluctuations over zero-pressure gradient smooth walls, few studies have examined the effects of surface roughness on the wall pressure field. Additionally, due to the difficulties in obtaining high Reynolds number flows over fully rough surfaces in laboratory settings, an even fewer number of studies have investigated this phenomenon under flow conditions predicted to be fully free of transitional effects that would ensure similarity laws could be observed. This study presents the efforts to scale and describe the wall pressure spectrum of a rough wall, high Reynolds number turbulent boundary layer free of transitional effects. Measurements were taken in the Virginia Tech Stability Wind Tunnel for both smooth and rough walls. A deterministic roughness fetch composed of 3-mm hemispheres arranged in a 16.5-mm square array was used for the rough surface. Smooth and rough wall flows were examined achieving Reynolds numbers up to Re_θ = 68700 and Re_θ = 80200 respectively, with the rough wall flows reaching roughness based Reynolds numbers up to k_g⁺ = 507 with a simultaneous blockage ratio of δ/k_g = 76. A new roughness based inner variable scaling is proposed that provides a much more complete collapse of the rough wall pressure spectra than previous scales had provided over a large range of Reynolds numbers and roughness configurations. This scaling implies the presence of two separate time scales associated with the near wall turbulence structure generation. A clearly defined overlap region was observed for the rough wall surface pressure spectra displaying a frequency dependence of Ï ^-1.33, believed to be a function of the surface roughness configuration and its associated transport of turbulent energy. The rough wall pressure spectra were shown to decay more rapidly, but based on the same function as what defined the smooth wall decay. / Master of Science

A new technique is presented to study radio propagation and rough surface scattering problems based on a reformulation of the Magnetic Field Integration Equation (MFIE) called the Single-Scatter Subtraction (S^3) method. This technique amounts to a physical preconditioning by separating the single- and multiple-scatter currents and removing the single-scattering contribution from the integral term that is present in the MFIE. This requires the calculation of a new quantity that is the kernel of the MFIE integral call the kernel integral or Gbar. In this work, 1-dimensional deterministically rough surfaces are simulated by surfaces consisting of single and multiple cosines. In order to truncate the problem domain, a beam illumination is used as the source term and it is shown that this also causes the kernel integral to have a finite support. Using the Single Scatter Subtraction method on these surfaces, closed-form expressions are found for the kernel integral and thus the single-scatter current for a well defined region of validity of surface parameters which may then be efficiently radiated into the far field numerically. Both the closed-form expressions, and the computed radiated fields are studied for their physical significance. This provides a clear physical intuition for the technique as an augmentation to existing ones as a bent-plane approximation as shown analytically and also validated by numeric results. Further analysis resolves a controversy on the nature of Bragg scatter which is found to be a multiple-scatter phenomenon. Error terms present in the kernel integral also raise new questions on the effect of truncation for any MFIE-based solution. Additionally, a dramatic enhancement of backscatter predicted by this new approach versus the Kirchhoff method is observed as the angle of incidence increases due to the error terms. / Doctor of Philosophy / A new technique is presented to study the interaction of electromagnetic waves with rough surfaces. Building on the technique called the Magnetic Field Integral Equation (MFIE) which allows the solution for the electromagnetic fields scattered from the surface by considering only the induced electric and magnetic currents on the surface, the Single-Scatter Substraction (S 3 ) method separates the surface currents into those that interact with the surface only once or single-scatter, and those that interact multiple times called multiple-scatter. Since this is the introduction of this technique, only the former is investigated. In this study, a new quantity which is an integral of one of the components of the standard MFIE is studied and closed-form approximations are presented along with bounds of validity. This provides closed form solutions for the single-scattering currents, from which the radiated fields may be efficiently found numerically. Since they are closed form, the expressions provide insight into the nature of the physical scattering process. Numerical results of these expressions are compared to the standard approximate technique as well as the ”exact” solution found by numerically solving the MFIE. Compared to the standard approximate technique which approximates the surface by a tangent plane at each point on the surface, the single-scatter currents approximate the surface with a bent-plane at each point. This shifts the scattered fields from certain directions to others, and highlights where single- and multiple-scattering have an effect.

Cette thèse est composée de trois chapitres indépendants ayant pour thématique commune la théorie des trajectoires rugueuses. Introduite en 1998 par Terry Lyons, cette approche trajectorielle des équations différentielles stochastiques (EDS) permet l'étude d'EDS dirigées par des processus n'ayant pas la propriété de semi-martingale nécessaire à l'application du cadre de l'intégration d'Itô. C'est par exemple le cas du mouvement brownien fractionnaire pour un indice de Hurst différent d'un demi. Le premier chapitre porte sur les liens entre la théorie des trajectoires rugueuses et celle des structures de régularité qui a été récemment introduite par Martin Hairer pour résoudre une large classe d'équations aux dérivées partielles stochastiques. Nous exposons, avec les outils de cette nouvelle théorie, la définition de l'intégrale rugueuse et de la signature d'une trajectoire irrégulière, ce qui nous mène à la résolution d'équations différentielles rugueuses (EDR). Dans le second chapitre, nous nous intéressons à la construction de flots d'EDR à partir de leurs approximations en temps petit, appelées presque flots. Nous montrons que sous des conditions faibles de régularité du presque flot, bien que l'unicité des solutions de l'EDR associée ne soit plus assurée, il est possible de sélectionner un flot mesurable. Notre cadre général unifie les précédentes approches par flot dues à I. Bailleul, A. M. Davie, P. Friz et N. Victoir. Le dernier chapitre s'attache à l'étude d'une inclusion différentielle perturbée par une trajectoire rugueuse, c'est-à-dire d'une EDR dont la dérive est une fonction multivaluée. Nous démontrons, sans hypothèse de convexité et avec différentes conditions de régularité sur la dérive, l'existence de solution. / This thesis consists of three independent chapters in the theme of rough path theory. Introduced in 1998 by Terry Lyons, this pathwise approach to stochastic differential equations (SDE) allows one to study SDE driven by processes that do not have the semi-martingale property which is required to apply the framework of the Itô integral. This is for example the case of the fractional Brownian motion for a Hurst index different from one-half. The first chapter deals with the links between rough path and regularity structure theories. The latter was recently introduced by Martin Hairer to solve a large class of stochastic partial differential equations. With the tools of this new theory, we show how to build the rough integral and the signature of an irregular path, which leads to solve a rough differential equation (RDE). In the second chapter, we focus on building RDE flows from their approximations at small scale, called almost flows. We show that under weak conditions on regularity of almost flows, although the uniqueness of the associated RDE solutions does not hold, we are able to select a measurable flow. Our general framework unifies the previous approaches by flow due to I. Bailleul, A. M. Davie, P. Friz and N. Victoir. In the last chapter, we study of a differential inclusion perturbed by a rough path, i.e. a RDE whose drift is a multivalued function. We prove, without convexity hypothesis and several conditions on the regularity of the drift, the existence of a solution.

[Truncated abstract] Fuzzy inference systems (FIS) are information processing systems using fuzzy logic mechanism to represent the human reasoning process and to make decisions based on uncertain, imprecise environments in our daily lives. Since the introduction of fuzzy set theory, fuzzy inference systems have been widely used mainly for system modeling, industrial plant control for a variety of practical applications, and also other decisionmaking purposes; advanced data analysis in medical research, risk management in business, stock market prediction in finance, data analysis in bioinformatics, and so on. Many approaches have been proposed to address the issue of automatic generation of membership functions and rules with the corresponding subsequent adjustment of them towards more satisfactory system performance. Because one of the most important factors for building high quality of FIS is the generation of the knowledge base of it, which consists of membership functions, fuzzy rules, fuzzy logic operators and other components for fuzzy calculations. The design of FIS comes from either the experience of human experts in the corresponding field of research or input and output data observations collected from operations of systems. Therefore, it is crucial to generate high quality FIS from a highly reliable design scheme to model the desired system process best. Furthermore, due to a lack of a learning property of fuzzy systems themselves most of the suggested schemes incorporate hybridization techniques towards better performance within a fuzzy system framework. ... This systematic enhancement is required to update the FIS in order to produce flexible and robust fuzzy systems for unexpected unknown inputs from real-world environments. This thesis proposes a general framework of Adaptive T-S (Takagi-Sugeno) type Rough-Fuzzy Inference Systems (ARFIS) for a variety of practical applications in order to resolve the problems mentioned above in the context of a Rough-Fuzzy hybridization scheme. Rough set theory is employed to effectively reduce the number of attributes that pertain to input variables and obtain a minimal set of decision rules based on input and output data sets. The generated rules are examined by checking their validity to use them as T-S type fuzzy rules. Using its excellent advantages in modeling non-linear systems, the T-S type fuzzy model is chosen to perform the fuzzy inference process. A T-S type fuzzy inference system is constructed by an automatic generation of membership functions and rules by the Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) clustering algorithm and the rough set approach, respectively. The generated T-S type rough-fuzzy inference system is then adjusted by the least-squares method and a conjugate gradient descent algorithm towards better performance within a fuzzy system framework. To show the viability of the proposed framework of ARFIS, the performance of ARFIS is compared with other existing approaches in a variety of practical applications; pattern classification, face recognition, and mobile robot navigation. The results are very satisfactory and competitive, and suggest the ARFIS is a suitable new framework for fuzzy inference systems by showing a better system performance with less number of attributes and rules in each application.

OLIVEIRA, Henrique Viana. Refinamento de Consultas em Lógicas de Descrição Utilizando Teoria dos Rough Sets. 2012. 111 f. : Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Ceará, Centro de Ciências, Departamento de Computação, Fortaleza-CE, 2012. / Submitted by guaracy araujo (guaraa3355@gmail.com) on 2016-07-01T17:23:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_dis_hvoliveira.pdf: 789598 bytes, checksum: d75ef093adc56cc930f52c1e486ead5a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by guaracy araujo (guaraa3355@gmail.com) on 2016-07-01T17:23:47Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_dis_hvoliveira.pdf: 789598 bytes, checksum: d75ef093adc56cc930f52c1e486ead5a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-01T17:23:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_dis_hvoliveira.pdf: 789598 bytes, checksum: d75ef093adc56cc930f52c1e486ead5a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Query Refinement consists of methods that modify the terms of a consult aiming the change of its result obtained previously. Refinements can be done of several ways and different approaches can be applied to it. This work proposes to apply methods of Query Refinement based on Rough Set theory, using it as an alternative for the refinement problem. The proposed methods will be grounded in the languages of Description Logics, which are commonly used on problems involving knowledge bases or ontologies representation. Two extensions of Description Logics with the Rough Set theory are introduced in this dissertation. We will prove the complexity of satisfiability of these logics, as well as the complexities of the query refinement methods applied to these logics. Finally, we will show quality measures which will aid to choose the results of the refinements obtained. / Refinamento de consulta consiste de técnicas que modificam os termos de uma consulta com o objetivo de alterar os resultados obtidos inicialmente. Para a realização de tal fim, diversas abordagens podem ser aplicadas e diferentes tipos de refinamentos podem ser considerados. Este trabalho propõe aplicar a teoria dos Rough Sets como uma nova alternativa de solução para o problema. Através das noções presentes nessa teoria, iremos desenvolver técnicas que serão aplicadas nas linguagens de Lógicas de Descrição, que são comumente utilizadas em problemas de representação de bases de conhecimento ou ontologias. Além disso, introduziremos duas extensões de Lógicas de Descrição capazes de representar as operações da teoria dos Rough Sets. Provaremos os resultados de complexidade de decisão dessas duas lógicas, assim como os resultados de complexidade das técnicas de refinamentos desenvolvidas. Por fim, mostraremos métricas de qualidade que poderão ser usadas para melhorar o resultado dos refinamentos obtidos.

Orientador: Pedro Jose Catuogno / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matematica, Estatistica e Computação Cientifica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T19:44:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vieira_MarceloGoncalvesOliveira_D.pdf: 804383 bytes, checksum: ab79ef394c82b721e298a47eaa86c2f6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Este trabalho aborda homotopias não usuais entre soluções de equações pertencentes a uma coleção de equações. Cada coleção de equações é denominada pelo termo sistema e neste trabalho são considerados dois tipos de sistemas, os sistemas de Young e os sistemas rugosos. Sob determinadas condições, mostramos que um conjunto de pontos acessíveis de um sistema de Young admite recobrimento e um resultado análogo para sistemas rugosos também é válido. Além disso, mostramos que a concatenação de trajetórias de um sistema ainda é uma trajetória deste sistema. Com esse resultado é possível definir uma operação entre as classes de homotopias de trajetórias de um sistema. Outro ponto abordado é estender ao contexto de um sistema de Young a noção de trajetórias regulares de equações diferenciais ordinárias pertencentes a um sistema de controle. Nesta direção obtivemos um resultado o qual diz que a concatenação entre uma trajetória regular e qualquer outra trajetória produz uma trajetória regular. Por fim, estudamos como o conceito de homotopia entre trajetórias de um sistema rugoso se relaciona com conjugação de sistemas e com equações diferenciais estocásticas. / Abstract: This work accosts unusual homotopy between solutions of equations belonging to a collection of equations. Each collection of equations is called by system and in this work are considered two types of systems, Young systems and rough systems. Under certain conditions, we show that a set of points accessible from an Young system admits covering and a similar result for rough systems is also valid. Furthermore, we show that the concatenation of trajectories of a system is also a trajectory of the system. With this result it is possible to define an operation between the classes of homotopy between trajectories of a system. Another point discussed is to extend to the context of trajectories of an Young system the notion of regularity of trajectories of ordinary differential equations belonging to a control system. In this way we obtain a result which says that the concatenation of a regular trajectory and any other trajectory produces a regular trajectory. Finally, we study how the concept of homotopy between trajectories of a rough system relates with conjugation of systems and stochastic differential equations. / Doutorado / Matematica / Doutor em Matemática

Orientador: Pedro Jose Catuogno / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matematica, Estatística e Computação Cientifica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T14:39:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Castrequini_RafaelAndretto_M.pdf: 934326 bytes, checksum: e4c45bc1efde09bbe52710c44eab8bbf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Introduzimos a teoria dos p-rough paths seguindo a abordagem de M. Gubinelli, conhecida por integração algébrica. Durante toda a dissertação nos restringimos ao caso 1 </= p < 3, o que e suficiente para lidar com trajetórias do movimento Browniano e aplicações ao Cálculo Estocástico. Em seguida, estudamos as equações diferenciais associadas aos rough paths, onde nós conectamos a abordagem de A. M. Davie (as equações) e a abordagem de M. Gubinelli (as integrais). No final da dissertação, aplicamos a teoria de rough path ao cálculo estocástico, mais precisamente relacionando as integrais de Itô e Stratonovich com a integral ao longo de caminhos. / Abstract: We introduce p-Rough Path Theory following M. Gubinelli_s approach, as known as algebraic integration. Throughout this masters thesis, we are concerned only in the case where 1 </= p < 3, witch is enough to deal with trajectories of a Brownnian motion and some applications to Stochastic Calculus. Afterwards, we study differential equations related to rough paths, where we connect the approach of A. M. Davie to equations with the approach of M. Gubinelli to integrals. At the end of this work, we apply the theory of rough paths to stochastic calculus, more precisely, we related the integrals of Itô and Stratonovich to integral along paths. / Mestrado / Sistemas estocasticos / Mestre em Matemática

The present study deals with the effects of sparsely distributed three-dimensional elements on two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) turbulent boundary layers (TBL) such as those that occur on submarines, ship hulls, etc. This study was achieved in three parts: Part 1 dealt with the cylinders when placed individually in the turbulent boundary layers, thereby considering the effect of a single perturbation on the TBL; Part 2 considered the effects when the same individual elements were placed in a sparse and regular distribution, thus studying the response of the flow to a sequence of perturbations; and in Part 3, the distributions were subjected to 3-D turbulent boundary layers, thus examining the effects of streamwise and spanwise pressure gradients on the same perturbed flows as considered in Part 2. The 3-D turbulent boundary layers were generated by an idealized wing-body junction flow. Detailed 3-velocity-component Laser-Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) and other measurements were carried out to understand and describe the rough-wall flow structure. The measurements include mean velocities, turbulence quantities (Reynolds stresses and triple products), skin friction, surface pressure and oil flow visualizations in 2-D and 3-D rough-wall flows for Reynolds numbers, based on momentum thickness, greater than 7000. Very uniform circular cylindrical roughness elements of 0.38mm, 0.76mm and 1.52mm height (k) were used in square and diagonal patterns, yielding six different roughness geometries of rough-wall surface. For the 2-D rough-wall flows, the roughness Reynolds numbers, based on the element height (k) and the friction velocity, range from 26 to 131. Results for the 2-D rough-wall flows reveal that the velocity-defect law is similar for both smooth and rough surfaces, and the semi-logarithmic velocity-distribution curve is shifted by an amount depending on the height of the roughness element, showing that this amount is a function of roughness Reynolds number and the wall geometry. For the 3-D flows, the data show that the surface pressure gradient is not strongly influenced by the roughness elements. In general, for both 2-D and 3-D rough-wall TBL, the differences between the two roughness patterns (straight and diagonal), as regards the mean velocities and the Reynolds stresses, are limited to about 3 roughness element heights from the wall. The study on single elements revealed that the separated shear layers emanating from the top of the elements form a pair of counter rotating vortices that dominate the downstream flow structure. These vortices, termed as the roughness top vortex structure (RTVS), in conjunction with mean flow, forced over and around the elements, are responsible for the production of large Reynolds stresses in the neighborhood of the element height aft of the elements. When these elements are placed in a distribution, the effects of RTVS are not apparent. The roughness elements create a large region of back flow behind them which is continuously replenished by faster moving fluid flowing through the gaps in the rough-wall. The fluid in the back flow region moves upward as low speed ejections where it collides with the inrushing high speed flow, thus, leading to a strong mixing of shear layers. This is responsible for the generation of large levels of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) in the vicinity of the element height which is transported, primarily, by turbulent diffusion. As regards the 3-D rough-wall TBL, the effect of flow three-dimensionality is seen in the large skewing of the distributions of mean velocities, Reynolds stresses and TKE, aft of the elements. In general, the regions of large TKE production-rates seem to propagate in the direction of the local velocity vector at the element height. The data-sets also enable the extraction of the turbulent flow structure to better describe the flow physics of these rough-wall turbulent boundary layers. / Ph. D.

Diese Dissertation präsentiert neue Techniken der Integration für verschiedene Probleme der Finanzmathematik und einige Anwendungen in der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie. Zu Beginn entwickeln wir zwei Zugänge zur robusten stochastischen Integration. Der erste, ähnlich der Ito’schen Integration, basiert auf einer Topologie, erzeugt durch ein äußeres Maß, gegeben durch einen minimalen Superreplikationspreis. Der zweite gründet auf der Integrationtheorie für rauhe Pfade. Wir zeigen, dass das entsprechende Integral als Grenzwert von nicht antizipierenden Riemannsummen existiert und dass sich jedem "typischen Preispfad" ein rauher Pfad im Ito’schen Sinne zuordnen lässt. Für eindimensionale "typische Preispfade" wird sogar gezeigt, dass sie Hölder-stetige Lokalzeiten besitzen. Zudem erhalten wir Verallgemeinerungen von Föllmer’s pfadweiser Ito-Formel. Die Integrationstheorie für rauhe Pfade kann mit dem Konzept der kontrollierten Pfade und einer Topologie, welche die Information der Levy-Fläche enthält, entwickelt werden. Deshalb untersuchen wir hinreichende Bedingungen an die Kontrollstruktur für die Existenz der Levy-Fläche. Dies führt uns zur Untersuchung von Föllmer’s Ito-Formel aus der Sicht kontrollierter Pfade. Para-kontrollierte Distributionen, kürzlich von Gubinelli, Imkeller und Perkowski eingeführt, erweitern die Theorie rauher Pfade auf den Bereich von mehr-dimensionale Parameter. Wir verallgemeinern diesen Ansatz von Hölder’schen auf Besov-Räume, um rauhe Differentialgleichungen zu lösen, und wenden die Ergebnisse auf stochastische Differentialgleichungen an. Zum Schluß betrachten wir stark gekoppelte Systeme von stochastischen Vorwärts-Rückwärts-Differentialgleichungen (FBSDEs) und erweitern die Theorie der Existenz, Eindeutigkeit und Regularität der sogenannten Entkopplungsfelder auf Markovsche FBSDEs mit lokal Lipschitz-stetigen Koeffizienten. Als Anwendung wird das Skorokhodsche Einbettungsproblem für Gaußsche Prozesse mit nichtlinearem Drift gelöst. / In this thesis new robust integration techniques, which are suitable for various problems from stochastic analysis and mathematical finance, as well as some applications are presented. We begin with two different approaches to stochastic integration in robust financial mathematics. The first one is inspired by Ito’s integration and based on a certain topology induced by an outer measure corresponding to a minimal superhedging price. The second approach relies on the controlled rough path integral. We prove that this integral is the limit of non-anticipating Riemann sums and that every "typical price path" has an associated Ito rough path. For one-dimensional "typical price paths" it is further shown that they possess Hölder continuous local times. Additionally, we provide various generalizations of Föllmer’s pathwise Ito formula. Recalling that rough path theory can be developed using the concept of controlled paths and with a topology including the information of Levy’s area, sufficient conditions for the pathwise existence of Levy’s area are provided in terms of being controlled. This leads us to study Föllmer’s pathwise Ito formulas from the perspective of controlled paths. A multi-parameter extension to rough path theory is the paracontrolled distribution approach, recently introduced by Gubinelli, Imkeller and Perkowski. We generalize their approach from Hölder spaces to Besov spaces to solve rough differential equations. As an application we deal with stochastic differential equations driven by random functions. Finally, considering strongly coupled systems of forward and backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs), we extend the existence, uniqueness and regularity theory of so-called decoupling fields to Markovian FBSDEs with locally Lipschitz continuous coefficients. These results allow to solve the Skorokhod embedding problem for a class of Gaussian processes with non-linear drift.

<p>This thesis presents the implementation of a knowledge base system for rough sets [Paw92]within the logic programming framework. The combination of rough set theory with logic programming is a novel approach. The presented implementation serves as a prototype system for the ideas presented in [VDM03a, VDM03b]. The system is available at "http://www.ida.liu.se/rkbs". </p><p>The presented language for describing knowledge in the rough knowledge base caters for implicit definition of rough sets by combining different regions (e.g. upper approximation, lower approximation, boundary) of other defined rough sets. The rough knowledge base system also provides methods for querying the knowledge base and methods for computing quantitative measures. </p><p>We test the implemented system on a medium sized application example to illustrate the usefulness of the system and the incorporated language. We also provide performance measurements of the system.</p>