La thèse a pour but de développer des algorithmes robustes de poursuite de phase multifréquence en environnement dégradé. L’objectif est d’élaborer de nouvelles structures pouvant opérer à des niveaux de rapport signal à bruit inférieurs aux limites des algorithmes actuellement implémentés dans des récepteurs grand public. Les problèmes de robustesse des algorithmes d’estimation de phase étant en grande partie causés par le phénomène de sauts de cycle, les différents axes de recherche se sont focalisés sur des nouvelles approches de développement de phase au sein des structures de poursuite. Pour ce faire, deux approches ont été étudiées et testées. Dans un premier temps, deux structures de poursuite monofréquence basées sur une DPLL conventionnelle ont été développées. Ces structures disposent d’un système externe de développement de phase visant à prédire et pré-compenser la sortie du discriminateur grâce à l’analyse des sorties du discriminateur ou des sorties du filtre de boucle. La réduction de la dynamique à estimer va alors permettre de réduire l’apparition des sauts de cycle se produisant au niveau du discriminateur. Par la suite, ce système de développement de phase a été adapté à la poursuite de phase multifréquence. Grâce à l’exploitation de la diversité en fréquence offerte par les signaux de navigation (i.e., de la proportionnalité des fréquences Doppler), il a été possible de mettre en place une étape de fusion de données qui a permis d’améliorer la précision de la prédiction de la sortie du discriminateur et donc d’améliorer la robustesse de la structure. Dans un second temps, les travaux de recherche se son taxés sur une nouvelle approche de poursuite de phase et de correction du phénomène de sauts de cycle basée sur une technique de filtrage Bayésien variationnel. Toujours en exploitant la diversité en fréquence des signaux de navigation, cette méthode suppose un modèle de dynamique de phase Markovien qui va imposer une certaine continuité de l’estimation et va permettre de fournir une estimation de phase développée. / This thesis aims at introducing multifrequency phase tracking algorithms operating in low C/N0environment. The objective is to develop new structures whose tracking limits are lower than thatof current algorithms used in mass market receivers. Phase tracking suffers from a lack of robustnessdue to the cycle slip phenomenon. Works have thus been focused on elaborating new phaseunwrapping systems. To do so, two different tracking approaches were studied. First, we have developed new monofrequency tracking loops based on a conventional DPLL. These structures aimat predicting the discriminator output by analyzing, thanks to a polynomial model, the last outputsamples of either the discriminator or the loop filter. Once the discriminator output is predicted,the estimated value is pre-compensated so that the phase dynamics to be tracked is reduced aswell as the cycle slip rate. Then, the unwrapping structure analyzing the loop filter outputs hasbeen extended to multifrequency signals. Using a data fusion step, the new multifrequency structuretakes advantage of the frequency diversity of a GNSS signal (i.e., proportionality of Dopplerfrequencies) to improve the tracking performances. Secondly, studies have been focused on developing a new multifrequency tracking algorithm using variational Bayesian filtering technique.This tracking method, which also uses the GNSS frequency diversity, assumes a Markovian phasedynamics that enforces the smoothness of the phase estimation and unwraps it.

<div>Thermal desalination of high salinity water resources is crucial for increasing freshwater supply, but efficiency enhancements are badly needed. Nanomaterial enhancements and novel condensation regimes offer enormous potential for improving promising technologies like membrane distillation (MD). In this work, we first examined nanofluids for MD, including the role of nanoscale physics, and model system-level energy efficiency enhancements. Our model included the dominant micro-mixing from Brownian motion in fine particle nanofluids (copper oxide) and the unusually high axial conduction from phonon resonance through Van der Waals interaction in carbon nanotube nanofluids. Carbon nanotubes resulted in a consistent, wide range of improvements; while copper oxide particles showcased diminishing returns after a concentration of 0.7%, where Brownian motion effects reduced. However, the enhancements at higher concentrations from liquid layering around nanoparticles were impractical in MD, since the related high surfactant levels compromised the membrane hydrophobicity and promoted fouling. Dilute solutions of metallic nanofluids can be actively integrated to enhance the performance of MD, whereas stronger nanofluid solutions should be limited to heat exchangers that supply thermal energy to MD systems. We then investigated slippery liquid infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) for enhanced condensation rates in MD. Dropwise condensation heat transfer was modelled considering the effects of the departing, minimum droplet radii and the interfacial thermal resistances. Effective droplet shedding from these surfaces led to an experimental thermal efficiency of 95%. Alternatively, porous condensers with superior wicking properties and conductive heat transfer offered a robust solution to high salinity desalination. We modelled the onset of flooding in porous condensers using Darcy’s law for porous media, including the effects of the condenser permeability and determined the optimal condenser thickness at varying system length scales. The increased active area of condensation resulted in a significant enhancement (96.5%) in permeate production and 31.7% improvement in experimental thermal efficiency. However, porous condensers were only compatible with flat plate module designs limiting their practicality.</div>

<p>The water crisis is increasing with every passing day due to climate change and increase in demand. Different desalination methods have been developed over the years to overcome this shortage of water. Reverse Osmosis is the most widely used desalination technology, but cannot treat many fouling-prone and high salinity water sources. A new desalination technology, Membrane distillation (MD), has the potential to purify wastewater as well as highly saline water up to a very high purity. It is a thermal energy-driven desalination method, which can operate on low temperature waste heat sources from industries, powerplants and renewable sources like solar power. Among the different configurations of MD, Air Gap Membrane Distillation (AGMD) is the most versatile and flexible. However, the issue that all MD technology, including AGMD face, is the low energy efficiency. Different sections of AGMD system have been modified and improved over the years through consistent research to improve its energy efficiency, but one section that is still new and unexplored, and has a very high potential to improve the energy efficiency of AGMD, is the ‘air gap’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The aim of this research is to tap into the potential of the air gap and increase the energy efficiency of the AGMD system. It is known that decreasing the air gap thickness improves the energy efficiency parameter called Gained output ratio (GOR) to a great extent, especially at very small air gap thickness. The minimum gap thickness that maximizes the performance is smaller than the current gap thicknesses used. But it is difficult to attain such smaller air gap thickness (< 2mm) without the constant risk of flooding. Flooding can be prevented, and smaller air gap thickness can be achieved if instead of film wise condensation on the condensing surface, a different condensation flow regime is formed. This study tests different novel condensing surfaces like Slippery liquid infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) and Superhydrophobic surfaces (fabricated with different methods) inside the AGMD system with a goal of attaining smaller air gap thickness and improve the performance of AGMD system for the first time. The performance of these surfaces is compared with plain copper surface as well as with each other. Finally, numerical models are developed using the experimental data for these surfaces.</p><div><div><div> </div> </div> </div>

In this thesis, superconducting nanostructures for quantum detection of electromagnetic radiation are studied. In this regard, electrodynamics of topological excitations in 1D superconducting nanowires and 2D superconducting nanostrips is investigated. Topological excitations in superconducting nanowires and nanostrips lead to crucial deviation from the bulk properties. In 1D superconductors, topological excitations are phase slippages of the order parameter in which the magnitude of the order parameter locally drops to zero and the phase jumps by integer multiple of 2\pi. We investigate the effect of high-frequency field on 1D superconducting nanowires and derive the complex conductivity. Our study reveals that the rate of the quantum phase slips (QPSs) is exponentially enhanced under high-frequency irradiation. Based on this finding, we propose an energy-resolving terahertz radiation detector using superconducting nanowires. In superconducting nanostrips, topological fluctuations are the magnetic vortices. The motion of magnetic vortices result in dissipative processes that limit the efficiency of devices using superconducting nanostrips. It will be shown that in a multi-layer structure, the potential barrier for vortices to penetrate inside the structure is elevated. This results in significant reduction in dissipative process. In superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs), vortex motion results in dark counts and reduction of the critical current which results in low efficiency in these detectors. Based on this finding, we show that a multi-layer SNSPD is capable of approaching characteristics of an ideal single photon detector in terms of the dark count and quantum efficiency. It is shown that in a multi-layer SNSPD the photon coupling efficiency is dramatically enhanced due to the increase in the optical path of the incident photon.

Depuis les années 1990, des études archéométriques ont permis d’attester la production de nouveaux types céramiques en Anatolie occidentale, liée à l’installation de populations turques dans la région à partir de la fin du XIIIe siècle. Parmi ces nouveaux types figurent des céramiques dont les formes et les décors, très répandus dans le monde islamique, témoignaient de l’introduction de nouvelles techniques de fabrication.Sur la base d’un échantillonnage de 87 tessons découverts sur cinq sites turcs et trois sites de Crimée, l’étude, associant approche archéologique et analyses physico-chimiques, a permis de proposer des cadres chronologiques pour ces premières productions turques et de déterminer les techniques de fabrication de leurs revêtements – engobes et glaçures – servant au décor. La définition de ces techniques repose essentiellement sur des analyses élémentaires et structurales par MEB-EDS et par spectrométrie Raman, dont les résultats permettent de confirmer l’utilisation de nouvelles recettes et de nouveaux matériaux.Alors que les décors des céramiques byzantines étaient essentiellement constitués d’une glaçure plombifère transparente, colorée par une gamme réduite d’oxydes métalliques et reposant sur un engobe argileux, les décors des premières céramiques turques, d’époque beylik, produites dans la région, étaient bien plus variés. Leurs glaçures, témoignent d’une plus grande diversité, aussi bien dans la nature des fondants et des opacifiants, que dans celle des colorants utilisés.Considérée comme l’un des premiers types de céramiques ottomanes, la Miletus Ware présente le décor le plus élaboré. L’engobe n’est plus argileux, mais synthétique, préfigurant ainsi les productions plus tardives à pâte synthétique d’Iznik qui feront la renommée de la céramique ottomane au XVIe siècle. Notre étude a ainsi permis de caractériser et de contextualiser les évolutions techniques qui marquent la transition entre céramiques byzantines et ottomanes en Anatolie occidentale. / Since the 1990s, archaeometric studies have attested to the production of new types of ceramic in Western Anatolia, linked to the arrival of Turkish populations in the region from the end of the 13th century. Among these new types are ceramics whose shapes and decoration are very commonly found in the Islamic world, and which show the introduction of new techniques of fabrication.Taking a sample of 87 sherds discovered at five Turkish sites and three sites in the Crimea, this study, combining an archaeological approach with physicochemical analyses, enabled us to propose a chronological framework for these initial Turkish productions and to determine the techniques of fabrication of their coatings – slips and glazes – used for the decoration. The definition of these techniques relies in the main on elementary and structural analyses by SEM-EDS and by Raman spectroscopy, the results of which permit us to confirm the use of new recipes and new materials.While the decoration of Byzantine ceramics was essentially constituted of a high-lead transparent glaze, coloured by a reduced range of metallic oxides resting on a clay slip, the decoration of the initial Turkish ceramics, from the Beylik period, produced in the region, were much more varied. Their glazes attest to a greater diversity in the nature of the fluxes and opacifiers, as well as in the colorants used. Considered to be one of the first types of Ottoman ceramics, the Miletus Ware shows the most elaborate decoration. The slip is no longer clay-based but synthetic, prefiguring in this way the later production using synthetic paste of the Iznik Fritwares upon which the fame of 16th century Ottoman ceramics was based. Our study thus enabled us to characterise and contextualise the technical evolution which marked the transition from Byzantine to Ottoman ceramics in Western Anatolia.

The thesis deal with design of coaxial high-speed gear box for small-scale turboshaft engines. At the beginning a study of problems was performed and for design concept was elected version of single-shaft turbo-engine with electric generator. Kinematic diagram, type of gear design, material and lubrication method was designed. Further was solved proposal of basic gearing parameters, choice of the number of tooth and basic proposal calculations were performed. Was performed check calculation of gearing, calculation of bearings durability and was processed design documentation in required range. Designed gear reducer has two stage with three coutershafts, that are deployed evenly about main axis of reducer. First stage is gear with external gearing, second stage with internal gearing. The thesis may be used as a template for next similar gear reducers design.