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Debien, Antoine. "Étude électromécanique et optimisation d'actionneurs plasmas à décharge à barrièrediélectrique – Application au contrôle de décollement sur un profil d'aile de type NACA0015." Thesis, Poitiers, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013POIT2253/document.
Full textThis work is conducted in the framework of the European PlasmAero project that aims to demonstrate how plasma actuators can be used to control aircraft aerodynamic. Surface Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) is an innovative solution to control a flow with the electric wind induced by the electrohydrodynamic (EHD) force produced by a surface discharge. A first part is dedicated to plasma actuators study. The exposed electrode shape of a DBD actuator is investigated by electrical, optical and mechanical characterization. Discharges properties and EHD force evolution is fully dependent of exposed electrode shape. With an optimized active electrode shape, streamer discharge is cancelled while actuator effectiveness is increased from 0.65 to 0.97 mN/W. Flow field induced by multiple electrode design is also investigated. An innovative multi-DBD design is proposed. Inhibition of mutual interaction between successive DBD actuators and exposed electrode shape optimization conduct to an electric wind velocity of 10.5 m/s. In a second part, the control of boundary layer separation on a NACA 0015 airfoil is investigated. An ac DBD, a multi-DBD and a nanosecond DBD are used to manipulate separation at a Reynolds number Re = 1.3μ106, with tripped and natural boundary layer. Results show that actuators can effectively remove the separation existing without actuation
Affonso, Nobrega Pedro Henrique. "Conception et mise au point d’un réacteur plasma innovant pour le traitement de composés organiques volatils en milieu industriel." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEM042/document.
Full textVolatile organic compounds (VOC) present in the atmosphere may have a strong odour impact and, being so, must be treated. Some long-established treatment techniques may be able to recover or destruct these compounds. However, these techniques are not suitable for high flow rates and/or low concentrations, typical conditions found in certain VOC-emitting industrial processes. A promising alternative is the use of non-thermal plasmas. This kind of plasma, obtained through non-equilibrium electric discharges, produce reactive species that prompt the destruction of volatile organic compounds. This thesis aims to conceive, build and test a reactor based on non-thermal plasmas for the abatement of volatile organic compounds at pilot scale, in order to demonstrate the feasability of using such a process to treat odourous compounds present in an industrial effluent. The obtained results show that, combined with a catalyst, the use of non-thermal plasmas for odour control in industrial scale has a real potential. In parallel, this thesis seeks a better understanding of the role played by mass transfer in a non-thermal plasma reactor through the use of an analytical model and numerical simulations. We show that mass transfer may become the limiting process of the treatment, and therefore requires special care throughout the design of a non-thermal plasma reactor
Barr, Thomas Calhoun III. "Integrative Control of Curly Leaf Pondweed Propagules Employing Benthic Bottom Barriers| Physical, Chemical and Thermal Approaches." Thesis, University of California, Davis, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3596849.
Full textThe effective management of submersed aquatic macrophytes depends on understanding their reproductive biology. Potamogeton crispus L. (curlyleaf pondweed, Potamogetonaceae) produces numerous asexual propagules that make traditional management difficult. It has spread to roughly half of the counties in California (USA) from alpine habitats such as Lake Tahoe to the tidally influenced Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Studies were conducted from May 2012 till October 2012 at the bench and mesocosm scales in Davis and Sacramento, California, to explore the effects of benthic barrier control measures on the propagules (turions) of Potamogeton crispus. The first study examined the effects of three benthic barrier materials (jute, polyethylene and rubber) on turion sprouting. Jute benthic barrier material allows some light and oxygen through the fabric, while polyethylene allows oxygen, but not light. Rubber barrier material blocks light and oxygen exchange. Turion viability, as determined by sprouting, was then assessed post-treatment. Results showed no significant differences at the bench-scale for the untreated control (100% sprouting, SE=0%), jute (100% sprouting, SE=0%), or polyethylene treatments (96.9%, SE=2.1%) (n=16 for all treatments, α = 0.05). Rubber treatments resulted in 48.4% sprouting (SE= 10.6%; n=16). Results for the mesocosm experiments showed significant differences between the control and the jute and polyethylene treatments (control = 98.4% sprouting, SE= 1.6%; jute = 71.9% sprouting, SE= 4.5%; polyethylene= 70.3% sprouting, SE= 4.7%, n=16 for all treatments). Jute and polyethylene treatments were not significantly different in the mesocosm experiment. The mesocosm experiment with the rubber barrier significantly reduced sprouting (29.7% sprouting, SE= 6.1%; n=16) compared to other treatments. While light had minimal impact on sprouting, anoxia appeared to be the main factor inhibiting sprouting using benthic bottom barriers. Barrier induced anoxic stress combined with herbicides may potentially offer enhanced efficacy. The second study explored enhancement of the impermeable rubber barrier material with dilute acetic acid loaded into cassava starch "pearls". Turions were exposed for two weeks and then assessed for viability via post-treatment sprouting protocol with and without hydrosoil at the bench- and mesocosm-scale. Results for the bench-scale showed that the 20.8 mmol L–1 acetic acid treatment was not significantly different (p=.4231) compared to the untreated control (Tukey HDS; p≤0.05). However, the 41.6 mmol L–1 acetic acid treatment was highly significantly different from the control (p-value < 0.0001) at the bench-scale, but did not completely inhibit sprouting (mean sprouting of 31.25% (SE= 11.97)). Complete inhibition of sprouting turions occurred for both experiments at and above acetic acid concentrations of 83.3 mmol L–1 (SE= 0). Results showed that tapioca starch saturated with acetic acid and combined with impermeable benthic barriers may offer an effective chemical treatment for the control of Potamogeton crispus. The final study examined hot water exposures under the barriers to kill and inhibit sprouting in turions. Heated water circulated under an insulated benthic bottom barrier may potentially offer a simple non-chemical rapid method to target surface propagules on the sediment, subterranean propagules and young plants. Heated water was used to treat P. crispus turions at the bench and mesocosm scales (25°C, 40°C, 50°C, 60°, 70°C and 80°C exposures for 30 to 300 seconds). Heated water exposures inhibited sprouting turions at 50°C and 60°C at the mesocosm and the bench scales, however, did not completely inhibit sprouting for all time exposures except at the bench-scale 60°C treatment for 300 seconds. For 70°C and 80°C treatment exposures, there was a slight difference at the 30 second exposure mark, but at 60 second and beyond, all 70°C and 80°C treatments provided 100% inhibition. The cost to raise the temperature 60°C from ambient water temperature under the contained limited volume under insulated barriers is estimated to be approximately $2 per 9.3 m2 (100 ft2) for 5 minute treatments or $3459 ha-1 ($1400 acre-1).
Fourligkas, Nikolaos. "A new thermal rapid prototyping process by fused material deposition : implementation, modeling and control /." Thesis, Connect to Dissertations & Theses @ Tufts University, 2000.
Find full textAdviser: Charalabos Doumanidis. Submitted to the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-124). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;
Krishnaswamy, Arvind. "Substrate Engineering to Control the Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1413471369.
Full textMaestro, Dario. "Large Eddy Simulations of the interactions between flames and thermal phenomena : application to wall heat transfer and combustion control." Thesis, Toulouse, INPT, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018INPT0074/document.
Full textInteractions between flames and thermal phenomena are the guiding thread of this work. Flamesproduce heat indeed, but can also be affected by it. Large Eddy Simulations (LES) are used hereto investigate these interactions, with a focus on two main topics: wall heat transfer andcombustion control. In a first part, wall heat transfer in a rocket engine sub-scale CH4/O2 burner isstudied. In the context of launchers re-usability and cost reduction, which are major challenges,new propellant combinations are considered and wall heat fluxes have to be precisely predicted.The aim of this work is to evaluate LES needs and performances to simulate this kind ofconfiguration and provide a computational methodology permitting to simulate variousconfigurations. Numerical results are compared to experimental data provided by the TechnischeUniversität München (Germany). In a second part, combustion control by means of NanosecondRepetitively Pulsed (NRP) plasma discharges is studied. Modern gas turbine systems use indeedlean combustion with the aim of reducing fuel consumption and pollutant emissions. Lean flamesare however known to be prone to instabilities and combustion control can play a major role in thisdomain. A phenomenological model which considers the plasma discharges as a heat source isdeveloped and applied to a swirl-stabilized CH4/Air premixed lean burner. LES are performed inorder to evaluate the effects of the NRP discharges on the flame. Numerical results are comparedwith experimental observations made at the King Abdulla University of Science and Technology(Saudi Arabia)
Mallon, Michael [Verfasser], Jochen [Akademischer Betreuer] Schein, Jochen [Gutachter] Schein, Gianluca [Gutachter] Gregori, and Claus [Gutachter] Hillermeier. "Time efficient radiation model for plasma spectroscopy and model based control of transient thermal arcs / Michael Mallon ; Gutachter: Jochen Schein, Gianluca Gregori, Claus Hillermeier ; Akademischer Betreuer: Jochen Schein ; Universität der Bundeswehr München, Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik." Neubiberg : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität der Bundeswehr München, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1220094803/34.
Full textMallon, Michael [Verfasser], Jochen [Akademischer Betreuer] Schein, Jochen Gutachter] Schein, Gianluca [Gutachter] [Gregori, and Claus [Gutachter] Hillermeier. "Time efficient radiation model for plasma spectroscopy and model based control of transient thermal arcs / Michael Mallon ; Gutachter: Jochen Schein, Gianluca Gregori, Claus Hillermeier ; Akademischer Betreuer: Jochen Schein ; Universität der Bundeswehr München, Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik." Neubiberg : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität der Bundeswehr München, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1220094803/34.
Full textGao, Hantian. "Nanoscale Characterization and Control of Native Point Defects in Metal Oxide Semiconductors and Device Structures." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1618838504594148.
Full textDubois, Diane. "Réalisation et caractérisation d'un réacteur plasma de laboratoire pour des études sur la dépollution des gaz d"échappement." Toulouse 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006TOU30139.
Full textThe present thesis is devoted to the experimental study of atmospheric positive corona discharges generated in a point to plane corona reactor under DC or pulsed high voltage conditions. The corona discharge characteristics, in particular during “breakdown streamer” mode, are studied according to the high voltage supply conditions (DC or pulsed), the point radius curvature, the gap distance or the gas mixture following the variation of the N2, O2 and CO2 concentration. The dynamics and the morphology of the streamers are also studied using fast imaging (ICCD and Streak cameras) and electrical (oscilloscope) diagnostics on time scale lower than hundred of nanosecond. As the corona discharge reactor dimensions are well adapted, some preliminary results show the comparison between experimental and simulated results which allow us in the future to estimate the localization, the density and the nature of the radical species created during the discharge phase of a corona reactor devoted to air pollution control
D'Ans, Pierre. "Contribution à la mise au point d'une démarche rationnelle de sélection des traitements de surface: illustration dans le cas des dispositifs de fonderie de l'aluminium." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210366.
Full text- Utiliser des multitraitements de surface peut se faire en scindant les différentes requêtes en sous-ensembles, de manière à ce que chaque traitement réponde à l’un d’eux. Dans quel ordre ces requêtes doivent-elles être introduites par rapport au substrat ?
- Comment sélectionner les traitements de surface répondant à chaque requête individuelle ?
- Comment classer des multitraitements en termes d’adéquation au problème posé ?
Dans ce travail, les première et troisième questions sont abordées, en explorant les requêtes concernant habituellement les dispositifs de moulage de l’aluminium :
- Résistance aux contraintes d’origine thermique.
- Résistance à la corrosion par les métaux fondus.
- Résistance au frottement.
L’analyse de la bibliographie relative aux traitements de surface utilisés dans ces systèmes a été analysée et des « architectures »-types ont été identifiées (chapitre 3). On prévoit, par exemple, un traitement conférant la résistance à la fatigue superficielle, ainsi qu’un revêtement étanche et résistant à l’aluminium fondu. Une barrière thermique est parfois préconisée.
Pour chacune des architectures, des traitements de surface individuels peuvent être sélectionnés. Un « facteur de performance » permettant de classer les solutions par rapport au problème de la fatigue thermique a été construit (chapitre 4) et discuté dans deux situations :
- Lorsqu’un revêtement est présent, et que les contraintes d’origine thermique (différence de dilatation thermique couche-substrat) menacent de le rompre lors de l’immersion dans un milieu corrosif à haute température. Des essais de corrosion dans de l’aluminium fondu ont été réalisés sur un acier revêtu par du nitrure de chrome dopé à l’aluminium, synthétisé par déposition physique en phase vapeur (chapitre 5 – collaboration :Inasmet).
- Lorsque des variations thermiques rapides menacent de rompre le substrat et la (les) couches. Des essais de fatigue thermique ont été réalisés sur de l’acier à outils pour travail à chaud non traité, boruré ou recouvert d’un multitraitements (zircone yttriée / NiCrAlY / boruration / acier). Le revêtement en zircone yttriée a été obtenu par projection par plasma. L’essai de fatigue thermique a été modélisé et le facteur de performance, discuté (chapitre 6).
Au chapitre 7, les architectures-types ont été introduites dans une méthodologie de sélection des multi-traitements de surface, qui a été appliquée dans deux cas :
- Celui des moules de fonderie, devant résister à la fatigue thermique et à la corrosion par l’aluminium fondu. Le facteur de performance a été extrapolé à d’autres situations qu’aux chapitres 5 et 6. Les solutions habituellement proposées pour résoudre ce problème sont retrouvées.
- Celui de deux pièces en acier frottant l’une contre l’autre en présence d’aluminium fondu.
To select surface treatments, one must account for the required functional properties, the substrate features and the solicitations the substrate must endure. Certain combinations of these parameters make it difficult to select a single surface treatment, a reason why several successive treatments are preferred. To select them, one needs to determine:
- How to divide the several requests into groups and how to stack up these groups from the substrate to the outer surface, so that each treatment deals with one specific group of requests/properties.
- How to select individual layers for each group of properties.
- How to rank the multi-treatments in terms of relevance for a given application.
In this work, one tries to answer the first and the third questions, by studying the case of aluminium foundry, in which the industrial devices frequently face the following solicitations:
- Thermal stress (thermal fatigue, thermal expansion mismatch).
- Presence of corrosive molten metal.
- Sliding wear.
In the literature, several “standard” architectures are proposed (chapter 3), like a diffusion layer reducing superficial fatigue plus a corrosion barrier layer. A thermal barrier coating is also sometimes proposed.
For each of these architectures, one can select individual treatments. To rank them, one devised a “performance index” for thermal stress (chap.4), which is discussed for two cases:
- For large differences between layer and substrate thermal expansion coefficients, when both are put into contact with a high temperature corrosive medium, the layer may be damaged. One discusses this case by examining the corrosion caused by molten aluminium for a steel substrate coated by anticorrosive chromium nitride doped with aluminium. The layer is produced by physical vapour deposition (chap. 5 – cooperation: Inasmet).
- Repeated fast surface temperature transients can also damage the substrate and/or the layer by thermal fatigue. One conducted thermal fatigue tests with samples of hot work tool steel, respectively untreated, simply borided and protected by a multilayer. In the last case, top coat is yttria stabilised zirconia, followed by a nickel superalloy and then a borided layer (undercoat). One synthesized the zirconia coating by plasma spray and one modelled the thermal fatigue (chap. 6).
In chap. 7, architectures from chap. 2 are introduced in a multi-treatment selection routine, which is applied in two cases:
- Foundry moulds for molten aluminium, withstanding both thermal fatigue and corrosion. The devised performance index is extrapolated beyond the tests of chap. 5 and 6 to treatments for this industrial application, thereby quantifying their respective merits.
- A foundry device exposed to molten metal and sliding wear.
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Itawi, Ahmad. "Dispositifs photoniques hybrides sur Silicium comportant des guides nano-structurés : conception, fabrication et caractérisation." Thesis, Paris 11, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA112363/document.
Full textThis work contributes to the general context of III-V materials on Silicon hybrid devices for optical integrated functions, mainly emission/amplification at 1.55µm. Devices are considered for operation under electrical injection, reaching performances relevant for data transfer application. The main three contributions of this work concern: (i) bonding InP-based materials on Si, (ii) nanostructuration of the Si guiding layer for spatial and spectral control of the guided mode and (iii) technology of an hybrid electrically injected laser, with a special attention to the thermal budget. Bonding has been investigated following two approaches. The first one we call heterohepitaxial or oxide-free bonding, is performed without any intermediate layer at a temperature ~450°C. This approach has the great advantage allowing electrical transport across the interface, as reported in the literature. We have developed oxide-free surface preparation for both materials, mainly InP-based layers, and established bonding parameter processing. An in-depth STEM and RX structural characterization has demonstrated an oxide-free reconstructed interface without any dislocation except on one or two atomic layers which accommodate the large lattice mismatch (8.1%) between InP and Si. Photoluminescence of quantum wells intentionally grown close to the interface has shown no degradation. We have also developed an oxide-based bonding process operated at 300°C in order to be compatible with CMOS processing. The original ozone activation of the very thin (~5nm) oxide layer we have proposed demonstrates a bonding surface without any unbonded area due to degassing under annealing. We have developed an original method based on nanoindentation characterization in order to obtain a quantitative and local value of the surface bonding energy. Related to the absence or to the very thin intermediate layer between the two materials, our modal design is based on a double core structure, where most of the optical mode is confined in the Si guiding layer, and no taper is required. The Si waveguide on top of the SOI stack is a shallow ridge. A nanostructured material on both sides of the waveguide core ensures the lateral confinement, the nanostructuration geometry being at a sub-wavelength period in order to operate this material well below its photonic gap. It behaves as an uniaxial material with ordinary and extraordinary indices calculated according to the structuration geometry. Such a structuration allows modal and spectral control of the guided mode. 3D modal and spectral simulation have been performed. We have demonstrated, on a double-period structuration, a wavelength selective operation of hybrid optical waveguides. Such a double-period geometry could be included in a laser design for DFB operation. This nanostructuration has larger potential application such as coupled waveguides arrays or selective resonators. We have developed all the technological processing steps for an electrically injected hybrid laser fabrication. Main developments concern dry etching, performed with the Inductive Coupled Plasma Reactive Ion Etching ICP-RIE technique of both the nanostructuration of the Silicon material, and the mesa of the hybrid laser. Efficient electrical contacts fabrication is also a complex step. First lasers operating performances could be improved. We have investigated a specific design in order to overcome the thermal penalty encountered by all the hybrid devices. This penalty is due to the thick buried oxide layer of the SOI stack that prevents heating related to the current flow to be dissipated. Taking advantage of the electrical transport we have shown at the oxide-free interface, we propose a design where the n-contact is defined on the guiding Si layer, suppressing thermal heating under electrical operation. Such an approach is very promising for densely packed hybrid devices integrated with associated electronic driving elements on Si
Peranich, Larry Steven. "Plasma filling rates in the Phaedrus-B thermal barriers." 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/15536444.html.
Full textSinha, Dipanwita. "Towards Achieving Better NOx Removal In Discharge Plasma Treatment Of Diesel Engine Exhaust." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2005/648.
Full textHOOR, AZADEH. "EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ON THE SERVICE-LIFE OF LANDFILL LINERS AND POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE CONTROL STRATEGIES." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/6633.
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