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Ice nucleating particles in the atmosphere
Gaálová, Gabriela ; Zíková, Naděžda (advisor) ; Sedlák, Pavel (referee)
The production of clouds and precipitation in the atmosphere is greatly influenced by microscopic ice nucleating particles, acting in the process of heterogeneous ice nucleation as ice nuclei. Examining the properties and variations of ice nucleating particles concent- rations over time might help to better predict future changes to the climate. The aim of this thesis is to summarise the information about processes of homogeneous, but primarily heterogeneous ice nucleation where specific physical and chemical features of these particles are applied. In this thesis, the main aerosol sources of ice nucleating particles and their abilities to directly or indirectly influence the atmosphere and climate are described. The observational methods of the concentration of ice nucleating particles in the air are also pre- sented, while the structure of the cloud expansion chamber PINE, which was used to obtain data values representing the amount of ice nucleating particles in the Czech Republic, is also described in more detail. From the data set total average values and time dependen- cies, including daily and weekly cycle were calculated; the part of the data processing is the statistical evaluation and comparison of the results with other studies. Keywords: ice nucleating particles, nucleation, aerosol,...
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Optimization of Machining Technologies for Special Applications
Ohnišťová, Petra ; Maňková, Ildikó (referee) ; Neslušan, Miroslav (referee) ; Píška, Miroslav (advisor)
This thesis is focused on the optimization of the milling technologies for special applications with respect to the required fatigue properties of aircraft components. The theoretical part of the thesis describes in detail the key features of the high-speed and high-feed milling, surface integrity after milling and fatigue characteristics of the studied component. The key aim of the work is devoted to the analysis of the influence of the cutting conditions of the high-speed peripheral and high-feed face milling of the bottom wing panel from aluminium alloy 7475-T7351 on the surface integrity in relation to the final fatigue properties. Therefore, the part of the work is a study of metallographic structure of the material, measurement of the accompanying machining phenomenon and quantities, advanced analysis of the surface integrity (amplitude characteristics, S-N parameters), manufacturing of the highly accurate fatigue samples and fatigue testing. Furthermore, the development of sample damage during in situ tensile loading and the development of sample damage during cyclic in situ fatigue tensile loading is also studied. The achieved results and fractography of fracture surfaces show that the studied cutting conditions have a significant effect on the quality of machining and resistance to mechanical stress, but they are not a decisive factor in terms of the fatigue crack nucleation. The effect of the achieved topography for the studied cutting conditions is suppressed by the presence of large intermetallic inclusions (Al7Cu2Fe; Al-Cr-Fe-Cu-Si) with a size from 2 µm to 20 µm, being the origin on the fatigue crack nucleation.
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Nucleation in complex systems
Kulveit, Jan ; Demo, Pavel (advisor) ; Slanina, František (referee) ; Vlček, Jaroslav (referee)
Title: Nucleation in complex systems Author: Jan Kulveit Institute: Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Supervisor: prof. Pavel Demo, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy ofSciences, Department of Optical Materials Abstract: We studied nucleation in progressively more abstract contexts and systems, starting from classical nucleation theory and ending with nucleation in complex networks. The cases studied include impurity nucleation in a solid matrix on several alkali halide crystals, where we determined formation energies for clusters, treated as defects, starting from single impurity-vacancy dipole and small aggregates to possible configurations of larger clusters. In the next part, we turn to the study of heterogeneous nucleation. While in the usual treatment of heterogeneous nucleation the surface energy is assumed to be homogenous, we ask the question what happens if we consider the surface energy to be heteroge- neous.Utilizing umbrella sampling computer simulations we find the nucleation barrier can be significantly lowered in the presence of surface heterogeneity, even if the average surface energy is kept constant. In the last part we study influence of clustering coefficient on phase transitions in scale-free networks, using forward flux sampling (FFS). Keywords: nucleation,...
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Numerical model for the origin of magmatic textures and its application to the Fichtelgebirge/Smrčiny granite batholith
Špillar, Václav ; Dolejš, David (advisor) ; Ježek, Josef (referee) ; Žák, Jiří (referee)
Magmatic processes are major agents responsible for the formation and differentiation of the Earth's crust. In contrast to extensive efforts to improve understanding and utility of igneous geochemistry, physical processes of magma differentiation and solidification remain largely unclear. Large variability of igneous textures provides record of these processes and intensive parameters governing the crystallization. In this thesis, we develop quantitative methods, which allow us to better interpret igneous textures in the framework of physics of solidification. We have developed a new three-dimensional model of crystallization from one- component melt driven by homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation and crystal growth. The predicted textures are quantitatively characterized by crystal size distributions, spatial distribution functions and parameters representing grain contact relationships. The model employs high resolution in a large volume simulation domain in order to produce statistically stable results. Our simulations, performed for various functional forms of nucleation and growth rates with respect to time, imply that (i) crystals are ordered (anti-clustered) on short length scales. This reflects that other crystals already have a finite size at the time of nucleation of younger crystal,...
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Mechanisms of Microtubules Dynamics and Nucleation in a Plant Cell
Mauerová, Zdeňka ; Schwarzerová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Žárský, Viktor (referee)
Nucleation of microtubules co-determines organization of this cytoskeleton component in cells and makes a significant contribution to shaping its dynamics. In plant cells, micro- tubules are mainly nucleated on preexisting ones and nucleation takes place in the cortex and also within the mitotic spindle and the fragmoplast. Recruiting the γTuRC, a pre- served universal nucleator, to the wall of microtubules is provided by augmin in cooperation with NEDD1/GCP-WD. The function of the γTuRC is at least in the case of nucleation in the spindle, but apparently in other situations as well further enhanced by XMAP215/MOR1, which raises efficiency of the γTuRC through its own polymerization activity, and TPX2, or its homologs, which for one thing, directly activates the complex and for another, locally increases concentration of tubulins by forming condensate with them, which also augments the probability of success of nucleation. Not much is known about regulatory pathways controlling this process, with the exception of the TTP complex, which is functional in the cortex. Overall, knowledge covering nucleation in plants is rather meager and information concerning the molecular mechanisms of functioning of mentioned factors comes mainly from research in animals. Keywords augmin, cytoskeleton, γTuRC,...
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Nucleation in complex systems
Kulveit, Jan ; Demo, Pavel (advisor) ; Slanina, František (referee) ; Vlček, Jaroslav (referee)
Title: Nucleation in complex systems Author: Jan Kulveit Institute: Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Supervisor: prof. Pavel Demo, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy ofSciences, Department of Optical Materials Abstract: We studied nucleation in progressively more abstract contexts and systems, starting from classical nucleation theory and ending with nucleation in complex networks. The cases studied include impurity nucleation in a solid matrix on several alkali halide crystals, where we determined formation energies for clusters, treated as defects, starting from single impurity-vacancy dipole and small aggregates to possible configurations of larger clusters. In the next part, we turn to the study of heterogeneous nucleation. While in the usual treatment of heterogeneous nucleation the surface energy is assumed to be homogenous, we ask the question what happens if we consider the surface energy to be heteroge- neous.Utilizing umbrella sampling computer simulations we find the nucleation barrier can be significantly lowered in the presence of surface heterogeneity, even if the average surface energy is kept constant. In the last part we study influence of clustering coefficient on phase transitions in scale-free networks, using forward flux sampling (FFS). Keywords: nucleation,...
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Thermokinetic model and quantitative description of magmatic textures
Špillar, Václav ; Dolejš, David (advisor) ; Marsh, Bruce D. (referee) ; Higgins, Michael D. (referee)
Variability of magmatic textures records a wide array of physicochemical and mechanical processes that have operated in a magma chamber during its crystallization. Here I investigate how the final textural record can quantitatively be used to decipher the magma crystallization history and internal dynamics of magma chambers. The thesis is based on a formulation of numerical models of texture formation under the activity of various crystallization processes. Numerical results are then compared to the new quantitative textural datasets derived from four distinct magmatic systems in the Bohemian Massif: (i) Fichtelgebirge-Smrčiny granite batholith; (ii) Krkonoše-Jizera plutonic complex; (iii) Kdyně mafic intrusion; (iv) České středohoří volcanic complex. Combination of the field textural studies with their interpretation via numerical crystallization models provides new implications regarding magmatic crystallization and internal dynamics of magma chamber. The most important results of this Ph.D. thesis are as follows: (i) a new method has been developed that allows the rates of nucleation and growth of crystals to be derived from quantitative textural data. The method requires using the crystallinity evolution in time as an independent constraint in order to provide unique solution. In case of the...
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Textural analysis of granites from the Western Krušné hory/Erzgebirge pluton: implications for crystallization kinetics and crystal-melt interactions
Ditterová, Hana ; Dolejš, David (advisor) ; Závada, Prokop (referee)
Texture of igneous rocks, which includes size, shape and spatial distribution of grains, represents the final record of kinetic and mechanical processes operating during ascent and final emplacement of a magma. However, traditional geochemical approaches cannot assess and verify the physical processes of magma solidification, in particular, crystal nucleation and growth, textural coarsening, or mechanical crystal-melt interactions. In this work, I apply stereological methods to quantitatively characterize the textures and to interpret the crystallization history of granitic rocks in the Western Krušné hory/Erzgebirge and Vogtland. The Western Krušné hory/Erzgebirge granites consist of three suites: biotite granites (Kirchberg), muscovite-biotite microgranites (Walfischkopf), and topaz-zinnwaldite alkali- feldspar granites (Eibenstock), which consist of eight intrusive units and two aplite dyke sets. The entire granite sequence exhibits an extreme and nearly continuous differentiation range, but in detail the evolutionary trends of each suite are independent, and individual intrusive units are also clearly compositionally separated. The granites consist of 29-43 vol.% quartz, 20-30 vol. % plagioclase, 22-31 vol. % K-feldspar, 2-9 vol. % biotite, <2 vol. % muscovite, and minor topaz and apatite. All...
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Numerical model for the origin of magmatic textures and its application to the Fichtelgebirge/Smrčiny granite batholith
Špillar, Václav ; Dolejš, David (advisor) ; Ježek, Josef (referee) ; Žák, Jiří (referee)
Magmatic processes are major agents responsible for the formation and differentiation of the Earth's crust. In contrast to extensive efforts to improve understanding and utility of igneous geochemistry, physical processes of magma differentiation and solidification remain largely unclear. Large variability of igneous textures provides record of these processes and intensive parameters governing the crystallization. In this thesis, we develop quantitative methods, which allow us to better interpret igneous textures in the framework of physics of solidification. We have developed a new three-dimensional model of crystallization from one- component melt driven by homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation and crystal growth. The predicted textures are quantitatively characterized by crystal size distributions, spatial distribution functions and parameters representing grain contact relationships. The model employs high resolution in a large volume simulation domain in order to produce statistically stable results. Our simulations, performed for various functional forms of nucleation and growth rates with respect to time, imply that (i) crystals are ordered (anti-clustered) on short length scales. This reflects that other crystals already have a finite size at the time of nucleation of younger crystal,...
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