Master of Science, The Ohio State University, 2006, Graduate School

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Master of Science, The Ohio State University, 1966, Graduate School

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Master of Science, The Ohio State University, 1962, Graduate School

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Master of Science, The Ohio State University, 1965, Graduate School

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Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1982, Graduate School

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Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1982, Graduate School

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Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1964, Graduate School

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Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1963, Graduate School

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Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1958, Graduate School

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Master of Science, Miami University, 2016, Computational Science and Engineering

Wireless power transfer (WPT) has become a common way to charge or power many types of devices, ranging from cell phones to electric toothbrushes. WPT became popular through the introduction of a transmission mode known as strongly coupled magnetic resonance (SCMR). This means of transmission is non-radiative and enables mid-range WPT. Shortly after the development of WPT via SCMR, a group of researchers introduced the concept of resonant repeaters, which allows power to hop from the source to the device. These repeaters are in resonance with the WPT system, which enables them to propagate the power wirelessly with minimal losses to the environment. Resonant repeaters have rekindled the dream of ubiquitous wireless power. Inherent risks come with the realization of such a dream. One of the most prominent risks, which we set out in this thesis to address, is that of accessibility to the WPT system. We propose the incorporation of a controlled access schema within a WPT system to prevent unwarranted use of wireless power. Our thesis discusses the history of electromagnetism, examines the inception of WPT via SCMR, evaluates recent developments in WPT, and further elaborates on the controlled access schema we wish to contribute to the field.

Committee: Dmitriy Garmatyuk PhD (Advisor); Mark Scott PhD (Committee Member); Herbert Jaeger PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Computer Engineering; Electrical Engineering; Electromagnetics; Electromagnetism; Engineering

Master of Science (MS), Wright State University, 2015, Earth and Environmental Sciences

This thesis investigates how well ground vibrations can be detected at ladar or radar wavelengths and how the atmosphere may impact the observation of such activity. First understanding atmospheric hindrances at each of these wavelengths is helpful to prioritize by those yielding best transmission results. A prerequisite to the outdoor field experiment performed for this study involves analyzing atmospheric effects characterization at six probable wavelengths using the Laser Environmental Effects Definition and Reference tool (LEEDR) developed by the Air Force Institute of Technology's (AFIT) Center for Directed Energy (CDE). These wavelengths, selected from the shortwave infrared and microwave portions of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum, are assessed to determine which provides optimal path transmission results allowing a sensor platform at an altitude of 1525 meters to sense induced ground vibrations. Selecting an altitude just above the typical atmospheric boundary layer (BL) allows further investigation of precipitation and cloud impacts on potential path transmission. The objective of performing the outdoor field experiment is to induce surface vibrations tracked by a 12 channel geophone spread linked to a seismograph at various locations along a horizontal path to determine if the signal can be detected by a 35 GHz radar. The contributory goal of this research is to realize new ways of monitoring otherwise invisible illegal or terrorist-like activities for the security of this nation. Additionally, the use of LEEDR could allow the atmospheric effects measured in the microwave part of the spectrum to be scaled for various platform altitudes and applied for atmospheric correction in other parts of the spectrum such as the visible, near-infrared, infrared, or submillimeter ranges. Experimental results indicate a 35 GHz radar is optimal and capable of detecting ground vibrations across short ranges when using a retro-reflector. How well seismic activity can (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Ernest Hauser Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Steven Fiorino Ph.D. (Committee Member); Douglas Petkie Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Atmosphere; Atmospheric Sciences; Electromagnetism; Energy; Environmental Geology; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Experiments; Geology; Geophysical; Geophysics; Physics; Remote Sensing

BA, Oberlin College, 2014, Physics and Astronomy

Einstein's theory of General Relativity, put forward in 1915, predicts that space and time do not form a fixed background, but instead are malleable and dynamic quantities themselves. Their union forms something called spacetime, which when curved causes gravitational effects. This framework has led to models of the universe which match observations that the entire universe is expanding. Running these models backwards in time leads to a 'big bang', which is a single point from which the entire known universe came from. This single point is a singularity, a place where the theory breaks down, rendering questions like 'what happened before the big bang' meaningless. However, we can use General Relativity to study what happens near these singularities, which can have profound implications for whatever theory will succeed General Relativity, which will need to explain singularities, and will presumably be a quantum theory of gravity.In 1970, Belinsky, Khalatnikov, and Lifshitz made a conjecture about the nature of spacetime near any singularity. They proposed that as one asymptotically approaches a singularity, each spatial point decouples from the points around it, and therefore acts like an independent homogeneous universe. An important homogeneous universe is the 'Mixmaster Universe', and in many cases, numerical simulations show that, on approaches to singularities, each point begins to act like its own Mixmaster Universe. The Mixmaster universe features chaotic, oscillatory behavior known as 'Mixmaster Dynamics'.Mixmaster dynamics are fairly well understood, but in this thesis I will study them in a new way, utilizing an alternative language for understand the curvature of spacetime called Gravito-Electromagnetism. In electromagnetism, the electric and magnetic fields are decomposed from a single quantity which contains all the information of the electromagnetic field. A similar decomposition can be done to the gravitational analogue of the full field quantity, giv (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Rob Owen Dr. (Advisor) Subjects: Physics

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2011, Mechanical Engineering

Magnetostrictive materials deform in response to applied magnetic fields and change their magnetic state when stressed. Because these processes are due to moment realignments, magnetostrictive materials are ideally suited for sensing and actuation mechanisms with a bandwidth of a few kHz. Significant research effort has been focused on two magnetostrictive alloys: Terfenol-D (an alloy of terbium, iron and dysprosium) and Galfenol (an iron gallium alloy), for their ability to produce giant magnetostrictive strains at moderate fields. Terfenol-D has higher energy density and magnetomechanical coupling factor than Galfenol but it is brittle and suffers from poor machinability. Galfenol on the other hand has excellent structural properties. It can be machined, welded, extruded into complex shapes for use in transducers with 3D functionality. Advanced modeling tools are necessary for analyzing magnetostrictive transducers because these materials exhibit nonlinear coupling between the magnetic and mechanical domains. Also, system level electromagnetic coupling is present through Maxwell's equations. This work addresses the development of a unified modeling framework to serve as a design tool for 3D, dynamic magnetostrictive transducers. Maxwell's equations for electromagnetics and Navier's equations for mechanical systems are formulated in weak form and coupled using a generic constitutive law. The overall system is approximated hierarchically; first, piecewise linearization is used to describe quasistatic responses and perform magnetic bias calculations. A linear dynamic solution with piezomagnetic coefficients computed at the bias point describes the system dynamics for moderate inputs. Dynamic responses at large inputs are obtained through an implicit time integration algorithm. The framework simultaneously describes the effect of magneto-structural dynamics, flux leakages, eddy currents, and transducer geometry. Being a fully coupled formulation, it yields system lev (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Marcelo Dapino PhD (Advisor); Ahet Kahraman PhD (Committee Member); Junmin Wang PhD (Committee Member); Rajendra Singh PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Electromagnetics; Electromagnetism; Mechanical Engineering; Mechanics

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2009, Mathematics

Based on Lagrangian formulations of the Lorentz equations of motion, we investigate the relativistic orbit of a classical charged particle in response to a generic electromagnetic field in the four dimensional Minkowski space. Within the context of classical mechanics, the results are relativistically and mathematically exact. With the application to laser-particle interaction in mind, our primary focus is on the particle dynamics in a generic plane wave field.Taking advantage of the fact that the particle motion in the direction transverse to the wave propagation direction is cyclic, we use the classical Routh's procedure to reduce the number of degrees of freedom of the motion and to manifest the observation that the longitudinal motion of the particle controls every aspect of the particle dynamics under the influence of a generic plane wave field. In fact, we show that the particle longitudinal motion is a generalized natural mechanical system in the sense that it has a Lagrangian consists of the difference of a metric based kinetic energy and a potential function. A corollary of this is the culmination of this work, that is, the geodesic variational principle. The geodesic variational principle implies that longitudinally, the particle moves along a timelike geodesic in a curved two dimensional Lorentzian spacetime whose metric is determined by the plane wave field. In other words, the effect of the field on the particle dynamics gets replaced by the effect of the geometry and its curvature on the geodesics of a two-dimensional manifold. This gives rise to a geometrization of the laser-particle interaction. We also use the geodesic variational principle to establish a Lorentzian law of refraction in which the particle, in response to the plane wave field, gets refracted by the field in the same way that light rays get refracted by a medium permeating Euclidean space. The plane wave field acts as a refractive medium with a characteristic Lorentzian refractive ind (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Ulrich Gerlach (Advisor); Ovidiu Costin (Committee Member); David Terman (Committee Member) Subjects: Mathematics