Sulla formatura di film plastico in macchine blisteratrici con infrarossi.

La tesi è rivolta allo studio delle dinamiche di riscaldamento del film plastico in macchine blisteratrici e alla possibilità di utilizzo di irradiatori infrarossi nella fase di preriscaldo. Sono stati effettuati i calcoli analitici dei tempi necessari al riscaldamento e dopo avere progettato e realizzato i supporti sono state fatte delle prove empiriche in macchina per identificare la migliore configurazione delle lampade e trovare conferma dei risultati teorici.

Contributo sperimentale alla ridefinizione della diffusione in parete della camera di prova della galleria del vento Dallara

Joseph Nicolas Cugnot built the first primitive car in 1769 and approximately one hundred year later the first automotive race took place. Thanks to this, for the first time the aerodynamics principles began to be applied to cars. The aerodynamic study of a car is important to improve the performance on the road, or on the track. It purposely enhances the stability in the turns and increases the maximum velocity. However, it is also useful, decrease the fuel consumption, in order to reduce the pollution. Given that cars are a very complex body, the aerodynamic study cannot be conducted following an analytical method, but it is possible, in general, to choose between two different approaches: the numerical or the experimental one. The results of numerical studies depend on the computers’ potential and on the method use to implement the mathematical model. Today, the best way to perform an aerodynamic study is still experimental, which means that in the first phase of the design process the study is performed in a wind tunnel and in later phases directly on track. The automotive wind tunnels are singular mainly due to the test chamber, which typically contains a ground simulation system. The test chamber can have different types of walls: open walls, closed walls, adaptive walls or slotted walls. The best solution is to use the slotted walls because they minimize the interference between the walls and the streamlines, the interaction between the flow and the environment, and also to contain the overall costs. Furthermore, is necessary minimize the boundary layer at the walls, without accelerating the flow, in order to provide the maximum section of homogeneous flow. This thesis aims at redefining the divergent angle of the Dallara Automobili S.P.A. wind tunnel’s walls, in order to improve the overall homogeneity. To perform this study it was necessary to acquire the pressure data of the boundary layer, than it was created the profile of the boundary layer velocity and, to minimize the experimental errors, it was calculated the displacement thickness. The results obtained shows, even if the instrument used to the experiment was not the best one, that the boundary layer thickness could be minor in case of a low diffusion angle. So it is convenient to perform another experiment with a most sensitive instrument to verified what is the better wall configuration.

Analisi del doppiaggio del film francese "Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au bon Dieu"

Questa tesi ha come obiettivo l’analisi contrastiva della versione originale francese e di quella doppiata in italiano del film “Qu’est-ce qu’on a fait au bon Dieu”, del regista Philippe de Chauveron. Partendo da alcuni aspetti teorici spiegati nel primo capitolo, parlerò della traduzione audiovisiva e delle sue due tecniche maggiormente utilizzate, ossia doppiaggio e sottotitolaggio, oltre che ad accennare il contesto storico-sociale in cui è nata e si è sviluppata. In seguito mi concentrerò sull’analisi vera e propria del doppiaggio del film, prendendo in considerazione gli aspetti culturali di più difficile adattamento per i dialoghisti, quali il cibo, gli odonimi, il mondo dello spettacolo, l’ironia e gli aspetti extra-testuali di immagini e suoni. Infine, l’elaborato si concluderà con l’analisi degli aspetti linguistici più complessi per gli adattatori, come il dialetto, il turpiloquio e le espressioni idiomatiche, con un’attenzione particolare anche alla traduzione dei titoli.

Energy consumption of parallel algorithms for solving linear systems on HPC architecture

Modern High-Performance Computing HPC systems are gradually increasing in size and complexity due to the correspondent demand of larger simulations requiring more complicated tasks and higher accuracy. However, as side effects of the Dennard’s scaling approaching its ultimate power limit, the efficiency of software plays also an important role in increasing the overall performance of a computation. Tools to measure application performance in these increasingly complex environments provide insights into the intricate ways in which software and hardware interact. The monitoring of the power consumption in order to save energy is possible through processors interfaces like Intel Running Average Power Limit RAPL. Given the low level of these interfaces, they are often paired with an application-level tool like Performance Application Programming Interface PAPI. Since several problems in many heterogeneous fields can be represented as a complex linear system, an optimized and scalable linear system solver algorithm can decrease significantly the time spent to compute its resolution. One of the most widely used algorithms deployed for the resolution of large simulation is the Gaussian Elimination, which has its most popular implementation for HPC systems in the Scalable Linear Algebra PACKage ScaLAPACK library. However, another relevant algorithm, which is increasing in popularity in the academic field, is the Inhibition Method. This thesis compares the energy consumption of the Inhibition Method and Gaussian Elimination from ScaLAPACK to profile their execution during the resolution of linear systems above the HPC architecture offered by CINECA. Moreover, it also collates the energy and power values for different ranks, nodes, and sockets configurations. The monitoring tools employed to track the energy consumption of these algorithms are PAPI and RAPL, that will be integrated with the parallel execution of the algorithms managed with the Message Passing Interface MPI.