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Kwakman, Rik (author)The Netherlands is grappling with a substantial housing crisis, marked by an estimated shortage of 380,000 houses. To address this issue, an annual creation of 100,000 new housing units is deemed necessary. However, the current construction rate stands at only 70,000 houses per year, indicating a considerable gap in resolving the housing crisis....master thesis 2024
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Schweidtmann, A.M. (author), Zhang, Dongda (author), von Stosch, Moritz (author)The term hybrid modeling refers to the combination of parametric models (typically derived from knowledge about the system) and nonparametric models (typically deduced from data). Despite more than 20 years of research, over 150 scientific publications (Agharafeie et al., 2023), and some recent industrial applications on this topic, the...review 2024
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Tacx, Paul (author), Habraken, Roel (author), Witvoet, Gert (author), Heertjes, Marcel (author), Oomen, T.A.E. (author)Next-generation deformable mirrors are envisaged to exhibit low-frequency flexible dynamics and to contain a large number of spatially distributed actuators due to increasingly stringent performance requirements. The increasingly complex system characteristics necessitate identifying the flexible dynamic behavior for design validation and...journal article 2024
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Dang, M.K. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author), Voskuilen, P.C. (author)The city of Amsterdam has ambitious goals to achieve a 95% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050 and to phase out natural gas by 2040. Disconnecting the building stock from natural gas requires well-ventilated and well-insulated buildings and a switch to renewable energy sources, making optimal use of heat pumps and sustainable heating solutions...journal article 2024
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Slinger, J (author)Water renewal and flushing in small, intermittently open or closed estuaries is receiving increasing attention particularly in light of the climate change induced alterations in run-off, wave and sediment transport conditions along coasts. The challenges of predicting the stratification-circulation state and the balance between tidal or...journal article 2024
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Wang, Chengyan (author)Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common heart diseases. Billions of people have suffered from it in the world. Although it can lead to terrible complications such as stroke and heart failure, the underlying mechanisms of it are still under-explored. Besides, there is no so-called optimal therapy for the patients. As the disease is...master thesis 2023
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Middelweerd, Marloes (author)In the Netherlands, online groceries are becoming increasingly popular, as are the challenges grocery companies face in meeting customers' rising demand for smaller and cheaper time slots while maintaining thin profit margins due to a highly competitive market. Customer choice modelling will be used to identify customers' behaviour and control...master thesis 2023
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Milatz, Bas (author), de Winter, Roy (author), van de Ridder, Jelle D.J. (author), van Engeland, Martijn (author), Mauro, F. (author), Kana, A.A. (author)The prediction of the statutory attained subdivision index is a challenging issue for the initial design of ships due to the design freedom offered by a probabilistic damage stability assessment. To this end, optimisation techniques integrated with a parametric model of the internal layout may generate a preliminary subdivision design,...journal article 2023
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Doornebos, Patryk (author), Francis, Moreno (author), le Poole, J.J. (author), Kana, A.A. (author)This paper explores the design and feasibility of a 200-passenger, 30- to 40-knot emission-free ferry as a potential variant of the traditionally powered Coastal Cruiser 200 ferry currently operating in the Chinese Pearl River Delta. The Pearl River Delta is one of China’s most densely urbanized regions and faces numerous social, health, and...journal article 2023
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Arish Hasan, Arish (author)BaCla is a new stochastic parametric precipitation model to estimate rainfall associated with Tropical cyclones (TCs) in a computationally efficient way. It is validated for a number of calibration cases along with the current benchmark IPET deterministic method. The results of these models are compared with the observed StageIV-based rainfall....master thesis 2022
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Milatz, Bas (author)The probabilistic damage stability method offers great design freedom when used as a base of design. However, due to the complexity of the calculation and amount of parameters that influence the attained index, much of this freedom is not being harnessed by designers. This research tries to give the designer more insight in where to look when...master thesis 2022
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Mulder, Larissa (author)In the Netherlands, 362.000 people suffered from atrial fibrillation in 2019. During a catheter intervention, the tissue that causes atrial fibrillation is destroyed by heat generated by an alternating current exerted from an ablation catheter. Two problems of this treatment are over-ablation of the heart tissue and the non-contingent...master thesis 2022
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Doijode, P.S. (author), Hickel, S. (author), van Terwisga, T.J.C. (author), Visser, K. (author)We propose and analyse an optimization method that uses a machine learning approach to solve multi-objective, constrained propeller optimization problems. The method uses an online learning strategy where explainable supervised classifiers learn the location of the Pareto front and advise search strategies. The classifiers are trained with...journal article 2022
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Doijode, P.S. (author), Hickel, S. (author), van Terwisga, T.J.C. (author), Visser, K. (author)This paper introduces a machine learning approach for optimizing propellers. The method aims to improve the computational cost of optimization by reducing the number of evaluations required to find solutions. This is achieved by directing the search towards design clusters with good performance, i.e. high propulsive efficiency and low...journal article 2022
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Blom, Jelle (author)Two current assumptions of the Zeesluisformulering (ZSF) regarding a homogeneous lock density and instantaneous shipping are tested against refined descriptions according to literature: a stratified lock density and shipping according the continuity approach. These are implemented into a conceptual model constructed in Python, after which...master thesis 2021
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van Lynden, Casper (author)Offshore wind plays a major role in the transition of conventional energy towards sustainable energy sources. To keep up with the increasing installation demand in this sector new offshore wind installation vessels are needed. There is a need for more certainty and predictability regarding the requirements of the future offshore wind...master thesis 2021
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Claassen, Judith (author)Torrential rain from tropical cyclones can have a devastating impact, causing loss of life and billions in damages. To better understand the risk faced by coastal communities, it is important to estimate how often a tropical cyclone could occur and how much rainfall it will produce. One way to do this is by analyzing past storms and building...master thesis 2021
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Abrahamse, Noor (author)Hydrogen produced by electrolysis of water, powered by renewable energy, is seen as the key to enabling the energy transition and creating a new green economy. The result will be a trade market for low-carbon hydrogen where the trade routes will be determined by natural, technical, cost and geopolitical factors. However, to transport or store...master thesis 2021
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Bikulčiūtė, Goda (author)The concept of sustainability takes into account a problem of urbanisation which causes a phenomenon of urban sprawl. In order to fight it, the strategy of urban densification is introduced and building upward extensions is one of the methods. However, investigating the feasibility of placing an extension on top requires a significant amount of...master thesis 2021