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Fotis, Konstantinos (author)The Landing Platform Dock vessel is mainly designed to support amphibious operations in which landing operations play an important role. For operating landing craft the vessel has a well dock at the stern, designed to station several landing craft. Landing operations are restricted by the motions of the Landing Platform Dock vessel and by the...master thesis 2024
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Zhang, H. (author)In recent decades, dielectric lens antennas have been more and more adopted and developed for sensing and imaging applications at sub-millimeter (sub-mm) wavelengths because they can achieve high gain while keeping their physical size and weight acceptable at these wavelengths. More recently, as low-loss and low-cost lens materials have become...doctoral thesis 2024
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Stumpf, Martin (author), Antonini, Giulio (author), Lager, I.E. (author)The transient electromagnetic (EM) excitation of a narrow slot in a perfectly electrically conducting (PEC) screen that separates two homogeneous dielectric halfspaces, a simplified model of a typical feeding structure of leaky lens antennas, is analyzed numerically in the time domain (TD). The problem is formulated using the TD reciprocity...journal article 2024
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Gu, Junhong (author), Stumpf, Martin (author), Neto, A. (author), Lager, I.E. (author)A strictly causal numerical study of the pulsed operation of a weakly dispersive, leaky wave (LW) antenna is presented. The intricacies at the forefront of the electromagnetic (EM) field radiated from a gap-fed slot in a perfectly electrically conducting (PEC) sheet are evidenced for the first time. The radical effect of a free-space gap...journal article 2024
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de Ruiter, Jop (author)In recent years the global energy demand has rapidly increased and will continue to grow in the next decades. With the growing demand for energy and the international agreement to use more renewable energy, the offshore wind industry is developing rapidly. This causes offshore wind farms to be installed at locations with larger water depths and...master thesis 2023
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Bueno Lopez, J. (author), Sberna, P.M. (author), Fiorellini Bernardis, A. (author), Zhang, H. (author), Neto, A. (author), Llombart, Nuria (author)State-of-the-art THz pulsed commercial systems operating over large bandwidth suffer from high dispersion or low radiation efficiency due to the poor coupling between the transmitter and receiver photoconductive antennas (PCAs). In this work, we present the fabrication and characterization of a leaky-lens PCA that has the potential to solve...journal article 2023
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Xu, Y. (author), Zhang, Xiao Zheng (author), Casalino, D. (author), Bi, Chuan Xing (author)An inverse acoustic method is presented in this work, which allows to determine the spatial and temporal distribution of unsteady rotating forces from microphone array measurements. The method is based on the usage of a space–time regularization with a mixed norm. The proposed method can take advantage of a prior knowledge of the space–time...journal article 2023
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Stumpf, M. (author), Gu, Junhong (author), Lager, I.E. (author)A causality preserving interpretation of the electromagnetic (EM) leaky-wave (LW) propagation in space and time is proposed for the first time. The Cagniard-deHoop (CdH) joint transform technique is applied for elucidating the relation between time-domain (TD) head waves (HWs), body waves (BWs), Cherenkov wave effects, and LWs. It is...journal article 2023
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Sinke, Bram (author)Continuous development in the wind turbine industry leads to increasing size of wind turbines. Allseas investigates the possibility to enter the offshore wind turbine installation industry with Pioneering Spirit.<br/>For Allseas’ preliminary wind turbine installation design, wind turbines are assembled offshore, requiring wind turbine components...master thesis 2022
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GU, JUNHONG (author)The primary goal of this study is to infer a time-domain (TD) counterpart of the frequency domain leaky wave. To reach this goal, a number of challenging problems will be tackled: (1) Develop adequate computational tools for performing detailed TD electromagnetic (EM) analyses via CST Studio simulations, the post-processing of the results...master thesis 2022
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Jensen, Courtland (author)Wind-assisted ships are installed with wind propulsors capable of generating thrust for aiding the propulsion of the ship, with the purpose of saving fuel by reducing the required propeller speed and thus engine power. Wind-assisted ships are becoming more common due to high fuel prices and rising environmental concerns. The subject of this...master thesis 2022
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Bakay, Ahmed (author)Human operators who are tasked with monitoring automation systems may experience a high visual demand to process the information streams from these systems. The visual sampling behavior of human operators can be described using mathematical models. These models can help designers improve environments where multiple signals are present for human...master thesis 2022
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Grolman, Wouter (author)The demand for renewable energies is rising due to climate goals and high oil prices. Not only the established renewable sources like wind and solar are interesting to exploit. There is a vast amount of energy stored in the world’s oceans. To harvest this energy, one needs a Wave Energy Converter (WEC). There<br/>are already some prototype WECs...master thesis 2022
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Smorenberg, Marius (author)Climate change is triggering an ever-growing demand for renewable energy. The U.S. is still far behind Europe when it comes to offshore wind energy. They have made ambitious plans to reach 30 GW in offshore wind energy by 2030 while currently 42 MW is installed. One of the main challenges in the U.S. is the installation method since a...master thesis 2022
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Richardson, Anthony (author)A structural firm will not invest a large sum of money in early design fase on a wind tunnel aeroelastic model to determine the displacements, forces, and moments when the dimensions of a building have only been estimated because the outcomes are only valid for that specific model. It is well-known that the outcomes are hard to determine...master thesis 2022
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Fiorellini Bernardis, A. (author)In recent years, the interest in terahertz technology witnessed a constant increasing interest and attention from the scientific community, as it allows to unlock the THz bandwidth, that can be used for a wide range of applications: it helps the study of biological samples and help medical diagnostics; it serves as a harmless non-destructive...doctoral thesis 2022
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Witvoet, Martijn (author)Fatigue lifetime has proven to be a leading design parameter for naval vessels. In the field of fatigue analysis and design of welded joints, two overall methods are distinguished: the temporal and spectral approach. Using empirical models, the spectral approach is typically preferred due to its efficiency, even though damage estimates are...master thesis 2022
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de Haan, Sander (author)Deterministic predictions of wave induced ship motion are increasingly often used to enlarge the oper- ational envelope of ships that perform complex operations at open sea. The large amount of complex operations performed nowadays, motivates the relevance of motion predictions. The company Next Ocean provides these forecasts, based on linear...master thesis 2022
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Stumpf, Martin (author), Lager, I.E. (author), Antonini, Giulio (author)Thin-wire structures in the presence or absence of a ground plane are analyzed numerically in the time domain (TD) with the aid of the Cagniard-DeHoop method of moments (CdH-MoM). It is demonstrated that the TD solution of such problems can be cast into the form of discrete time-convolution equations. Under the assumption of piecewise linear...journal article 2022
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Bloemers, Tom (author), Oomen, T.A.E. (author), Toth, Roland (author)The linear parameter-varying framework enables systematic control design approaches to meet increasing performance requirements and complexity of systems. The aim of this paper is to develop local frequency response data-based analysis and synthesis conditions for multiple-input multiple-output linear parameter-varying systems to facilitate...journal article 2022