Multiplied ground: A new lens for the northeast edge of San Francisco

Climate change is a global issue that influences worldwide. Its impacts are expected to be particularly severe in coastal cities, which are the center of discussion addressing this phenomenon. While it is impossible to ever fully eliminate risks from flooding, there are many measures available to manage and adapt to those risks. The Embarcadero,...

Fatigue Life Assessment on the Star Frame of the Ampelmann System

Studying the Effect of Flooding Water Salinity on Two-phase Flow in Porous Media through Pore-scale Modelling

The wetting behaviour of fl uids in porous media has a great impact on oil recovery and its understanding is of vital importance in reservoir modelling. This work adopts a finite volume direct simulation approach to investigate how the change of ooding water salinity, by means of altering the contact angle, affects the wettability hence oil...

Virtual Inertia Emulation in islanded microgrids with energy storage system

The inertial response plays a vital role in electrical networks to reduce the rate of change of frequency (RoCoF) following a contingency event. If the inertia has a low or zero value due to a lack of synchronous generators, then the electrical network might experience large undesirable frequency deviations. To overcome this problem, in previous...

Thermal Comfort Research in Naturally Ventilated High-Rise Residential Building: For one student dormitory with field study and simulation approach

Natural ventilation is a traditional but effective way in buildings to adjust the indoor environment. It has also been proved to be effective in today’s design, if applied appropriately. At the same time, there is a growing trend that higher and higher buildings are constructed in the crowded city area. Air velocity, temperature and other...

Integrated Sustainable Port Design: Framework Development Port Masterplan

Ports have evolved into an essential part of a nation’s economy [Schipper et al., 2015]. In order to obtain economic growth and prevent loss of trade and competitive position, the worldwide growth in port development will not stop [PIANC 2014a]. At present the port development process typically results in environmental mitigation and/or harm....

Switch the sun on: Manual for Daylight Strategies

This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0533 Innovation & Sustainability. This manual directs a designer to develop his own ideas on deep building day lighting strategies. After an introduction that defines the need for daylighting, critical regional aspects are discussed, followed by solutions. The daylighting solutions are...

Implementing and evaluating a simplified transistor model for timing analysis of integrated circuits

Static Timing Analysis (STA) is one approach to verify the timing of a digital circuit. The currently used Gate Level Model (GLM) has limitations on performing STA for circuits when taking process variations into consideration. The transistor level model is developed taking the statistical factors into account. This thesis presents an...

Swaption Pricing Under Affine Interest Rate Models

In this thesis, we will analyze swaptions whose short term interest rates are assumed to follow some affine models with dimension of factors more than two, so called multiple-factor interest rate models. Considering there is generally no analytical swaption price, we attempt to approximate it, and our discussion will focus on one of these...

Sharestream: Collaborative creation of music playlists on a multi-touch surface

This master thesis shows how to assitant users to create music playlist collaboratively on a Multi-touch surface in an interface design. The project is sponsored by Philips Applied technology. As Philips gains profound knowledge while manufacturing and selling large display products, the large display technology itself tends to increase in size...