Real-time operation of a multi-reservoir system

Reservoirs have a significant role to manage fresh water resources for irrigation, hydropower generation, domestic and industrial use, flood and drought control and navigation. To date, more than 50,000 large dams have been constructed in the world for providing water-related services to our society that support socioeconomic development of many...

Optimising marine seismic acquisition: Source encoding in blended acquisition and target-oriented acquisition geometry optimisation

Seismic data acquisition is a trade-off between cost and data quality subject to operational constraints. Due to budget limitations, 3D seismic acquisition usually does not have a dense spatial sampling in all dimensions. This causes artefacts in the processed images, velocity models, or other physical properties. However, we rely on, for...

Computational design of heat resistant steels with evolving and time-independent strengthening factors

Alloy design by the traditional trial and error approach is known to be a time consuming and a highly cost procedure, especially for the design of heat resistant steel where the feedback time is intrinsically long. The significant developments in computational simulation techniques in the last decades have made a theory-guided computational...

Binaural Model-Based Speech Intelligibility Enhancement and Assessment in Hearing Aids

The enhancement of speech intelligibility in noise is still the main subject in hearing aid research. Based on the advanced results obtained with the hearing glasses, in the present research the speech intelligibility is even further improved by the application of binaural post-filters. The functionalities of these filters are related to the...

True-Amplitude Seismic Imaging Beneath Gas Clouds

A gas cloud is a region of gas accumulation in the subsurface, which can severely deteriorate the seismic data quality from deeper reflectors. Due to complex wave propagation through the anomaly and the resulting transmission imprint on the reflections from below this area, the image below the gas cloud is usually not properly recovered. The...

Genetic Design of Ultra High Strength Stainless Steels: Modelling and Experiments

Topology Optimization using a Topology Description Function Approach

During the last two decades, computational structural optimization methods have emerged, as computational power increased tremendously. Designers now have topological optimization routines at their disposal. These routines are able to generate the entire geometry of structures, provided only with information on loads, supports, and space to work...