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Kawalec, Marcel (author)
Prediction of heat transfer phenomena and resulting temperature distributions is crucial among many appliances in the industry sector. In a vacuum, the dominant mode of heat transfer is conduction. The resulting temperature drop at the body’s interface is dependent on a parameter known as Thermal Contact Conductance (TCC) or, alternatively,...
master thesis 2023
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Knoop, Max (author)
Turbulent drag reduction (DR) is a crucial research area, as this can contribute to significant energy and emission reductions in various industrial and transportation applications. One such technique is the active flow control method of spanwise forcing. Spanwise forcing introduces a spatio-temporal spanwise wall oscillation as a boundary...
master thesis 2023
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Diederen, Carolien (author)
The objective of this master thesis is to investigate experimentally how non-breaking wave loading affects the stability of the MOSES artificial reefs, an artificial reef by the company ReefSystems. Small scale wave flume tests with a length scale factor of 20 were conducted in the Scheldt flume at Deltares in Delft to determine the stability of...
master thesis 2022
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Kisa, Mehmet (author)
Gas extractions are responsible for mostly all induced earthquakes in the Groningen area and this leads to damage of houses and buildings and issues regarding safety. Current strengthening measurements are mostly very visible. However, this can change by using the window frame as part of the structure, particularly interesting for Dutch houses...
master thesis 2021
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van der Voort, Tjalie (author)
Density waves inhibit the stability of (long) pipelines, which cannot be predicted using current day design tools. Density waves are formed due to an inverse relationship between sand eroding and settling in a pipeline. By designing and building a dedicated flow loop, an experimental study on how the erosion and sedimentation of sand in a pipe...
master thesis 2021
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Goedhart, Wisse (author)
The erosion of the seabed in front of coastal structures induced by waves can lead to multiple types of failure instability or function of the structure. On this topic most research has been done into erosion in front of vertical structures. For sloping structures a knowledge gap exists in the understanding of the processes that lead to erosion...
master thesis 2021
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van der Sluis, Joram (author)
This master thesis presents an experimental study on 3D person localization (i.e., pedestrians, cyclists)in traffic scenes, using monocular vision and Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data. The performance of two top-ranking methods is analyzed on the 3D object detection KITTI dataset. In this evaluation, the effect of the Intersection over...
master thesis 2020
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Smits, Roy (author)
With a fast growing world population, the lack of fresh water is one of the world’s biggest future concerns. Water stress can lead to conflicts, holds back economic growth and has a major impact on human health. Nowadays, more and more countries that lack fresh water sources are using the saline water from the oceans and desalinate it to produce...
master thesis 2019
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van Helvoort, Derron (author)
Additive manufacturing allows material structuring, supporting the fabrication of multiple-level structures or metamaterials. Through the lens of classical stress reduction, nature’s cellular solid structures feature stress-homogenizing nodal topologies. Avian long bones are an example. Research into the mechanics of open cell cellular solids...
master thesis 2019
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Allandrieu, Rémi (author)
Fluid structure interactions are present everywhere, and are of crucial importance in the development of new concepts in the aerospace industry. Their study through numerical approaches such as CFD are of great interest for this sector, and understanding how to control them is key to the evolution of the industry. In this work, we present an...
master thesis 2018
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van der Zanden, Marloes (author)
Increasing disasters, due to urbanism in combination with the high probability of earthquakes in the Western Indian Himalayas, are impacting the well-being of local communities. The vernacular Kath-Kuni (also called: ‘cator-and-cribbage’ or ‘timber laced masonry’) architecture is a centuries-old building method spread over the Himalayas and the...
master thesis 2018
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Cornel, Roy (author)
The production process of milk powder consists of multiple stages. This report focuses on the falling film evaporator, which role in the production process is to evaporate the water content from the milk. A falling film evaporator is a large vertically-placed vessel whereby the inside is filled with smaller tubes. Steam enters the vessel and...
master thesis 2018
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Miri, Bahareh (author)
Owing to the rapid development of construction materials in building industry, a tendency towards smart and light design solutions using modern architectural principles is growing noticeably. The ultra-thin glass is a relatively new material which could be replaced with the thicker glasses in traditional windows to create a new concept for the...
master thesis 2018
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Bazuin, Rens (author)
During front crawl swimming, water is driven backwards with the limbs. Drag forces generated by the limbs are consequently used for forward propulsion. The hands are responsible for approximately 60% of the generated propulsive forces. Reaching a podium place in competitive swimming is dependent on differences in finishing times smaller than 0.5...
master thesis 2018
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van der Most, Lieke (author)
To tackle the expected increase in fresh water shortage in the world, alternative water production methods are required. One such a possible method is Ocean Thermal Water Production (OTWP). This thesis continues on the innovative concept of the use of OTEC waste water as a cooling fluid for atmospheric water production introduced in previous...
master thesis 2018
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Marcus, Pepijn (author)
The research objective is to analyze the aerodynamic interaction effects and quantify the performance of over-the-wing propeller systems. To achieve this objective, two wind tunnel experiments have been performed to characterize the most important aerodynamic interaction effects of a single propeller installed over-the-wing. Results feature wing...
master thesis 2018
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Zhu, Jiachen (author)
Composites have been widely applied in current aerospace structures. In spite of various advantages that composites have, the sensitivity to the impact damage for the composite materials has become a severe threat to the structural integrity of aerospace structures. Therefore, this research work focuses on embedding metal layers in the composite...
master thesis 2018
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Novy Francis, Novy (author)
The development in technology and increased public interest has attributed to an unprecedented growth of E-mobility in recent years. Electric vehicles (EVs) even though viewed as emission free and environmental friendly can still contribute towards indirect emissions if charged by using traditional fossil fuels. The integration of renewable...
master thesis 2017
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Heming, Bas (author)
Semiconductor devices can be found everywhere in our daily lives, for example in self-driving cars, bank cards and personal devices such as smart phones or notebooks. Once part of these personal devices, one does not want them to show failure. Although reliability of such devices is taken into account in the design, the fabrication process might...
master thesis 2017
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Olajide, Femiwa (author)
Structures at sea, which can either be floating or bottom-founded, are always affected by several types of dynamic loads from wind, waves and currents; with floating offshore structures subjected to more motion and loading from these loads. Hence, necessitating more in-depth hydrodynamic analyses. Increasing size and weight of these floating...
master thesis 2017
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