Hybrid solutions for cutter suction dredgers: A feasibility study on the application of electrical energy storage

Cutter suction dredgers are a type of hydraulic dredgers often used in areas with hard soil where other types of dredging vessels would be ineffective. As a result of the wide range of type of soil that is being cut a lot of variation is seen in the power demand on the cutter suction dredger's diesel-electric power generation system....

Simulator motion cueing error detection using a wavelet-based algorithm

Understanding the process of human motion perception is essential for optimizing the motion cueing algorithms (MCAs) used by motion simulators. Previous research has shown that different motion cueing error types can be distinguished, at least some of which are rated differently by humans for equal error magnitude. Optimizing a motion simulation...

How to protect East Jakarta against flooding: Which interventions are required to cope with the different scenarios of land subsidence

Jakarta is heavily subjected to land subsidence. Due to this subsidence, the city is sinking further to under sea level. This has influence on the flood safety, both from an extreme sea event as an extreme rainfall event. The major cause of the subsidence is assumed to be the groundwater extraction, which takes place due to a lack of piped water...

The Insider system: A case study in circular product design for the backpack industry

The apparel industry is the second most polluting industry in the world, but the products they produce are used highly inefficiently. For every bag that is used on a daily basis, three bags are stored away in a closet. The Insider system is a product-service system that provides its users with the right bag on-demand. By making any bag you might...

Computational Analysis of Base Drag Reduction Using Active Flow Control

Increasing fuel prices and the increasing environmental awareness has led to an increasing importance of truck aerodynamics in the automotive transport sector. At highway speeds the aerodynamic drag of a truck leads to 40% of the total fuel consumption, making aerodynamic improvements an important field of possible fuel consumption reduction....

Design of an ultra deep water drillship with crude oil storage capacity type I

The Gibbs method: Literature thesis

The Gibbs method, proposed by Panagiotopoulos (1987), directly determines two-phase equilibria through Monte Carlo simulations, using the Gibbs ensemble as statistical ensemble. The Gibbs ensemble consists of systems (NVtT or NpT fixed), which are divided in two separate sub-systems with variable volumes and variable number of particles...

De verandering van de torsiemodulus van Cu3Au tengevolge van de instelling van orde