Preserving spatial quality when transforming churches: different spatial solutions and their effects

This thesis consists of a paper about spatial quality in neo gothic churches and a design project about transforming the St. Barbarachurch in Culemborg. The paper explores the effects of different spatial solutions that can be used for transforming neo gothic churches on the spatial quality to draw learning for future design assignments...

Representing the Car-Following Behaviour of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) Systems Using Parametric Car-Following Models

The Dutch governmental organisation Rijkswaterstaat contributes to the smooth and safe flow of traffic, as both traffic jams and accidents cost society large amounts of money each day. Roads are designed for the current traffic composition. Due to the promotion of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) systems, utilisation of these systems is expected to...

Bayesian Additive Regression Trees for data-driven RANS turbulence modelling

Turbulent flows are commonly encountered in scientific research or engineering applications and need simulations to be resolved. The Navier-Stokes equations govern the simulations of turbulent flows. One of the most common ways to solve the Navier-Stokes equations is to analyse the Reynolds averaged form (RANS). Next to the increasing...

Heart-on-chip: functional lipoprotein lipase (LPL) expression in co-cultures of cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells

Introduction | Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the number one cause of death worldwide. Individuals with a high risk of developing CVD are nowadays mainly treated with cholesterol lowering drugs. Although disease risk can be lowered by a maximum of 40% in this way, a significant untreatable residual risk is left. Therefore, there is a big...

Constructing non-parametric Bayesian networks from data

The objective of this thesis is to design an algorithm for learning the structure of non-parametric Bayesian networks (BNs) from data and has been written as part of acquiring the bachelor's degree at the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics of the TU Delft. Inspiration for improving an existing algorithm while designing a new procedure was...

Study and design based on New York subway

Defence Materiel Procurement A Scenario Analysis tot the Future Defence Procurement Strategy for Dutch Large Naval Surface Ships