Drought indicators in The Netherlands: a case study to support anticipative drought management

In 2018 The Netherlands experienced the most severe drought since 1976. In response to this, the Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management established the 'Beleidstafel Droogte'. An external scientific committee took part in the Beleidstafel Droogte. One of their key recommendations was to introduce other drought indicators since the...

Energy-conserving spectral element schemes based on Lagrangian dynamics: Investigating discrete energy conservation

Physical systems in the continuous domain are often solved using computer-aided software because of their complexity. Preserving the physical quantities from the continuous domain in the discrete domain is therefore of utmost importance. There is however a broad range of techniques that can accomplish the translation between the continuous and...

Gaining insight into meso-level collaboration behaviour in the Dutch heat and cold energy storage field: Developing a factor framework with Q-methodology to assess the most important drivers for collaboration behaviour

Heat and cold storage networks can have a significant contribution in saving CO2-emissions and creating a more environmental friendly energy market in the Netherlands. Urgency for the usage of heat and cold stems from multiple reasons. Despite these reasons, there is minimal development in the heat and cold energy storage field in The...

Extending Project Lombok to improve JUnit tests

In this thesis, we look at unit and integration test suites and look for ways to improve the quality of the tests. The first step in this research is the development of the JUnitCategorizer tool to distinguish between unit tests and integration tests. JUnitCategorizer determines the actual class under test using a new heuristic and ultimately...

The added value of simulation in increasing maturity levels of customer service processes

Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is widely used in analyzing and improving business processes. Business process maturity models (BPMM) are used to define maturity levels of business processes and give recommendations how maturity levels can be increased. While each has proven their efficiency in their own way, very little attention is paid to the...

Digital Review: Final Project Report, Final report on the project of developing the Digital Review Application

SKION is a foundation that facilitates research of children with cancer. The research consists of investigating slides and other material gotten from the treating hospitals at SKION. The results of these investigations are saved into a database, while other information gathered by SKION through forms is stored in another database. Four times a...

Optimisation of planar arrays topology for scanning at low elevation

This thesis research is dealing with the planar array antennas installed on large airplanes to guarantee a transmit-receive link with a GEO satellite in Ku band. Today, mobile telephone communication, internet, television broadcast and other communication forms that belong to the category “In-flight entertainment” become more important. The...

Afmeerkrachten van schepen op havenconstructies

In dit rapport wordt een theorie gepresenteerd om de fenderindrukkingen te berekenen voor een schip dat afmeert tegen een gesloten constructie. Deze theorie is ontwikkeld op basis van notitie drie van ir. Kolkman (ref 1). Deze beschouwingen leverden een aantal vergelijkingen op waarmee de fenderindrukking voor centrisch en excentrisch botsende...