Demonstrating the impact of participatory design on citizens’ empowered citizenship: A framework and tool for understanding and demonstrating the impact of participatory design on citizens’ empowered citizenship

Society is increasingly faced with complex and wicked problems (Hervieux & Voltan, 2019). As a result, organisations face complex and open challenges and design has become more popular as an approach to address this (Dorst, 2011). Due to these global changes, the social design field is growing (Tromp & Vial, 2022). Participatory design...

Performing data assimilation experiments with hydrodynamic models: A Java Sea case

Floods are a big problem for Jakarta; the capital of Indonesia is subsiding below mean sea level and floods will become more frequent. Flood protection and measures against subsidence are, therefore, of high importance to Jakarta’s government. One of the options they are studying is a great sea wall to regulate the water levels in Jakarta Bay....

Elliptic regions in porous media flow: Effect of relative permeability on loss of strict hyperbolicity in three-phase porous media flow

Reservoir simulation is a widely used means for prediction and optimization of oil recovery from a reservoir and it is based on the multiphase porous media flow model. For one dimensional, incompressible, immiscible three-phase flow in a homogeneous medium without gravity and capillary pressure, loss of strict hyperbolicity can occur for certain...

Iterative Methods for Solving the Schrödinger Equation on a Rectangular Scattering Region

Four iterative methods were used to solve the schrödinger equation on a rectangular scattering region with a uniform potential, namely GMRES, restarted GMRES, BiCGStab and IDR(s). A preconditioner like a shifted-Laplacian is tried to improve the convergence behaviour of GMRES. Finally, a disorded potential is introduced in the form of a random...

Global tide model with DFlow-FM

This thesis is about the beginning of a global tide model in DFlow-FM, a project by Deltares. The first focus lay on finding the best grid that can be used for this model. We tried to grids, a rotated lat-lon grid and a squarely grid with local refinement. After calculating the RMS-value it was found that the local refined grid gave the best...

Business Process Simulation Under Deep Uncertainty: Cas study at ING Arrears Management

Organizations are in ever changing environments which results in the need for constant adaptation of business processes and structures. Continuous business process improvements can result in cost savings as well as higher efficiency and effectiveness. In some cases business process improvements can be realized through experience and competent...