Rapid assessment of flushing of coastal embayments: With application to Doha Bay

This study was aimed to develop a method for the rapid assessment method of the influence of intended bay developments on the bay’s flushing conditions. The study was focused on tidally dominated, small-scale, shallow water coastal bays. Because water is the carrier of (polluted) material, the exchange with the external water body, or flushing,...

Touchdown control in bipedal robot walking

Currently a lot of research is performed in the field of walking robots and especially on bipedal humanoid robots. Successful walking robots have been made but there are still problems that have to be overcome to make them as versatile, robust and energy efficient as human beings. One of these problems is the control of balance after taking a...

The use of numerical models to determine the response of moored vessels to waves in a complex harbour geometry

A moored vessel can experience large motions when agitated by waves. As a result, mooring lines risk breaking, the ship becomes a dangerously uncontrolled object, but most importantly unloading and loading the ship is made impossible. From an economic perspective, it is thus important to determine vessel motions due to waves at a berth. A...

Fieldwork coastal engineering: Varna, Bulgaria

One week the students stay in the Bulgarian village St. Konstantin, near Varna, at the Black Sea. The main goal of the fieldwork is learn how to deal with problems occurring at data collection and the elaboration and interpretation of the collected data. Several coastal measurements are executed at a couple of beaches and their accompanying...

De invloed van porositeitsfluctuaties op een longitudinale dispersiecefficient in een lang slank vloeistof-gefluidiseerd bed