Developing healthy and green residential areas: An analysis into the heatlh benefits of greenery and nature

A statistical analysis into the health benefits of nature. Dividing nature into areas with a different landscape and areas with a different biodiversity score. Indicating a different influence on the aspects of heath depending on the landscape. Showing a greater influence in areas with the landscape open agricultural, half open and closed...

QPack: A cross-platform quantum benchmark-suite: Quantitative performance metrics for application-oriented quantum computer benchmarking

As the technology of quantum computers improves, the need to evaluate their performance also becomes an important tool for indexing and comparing of quantum performance. Current benchmarking proposals either focus on gate-level evaluation, are centered around a single performance metric, or only evaluate in-house quantum computers. This gives...

Conceptual Design of the Spillway into the Energy Storage Lake of Delta21: Part of a new approach to improve the flood protection in the Southwest Delta of the Netherlands

In the upcoming decades, the Netherlands is going to face challenges regarding the protection against flooding. The reason for this is the expected rapid change in climate around the world. As a result of the changing climate, the sea levels rise and the peak river discharges increase. These changes lead to higher water levels in the Dutch...

A theoretical study of the sub-tidal, width-averaged effects of wind stress in estuaries: Dynamics, stratification and salt intrusion

The goal of this thesis is to create a theoreticalmodel that captures the influence of wind on the horizontal and vertical salinity distribution in an estuary, as well as the dynamics that arise within the estuary. A secondary, numerical model, that uses fewer assumptions, will be developed and analysed. This serves to determine whether the...

Smart Personal Protective Equipment: On-Board Power Management

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a shortage of Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare personnel. This project aims to aid in this shortage by extending the lifetime of the filter material used in a mask. This is done in the form of an SPPE, a Smart Personal Protective Equipment. This face mask has two smart filter heads that are modular and...

Free-floating bikesharing in Mobility as a Service

The aim of this graduation project is to determine how Mobike can be successful in the Netherlands in the short-term and how Mobike can be successful in the long-term. To answer these questions, in this project research has been conducted on the users of Mobike. Next to that the environment of Mobike has been analyzed, after which a vision has...

Diffusion in a polymeric environment

Cells of the most common organisms like plants and animals are filled with polymeric networks that fulfil important functions of the cell. There is however no analytically solvable model that describes diffusion in such a cell. This thesis presents a model for diffusion in polymeric environments, and some predictions about the behaviour of the...

Automatic generation of CityGML LoD3 building models from IFC models

CityGML is a standardized data format used to store the semantic information and geometries of buildings and other object classes of 3D city models. The Level of Detail of current state of the art city models (LoD2) is not sufficient for accurate environmental simulations like noise, the solar potential of windows and other types of analyses. An...

The effect of 3D geometry complexity on simulating radiative, conductive and convective fluxes in an urban canyon

The Geomatics Synthesis Project (GSP) was an eight-week culminating group project by seven second-year MSc. Geomatics students. The objective was to undertake group and fieldwork through a real-world project with an external organization. In association with Laboratoire des Sciences de L'Image Informatique et Teledetection (LSIIT) at the...

Requirements Management within Grontmij Randstad Techniek: How to improve the Requirements Management Process Quality within Grontmij Randstad Techniek

Grontmij is an international Design and Engineering company, active in the areas of, among others, Civil Engineering, Mobility, Industry and Energy. One of the organisational units in The Netherlands is Planning and Design - Stedelijk Gebied Randstad - Team Techniek, abbreviated as Grontmij Randstad Techniek. Within Grontmij Randstad Techniek...

Dartbord arrangement

The number arrangement on a dartboard is analysed and graded using several existing as well as new criteria. In addition with the use of simulated annealing new arrangements have been found.

Update Offshore Wind Atlas: Implementing a variable sea surface roughness

In 2005 the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) published its first version of the Offshore Wind Atlas of the Dutch part of the North Sea [3]. This version has been updated and improved using longer time series and another approach for the calculation of the roughness of the sea surface. In contradiction to other Wind Atlases which...

Update Offshore Wind Atlas: Implementing a variable sea surface roughness

In 2005 the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) published its first version of the Offshore Wind Atlas of the Dutch part of the North Sea [3]. This version has been updated and improved using longer time series and another approach for the calculation of the roughness of the sea surface. In contradiction to other Wind Atlases which...