Impact of Ice Sheet-Climate Interactions on Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Balance: Insights from Coupled CESM2-CISM2 Simulations

The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS), which stores freshwater equal to more than seven meters of potential sea level rise, strongly interacts with the global, Arctic and North Atlantic climate. In a warming climate, the GrIS has been losing mass and is projected to lose mass at an increasing rate. The interactions between the GrIS and the climate have...

Wood-LOM: Using laminated object manufacturing to reimagine the use of wood

This study investigates the feasibility of manufacturing wooden elements using Layer Object Manufacturing (LOM) technology to replace steel nodes in the built environment. LOM offers significant advantages in allowing the designer to dictate the grain direction of each layer of material and optimize the cutting process, potentially reducing the...

Spatial variability of leachate flow and distribution in a landfill stabilized by leachate recirculation

Recirculation and infiltration of leachate in landfills are performed to accelerate the process of stabilizing organic matter in waste. At landfill De Kragge (Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands), leachate recirculation and infiltration measures started in March 2018. This research aims to provide insight related to leachate flow throughout the...

Geofront: Directly accessible GIS tools using a web-based visual programming language

In the field of Geographical Information Science (GIS), geodata transformation and analysis tools often take the shape of software libraries written in system level programming languages. <br/>However, the societal impact of these tools is often limited, as most end users only access these libraries via indirect means: Through bindings in other...

Bluebloqs as a circular water solution: A framework to co-design the dimensioning and operations of the decentralised Bluebloqs system

Urban water management is faced with upcoming challenges due to climate change, the deterioration of existing infrastructures and the depletion of water sources. Climate change brings about more intense rainfall events and longer periods of drought. On top of that, the deterioration of the piped network urges for investments in the existing...

High Throughput Sorting on FPGAs using High Bandwidth Memory

In this thesis we explore the acceleration of sorting algorithms on FPGAs using high bandwidth memory (HBM). The target application is an FPGA as an accelerator in an OpenCAPI enabled system, that enables the accelerator to access main memory of the host at a bandwidth of 25 GB/s for either read or write. We explore under what read and write...

Deployment of Indoor Point Clouds for Firefighting Strategy

The Deployment of Indoor Point Clouds for Firefighting Strategy project was realised as a Synthesis Project of the Geomatics Master Programme of the Built Environment Faculty at the Technical University of Delft. This project was executed by a team of five Master students in collaboration with the Dutch response team collective Veiligheidsregio...

The evaluation and improvement of the hydrodynamic behaviour of mechanically coupled barges: A novel decommissioning method for oil and gas platforms in the North Sea

Allseas' Pioneering Spirit is the largest heavy lift vessel in the world. It uses its u-shaped bow to sail around an offshore platform and lift topsides up to 48.000t in a single lift. Despite being the largest vessel in the world, platforms exist that are simply too heavy, or too large to fit in between the bows of the vessel. Besides, smaller...

Office portfolio performance: revisiting the importance of building characteristics

A study to end-winding induced iron losses in high-speed electrical machines with concentrated windings

One potential problem associated with the high electrical frequency in high-speed electrical machines are additional iron losses near the end-windings. They are expected to be a significant part of the total iron loss. The reader is introduced to currently known methods to study high-frequency iron loss estimation and end-effects in laminated...

Designing Parametric Modeling for Bioprinting Ear Cartilage

At the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, a new process for total ear reconstruction is being developed. The current ear reconstruction process involves the sculpting of a scaffold which will be wrapped in skin to form the shape of the new ear. This requires the harvesting of large amounts of rib cartilage needed for construction of the...

Signaalbewerking in een 7 Tesla MRI omgeving

7T MRI-scanners kunnen met de huidige technieken nog niet nauwkeurig genoeg getriggerd worden voor het uitvoeren van scans van hoge kwaliteit. In opdracht van het LUMC is er daarom een project opgestart om een systeem te ontwerpen dat biomedische signalen kan meten, verwerken en versturen om de 7T MRI-scanner te kunnen triggeren. Er zijn drie...

P5: 'De Zorgwijk': Herbestemming van het Prozeeterrein te Utrecht

P5: 'De Zorgwijk`, herbestemming van het Prozeeterrein te Utrecht, RMIT, Studio Utrecht, Feb.2012

A Memory Access and Operator Usage Pro?ler Framework for HLS Optimization: Using the Lucas Optical Flow Algorithm as Case Study

As recon?gurable hardware such as FPGA’s become bigger and bigger, large and complex systems can be implemented in such devices. It becomes a challenge for engineers to manually convert an algorithm in an HDL, considering the pushing time-to-market constraints. High Level Synthesis tools are developed to make this process less laborious. HLS...

Green ID: Over duurzaamheid en branding in gebiedsontwikkeling

Afstudeeronderzoek waarbij de problematiek rondom de implementatie ervan in gebiedsontwikkeling, wordt benaderd met theorie over branding. Inzichtelijk is geworden wat de invloed van de tijd op de ontwikkeling van duurzaamheid is geweest. Er is daarbij dynamische strategie ontworpen, die een toekomstige gebiedsontwikkeling abstracte...

Snel zand: Een onderzoek naar een nieuwe pick-up functie voor sediment bij hoge stroomsnelheden

De laaggelegen delen van Nederland en de gebieden langs de rivieren worden tegen hoog water beschennd met een stelsel van waterkeringen, waaronder dijken. Over dijkbouw is veel bekend, maar over het bezwijken van een dijk veel minder. Dit is wel een steeds belangrijker wordend onderwerp. In de probabilistiek wordt met het mogelijk falen van een...

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