Day and Night Contrail Climate Impact of Optimised Trajectories

Contrail formation is one the largest warming contributions of aviation’s climate impact. Measures to mitigate contrail climate impact include the optimisation of flight trajectories to avoid the formation of warming contrails or to find air space where extra cooling contrails are formed. The latter option is only possible during daytime, due to...

Operationalising stability and fairness in transboundary water resource allocations

This research identifies a method to evaluate the fairness and stability of existing Pareto optimal policies in the context of transboundary water resource allocations. Using the case study of the Susquehanna river basin, the fairness of efficient policies was evaluated using utilitarianism, egalitarianism and prioritarianism. Stability was...

Modelling and Analysis of the Single-Phase Operation of the Belgian PFC Rectifier

Boost-type power factor correction (PFC) rectifiers can be used in, for example, battery charging systems for Electric Vehicles (EVs). Conventionally available three-phase PFC rectifiers are limited to output 1/3 of the rated power when connected to a single-phase mains. This work presents the research into the single-phase operation of the...

Choosing from skyline sets

The skyline operator has been proposed to bridge the gap between traditional and multimedia database systems by finding the optimal objects according to the notion of Pareto dominance. According to the notion of Pareto dominance an object dominates another if it is better in one attribute and equal in all others. Skyline sets end up being pretty...

Airborne Wind Energy Airfoils: Design of Pareto-optimal airfoils for rigid wing systems in the field of Airborne Wind Energy

A new field of study has arisen within Wind Energy known as ‘Airborne Wind Energy’ (AWE). Although the concept of AWE has been around for a long time, there has been little development in this field until recently. This thesis adds to this development.<br/><br/>The focus lies on airfoil design in order to improve existing AWE systems and...

Public transport route planning with preferences