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Li, J. (author)
Around 10% of the population will have to go through a catheterization procedure for the treatment of a cardiovascular disease at a certain stage of their lives. During such a procedure, smart catheters will be the "eyes and ears" of the surgeons, significantly improving the diagnosis and treatment. However, there have been very limited...
doctoral thesis 2024
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Li, M. (author)
This dissertation aims to explore the use of extended reality (XR) as an approach to developing user experience (UX) for product-service systems. It included eight chapters to explore the research question: “How can designers use extended reality to develop the user experience for product-service systems?”<br/><br/>Chapter 1 introduces three...
doctoral thesis 2023
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Li, Z. (author)
Endovascular interventions, as emerging medical therapies, utilize blood vessels as conduits to access anatomically challenging regions deep within the body. Within endovascular interventions, one of the prominent challenges involves maneuvering the instrument tip by coordinating insertion, retraction, and torque actions at the proximal end of...
doctoral thesis 2023
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Li, H. (author)
When a very viscous liquid (like oil) and a far less viscous liquid (like water) both flow through a pipeline, under certain conditions, the more viscous liquid will migrate to the core of the pipe, while being surrounded by an annulus with the less viscous liquid. This typical flow pattern, referred to as core-annular flow (CAF), was discovered...
doctoral thesis 2023
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Li, Roger Zhe (author)
doctoral thesis 2023
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Li, X. (author)
This thesis contributes to the effective and efficient application of unsteady adjoint methods to Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) for Large Eddy Simulation (LES). Three aspects, i.e., subgrid-scale model error, storage cost of high-dimensional data, and stability of the adjoint problem for turbulent flows, were studied to make adjoint-based mesh...
doctoral thesis 2023
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Li, M. (author)
Europe’s offshore wind capacity is expected to reach 450 GW by 2050, meeting 30% of Europe’s electricity demand. With the increase of installed capacity, the costs invested in O&amp;M will also increase significantly considering O&amp;M cost is one of the biggest contributors to life cycle costs. The improvement of O&amp;M management for...
doctoral thesis 2023
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Li, G. (author)
Observing, modelling, predicting, and understanding the dynamics of traffic systems on different levels is one of the most critical topics in the transport and planning domain. At the macroscopic scale, traffic congestion is the central problem that impacts all aspects of society. Traffic congestion costs valuable travel time, extra fuel...
doctoral thesis 2023
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Li, B. (author)
In recent years, the Private Rented Sector (PRS) has witnessed rapid growth across numerous jurisdictions, with Chinese metropolises notably standing out. Throughout the history of housing policy development in China, the PRS has been largely disregarded. It was not until 2015 that the government proposed the idea of “accelerating the...
doctoral thesis 2023
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Li, G. (author)
Nature has proven to be a great source of inspiration for scientific research and technological innovation in various areas: food, medicine, architecture, chemistry, materials, algorithms, and many other fields. At the basis of sophisticated functions associated with life in nature are all kinds of chemical reactions which are mainly regulated...
doctoral thesis 2022
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Li, S. (author)
In response to the pressing demand for elderly care, care robots, the robots used by care receivers and/or caregivers for care purposes in various settings, such as hospitals, nursing homes, and personal residences were introduced and have been gaining traction as a technological solution to improve care quality and to enhance the value of...
doctoral thesis 2022
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Li, X. (author)
Fatigue damage of composite laminates has attracted considerable attention from research community and industry, in view that laminated structures are inevitable to suffer from fatigue loading during their service life. It is rather complicated to understand and explain, what governs the initiation, accumulation, interaction (synergy or...
doctoral thesis 2022
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Li, W. (author)
Multi-phase metallic materials such as Advanced High-Strength Steels (AHSS) are of great importance in a wide variety of high-tech industries due to their higher strength compared to conventional (mild) forming steels. The higher strength leads to various advantages in weight, safety and environmental friendliness. In order to develop new AHHS...
doctoral thesis 2022
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Li, X. (author)
This thesis is motivated by the vision of designing smart wearables as partners for veterans with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Everyday objects are becoming ‘smarter’ with the integration of computational and electronic technologies. It is now possible to start thinking of these objects as ‘intelligent agents’ that can form...
doctoral thesis 2022
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Li, N.L. (author)
With the growing concerns over energy depletion and environmental protection all over the world, more and more attention is being paid to energy transition towards renewable energy sources (RESs), energy efficiency improvement, and CO$_2$ emission reduction. Integrated community energy systems (ICESs) emerge in the development of local energy...
doctoral thesis 2022
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Li, K. (author)
Naturally fractured reservoirs (NFRs) gain much attention worldwide because they are often encountered in aquifer remediation, CO2 sequestration, and hydrocarbon extraction. In hydrocarbon extraction, however, oil recovery by gas injection in NFRs is usually low, because of poor sweep efficiency. During gas injection, the displacement front is...
doctoral thesis 2022
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Li, S. (author)
Short pitch corrugation is a (quasi-) sinusoidal rail vertical defect on rail surface, and it was first found more than one century ago. The wavelength of short pitch corrugation is 20-80 mm, and its amplitude can be up to 100 µm. It mainly develops on straight tracks or at gentle curves with comparatively light axle loads. Due to short pitch...
doctoral thesis 2022
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Li, S. (author)
In the last decade, the research field of aerial swarms has grown at a rapid pace. These multi-robot systems possess desirable abilities including mobility in 3D spaces, efficient task execution in parallel, and redundant characteristics for fault tolerance. Many applications with multiple flying robots have already been demonstrated, such as...
doctoral thesis 2021
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Li, Z. (author)
Alkali-activated materials (AAMs), as eco-friendly alternatives to Ordinary Portland cement (OPC), have attracted increasing attention of researchers in the past decades. Unlike cement, which requires calcination of limestone, AAMs can be made from industrial by-products, or even wastes, with the use of alkali-activator. The production of AAMs...
doctoral thesis 2021
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Li, X. (author)
A flexible riser is a multi-layered pipe device which enables deep-water production by connecting seabed facilities to floating vessels. To withstand huge hydro-static pressure, it is required to have strong collapse capacities. At present, the collapse capacity of a flexible riser is designed based on a "wet collapse'' concept, in which the...
doctoral thesis 2021
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