General-purpose Inverse Modeling Framework for Energy Transition Applications Based on Adjoint Method and Operator-Based Linearization

This study investigates the application of inverse modeling in numerical geo-energy scenarios such as petroleum, geothermal, and CCS projects. The study aims to enhance model accuracy and predictive capabilities for real-world applications. The focus lies on the implementation of the inverse modeling framework within the open-source simulator...

Barium Disilicide for Photovoltaic Applications: Thin-Film Synthesis and Characterizations

Energy and materials have been assigned with great significance for the development of society over the past centuries. For the sake of environmental sustainability, earth-abundant and eco-friendly materials for energy utilization have been gaining increasing attention. Among them, barium disilicide (BaSi2) possesses attractive optical and...

Structure and dynamics of fibrous calcium caseinate gels studied by neutron scattering

In the past decades, neutron scattering techniques have been applied to many soft matter systems and have yielded fruitful results that contribute to a better understanding of their properties. Yet, the techniques were rarely used for studying food materials, probably because they are less well known and less accessible to food scientists. This...

Model Predictive Control for Operational Water Management: A Case Study of the Dutch Water System

Water is needed everywhere to satisfy domestic, agricultural and industrial water demands, to maintain navigation systems, and to preserve healthy and sustainable ecosystems. In order to protect us from floods and to reallocate water resources in a man-made environment, the 'hardware', water-related structures, is constructed in many water...

An Integrated Knowledge Based Engineering Mechatronics Modeling Approach to Support the Design of Unstable and Unmanned Aircraft

The commercial transport aircraft industry is currently developing new “more electric aircraft” (MEA) designs in which various conventional mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic power systems are replaced with electrically-based power systems. Their objective is to improve the overall flight performance by reducing the aircraft weight and by a...

Hybrid Wafer-Level Packaging for RF-MEMS and Optoelectronic Applications

The current trend in electronic packaging research is to integrate more functions into one package, reduce electrical path parasitic, and increase the heat conduction in order to make the final packaged system smaller, more reliable, more functional and more complete, while keeping the packaging cost low. In this trend, unconventional devices ...

Characterization of Miniature Dielectric-filled Open-ended Waveguide Antennas