Evaluating Team Dynamics for Collaborative Communication Alignment Tasks

The primary focus of this work is in exploring human teaming dynamics within goal-oriented communication alignments tasks. A communication alignment task within the context of this work is one in which two teammates have the exact same target information, but from differing perspectives and must communicate in an effort to align their knowledge...

Business models for building material circularity: Learnings from frontrunner

One of the expected key outcomes of the Horizon 2020 BAMB (Buildings As Material Banks) project is new business models for material circularity. The team has interviewed four “frontrunner” cases which have pioneered in incorporating elements of building circularity. The study included well-known cases such as the new Venlo city hall (the...

Circular economy and design for change within the built environment: preparing the transition

The built environment is considered as a key sector in which circular economy can be implemented. Within the H2020 project “Building as Material Banks” (BAMB), two innovative solutions are being forward to support this transition: i.e. Materials Passports and Reversible Building Design Protocols. Based on desk research and interviews with...

Risk Assessment of Induced Earthquake Hazards in the Northern Netherlands

During the last decade, at least eight earthquakes occurred in the Northern Netherlands with a magnitude of 3 or higher on the Richter scale. These earthquakes are not tectonic but induced by natural gas production from the Groningen Gas Field. Before that time there were no earthquakes in Groningen with such magnitudes. Research conducted by...

Statistics of Streamline Segments in a Turbulent Channel Flow with a Wavy Wall

We investigate the statistical properties of so called streamline segments in a turbulent channel flow with one plane and one wavy wall. We give a short overview on the concept of streamline segments and recent results in description and modelling in this field. Finally, we show the length distribution and conditional moments of streamline...

Dissipative Range Scaling of Higher Order Structure Functions for Velocity and Passive Scalars

Differently to Kolmogorov's second similarity hypothesis, we find that the 2n-th order velocity and scalar structure functions scale with n-th order moment of the energy dissipation and the scalar dissipation, respectively. The origins of this scaling are analyzed by the transport equations of the fourth order velocity and scalar increment...

An alternative definition of order dependent dissipation scales

While Kolmogorov's similarity hypothesis suggests that velocity structure functions scale with the mean dissipation $\left< \varepsilon \right>$ and the viscosity $\nu$, we find that the $2m.$ even order scales with $\left< \varepsilon^m \right>$. This implies that there are other cut-off lengths than the Kolmogorov length $\eta$. These cut-off...

Autonomous agents in future energy markets: The 2012 power trading agent competition (abstract)