Safety as Airline Business Aspect: From Data to Action by A Value Model for Big Data and Feedback Method for Small FlightStories

This thesis proposes the of integrating safety, economics, and passenger experience and draws on the author's research and experience in aviation to develop a more comprehensive approach to airline business management. The research closes the gap between business and Safety Management Systems in airlines by introducing two novel and...

Regime shifts in sediment concentrations in tide-dominated estuaries

Within estuaries one can often observe areas where the concentration of fine suspended sediments is higher than in the surrounding waters, called estuarine turbidity maxima (ETM). ETM play an important role in the natural and socio-economic value of estuaries. The suspended sediments can for example greatly diminish the value of the estuarine...

Macrophytes in estuarine gradients: Flow through flexible vegetation

Aquatic plants –or macrophytes- are an important part of coastal, estuarine and freshwater ecosystems worldwide, both from an ecological and an engineering viewpoint. Their meadows provide a wide range of ecosystem services: forming a physical protection of the shoreline, enhancing water quality and harbouring many other organisms. Unfortunately...

On the Modelling of Pile Installation

This thesis introduces two different types of physical model tests to investigate the stress and density change in the soil during installation of a jacked pile as well as two numerical modelling approaches to model the same process in a finite element code capable of large deformations.

Evolution of morphology in solidifying aluminium alloys

In the thesis two different models of solidification of aluminum alloys are presented and analyzed. The first 1--D solidification model is derived from the conservation of solute, heat and mass. With numerical experiments it is shown that simulations with the Finite Difference discretization must adhere a relation similar to the Courant...

Iterative learning control, with applications to a wafer-stage

In the past Iterative Learning Control has been shown to be a method that can easily achieve extremely high performance with very limited effort from the user. Unfortunately an Iterative Learning Controller (ILC) exhibits some side effects such as amplification of system noise and control activity when the system should be at rest. This had led...

Description of Simulink mean value dieselengine model DEII

Monte Carlo simulation of hole transport in Si, Ge and Si(1-x)Ge(x)

Methanol dehydrogenase: A mechanistic study

Submerged cultures of mushroom mycelium as sources of protein and flavour compounds

Studies aan experimentele reactoren met vast en gefluidiseerd katalysatorbed

Synthese en configuratiebepaling van enkele deoxy-inosadiaminen