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Jansen, B. (author)
doctoral thesis 1996
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Lobbrecht, A.H. (author)
doctoral thesis 1997
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Mohamed, A.S. (author)
doctoral thesis 2001
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Tousain, R.L. (author)
The chemical marketplace is a global one with strong competition between man- ufacturers. To continuously meet the customer demands regarding product quality and delivery conditions without the need to maintain very large stor- age levels chemical manufactures need to strive for production on demand. In this thesis we research how market...
doctoral thesis 2002
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Serebriakov, A.G. (author)
This thesis has been devoted to two main subjects: the compensation of birefringence induced by spatial dispersion (BISD) in Deep-UV lithographic objectives and the optimization of optical systems in general.
doctoral thesis 2005
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Stork, M. (author)
Emulsions are widely encountered in the food and cosmetic industry. The first food we consume is an emulsion, namely breast milk. Other common emulsions are mayonnaise, dressings, skin creams and lotions. Equipment often used for the production of oil-in-water emulsions in the food industry consists of a stirred vessel in combination with a...
doctoral thesis 2005
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Gurav, S.P. (author)
doctoral thesis 2005
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de Ruiter, M.J. (author)
During the last two decades, computational structural optimization methods have emerged, as computational power increased tremendously. Designers now have topological optimization routines at their disposal. These routines are able to generate the entire geometry of structures, provided only with information on loads, supports, and space to work...
doctoral thesis 2005
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Van den Berg, J. (author)
The value of models in process industries becomes apparent in practice and literature where numerous successful applications are reported. Process models are being used for optimal plant design, simulation studies, for off-line and online process optimization. For online optimization applications the computational load is a limiting factor. The...
doctoral thesis 2005
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Hol, C.W.J. (author)
In many application areas of mechanical servo-systems the high demands on the performance often imply a tightly tuned feedback controller, that takes dynamical interaction into account. Model-based H-optimal controller synthesis is a well-suited technique for this purpose. However, the state-of-the-art synthesis approach yields controllers with...
doctoral thesis 2006
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van der Helm, A.W.C. (author)
Drinking water treatment plants automation becomes more sophisticated, more on-line monitoring systems become available and integration of modeling environments with control systems becomes easier. This gives possibilities for model-based optimization. In operation of drinking water treatment plants, the processes are usually optimized...
doctoral thesis 2007
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Zandvliet, M.J. (author)
The coming years there is a need to increase production from petroleum reservoirs, and there is an enormous potential to do so by increasing the recovery factor. This is possible by making better use of recent technological developments, such as horizontal wells, downhole valves and sensors. However, actually making better use of these improved...
doctoral thesis 2008
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Abrasive Waterjet (AWJ) Machining is a recent non-traditional machining process. This technology is widely used in industry for cutting difficult-to-machine-materials, milling slots, polishing hard materials etc. AWJ machining has many advantages, e.g. it can cut net-shape parts, no heat is generated during the cutting process, it is...
doctoral thesis 2008
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Fenicia, F. (author)
This thesis describes an approach to model development based on the concept of iterative model improvement, which is a process where by trial and error different hypotheses of catchment behaviour are progressively tested, and the understanding of the system proceeds through a combined process of modelling and experimenting. We show a number of...
doctoral thesis 2008
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Van Turnhout, M. (author)
A major problem in optical system design is that the optical merit function landscape is usually very complicated, especially for complex design problems where many minima are present. Finding good new local minima is then a difficult task. We show however that a certain degree of order is present in the optical design space, which is best...
doctoral thesis 2009
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Wang, H. (author)
Our society depends more strongly than ever on large networks such as transportation networks, the Internet and power grids. Engineers are confronted with fundamental questions such as “how to evaluate the robustness of networks for a given service?”, “how to design a robust network?”, because networks always affect the functioning of a service....
doctoral thesis 2009
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De Wit, A.J. (author)
Complex systems, such as those encountered in aerospace engineering, can typically be considered as a hierarchy of individual coupled elements. This hierarchy is reflected in the analysis techniques that are used to analyze the physcial characteristics of the system. Consequently, a hierarchy of coupled models is to be used, accounting for...
doctoral thesis 2009
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Van Kampen, E. (author)
Optimization is an important element in aerospace related research. It is encountered for example in trajectory optimization problems, such as: satellite formation flying, spacecraft re-entry optimization and airport approach and departure optimization; in control optimization, for example in adaptive control algorithms; and in system...
doctoral thesis 2010
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De Weerdt, E. (author)
The field of global optimization has been an active one for many years. By far the most applied methods are gradient and evolutionary based algorithms. The most appearing drawback of those types of methods is that one cannot guarantee that the global solution is found within finite time. Moreover, if the global solution is found (by chance), the...
doctoral thesis 2010
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Janssen, O.T.A. (author)
In the next decade, several applications of nanotechnology will change our lives. LED lighting is about to replace the common light bulb. The main advantages are its energy efficiency and long lifetime. LEDs can be much more efficient, when part of the emitted light that is currently trapped in the device, could be radiated out of the device....
doctoral thesis 2010
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