A Methodology for the Parallel Direct Solution of Finite Element Systems

Interactions between SO2 and NOx Emissions in Fluidised Bed Combustion of Coal

Safety Management and Risk Modelling in Aviation: The challenge of quantifying management influences

Aviation accidents result from a combination of many different causal factors ( human errors, technical failures, environmental and organisational influences). Increasing interest over the past two decades in causal modelling of organisational factors has been motivated by the desire to understand these fundamental causes and their influences in...

Unstructured Cellular Automata in Ecohydraulics Modelling

Efficient model predictive control for large-scale urban traffic networks

Model Predictive Control is applied to control and coordinate large-scale urban traffic networks. However, due to the large scale or the nonlinear, non-convex nature of the on-line optimization problems solved, the MPC controllers become real-time infeasible in practice, even though the problem is solvable in theory. In this thesis, we mainly...

Data-efficient learning of geometric structures from single-view images

The humanly constructed world is well-organized in space. A prominent feature of this artificial world is the presence of repetitive structures and coherent patterns, such as lines, junctions, wireframes of a building, and footprints of a city. These structures and patterns facilitate visual scene understanding by providing abundant geometry...

The Changjiang Estuary: A highly turbid estuary in transition

Estuaries are the core area of land-sea interactions and have significant ecological and economic value. In estuaries, hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics are the crucial processes governing geomorphology, navigability, and primary production. Since the turn of the 20th century, increased human activities (e.g., damming, dredging, and...

Intelligent control systems: Learning, interpreting, verification

Automatic control is a technique about designing control devices for controlling ma- chinery processes without human intervention. However, devising controllers using conventional control theory requires first principle design on the basis of the full under- standing of the environment and the plant, which is infeasible for complex control tasks...

Real-time operation of a multi-reservoir system

Reservoirs have a significant role to manage fresh water resources for irrigation, hydropower generation, domestic and industrial use, flood and drought control and navigation. To date, more than 50,000 large dams have been constructed in the world for providing water-related services to our society that support socioeconomic development of many...

Controlled perishable goods logistics: Real-time coordination for fresher products

This thesis provides tools for decision support systems for perishable goods logistics. It also provides an approach for enterprises to estimate the benefit of adopting the proposed logistic systems. Perishable products are produced, transported, and consumed all over the world. Thanks to perishable goods supply chains, we can enjoy safe, fresh,...

Catalytic ceramic nanofiltration for direct surface water treatment and fenton cleaning

Over the past decades, direct nanofiltration (NF) without pre-treatment has been widely recognized as an alternative for conventional membrane technologies in both drinking water and wastewater treatment, owing to its advantages in energy saving, low chemical usage and high permeate purity. As an alternative, ceramic NF has received growing...