Modelling and managing massive 3D data of the built environment

A 3D city model is a digital representation of the spatial features in an urban<br/>environment. Buildings, terrain, vegetation, water bodies, etc. all form an integral part of a 3D city model. The possibility to enrich these city models with additional application-specific information, whether new semantics or geometry, further increases their...

Multilevel Solvers for Stochastic Fluid Flows

Uncertainty is ubiquitous in many areas of science and engineering. It may result from the inadequacy of mathematical models to represent the reality or from unknown physical parameters that are required as inputs for these models. Uncertainty may also arise due to the inherent randomness of the system being analyzed. For many problems of...

Multiscale study of microstructural evolution and damage in rail steels

In this PhD thesis, we investigate the microstructural evolution and damage in different steel grades used in railway applications such as switches, crossings and curved tracks, which are the key components in the rail transportation industries around the world. The damage in these components leads to a maintenance cost of billions of Euros per...

Three-dimensional model for estuarine turbidity maxima in tidally dominated estuaries: An idealized modeling approach

3-D seismic acquisition geometry design and analysis: Investigation of the requirements to include illumination from all multiples

A seismic survey should be designed such that imaging of the acquired data leads to a sufficiently accurate subsurface image. For that purpose, methods for acquisition geometry analysis and design are available. These methods are used to judge whether an acquisition geometry is suited for the specified objectives. Conventional 2D and 3D...

Thermal-Aware Design and Runtime Management of 3D Stacked Multiprocessors

The sustained increase in computational performance demanded by next-generation applications drives the increasing core counts of modern multiprocessor systems. However, in the dark silicon era, the performance levels and integration density of such systems is limited by thermal constraints of their physical package. These constraints are more...

Electric field, Magnetic field and Magnetization: THz time-domain spectroscopy studies

Terahertz radiation is electromagnetic waves with frequencies from 0.1-10 THz. THz radiation can pass through cardboard, paper, plastics, ceramics and many other materials. Hence, it can be used for non-destructive imaging. Another important application of THz radiation is spectroscopy. Many organic molecules absorb light at THz frequencies and...

Coherent fourier scatterometry

The electronics which makes our lives easier like mobiles, computers, digital cameras contain chips with very small semiconductor components like transistors. When transistors can be made even smaller, the chip can accommodate a larger number of components, which gives more processing capacity, resulting in a faster device with an increased...

Development of Quantitative electron nano-diffraction

This thesis is a step towards development of quantitative parallel beam electron nano-diffraction (PBED). It is focused on the superstructure determination of zig-zag and zig-zig NaxCoO2 and analysis of charge distribution in the two polymorphs Nb12O29 using PBED. It has been shown that quantitative electron nano-diffraction (parallel beam) has...

A framework for multi-objective optimization and multi-criteria decision making for design of electrical drives