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Kazemi Kamyab, V. (author), Van Zuijlen, A.H. (author), Bijl, H. (author)Thermal interaction of fluids and solids, or conjugate heat transfer (CHT), is encountered in many engineering applications. Since time-accurate computations of such coupled problems can be computationally expensive, we consider loosely-coupled and strongly- coupled solution algorithms in which higher order multi-stage Runge-Kutta schemes are...conference paper 2012
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Zwanenburg, C. (author)Stability assessment of existing dikes build on soft soil generates questions on the available stability calculation techniques and material models. Especially peat behaviour is not easily captured by standard design methods. This has led to disapproval, based on calculations, of dikes that have been in operation for several hundreds of years....conference paper 2012
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Zhebel, E. (author), Minisini, S. (author), Mulder, W.A. (author)We solve the three-dimensional acoustic wave equation, discretized on tetrahedral meshes. Two methods are considered: mass-lumped continuous finite elements and the symmetric interior-penalty discontinuous Galerkin method (SIP-DG). Combining the spatial discretization with the leap-frog time-stepping scheme, which is second-order accurate and...conference paper 2012
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Eickhoff, C. (author), De Vries, A.P. (author)Crowdsourcing successfully strives to become a widely used means of collecting large-scale scientific corpora. Many research fields, including Information Retrieval, rely on this novel way of data acquisition. However, it seems to be undermined by a significant share of workers that are primarily interested in producing quick generic answers...journal article 2012
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Weidema, V.M. (author)Usually, concrete bridges contain a ‘thick’ bridge deck. For various reasons, bridges are constructed with railings. This thesis discusses the stability problem of concrete bridges, which are designed with integrated railings into the carrying construction. The most important advantage, using load bearing railings, is a thinner bridge deck. This...master thesis 2011
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Ji, L. (author), Xu, Y. (author)In (Xu and Shu in J. Sci. Comput. 40:375–390, 2009), a local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method for the surface diffusion of graphs was developed and a rigorous proof for its energy stability was given. Numerical simulation results showed the optimal order of accuracy. In this subsequent paper, we concentrate on analyzing a priori error...journal article 2011
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Meng, F. (author)Nowadays, many modern countries are relying heavily on non-renewable resources. One common example of non-renewable resources is fossil fuel. Non-renewable resources are ?nite resources that will eventually dwindle, becoming too expensive or too environmentally damaging to retrieve. In contrast, renewable energy resources, like wind energy, are...doctoral thesis 2011
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Van Wijngaarden, A.D. (author)This research focus on the solving of important bottlenecks which hinder a timber bearing structure for the new appartment building system of concept house.master thesis 2011
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Yan, C. (author), Bergsma, O. (author), Koussios, S. (author), Zu, L. (author), Beukers, A. (author)The sandwich composites fuselages appear to be a promising choice for the future aircrafts because of their structural efficiency and functional integration advantages. However, the design of sandwich composites is more complex than other structures because of many involved variables. In this paper, the fuselage is designed as a sandwich...journal article 2010
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Koren, G.B. (author)The HPLWR (High Performance Light Water Reactor) is the European version of the SCWR (Supercritical Water Reactor) and is one of the Generation IV concepts that have enhanced safety, improved efficiency and less nuclear waste compared to current nuclear reactors. A possible way to enhance the safety is by using natural convection as the driving...bachelor thesis 2010
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Woldeyohannes, S.Y. (author)Roads support our daily life, and play crucial role in supporting the infrastructure for economic activities. However, road disaster can be caused by different natural conditions of slope failures such as rainfall, steep topography, brittle geology, etc. Road disaster occurrences do not only cause the primary disaster from the infrastructure...master thesis 2010
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Sloof, E.J. (author)The stability of the slow moving Big Rock Mesa (BRM) landslide located in California (USA) was analysed. A detailed description of its geometry and soil structure is presented. For the stability vital shear zone and unsaturated zone were identified. The strength and permeability of the different layers that exist in the BRM were determined using...master thesis 2010
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- Laureano, Jose Luis Mantari (author) doctoral thesis 2010
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Zimmermann, N. (author)The Westerschelde estuary in the South-West of the Netherlands displays two meandering flood and ebb channels separated by shoals. The system of flood, ebb channel and shoal between two channel crossings form a morphological cell. The stability of the serial cell system formed by the Westerschelde is important for the navigation route to the...master thesis 2009
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De Gier, J.M. (author)In this paper the stability properties of the vibrations of a singular degree of freedom oscillator with a periodically and multi-stepwise time-varying mass are studied. The free vibrations and the vibrations due to two types of forcing are investigated.bachelor thesis 2009
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Kleinhans, M.G. (author), Jagers, H.R.A. (author), Mosselman, E. (author), Sloff, C.J. (author)At river bifurcations, water and sediment are divided over two branches. The dynamics of the bifurcation determine the long-term evolution (centuries) of the downstream branches, potentially leading to avulsion, but the dynamics are poorly understood. The long-term evolution can only be studied by one-dimensional models because of computational...journal article 2008
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Bos, J.A. (author)Installed wind power world wide is increasing rapidly. The increase in wind power in the European electricity grid is expected to have its impact on the system behaviour. A European study, European Wind Integration Study (EWIS), was thus set up to study the impact of wind power. This thesis was carried out in parallel with EWIS and overlaps at...master thesis 2008
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Aanhaanen, J.A.M. (author)The Master’s thesis has focussed on the stability of a facetted shell structure. The research contributes to a Ph.D. research currently carried out at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), which investigates the possibilities to design and build a shell structure from flat glass panels. The structure is a so-called plate (facetted)...master thesis 2008
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Oosthoek, J. (author)Gabion mattresses consist out of a steel wire grid in which fill material is retained. The advantage of these constructions is that the individual particle stability is no longer of importance. The containing function of the grid results in the effect that the fill material starts to behave as a group. Next to that the mattresses are all...master thesis 2008
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Sveinbjornsson, P.I. (author)A major part of the breakwaters constructed in the world are the so-called conventional rouble mound breakwaters, which consist of a core, a filter layer and a heavy armour layer. An alternative to the conventional rouble mound breakwater is a berm breakwater. Berm breakwaters have mainly developed in two directions over the last couple of...master thesis 2008