Mechanics of fused filament fabricated thermoplastics: Modelling the mesostructure

In this thesis, the relation between the manufacturing parameters and the mechanical properties of Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) materials is analyzed to gain a better understanding of interaction between these two. The existing literature was first analyzed to get an understanding for the process, resulting in a proposed mesostructural and...

Gust tailoring in a wind tunnel for bird and MAV flight experiments

Structure Preserving Isogeometric Analysis for Computational Fluid Dynamics

Double degree. Supervision of the thesis also at: Faculty Applied Mathematics, Department Numerical Analysis, Programme M.Sc. Applied Mathematics. Structure-preserving discretization techniques preserve fundamental structure of operators and operands found in partial differential equations. Classical discretization techniques sometimes neglect...

Accelerating aircraft design using automated process generation: An experimental architecture for aircraft design software

The aircraft industry has seen many evolutionary changes in the past decades. Since the Boeing 707 however, the general shape and configuration of transport aircraft have remained similar and so has the aircraft design process. Since the aviation community is about to face a revolutionary breakthrough featuring new aircraft concepts like blended...

Design of a modular fuselage for commercial aircraft: To cope with seasonal variation in passenger demand

The subject of this research is a new concept of modular aircraft designed to cope with the seasonal variation in passenger demand by opening the fuselage and increasing its length with extra bits of fuselages. The goal is to find out if this new aircraft concept is more profitable than the current alternatives. Previous work have looked at...