Hydrodynamic Loading of Dutch terraced houses due to flood actions using Computational Fluid Dynamics

Whenever a region - especially the coastal area - is affected by flood risk, it is essential for residential and life protection to gain knowledge about the mechanisms leading to the collapse of houses. There are empirical mortality functions to predict the mortality of population in the Netherlands directly affected by flooding, but due to...

Performance of RANS turbulence models for the numerical simulation of the flow affected by micro vortex generators

Additional thesis with a size of 10 European Credits. The increasing demand for wind energy has led to the development of more efficient wind turbines. A common way to increase the performance of wind turbines is the use of vortex generators. Vortex generators are small devices that are mounted on the turbine blade and they create a stream wise...