Characterizing the spatio-temporal dynamics of social vulnerability in Burkina Faso: A comparison of Principal Component Analysis with Equal Weighting

Global climate change has results in a higher frequency of extreme disaster events and is therefore a serious challenge in disaster impact management. Disaster risk is composed of several components, such as vulnerability, susceptibility, exposure and the probability of occurence and intensity of a hazard. Vulnerability has become a topical...

Application of the Quantitative Hierarchical Model to Coordinated Ramp Metering

Transportation is a basic necessity in human society and it has gained increasing importance during the last decades. The subsequent effect of this development is traffic congestion caused by the tension between expanding demand for transportation and limited infrastructure capacity. At present, the most effective way to alleviate traffic...

Hierarchical Methods for Shape Optimization in Aerodynamics: Multilevel parametric shape algorithms and additive preconditioners

This lecture is devoted to the presentation of two particular "hierarchical" approaches to numerical shape optimization in aerodynamics design: 1) multilevel parametric shape optimization algorithms; 2) additive preconditioners. The first approach is inspired from the classical geometrical multigrid method, except that here the geometrical...