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van Overbeeke, Sander (author)An earlier study introduced a formula for determining the holding force of a toroidal hydrostat gripper when gripping an object of constant radius, considering a linear stress/strain relationship. However, beyond the holding force, understanding the grasping disturbance force exerted on the object due to the rolling behavior during grip...master thesis 2024
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Vasarmidis, Panagiotis (author), Klonaris, Georgios (author), Zijlema, Marcel (author), Stratigaki, Vasiliki (author), Troch, Peter (author)Despite the increasing use of non-hydrostatic models in the study of wave processes in coastal regions, there is still limited understanding of the non-linear properties of the governing equations and how they improve with increased vertical resolution. In this study, the governing equations of the non-hydrostatic wave model SWASH are...journal article 2024
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Schaab, Helge Schaab (author)Conventional hydrostatic bearings are not suited to use on surfaces with changing curvature which limits their applicability. To improve on this, deformable hydrostatic bearings are currently being researched. The goal of this work is to develop hydrostatic bearings with a single fluid supply that work for sinusoidal counter surfaces. <br/><br/...master thesis 2023
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Kadoglou, Kimon (author)Living Breakwaters have evolved from traditional breakwaters to create multi-purpose structures that provide environmental and social benefits. These breakwaters promote a healthy habitat for flora and fauna, while achieving the same structural capabilities as conventional structures. Reefy has developed a modular living breakwater that can...master thesis 2023
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Juch, Wieland (author)Hydrostatic bearings are typically designed to operate on flat, parallel surfaces, but a flexible hydrostatic bearing that can adapt to uneven smooth surfaces would have broader applications. This thesis focuses on the challenges of implementing the whiffletree concept to support a large, deformable hydrostatic bearing on wavy surfaces, which...master thesis 2023
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Including the effect of depth-uniform ambient currents on waves in a non-hydrostatic wave-flow modelRijnsdorp, D.P. (author), van Rooijen, Arnold (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author), Tissier, M.F.S. (author), de Wit, F.P. (author), Zijlema, Marcel (author)Currents can affect the evolution of waves in nearshore regions through altering their wavenumber and amplitude. Including the effect of ambient currents (e.g., tidal and wind-driven) on waves in phase-resolving wave models is not straightforward as it requires appropriate boundary conditions in combination with a large domain size and long...journal article 2023
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Suzuki, T. (author), Altomare, Corrado (author), Willems, Marc (author), Dan, Sebastian (author)Understanding key flooding processes such as wave overtopping and overflow (i.e., water flows over a structure when the crest level of the structure is lower than the water level in front) is crucial for coastal management and coastal safety assessment. In port and harbour environments, waves are not only perpendicular to the coastal...journal article 2023
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Lok, Pieter (author)The performance of hydrostatic bearings is in part decided by their lubrication-film height shape. Imaging the shape can be done by dissolving fluorescent dyes in the layer. However, current imaging techniques are rooted in heuristics, and as such, their physics, design parameters, and error sources are not quantitively understood. To fully...master thesis 2022
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Nijssen, J.P.A. (author)Full film lubricated bearings are machine components that excel in their ability to carry high loads with very little friction. Their main archetypes, passive hydrodynamic and active hydrostatic bearings, are used in a wide variety of applications, ranging from hydraulic pumps to high precision machine benches. They are most commonly lubricated...doctoral thesis 2022
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Ceron Chafla, P.S. (author), García-Timermans, Cristina (author), de Vrieze, Jo (author), Ganigué, Ramon (author), Boon, Nico (author), Rabaey, Korneel (author), van Lier, J.B. (author), Lindeboom, R.E.F. (author)Fermentation at elevated hydrostatic pressure is a novel strategy targeting product selectivity. However, the role of inoculum history and cross-resistance, that is, acquired tolerance from incubation under distinctive environmental stress, remains unclear in high-pressure operation. In our here presented work, we studied fermentation and...journal article 2022
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Kramer, O.J.I. (author)In drinking water treatment plants, multiphase flows are a frequent phenomenon. Examples of such flows are pellet-softening and filter backwashing where liquid-solid fluidisation is applied. A better grasp of these fluidisation processes is needed to be able to determine optimal hydraulic states. In this research, models were developed, and...doctoral thesis 2021
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Muguruza Lasa, Garazi (author)In 2016 Hieber and Kashiwabara showed that the three dimensional primitive equations admit a unique, global, strong solution for all initial data in a closed subspace of the Bessel space $H^{2/p,p}(\Omega)$ provided $p\geq6/5$, being this the first result in the general $L^p$-setting. Their approach consisted in studying the properties of the...master thesis 2021
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Lee, David (author), Palha, A. (author)A new horizontally explicit/vertically implicit (HEVI) time splitting scheme for atmospheric modelling is introduced, for which the horizontal divergence terms are applied within the implicit vertical substep. The new HEVI scheme is implemented in conjunction with a mixed mimetic spectral element spatial discretisation and semi-implicit...journal article 2021
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de Beer, A. F. (author), McCall, R. T. (author), Long, J. W. (author), Tissier, M.F.S. (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author)The prediction of wave runup, as well as its components, time-averaged setup and the time-varying swash, is a key element of coastal storm hazard assessments, as wave runup controls the transitions between morphodynamic response types such as dune erosion and overwash, and the potential for flooding by wave overtopping. While theoretically...journal article 2021
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de Ridder, M.P. (author), Smit, Pieter B. (author), van Dongeren, Ap R. (author), McCall, Robert T. (author), Nederhoff, Kees (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author)A 2-layer non-hydrostatic model with improved dispersive behaviour is presented. Due to the assumption of a constant non-hydrostatic pressure distribution in the lower layer, the dispersive behaviour is improved without much additional computational time. A comparison with linear wave theory showed that this 2-layer model gives a better...journal article 2021
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Vasarmidis, Panagiotis (author), Stratigaki, Vasiliki (author), Suzuki, T. (author), Zijlema, Marcel (author), Troch, Peter (author)The weakly reflective wave generation is a wave generation and absorption method in phase-resolving models, based on the assumption that the waves propagating towards the wave generation boundary are small amplitude shallow water waves with direction perpendicular to the boundary. This assumption makes the method weakly reflective for...journal article 2021
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Kramer, O.J.I. (author), van Schaik, C. (author), Hangelbroek, J.J. (author), de Moel, P.J. (author), Colin, M.G. (author), Amsing, M. (author), Boek, E.S. (author), Breugem, W.P. (author), Padding, J.T. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Liquid-solid fluidisation is frequently encountered in drinking water treatment processes, often to obtain a large liquid-solid interfacial surface area. A large surface area is crucial for optimal seeded crystallisation in full-scale softening reactors. Due to crystallisation, particles grow and migrate to a lower zone in the reactor which...journal article 2021
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Nijssen, J.P.A. (author), Faludi, Jeremy (author), van Ostayen, R.A.J. (author)Water lubricated bearings have been named in literature as a sustainable alternative to their oil-based counterparts. In order to clarify when water lubricated bearings are or are not a sustainable alternative, and inform design decisions, an analytical design tool is introduced based on anticipatory Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). This model is...journal article 2021
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van Parijs, Vincent (author), Nijssen, J.P.A. (author), van Ostayen, R.A.J. (author)Hydrostatic bearings are superior in terms of their friction and load carrying characteristics when compared to contact based bearings, but non-usable in applications with non-constant curvature counter surfaces. A possible solution to this limitation is the introduction of deformable hydrostatic bearings components that cope with these...journal article 2021
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da Silva, Renan F. (author), Rijnsdorp, D.P. (author), Hansen, Jeff E. (author), Lowe, Ryan (author), Buckley, Mark (author), Zijlema, Marcel (author)Analysis of the mean (wave-averaged) momentum balance is a common approach used to explain the physical forcing driving wave set-up and mean currents in the nearshore zone. Traditionally this approach has been applied to phase-averaged models but has more recently been applied to phase-resolving models using post-processing, whereby model...journal article 2021