Computational reconnaissance of the catalytic properties of manganese non-pincer complexes

The best available catalysts for the reduction of carbonyl groups in ketones are<br/>currently based on rare metals such as platinum, osmium or ruthenium. The developmentof alternative catalysts made from more abundant metal such as manganese offers chances to increase sustainability and cost efficiency. Analysing and predicting chemical and...

Design and Computational Modelling for a Shape Memory Alloy-based Adaptronic Architecture

In the EU, the heating and cooling of buildings consumes 14% of all energy. This is a major consumer for one type of activity, and it is compounded by the fact that 75% of it is sourced from fossil fuels. The thoughtful design of facades play a major role in the reduction of heating and cooling energy loads, and the reduction of both...

Ignition modeling in methane-oxygen rocket engines: Design and modeling of a methane-oxygen rocket engine igniter using reacting flows with computational fluid dynamics

The influence of using different chemistry model and different chemical kinetics schemes on modeling combustion inside a rocket engine igniter are investigated. An igniter for a LOX/CH4 rocket engine is designed and a CFD model is developed which is used to model the designed igniter. Verification and validation methods are discussed.<br/><br/>...

Green's function molecular dynamics approach: Proportionality between area and load

Inflate in case of emergency: Generative design of a lightweight mobile high performance emergency shelter via the use of a computational intelligent method

Every year catastrophic situations such as earthquakes, wind storms, floods, environmental and socio-geopolitical changes periodically affect the living situation of thousands of people around the world.<br/>In order to face such catastrophes the proposed methodology intends to address the need of a rapid design tool for emergency shelters based...

Fluid Morphology

The design-driven discourse in this graduation project investigates how architecture can be more intelligent by being able to adapt and transform to changing flow of knowledge. If architecture can be transformed according to this changing flow of knowledge buildings do not have to be destroyed as the building itself has become intelligent. The...

The influence of laminar-turbulent transition on the perfomance of a propeller

The influence of laminar-turbulent transition on a propeller blade’s performance has been investigated in this study, both numerically and experimentally. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is performed using the TAU code developed by the German Aerospace Center, as well as an existing propeller lifting-line code. The laminar-turbulent...

Train Station in Almere Pampus

The project deals with the creation of a new train station in Almere Pampus, which is now an empty undeveloped area, included in the Almere 2030 Vision. The first stage included analyses and criticism on the existing proposed context. The city of Almere is a relatively young city and up to today it serves as a “sleeping-city” for Amsterdam,...

Pheromone networks - a computational approach to improve the social dynamics of the Almere central train station and it's urban network.

The amount of travelers from and to the Dutch city Almere will grow from 40.000 back in 2009 to 100.00 in 2030. This requires intensive infrastructural improvements to the current situation of Almere. One of the main improvements of the network will be the redesign of the central station of the city. The current station is situated around a...

Almere Pampus Transferium

Part 1: Group work: Due to the uncertainty of how the Pampus area will actually be developed, during the research and analysis stage only solid facts were taken into account, such as the site in its current condition, the path of the train tracks, the connectivity and relation to neighbouring urban areas and the basic principles that the...