Teaching the Modelling of Integrated Energy Systems – Course Design and First Experience

In order to design interventions in energy systems, it is key to combine existing models and simulations. As the interplay of different steps along the energy value chain, various actors and regional scopes makes it difficult for one model or model owner to cover the entire complexity of the system, the usage of present resources instead of...

Committees Of Specialized Conceptual Hydrological Models: Comparative Study

Single hydrological model or model calibrated on single objective function often cannot capture all components of a water motion process. One possibility is building several specialized models each of which responsible for a particular sub-process (e.g., high flows or low flows), and combining them using dynamic weights – thus forming a...

Ensemble predictions of hydro-biogeochemical fluxes at the landscape scale

Model predictions of biogeochemical fluxes on the landscape scale are highly uncertain, both with respect to stochastic (parameter) and structural uncertainty. The idea of our ensemble modelling approach is to reduce the predictive uncertainty by covering part of the parameter and model structural uncertainty. In this study 4 different models...

Knowledge based engineering to support aircraft multidisciplinary design and optimisation