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Busuttil, William (author)Railways are increasingly investing in their infrastructure to achieve sustainability objectives and meet expected growth in demand for rail transport services. Since building new physical infrastructure requires large-scale investments and long lead times, many infrastructure managers (IMs) are prioritizing upgrades to their signalling systems...master thesis 2024
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Baptist, V. (author)This chapter develops a layered analysis of the Schiedamsedijk, Rotterdam’s interwar amusement street. It links the street’s split socio-cultural character to that of port cities in general, and investigates this along the lines of a similar divide in perceptions of safety and security. Based on an historical bird’s-eye view of the pleasure area...book chapter 2024
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Trikannad, S.A. (author), Attiani, Valentina (author), van der Wielen, Paul W.J.J. (author), Smidt, Hauke (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author), van Halem, D. (author)Slow sand filters (SSFs) are widely used in drinking water production to improve microbial safety and biological stability of water. Full-scale SSFs are maintained by scraping the biomass-rich top layers of sand. The period of downtime required for filter recovery after scraping is a major challenge due to limited knowledge of the re...journal article 2024
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Marynets, K. (author), Tomovski, Živorad (author)We introduce a successive approximations method to study one fractional periodic boundary value problem of the Hilfer-Prabhakar type. The problem is associated to the corresponding Cauchy problem, whose solution depends on an unknown initial value. To find this value we numerically solve the so-called ’determining system’ of algebraic or...journal article 2024
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Tijsma, Feike (author)In the competitive offshore wind installation market, contractors like DEME strive to optimize operations. This thesis centers on the optimization of the support vessel fleet composition, which consist of a num- ber of walk to work vessels, and are a crucial part of inter-array cable installation. By fine-tuning this composition, operational...master thesis 2023
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Nakos, Vangelis (author)Portfolio optimization, a fundamental area of study in financial engineering,<br/>plays a crucial role in creating efficient portfolios. In this thesis, we consider<br/>a robust multi-period Mean-Variance portfolio optimization framework and<br/>apply it to real-world market data. The approach we look at incorporates a<br/>time-consistent...master thesis 2023
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Looman, Menno (author)Traditionally, Event-Triggered Control (ETC) methods are sample-and-hold control schemes that implement a triggering condition in order to reduce the number of control updates. Given a decay rate of the Lyapunov function, they focus on minimizing the (average) Inter-Sample Time (IST). In this thesis, we focused on the scheduling of Periodic...master thesis 2023
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Syed Mohamed, Abdul (author)This thesis explores the dealiasing methods of the Doppler spectrum for the case of a fast-scanning weather radar with the possibility of being used in the development of future weather radars. From the literature, log-periodic sampling which is a type of non-uniform sampling is adapted for Doppler dealiasing. The sampling parameters of log...master thesis 2023
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van Steen, Floyd (author)Developments in computational capabilities and the always increasing demand for higher performance of internal flow applications has meant that Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become an essential tool within the design process. A key point of interest is to couple the fluid solver with numerical optimisation techniques in order to obtain...master thesis 2023
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Sit, Chi Man (author)Public-participation in housing practice not only happens with architectural participatory notion, instead it was already exercised differently in the history of Amsterdam according to the governmental urban planning visions. To provide more insight for contemporary participatory practice, instead of interpreting architectural public...student report 2023
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Costa Farinha, Daniel (author)A new multiscale fracture mechanics methodology is being developed at TU Delft for composite materials. This methodology aims to unlock the use of hierarchical multiscale frameworks to link sub-ply fracture processes to laminate failure. In this thesis, this methodology is extended to 3D, both in terms of its analytical formulation and the...master thesis 2023
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Smit, Henk (author)Event-Triggered Control (ETC) is a control method where the controller is only updated when necessary. The control inputs are kept fixed until a state-dependent event triggers their re-computation. The triggering condition is designed to guarantee the stability and desired performance of the control system. This prevents the excessive use of...master thesis 2023
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Bodnar, Taras (author), Ivasiuk, Dmytro (author), Parolya, N. (author), Schmid, Wolfgang (author)In this paper, we derive an analytical solution to the dynamic optimal portfolio choice problem in the case of an investor equipped with a power utility function of wealth. The results are established by solving the Bellman backward recursion under the assumption that the vector of asset returns follows a vector-autoregressive process with...journal article 2023
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Li, Tianqi (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author)The periodic train timetable is one of the most widely used train timetables in passenger railway systems worldwide. However, how to expand well-coordinated daily train services from a single-period timetable pattern is rarely studied. This paper develops a multi-objective mixed integer programming model to solve the periodic train timetable...abstract 2023
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van der Knaap, R.J.H. (author), de Bruyn, Menno (author), van Oort, N. (author), Huisman, Dennis (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author)Train passenger demand fluctuates throughout the day and week and these fluctuations are expected to increase due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to let train services, such as the line plan and timetable, match this fluctuating demand, insights are needed into how the demand is changing and for which periods the demand is relatively stable....abstract 2023
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Hehenberger, Simon P. (author), Caizzone, Stefano (author), Thurner, Stefan (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Frequency-dependent dielectric properties of 3-D-printed structured dielectrics (dielectric crystals) with engineered effective permittivity for micro-and mmWave applications are studied. Different modeling and measurement techniques for broadband dielectric properties of such 3-D-printed crystals are reviewed, their tradeoffs discussed, and...journal article 2023
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Xie, Weiming (author), Sun, J. (author), Guo, Leicheng (author), Xu, Fan (author), Wang, Xianye (author), Ji, Hongyu (author), Fan, Yaoshen (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author), He, Qing (author)Coastal tidal flats provide valuable ecosystems, but are highly sensitive to tidal dynamics, sea-level rise, and human activities. Tidal inundation depth and frequency are known to affect tidal flat morphodynamics. However, the causes, processes and extent remain uncertain, particularly given the associated changes in sediment availability. In...journal article 2023
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Gonzalez Acosta, J.L. (author), Varkey, D. (author), van den Eijnden, A.P. (author), Hicks, M.A. (author)Free-field site response analysis is a standard technique used to predict soil deposit dynamic response and liquefaction susceptibility. Such analyses are typically carried out by implementing periodic boundaries to guarantee the same speed of the dynamic waves travelling across them. However, when using random fields to consider the impact of...conference paper 2023
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Kaczmarek, M.B. (author), Hassan HosseinNia, S. (author)Elastic metamaterials incorporating locally resonating unit cells can create bandgap regions with lower vibration transmissibility at longer wavelengths than the lattice size and offer a promising solution for vibration isolation and attenuation. However, when resonators are applied to a finite host structure, not only the bandgap but also...journal article 2023
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Sun, Lingqi (author), Chen, K. (author), Geng, Peng (author), Zhou, Yan (author), Wen, Shifeng (author), Shi, Yusheng (author)Porous NiTi lattice structures are widely used in the manufacture of crucial components owing to their excellent shape memory effect, superelasticity, and high damping capacities. However, the specific strength and lightweight characteristics of porous NiTi lattice structures fabricated by conventional technologies are limited by...journal article 2023