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Pak, Tom (author)The Hondsbossche Dunes is a seven-kilometre-long dune, beach and shoreface nourishment that serves as a primary flood defence since 2015. In addition to its protective function, the Hondsbossche Dunes stimulate ecological habitat development in the coastal area, in line with Ecoshape's 'Building with Nature'-approach. Its morphologic development...master thesis 2019
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Altenburg, Luuk (author)Sedimentation of particle suspensions is a relevant process to a variety of applications, such as the reclamation of land and chemical engineering systems. Direct numerical simulations of the settling of a single, two and multiple solid spheres under gravity in a square duct have been performed. The simulations involve 4 different Galileo...master thesis 2019
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van Ruiten, Martijn (author)The current approach in the shipping industry by the use of highly toxic coating systems is harmful for our inland waterways and oceans, does not benefit the public health and is very undesirable for all aquatic organisms on our planet.<br/>Almost every vessel today uses a toxic coating system which releases toxic compounds continually into our...bachelor thesis 2019
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van Weerdenburg, Roy (author)Considering scenarios of sea level rise, the sediment budget of the Wadden Sea is of interest for both coastal safety and for the maintenance of values of this unique environment. Sand nourishments are foreseen on the ebb-tidal deltas of the Wadden Sea to increase the sediment budget, which requires us to predict the fate of the nourishment....master thesis 2019
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Oostdijk, Tom (author)Following from the programme Room for the River, side channels are created in the Netherlands. For their maintenance, alternatives to dredging vessels are needed because of nature development, such as surface screens, that use the flow itself to generate erosion. <br/>A field experiment using surface screens was executed at the small side...master thesis 2018
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van Westen, Bart (author)Coastal dunes serve as a first line of protection against flooding by the sea. In the recent past, the interest in secondary services provided by coastal dunes has increased. These services include ecological values and recreation. In order to manage and maintain the coast as an attractive area that combines coastal protection and ecological...master thesis 2018
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Fortuijn, Lars (author)In 2003, it was established that the sea dike between Petten and Camperduin was insufficiently safe.<br/>To ensure the safety of the hinterland against flooding, this part of the Dutch sea defence system needed to be strengthened.<br/>During the design process, the most favourable variant was to construct a dune and beach system in front of the...master thesis 2018
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Rouash, AMR (author)Despite the many positive effects of dams, they can also have several negative impacts on natural systems. One of these impacts is the decrease in sediment inflow towards the coast which can lead to coastal erosion. <br/>A technique that can be applied to improve the situation downstream is modifying the discharge through the dam. Unfortunately,...master thesis 2018
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de Groot, Sjoerd (author)This Master thesis presents an improved model for the transport of fine suspended sediment (SPM) in the Rhine region of fresh water influence (ROFI) and in the Port of Rotterdam. It is known that the transport of SPM in the Rotterdam harbor depends on marine as well as fluvial processes. SPM transport inside the harbor has been modelled in the...master thesis 2018
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Muller, J.R.M. (author)Over the last decades, the People’s Republic of China experience large economic development, which have led to severe shortages of usable land. To counteract this, the Chinese central government promoted the development of coastal provinces by reclaiming large sections of coastal zones. One of these regions is Nantong Binhai Park or Tongzhou Bay...master thesis 2018
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Sunariyanto, Budi Prayogo (author)The decrease in the production of hydrocarbons in combination with a growing urgency to reduce carbon emissions drives a rapid study and application of geothermal energy in the Netherlands. The produced heat from the low enthalpy geothermal energy can be used for heating up the buildings and greenhouses. A doublet system is used in the...master thesis 2018
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Mäder, Mäde (author)The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was a time of relatively abrupt climate change with intensive atmospheric greenhouse warming of 5 - 8˚C and is regarded as quasi-analogous for the modern anthropogenically-induced global warming. It therefore attracted considerable attention from geologists over the last decades. The PETM occurred 56...master thesis 2018
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Aljamed, Majid (author)The Late Cenozoic Eridanos River brought vast amount of sediments to the North Sea Basin accumulating more than 1000m of deltaic deposits in less than 3.5 Ma. Since the gas discoveries in the shallow sediments were made, more attention is being paid to these deltaic deposits and that resulted in more data availability. <br/>This study...master thesis 2018
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Akerboom, Leonie (author)Seagrass meadows are essential and valuable to many shallow coastal ecosystems, due to the many important ecosystem services they provide. The interaction of feedbacks between hydrodynamics, sediment dynamics, and eelgrass can be described with a feedback loop. At locations where eelgrass is present, it favours its growth by modifying the local...master thesis 2018
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Monclus Abadal, Albert (author)Sandy barriers comprise 12% of coastlines around the world, and most of these barriers enclose tidal bays and lagoons. These systems accommodate human settlements vulnerable to climate change, which offer enough economic, social, and environmental utility to require further research on the impact of climate change and subsequent best management...master thesis 2018
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de Gijsel, Stefan (author)This thesis describes how the simple random walk particle model can be extended to account for sand deposition and suspension, and for particle interaction: clumping together and falling apart. The extended models are analyzed, and the corresponding partial differential equations are derived. These equations are compared to the currently used...bachelor thesis 2018
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Timothy Radhitya Djagiri, Timothy (author)As the landscape of the south western river delta in the Netherlands is increasingly urbanised, the processes of urbanisation and the dynamics of nature can no longer go in their separate ways. Measures for water safety, that over the course of recent history has been diverting, regulating, and controlling natural dynamics away from the urban...master thesis 2018
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Byishimo, Protogene (author)Growing markets for sustainable technologies such as solar panels, wind turbines, and electric cars require an enormous amount of raw materials that might not be available from sources on land. Exploitation of seafloor mineral resources could secure the supply of raw materials for the future. However, proposed deep-sea mining (DSM) systems will...master thesis 2018
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Çete, Ceylan (author), Haage, Samantha (author), Hardwarsing, Vishay (author), Kalloe, Sudarshini (author), Ma-Ajong, Alyssa (author)The Weg naar Zee (WnZ) region of Suriname’s capital Paramaribo is dealing with coastal erosion. Images from the past 30 years have shown coastal retreats of up to 1.3 km. Mangrove forest used to be present in large numbers at the location. These forests enhance accretion, but due to different reasons, the number of mangroves has decreased...student report 2018
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Peters, Jochem (author)The coastal waters of Nigeria are a difficult environment to build structures to control the local morphology and hydrodynamic conditions to ones desire. This difficulty is a consequence of the persistent high-energy swell wave climate and Longshore Sediment Transport (LST) in the order of one million cubic metres per<br/>year. Besides these...master thesis 2018