Projects
Contributions of history dependent muscle action to stability and efficiency of whole body human movements. KU Leuven
Contributions of history dependent muscle action to stability and efficiency of whole body human movements KU Leuven
Computer models have become an important tool to understand causal mechanisms underlying human movement. Simulating realistic musculoskeletal dynamics is critical to understanding neural control of muscle activity and motor performance. State-of-the-art simulations of motion are based on phenomenological muscle-tendon models that do not take into account the history dependence of muscle action. However, force enhancement and depression ...
An in-depth muscle function assessment unit KU Leuven
Determining the interseismic vertical elevation changes of coastal lakes in Chile Ghent University
The elevation of coastal lakes in Chile through geological time has changed because of the plate-tectonic motions. Based on InSAR, geological/geomorphological and GPS data, a better insight into these changes will be obtained. This information can subsequently be used to better understand the paleotsunami and paleoseismic records of these lakes and perform risk assessment for future earthquakes and tsunamis
Global and local dynamics in thermally active magnetic many-body systems Ghent University
The behaviour of individual magnets with nanometer dimensions is relatively simple, but when a large number of them are combined, some very surprising and exciting phenomena will appear due to their mutual interactions. For instance, magnets want to align with their neighbours. However, in an ordered structure like a honeycomb lattice, this is not possible for every magnet. Even in the most optimal configuration, there still are magnets which ...
Simulation of the dynamic behavior of a weft thread in an air-jet weaving loom Ghent University
In this PhD thesis the fluid-structure interaction of a flexible thread in an air jet as it occurs in air-jet weaving looms will be studied numerically. A methodology with two-way coupling between flow simulations and structural simulations will be developed that allows the study of the dynamics and the stability of the thread motion during insert.