Projects
Fundamental Research on the Interaction of Sprinklers and Water Mist Systems with Natural Roof Venting in Enclosure Fires using Numerical Simulations Ghent University
Fire safety science is essential for improving fire safety designs. Different fire safety measures can be considered for enclosures, e.g. sprinklers and vents. Their interaction is to date poorly understood. The present study targets a substantial increase of fundamental understanding of the fluid mechanics and heat transfer phenomena involved.
Integrating analogue and numericla modelling with remote sensing to constrain intrusive and extrusive eruptive processes with focus on topographic controls on hazards Ghent University
Analogue experiments and numerical models will be developed to study the relationships between magmatic intrusions and the morphology of volcanoes, inlcuding vent distribution, volcno deformation and collapse and formation of magma reservoirs. Results will be used to explain the morphology of elongated volcanoes and to beter evaluate hazards at volcanoes in Africa.
Understanding the Behaviour of Building Integrated Photovoltaic Facades. Numerical and Experimental Analysis KU Leuven
Climate research has shown that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are the primary cause of global warming. The higher global temperatures associated with global warming are disrupting local climates and ecosystems in a catastrophic manner. In order to limit global warming, a deep transformation of all human systems is imperative. Among others, an unprecedented increase in the use of renewable energy sources is necessary to achieve a climate-neutral ...
The Numerical Simulation of Highly Oscillatory Problems KU Leuven
The research project covers three shutters: the representation of oscillatory functions, the evaluation of strong oscillating integrals and the development of frequency independent numerical methods. These shutters together form an integral approach to the simulation of high frequency wave problems.
Experimental and Numerical Study on Fretting Fatigue Behaviour of Additively Manufactured Metal Parts KU Leuven
Additive manufacturing (AM) is becoming a game-changing technology withenormous potential impact on the range of available designs, enabling newcomponent capabilities that cannot be realized with any other technology andreducing lead-times, storage and transportation costs. Among different available AM technologies, Selective Laser Melting (SLM) is a powder-bed basedtechnique which is very popular. The successful construction of additively ...
Design of Ostend Harbour: Numerical Simulation of Wave Propagation Ghent University
): Numerical modelling of wave penetration, propagation and diffraction for the new Ostend Harbour, throughout all the design phases of the new breakwaters and the inner harbour geometry. The time-domain wave propagation models SimWave (Boussinesq) and MILDwave (mild-slope) have been employed within an integrated study of the Ostend Harbour, and have been validated/calibrated against measurements from laboratory scale models and prototype ...
Numerical study and experimental validation of a 2D model for a coupled modelling of river ecosystems using the STRIVE package Ghent University
Macrophytes have an important influence on water flow, sedimentation processes and nutrient dynamics in lowland rivers. Besides a temporal variation in vegetation throuhout the year a strong spatial heterogeneity occurs. To study the cascade- and feedbackeffects in the riverecosystem there is a need for integrated modelling in which the different processinteractions are incorporated. The aim of the PhD research is to develop a 2D hydraulic ...
Numerical simulation of nucleate pool boiling heat transfer. University of Antwerp
Numerical Modelling of Sediment Generation KU Leuven
A better understanding of sediment generation is crucial for development of fully integrated source-to-sink models of Earth surface dynamics. The sediment-generation model should incorporate chemical weathering and formation of authigenic minerals, as well as mechanical weathering. The latter causes disaggregation of rocks along mineral interfaces, and accounts for size reduction of primary crystals (inter- and intracrystal breakage, ...