Projects
Hydrodynamic Modelling of Wave Energy Converter Arrays KU Leuven
Wave energy from wind-generated waves in the ocean or sea is absorbed by wave energy converters (WECs). In this research, floating point absorber (FPA) WECs are studied which are floating devices on the water surface. FPA WECs installed in the ocean or sea respond to the incoming waves and start moving in six degrees of freedom. The WECs extract energy from the waves by using a power take-off (PTO) system which converts the WEC's motion into ...
Multi-functional millimeter wave measurement equipment. KU Leuven
Spherical Wave Based Macromodelling for EMC/EMI System Analysis KU Leuven
Nowadays, full-wave electromagnetic simulation tools are widely used in antenna design, and their employment in the assessment of electronic designs with respect to ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC) has increased significantly over the past years, owing to an exponential increase in the integration of functionality and the clock rates of new designs. However, several developers are still rather reserved about their engagement to embrace the ...
Beyond Classical Cosmology with the No-Boundary Wave Function KU Leuven
The goal of quantum cosmology is to find a quantum state that describes the entire evolution of our universe: from the fuzzy quantum dynamics dominating the universe’s evolution at early times to the classical cosmological evolution in our spacetime neighbourhood. Classical cosmology emerges in quantum cosmology under certain conditions only. In recent years significant progress has been made to understand the “classical realm” predicted by ...
Weakly coupled bulk acoustic wave microresonators based on mode localization for mass change sensing applications KU Leuven
MEMS (Micro-electro-mechanical-system) resonators have attracted much attention over the past decades, and have been widely used to sense small changes in the characteristics of the resonator, such as the stiffness and effective mass. Microresonators for the stiffness change sensing applications have been employed for strain sensors, pressure sensors, accelerometers and atomic force microscopy. Sensing devices that can detect the mass change, ...
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 ...
Decoding the selfgenerated wave fluctuations and their role in the formation of the solar wind. KU Leuven
This project aims to clarify one challenging aspect in the process of formation of the solar wind, namely, the truly remarkable equipartition and the closely related minimum-energy conditions for the magnetic field energy and the kinetic energy of plasma particles, which is not fully understood nor explained theoretically or numerically. At high kinetic energies (large-beta plasma regime), confinement of the solar wind plasma to small ...
Structured low-rank representations for frequency-dependent wave scattering simulations using boundary element methods KU Leuven
The numerical simulation of wave phenomena is increasingly
relevant in several disciplines of science and engineering, including
acoustics, electromagnetics and medical imaging. Boundary element
methods (BEM) are a popular simulation tool for wave problems,
often applied to integral equations in the frequency domain. In the
last three decades, enormous research efforts have went into
efficient BEM solvers at a ...
Modelling of moored floating structures and marine renewable energy technologies using a non-linear numerical approach and experiments in wave testing facilities. Ghent University
Moored floating structures are connected to the seabed through mooring line systems composed of cables or chains, and have wide applications in coastal and offshore engineering. Moored floating offshore wind turbines and Wave Energy Converters (WECs) are examples of such structures from the field of Marine Renewable Energy (MRE). Mooring systems can represent a considerable part of the total cost of MRE technologies and they influence their ...