<p>Ice accretion is challenging for maritime and offshore operations in the Polar regions. Activities related to tourism, oil and gas exploration, fishing, and offshore wind energy are increasing in the arctic. Ice accretion on vessels and offshore structures pose a threat to structural integrity, vessel stability, and personnel safety in outdoor working environments. Freezing sea spray is the largest ...

Over the past few years, the market has shifted away from mass production towards mass customization and personalized production. This shift has made it necessary for manufacturing companies to change their manufacturing line more frequently, which can be both expensive and time-consuming. To overcome this challenge, reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) have been proposed as a solution. However, ...

Wireless power transfer can provide the convenience of automatic charging while the ships or maritime vehicles are docking, mooring, or in a sailing maneuver. It can address the challenges facing conventional wired charging technologies, including long charging and queuing time, wear and tear of the physical contacts, handling cables and wires, and electric shock hazards. Capacitive power transfer ...

<p>In this Ph.D. thesis, we focus on some problems of general interest both in engineering sciences and applied mathematics. The close connection between some problems concerning neural networks, wavelets, structural health monitoring, and modern Fourier analysis is highlighted and applied in various ways. The main body of the Ph.D. thesis consists of six papers, A–F, which are put into a more ...

<p>The rapid booming of industry 4.0 technologies has been boosting further development of industrial manufacturing systems in the recent two decades. An increasing number of disruptive yet enabling technologies are becoming available for industrial applications. However, while the factories becoming more complex, a proliferation of incompatible systems that have been developed by different vendors ...

<p>The research in this PhD thesis is focused on some problems of general interest in both applied mathematics and engineering sciences. It contains new results, which can be directly used for solving some important structural problems in engineering sciences, but which are also of interest in pure mathematics. The main body of this PhD thesis consists of six papers (Papers A – F). <p>In Paper A ...

To avoid the worst impacts of climate change a rapid green energy transition is required where traditional fossil fuels are replaced by low-carbon alternatives. One attractive route to emissions reduction is blue hydrogen, which has lower CO₂ emissions that traditional hydrogen production. For hydrocarbon exporters, increased blue hydrocarbon production can be achieved in two main ways: ...

The study of the atmospheric ice accretion has received some attention from the scientific community in the past, with the available knowledge spanning from the works of the Langmuir and Blodgett (1946) on the Mt. Washington Observatory till the analytical parameterization of the Finstad et al. (1988), with the latter being the current analytical benchmark and the integral part of the ISO 12494 ...

Real-time viscosity and density measurements give insight into the status of many chemical and biochemical processes and allow for automated controls. In many applications, sensors that enable the real-time measurements of fluid properties use resonant elements. Such sensors measure induced changes in the element’s resonance frequency and damping that can be related to the fluid properties. These ...

Isogeometric analysis, as a generalization of the finite element method, employs spline methods to achieve the same representation for both geometric modeling and analysis purpose. Being one of possible tool in application to the isogeometric analysis, blending techniques provide strict locality and smoothness between elements. Motivated by these features, this thesis is devoted to the design and ...