The aim of this thesis is to study the convergence and smoothness of certain nonlinear interpolatory curve subdivision schemes. The emphasis will be on the iterated geometric schemes, which are extensions of the nonlinear ...

Computational models of fluids, structures, and the interaction between them shows good promise in science and engineering, with nearly infinitely many applications. However, fluid-structure interaction (FSI) is poorly ...

Millions of people world wide suffer from asthma, and respiratory diseases are one of the leading causes of death. Patients can be treated or relieved by inhalation of medicine, but the efficiency of the treatment is often ...

This thesis investigates the appliance of the finite element method to long wave propagation in channels. Weak formulations of potential- and velocity based Boussinesq equations were derived, with the normal dependent ...

The mechanical behavior of the heart has been modeled for decades by using continuum mechanics and numerical methods. A widely used, but rarely discussed, assumption is that inertial effects can be neglected in these models. ...

In this thesis results from numerical simulations of long wave run-up on composite beaches are presented along with the analytical solution to the linear problem. The purpose of this study is to find out which parts of the ...

OpenFOAM and FEniCS are two solver frameworks for solving computational fluid dynamics problems. The former employs the finite volume method to discretize the governing equations, while the latter employs the finite element ...

Muscle ultrasound imaging is a convenient technique to visualize normal and pathological muscle tissue. Studying muscle fascicle pennation angle and fascicle length and their dynamic changes during contraction are important ...

This thesis presents an experimental investigation on the occurrence of freak waves in a bimodal sea. The bimodal sea consisted of two wave systems traveling in the same direction, with different peak frequencies f_{Pj} ...

We have used the level - set function to divide a computational domain into a solid region and a fluid region to create an idealized model of blood flow in narrow cerebral arteries to simulate the mechanotransduction in ...

This master thesis presents a laboratory investigation of wave slamming forces on a vertical cylinder in deep and intermediate water. The technique of frequency focusing of the incoming wave field allows for generation of ...

Avhandlingen er en del av en større forskning på bimodal sjø. Det er gjort eksperimenter med vindsjø sammen med dønnning, samt bikromatisk bølge bestående av en kort bølge ridende på dønning er genrert i bølgetanken. Det ...

An important aspect in portfolio optimization is the quantification of risk. Variance was the starting point, as proposed by Harry Markowitz in the 1950’s, but it’s obviously flawed since it measures high returns as risk. ...

Syringomyelia is a progressive disease where fluid filled cavities develop inside the spinal cord, and is frequently seen together with Chiari Malformation I (CMI). CMI is characterized by downwards displacements of the ...

The numerical solution of differential equations is an algorithmic process with various parameters controlling the accuracy, stability and computational time of the simulation. In Computational Fluid Mechanics (CFD) there ...

Traditionally the compressive sensing theory have been focusing on the three principles of sparsity, incoherence and uniform random subsampling. Recent years research have shown that these principles yield insufficient ...

Brain aneurysms are focalized diseased blood vessels, often shaped like a balloon, which can rupture and cause bleeding in the brain. The presence of aneurysms is correlated with internal carotid artery (ICA) extracranial ...

The intention of this thesis is to give a better understanding of the way that subduction zones evolve, to examine the way that different subduction parameters affect each other and finally to demonstrate how visualization ...

Tynne, porøse plater, oskillerende eller holdt fast under påvirkning av en innkommende bølge, er studert. Bølgen vandrer på et fluid som er antatt inkompressibelt og irrotasjonelt, og lineær potensialteori anvendes. Uttrykk ...

Bølgeinduserte strømninger og bølgedempingsrater for ulike overflate-dekker er undersøkt ved hjelp av PIV og ultralydmålere. To økter med eksperimenter av mekanisk genererte monokromatiske bølger som forplanter seg i en ...

The electrical activity in the Purkinje network and the myocardial tissue in the ventricles of the human heart was modeled. The focus was on the Purkinje tree and the coupling of the Purkinje network and the myocardium. ...

One of the challenges related to modelling calcium dynamics in cardiac cells is the large difference in the length scales involved. The dyad, where important processes take place, is very small compared to the whole cell. ...

Det er betraktet to rektangulære geometrier på en fri overflate i 2-D. Når geometriene er adskilt med en liten spalteavstand kan det oppstå stor vertikal bevegelse av væsken. Vanlige lineære sea keeping programmer ...

Consider a random walk on an undirected, connected graph. On each edge we can set a transition probability to connect two adjacent vertices. The mixing rate of the associated Markov chain to the uniform equilib- rium ...

Studiet undersøker muligheten for å bruke Steamline Upwind/Petrov Galerkin (SUPG) og Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) i adveksjons-dominert skalar-blanding med høyt Schmidt-tall. Forenklede tester viste at DUPG og DG gir dårlig ...

The aim of this work has been to implement a range of Large Eddy Simulation (LES) turbulence models into Oasis, a Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) solver for incompressible flows based on the Finite Element method (FEM), ...

Metagenomics is the investigation of genetic samples directly obtained from the environment. Driven by the rapid development of DNA sequencing technology and continuous reductions in sequencing costs, studies in metagenomics ...

Reaction-Diffusion equations arise in many models in biomedical computing. One of these areas are models for the calcium dynamic in the heart cells. As the terms in reaction-diffusion equations can be solved separately ...

Geodesiske linjer og hyperstrømlinjer er brukt for å visualisere andre ordens tensorer. Dessuten ser vi på en ny måte å fremstille andreordens tensorfelt på. Ved å bruke retning til geodesiske linjer i steden for egenvektorer, ...

Resonant behaviour in the gap between two adjacent bodies on a free surface is investigated numerically. The study is done within the framework of two-dimensional potential theory. It is of common conception that traditional ...

A short introduction to the Nitsche method is given for the overlapping meshes case. Several algorithms for collision detection and mesh decomposition are reviewed and implemented, and a greedy triangulation routine is ...

In a subsea facility, the pipelines will be surrounded by sea water at 4◦C, which will actively cool the production fluid inside. If temperatures drop below a critical value, water and gas will form unwanted solids called ...

This master thesis presents an experimental study of plunging breakers on a beach with a slope of 5.1◦. The incoming waves are solitary waves with various amplitudes, and the areas investigated are the swash zone and the ...

The parameter dependent Brinkman equation can be used to model viscous and porous flow. The equation covers a family of problems, ranging from the Stokes problem to the Darcy problem. We apply the stabilization methods; ...

Målet med oppgaven er å undersøke isomorfier mellom visse Heisenberginvariante variteter eller finne ut når to slike er isomorfe.

A key challenge in Air Traffic Management (ATM) is to provide a schedule with high throughput on the runways, and at the same time meet objectives connected to taxiing times and punctuality while ensuring safe operations ...

Det er kjent både fra eksperimentelle og numeriske resultater, at langkammede bølger som propagerer på grunt vann over en plan variabel bunn mot grunnere vann, har større sannsynlighet for freake bølger ved den grunne delen ...

Given today s limited capacity at airports, and the continuous increase in air transportation, the need for new ways to handle airport logistics will soon be needed. The task of managing arriving and departing flights is ...

This work presents a theoretical and experimental investigation on the statistical properties of the surface elevation in a special case of crossing sea conditions. The special case considered is the case of two irregular ...

The main objective of this master thesis was to experimentally investigate the boundary layer under a solitary wave. Experiments of solitary waves on constant depths were conducted, varying the amplitude in order to ...

In their paper, "Type III sigma-spectral triples and quantum statistical mechanical systems", M. Greenfield, M. Marcolli and K. Teh used the Bost-Connes system to construct a type III sigma-spectral triple where the twisting ...

This paper is about solving an optimization problem for a sparse solution. Given a matrix A and a vector b, the optimization problem is to solve the linear equation Ax = b for x. The problem can be represented as a ...

The one-shot method is an approach to solve PDE-constrained optimization problems. In this thesis we study two models describing the deformation of biological tissue due to harmonic acoustic waves. These models are the ...

Oppgaven tar for seg den seismiske bølgeligningen i et og to lag med materialer ved hjelp av endelige differanser i tid, og ved bruk av elementmetoden for romlige koordinater. Oppgaven er delt i en serie prosjekter som tar ...

Dimensjonering for jordskjelv har etter innføringen av Eurokodene blitt et mer aktuelt tema i Norge. NS-EN 1998-1:2004+NA:2008 Eurokode 8: Prosjektering av konstruksjoner for seismisk påvirkning Del 1: Allmenne regler, ...

Formålet med denne rapporten er å utlede og vurdere mulighet for bruk av en teoretisk metode som baserer seg på anvendelse av en konseptuel beregningsparameter, ekvivalent initial sprekkdybde (EIFS), i den tradisjonelle ...

Denne oppgaven beskriver en automatisk algoritme for å koble sammen AIS-data, Automatic Identification System, med en eksisterende algoritme for å detektere oljesøl i SAR-bilder, Synthetic aperture radar. AIS er et system ...

Image enhancement has many applications. This thesis is devoted to image inpainting, which is to fill in the corrupted or missing pixels in a meaningful way. These pixels may be deteriorated or missing for various reasons, ...

Fenomenene utilsiktede deformasjoner og skjærriss har en spesiell tendens til å oppstå i fritt frambygg bruer, og har de siste tiårene tiltrukket seg stor oppmerksomhet blant bruaktører både i Norge og resten av verden. ...

The first part of this thesis will build up an overview of a small section of the field of subdivision, namely binary univariate schemes. Since most of the theory on subdivision is based on a uniform spacing of the initial ...

Introduction: An aneurysm is an acquired, abnormal dilation of a blood vessel. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) have been used to try and understand this phenomena. CFD studies use assumptions in the simulation model and ...

Cylindrical shells are common configurations within the technology. The transition from the side to the bottom on a ship has the shape of a fourth of a cylindrical shell. Both ring and stringer stiffeners can be added to ...

The main objective of the present thesis was to study how composite patches can reduce the stress intensity in cracked steel plates, and how these patches, by reducing the stress intensity, can limit the extent of fatigue ...

The purpose of this thesis is to perform some mathematical analysis and study numerical solutions of different models describing (different aspects of) axonal transport. We will explain our numerical results using mathematical ...

Motivation for the thesis is the vortex induced vibrations (VIV). To predict the fatigue life of an offshore cable subjected to VIV, the eigen frequencies of the system need to be known for the configuration of a cable ...

Abstract Out of two alternative bridge designs, a cantilever bridge is chosen as a highway bridge by the owner in collaboration with a consulting company. The design decision is based on initial cost estimates and regular ...

Digital analysis of seismic images is a key component in the automation of seismic data interpretation. Other authors have explored using curvature as an attribute in this kind of analysis, but only on data which has been ...

A lined pipeline consists of an outer main load-bearing pipe of Carbon-Manganese steel, termed backing steel, and an inner corrosion resistant alloy layer, termed liner. The purpose of the liner is to serve as a membrane; ...

The aim of this thesis is to develop an algorithm for solving the best approximation problem in the L1 - norm with splines. Our study is based on the theory of L1-approximation with polynomials as well as theory that explain ...

Python is a programming language that has gained a lot of popularity during the last 15 years, and as a very easy-to-learn and flexible scripting language it is very well suited for computa- tional science, both in mathematics ...

A connected riser transmits loads acting on the rig and the riser, resulting from factors as current and waves, onto a subsea well at the seabed. This loading may induce fatigue damage to the well head (WH) and other subsea ...

Verden har stadig økende behov for energi, og for å få bærekraftige løsninger er det et ønske om at denne økningen skal bli dekket av fornybare energikilder, samt at eksisterende energiproduksjon fra fossile kilder blir ...

Verden har stadig økende behov for energi, og for å få bærekraftige løsninger er det et ønske om at denne økningen skal bli dekket av fornybare energikilder, samt at eksisterende energiproduksjon fra fossile kilder blir ...

In this thesis we present a numerical solver for actively contracting heart muscle tissue. It uses the finite element method for the discretization and is entirely based on free open source software packages made available ...

In this thesis, we investigate the application of duality-based goal-oriented adaptive error control to the computation of shear stresses in biomedical flow problems. As a model problem, we consider the linear Stokes ...

This thesis has been written about the analytical and semi-analytical formulae as an alternative to finite element analyses in computing lateral deflection, buckling loads and ultimate capacity of steel elastomer sandwich ...

In the shipping industry, there is an increase in the requirement of determining a ship's strength when it comes to collision events. This involves ship-against-ship collisions, but also strength against damage caused by ...

This master's thesis studies the kayak rudder flow phenomena and uses analytic, numerical and experimental methods to describe the force coefficients of kayak rudders. Also an analysis of the sport of flatwater kayaking ...

Master oppgaven presenterer ulike bølgetall/frekvens spekter som viser målte dispersjons relasjoner utledet fra målte laboratorie irregulære lang-kammede bølge felt. De målte dispersjons relasjonene er sammenlignet med den ...

I ballistikken er det generelt gjort lite med forskning for å forstå vibrasjoner som oppstår i rifleløp, noe som nok skyldes at det nok er liten økonomisk gevinst ved å forske på finkalibret våpen. Det er derimot gjort mye ...

Several plate theories have been developed to describe the static and dynamic behaviour of plates. This thesis is predominantly a study of plate theories including shear effects, with emphasis on higher order shear deformation ...

In general notice, the horizontal component of ground motions will normally always play the dominant role for response of buildings compared to the response from the vertical component. Therefore, the vast literature is ...

The motivation of writing this thesis arises in connection with the interpretation of wave measurements: How can the wave height be determined from a grazing incidence radar image? How well can nonlinearity of the ocean ...

Denne oppgaven kartlegger den naturlige gruppen som virker på Rubik's kube. Gruppen består av de forskjellige trekkene som kan gjøres på kuben.

The cardiovascular system consists of the heart and the vessels. The pressure in the arteries is regulated by the baroreflex, which means pressure reflex. The baroreflex is a part of the central nervous system. The main ...