For the degree of Doctor of Engineering Sciences and Technology Rapid and far-reaching mitigation strategies will be an essential part of a coherent climate change response policy.

In the coming years, considerable efforts will have to be made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as possible in order to limit the increase in global average temperature.

With the Green Deal, the European Union has committed to transitioning to a fossil-free energy system, and recent energy crises have highlighted the importance of energy sovereignty in Europe.

  This brief seminar provides an tour d'horizon of an inviscid model for unsteady external aerodynamics within a two-dimensional framework.

Besides my daily fundamental and applied research activities on green hydrogen production based on alkaline water electrolysis, I have been involved as well over the past 5 years in writing and reviewing some of the more techo-economical hydrogen reports from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

The transition towards carbon-neutrality of a whole-energy system (i.e. including all streams of energy carriers and demands) is uncertain. Therefore, instead of establishing single-shot plans towards 2050 (and beyond), i.e. perfect foresight, policy makers rather go through multiple rolling-horizon short-term decisions, i.e. myopic approach.

For the degree of Doctor of Engineering Sciences and Technology High-performance micromotors are becoming ubiquitous through a wide variety of applications that require both high power density and high efficiency. Examples include reaction wheels for the precise positioning of satellites, active prostheses, and surgical power tools.

For the degree of Doctor of Engineering Sciences and Technology Despite the continuous improvement of prevention and treatments, cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death in the world. They correspond to (micro)structural changes affecting the proper functioning of the cardiovascular system.

Many complex structures such as airplanes are made of dissimilar materials, combining for instance Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) Composites and metal sheets. Manufacturing these multimaterial structures requires an efficient bonding process, but also high crack propagation resistance.

GPU-based supercomputing is enabling a significant advancement in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) capabilities for nuclear reactors. In fact, GPU-based super-computers are allowing for the first time to perform full core CFD calculations with URANS and LES approaches.