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Structural geometric approximation for algorithms – SAGA
Combinatorial optimization arises naturally in a variety of resource management problems in public transportation companies, industrial manufacturing, financial and health-care institutions. Standing out are two categories of optimization problems, packing and covering, with applications in material
Combining low-cost biochar, biogas, and cyanobacteria fertigation technologies with low-input crops for sustainable bioproducts in smart circular farming systems – CombiFarm
The CombiFarm project develops living labs to demonstrate: (1) circular farming systems combining energy, carbon and nutrient recovery systems based on low-cost biochar, biogas, and microalgae fertigation technologies together with (2) sustainable cropping systems based on low-input crops (alfalfa,
Combination of Precipitation and grain Refinement for the Achievement of high Strength Aluminium alloys – PRASA
Aluminium alloys play an important role in the transportation industry. In the aircraft or the car industry, the demand for high strength alloy to design low weight structures is nowadays strongly driven by energy savings and low CO2 emissions. Thus developing, optimizing and producing new alloys wi
Delay transition to turbulence by mimicking lotus leaves – DETAIL
The lotus leaf is known for its self-cleaning properties that are due to its high water repellence, also called superhydrophobicity (SH). This interesting property is due to the nanostructure of its surface, which is composed by a hierarchical structure of microepidermis covered in hairlike nanowaxe
Taking into account changing alluvial channels in flood risk assessment – GESTRANS
River management is becoming more and more complex because it needs to integrate short-term flood risk assessment and long-term environmental objectives. These objectives may sometimes conflict, for instance when a sediment deposit, which is fully part of the river equilibrium (or disequilibrium), l
Experiments and simulations for the study of submerged aquatic canopies consisting of long flexible blades (ESCaFlex) – ESCaFlex
Aquatic ecosystems constitute a topic of high relevance due to their abundance and their various roles on different scales, ranging from the quality of drinking water taken from the local river to the large-scale impact on climate change. The fluid mechanical interaction between the flow and the fle
Innovative tools for groundwater monitoring : passive sampling combined with isotope characterization – ORIGAMI
The last European regulation relative to the quality of waters aims to reach a good ecological and chemical status before 2015. A network of measurements is thus implemented for the surveillance of water including groundwater. In this context monitoring tools are needed. The classical approach used
Synthesis and physical properties of new SUPERconducting NICKEL oxides – SUPERNICKEL
Superconductivity is a fascinating quantum state of condensed matter. Its study and understanding have always aroused immense interest in fundamental physics, but also in materials science and its exploitation leads to numerous technological applications: lossless current transport, energy storage,
On the glassy nature of quantum disordered systems – GLADYS
Disorder is often present in condensed matter, in the form of impurities in solids, or in the random arrangement of glasses. It can have dramatic consequences, such as preventing transport or inducing extremely slow relaxation to equilibrium. In the quantum regime, the interplay between interference
Superconducting motor for aircraft application – FROST
Air transport has grown by about 9% every year since 1950 and has made the world smaller on a human scale. However, commercial flights remain expensive and account for 2% of human emissions of CO2. As a result, airlines and the aviation industry envision tomorrow's transportation, which will require
