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    A Study of Jewish Philanthropic Company Colonization in Canada`s Northwest Territories During the Late Nineteenth Century

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    Since the author of this study is of Mennonite ethnic origin it is perhaps in order to explain how he came to write this study of an aspect of Jewish History. As an undergraduate his interests lay in modern European History and Russian Intellectual History during the late nineteenth century. In 1975, however, his attention was drawn to a national essay competition sponsored by the Jewish Historical Society of Western Canada in honour of the Bronfman Family. The author was able to complete a paper, 'Jewish Agricultural Settlement in Western Canada, 1870-1930' while doing contract research related to the development of a travelling display for the Western Development Museum in Saskatoon during the summer of 1976. Dr. T.D. Regehr, who supervised the research permitted the paper to be submitted to the contest and it was awarded second prize of $200. Al though the paper was based on available secondary sources only, the author had been able to ascertain that there were primary sources available for more detailed study of aspects of Jewish Agricultural Settlement in the West. The author's attention was drawn to Hirsch Colony in particular because of the sharply divergent portrayals of its history and role in the development of Jewish agriculture in Western Canada. Jewish literature suggested that it was at least a moderate success and that it contributed significantly to the later improvement of Jewish agriculture's progress in the West. Government sources often quoted in the secondary sources, however, were generally very negative about Jewish agriculture in general and about Hirsch Colony in particular. This intrigued the author and resulted in this study of the Colony's role in determining the direction taken by Jewish Agricultural Colonization in Western Canada and its influence on Dominion Lands Policy regarding assisted settlement in general and Jewish agriculture in particular. This study grew out of the natural curiosity sparked by the essay contest, the contract research, and the author's own interest in the ethnic variety and agricultural foundations of Western Canada

    Studies in Singular Optics and Coherence Theory

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    In this dissertation, the field of singular optics is examined in terms of common laboratory experiments. Different types of field singularities are related to one another. Problems in coherence theory related to two correlated sources are also investigated.Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc

    Studies in Physical Optics: Coherence Theory and Surface Plasmons

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    Brushless Doubly-Fed Induction Machines for Wind Turbine Drive-Train Applications

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    The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh framework Programme (FP7/2007_2013) for theWindrive project under Grant Agreement 315485.Electrical Power Processin

    Discontinious Galerkin formulations for thin bending problems

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    A structural thin bending problem is essentially associated with a fourth-order partial differential equation. Within the finite element framework, the numerical solution of thin bending problems demands the use of C^1 continuous shape functions. Elements using these functions are challenging and difficult to construct. A particular discontinuous Galerkin method has been used to deal with thin bending problems. It exploits standard Lagrange finite element basis functions with displacement degrees-of-freedom only. The method relies on a lifting operation to transform jumps in the normal derivative across element boundaries to a field defined on element interiors. By introducing special integrals over element boundaries, continuity requirements associated with thin bending problems are met weakly while consistency of the Galerkin problem is preserved and the stability of the formulation is controlled. The approach is formulated for a range of bending problems. Firstly, a finite element formulation for linear Kirchhoff plates is proposed. The formulation is analysed in terms of stability and convergence. A priori error estimates are supported by a range of numerical examples, including static plate bending, plate buckling and vibration. The method has also been developed for geometrically linear and nonlinear thin shell models. For geometrically nonlinear problems, an exact linearisation of the proposed formulation is presented. Using the approach, a non-smooth shell geometry can be dealt with. The performance of the approach is demonstrated via a range of numerical benchmark tests for both geometrically linear and nonlinear thin shells. Based on the obtained results, it can be concluded that the proposed formulation is robust, accurate and relatively simple. As a thin shell theory has been addressed directly, shear locking is completely avoided. Although membrane locking exists, it can be alleviated when high-order basis functions are used. Cubic elements perform particularly well in various challenging benchmark tests. The method is general in sense that it does not rely on a particular element type or shape.Civil Engineering and Geoscience

    Suspended pipeflow with openfoam

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    In dredging applications, deep sea mining and land reclamation projects typically large amounts of sediments are transported through pipes in the form of hyper concentrated (40% sediment or more) sediment-water mixtures or slurry. These slurries can flow at three different regimes. 1: fully suspended (homogeneous and stratified) 2: partially suspended with a sliding bed 3: partially suspended with a fixed bed. At the moment it is hard to predict the transport regime, the volume flux of particles and the pressure drop (friction factor) of these slurries within these regimes. The goal is to establish a model 3D continuum model that is able to predict the aforementioned aspects of slurry flow in a wide range of slurry flow conditions. In this paper it is investigated how well an existing CFD-model is able to model velocity and concentration profiles of suspended sediment in a pipeline. The CFD-model that is used is TwoPhaseEulerFoam which is part of OpenFOAM. This Euler-Euler solver treats both the phases as a continuum with its own momentum and continuity equations. The phases are coupled with coupling terms such as the drag force.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Offshore and Dredging Engineerin

    The Development of Range Extender Generator By Evaluating The Eddy Current Losses and End Effect Using FE Method

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    Peec-Power B.V. is developing high power range extender for hybrid electric vehicles. The first generator designs for range extender have been built and tested in the laboratory. The prototype generators use a permanent magnets with a radial flux type. These prototypes use two kinds of fractional-slot concentrated winding. The slot pole combinations that were chosen are a multiple of 9 coils around 9 teeth with 8 magnet poles and a multiple of 3 coils around 3 teeth with 2 magnet poles. There are two types of permanent magnet constructions in the rotor, which are the Surface Mounted Permanent Magnet (SMPM) and Inset Permanent Magnet (IPM). This thesis deals with further development of the range extender generator. Two topics will be further investigated by using 2D and 3D FEM model. The first topic is the investigation of eddy current losses in the permanent magnets and rotor back iron. The second topic is the investigation of the influence of the machine ends and end windings on the flux distribution and inductivity. The rotor eddy current losses in the prototypes machine are calculated using analytic model, 2D FEM and 3D FEM model. The 3D FEM model is used to investigate the finite length effect in 2D FEM magnet loss calculations. This investigation needs to be done since the prototype generators have a short axial length. The lamination effect on the magnet loss also will be investigated in 3D FEM model. From this investigation, a correction factor to the 2D FEM magnet loss calculation is introduced. 3D FEM models are built to investigate the influence of the machine ends and end windings. With these models, the flux leakages, end inductances and the eddy current losses in the stator end are calculated.Electrical power processingElectrical Power EngineeringElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
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