Investigation of Nanogrids for Improved Navy Installation Energy Resilience

Resilience Training for Dutch Navy Recruits

Attrition within initial training of the Dutch Navy is high resulting in unnecessary costs and a lack of personnel to adequately fill the ranks. A resilience training was developed based on research into reasons for attrition and promising training interventions. Goal of the training was to foster coping self-efficacy and self determination to persist when confronted with the stressful conditio...

Improved atmospheric stable boundary layer formulations for Navy Seasonal Forecasting

Many large-scale weather forecast models prescribes too much turbulent mixing stably stratified conditions, which causes problems with the depth of nocturnal or high-latitude winter boundary layers, lack of inertially driven low-level wind maxima and inversion-capped low clouds. The link between the turbulent momentum flux and the associated Ekman pumping and therefore the lifetime of synoptics...

Energy Resilience Modeling for Smart Houses

The use of renewable energy in houses and neighbourhoods is very much governed by national legislation and has recently led to enormous changes in the energy market and poses a serious threat to the stability of the grid at peak production times. One of the approaches towards a more balanced grid is, e.g., taken by the German government by subsidizing local storage for solar power. While the ma...

Key facts on resilience and response to stress for Navy and USMC leaders.

Pulsed laser-induced formation of silica nanogrids

UNLABELLED Silica grids with micron to sub-micron mesh sizes and wire diameters of 50 nm are fabricated on fused silica substrates. They are formed by single-pulse structured excimer laser irradiation of a UV-absorbing silicon suboxide (SiOx) coating through the transparent substrate. A polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) superstrate (cover layer) coated on top of the SiOx film prior to laser exposure ...