Initial commit of master's thesis

This is the version I submitted to RWTH Aachen University at November 9,
2018.

Makefile

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+MAINTEX 	:= thesis.tex
+
+LATEX 		:= lualatex
+FLAGS 		:= -quiet -shell-escape
+
+.PHONY : default help pdf verbose clean veryclean 
+
+default : 
+	cd scripts && $(MAKE)
+	cd images && $(MAKE)
+	cd plots && $(MAKE)
+	latexmk -$(LATEX) $(FLAGS) $(MAINTEX)
+
+help :
+	@echo ""
+	@echo "This Makefile creates the PDF of the thesis by using 'latexmk'"
+	@echo "  make             : Generate PDF of the thesis"
+	@echo "  make pdf         : Generate PDF of the thesis (forced mode)"
+	@echo "  make verbose     : Show output from latex compiler"
+	@echo "  make clean       : Delete temporary files"
+	@echo "  make veryclean   : Delete temporary files including PDF"
+	@echo ""
+
+
+pdf : 
+	latexmk -g -$(LATEX) $(FLAGS) $(MAINTEX)
+
+verbose :
+	latexmk -g -$(LATEX) $(FLAGS) -verbose $(MAINTEX)
+
+clean :
+	latexmk -c
+	cd scripts && $(MAKE) clean
+	cd images && $(MAKE) clean
+	cd plots && $(MAKE) clean
+	rm -f appendices/*.aux chapters/*.aux 
+	rm -f *.lol *.fls thesis-blx.bib *.xml *.bbl *.nlo *.nls *.acn *.acr *.alg *.glo *.ist *.tdo
+
+veryclean : clean
+	latexmk -C