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    A Finite Element Model for Free Surface and Two Fluid Flows on Fixed Meshes 

    Coppola Owen, Herbert (Date of defense: 2009-06-19)

    Los flujos con interfaces móviles (problemas de superficie libres y de dos fluidos) aparecen en numerosas aplicaciones de ingeniería. Los métodos presentados en esta tesis están orientados principalmente a la simulación ...

    Absolute quantification in brain SPECT imaging 

    Cot Sanz, Albert (Date of defense: 2003-12-17)

    Certes malalties neurològiques estan associades amb problemes en els sistemes de neurotransmissió. Una aproximació a l'estudi d'aquests sistemes és la tomografia d'emissió SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) ...

    Accretion onto Neutron Stars: Hydrodynamics and Nucleosynthesis 

    Moreno Guzmán, Fermín (Date of defense: 2009-11-25)

    In the middle of the 70s, some authors suggested that accretion of hydrogen and helium rich material by a neutron star in a binary system, where the companion star would have low mass, could explain thermonuclear bursts ...

    Aleaciones moleculares binarias en fase plástica. Estudio termodinámico global en algunos derivados del neopentano 

    Salud Puig, Josep (Date of defense: 1999-03-18)

    Aquest treball està dedicat a l'estudi, tant des del punt de vista termodinàmic com cristal·logràfic, dels aliatges moleculars binaris en fase plàstica d'alguns derivats del neopentà.<br/>Mitjançant el tensor de dilatació ...

    An analysis of two-phase flows in conditions relevant to microgravity 

    Arias Calderon, Santiago (Date of defense: 2011-09-23)

    Promising technological applications of two-phase flows in space have captured the increasing interest of the space sector, provoking a strong demand for more fundamental knowledge. Great efforts have been made in recent ...

    Anomalous diffusion : from life to machines 

    Muñoz Gil, Gorka (Date of defense: 2020-11-09)

    Diffusion refers to numerous phenomena, by which particles and bodies of all kinds move throughout any kind of material, has emerged as one of the most prominent subjects in the study of complex systems. Motivated by the ...

    Aportaciones al estudio de los campos de radiación ionizante ambiental 

    Cortés, Guillem (Date of defense: 2002-02-04)

    Amb aquesta tesi s'intenta aportar la informació necessària per a millorar el coneixement dels camps de radiació ionitzant ambiental d'origen natural, i contribuir així a la millora de la gestió de les estacions de vigilància ...

    AxisSPH:devising and validating an axisymmetric smoothed particle hydrodynamics code 

    Relaño Castillo, Antonio (Date of defense: 2012-06-06)

    A two-dimensional axisymmetric implementation of the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique, called for short AxisSPH, has been described in this thesis, along with a number of basic tests and realistic applications. ...

    Bell inequalities for device-independent protocols 

    Salavrakos, Alexia (Date of defense: 2019-03-26)

    The technological era that we live in is sometimes described as the Information Age. Colossal amounts of data are generated every day and considerable effort is put into creating technologies to process, store and transmit ...

    Bifurcaciones, transición al caos y turbulencia en sistemas heterogéneos 

    Rodríguez Cantalapiedra, Inma (Date of defense: 1995-11-30)

    Este trabajo está dividido en dos partes claramente diferenciadas, ambas dentro de la Física no lineal.<br/>La primera es un estudio de las inestabilidades de la corriente en semiconductores extrinsecos, incluyendo ...

    Bubble and droplet flow phenomena at different gravity levels 

    Suñol Galofré, Francesc (Date of defense: 2011-07-19)

    Two-phase flows are encountered in a wide range of applications both on-ground and in space. The dynamics of such flows in the absence of gravity is completely different from that in normal gravity due to the absence of ...

    Caracterització, reconeixement de patrons i detecció de defectes en textures periòdiques mitjançant anàlisi d'imatges. Aplicació a teixits textils 

    Escofet Soteras, Jaume (Date of defense: 1999-09-23)

    La forta exigència de qualitat a que són sotmesos els productes actuals fa que els processos d'inspecció i control industrial ocupin, cada vegada més, un lloc destacat en la seva fabricació. La indústria relacionada amb ...

    Caracterización de aerosoles radiactivos en la ciudad de Barcelona 

    González de Perosanz, Miguel Àngel (Date of defense: 2012-03-19)

    This research work has been developed in order to contribute to the knowledge of radioactive aerosol characteristics and their behaviour in the atmosphere. The study was carried out in the city of Barcelona. The Instituto ...

    Caracterización de Skutterudites como material termoeléctrico desarrollado con nanotecnología. 

    López Martínez, Antonio M. (Antonio Miguel) (Date of defense: 2006-10-11)

    In this research work it has been implemented with the semiconductor characterization, base basically in the thermoelectric structure develop with Skutterudite nanostructures, under different manufacturing process, specially ...

    Caracterización termomecánica de aceros inoxidables austeníticos AISI-304 

    El Wahabi, Mohammed (Date of defense: 2003-03-20)

    El control de la microestructura necesita la optimización de las condiciones del conformado en caliente. La recristalización dinámica es el fenómeno protagonista durante un proceso termomecánico, por lo que tiene un interés ...

    Characterizing and witnessing multipartite correlations : from nonlocality to contextuality 

    Sainz, Ana Belén (Date of defense: 2014-02-10)

    In the past century, experimental discoveries have witnessed phenomena in Nature which challenge our everyday classical intuition. In order to explain these facts, quantum theory was developed, which so far has been able ...

    Climate networks constructed by using information-theoretic measures and ordinal time-series analysis 

    Deza, Juan Ignacio (Date of defense: 2015-02-26)

    This Thesis is devoted to the construction of global climate networks (CNs) built from time series -surface air temperature anomalies (SAT)- using nonlinear analysis. Several information theory measures have been used ...

    Collective dynamics of bulk metallic glasses studied by molecular dynamics simulations 

    Valles Sales, Araceli (Date of defense: 2014-09-25)

    The development of new materials impacts on all branches of engineering and, in particular, in aerospace engineering. Metallic glasses (MG) are relatively newcomers to the world of materials science and have excellent ...

    Collective motion and collective decision-making in animal groups : from scholling fish to swarming robots 

    Múgica Gallart, Julia (Date of defense: 2023-06-07)

    (English) Collective behavior in animals is ubiquitous in nature. It emerges from the self-organization of interacting individuals within a group. What makes collective behavior so interesting is that the behavior of the ...

    Comparative study of Final Focus Systems for CLIC and other luminosity enhancement studies for future linear colliders 

    García Morales, Héctor (Date of defense: 2015-01-16)

    The 4th of July 2012 was a milestone date in the history of physics of the last decades. The discovery of the Higgs boson at the ATLAS and CMS experiments thanks to the proton collisions delivered by the LHC not only has ...