De Gaspari, Francesca (Date of defense: 2015-04-30)
Geochemical and reactive transport modelling are essential tools in hydrogeology. They help to identify and assess geochemical processes occurring in applications such as groundwater contamination, ...
Miranda Neiva, Eric (Date of defense: 2020-10-07)
This thesis addresses large-scale numerical simulations of partial differential equations posed on evolving geometries. Our target application is the simulation of metal additive manufacturing (or 3D ...
Camacho Navarro, Jhonatan (Date of defense: 2019-07-15)
This thesis presents the results of applying a statistical hybrid approach for structural health monitoring using piezo actuating signals. Where, by combining statistical processing based on Principal ...
Tubau Fernández, Isabel (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)
In the city of Barcelona and the townships situated in the deltaic area of the Besòs River, groundwater is recognized as an aspect of urban water cycle management. There is groundwater seepage into ...
Bahar, Arash (Date of defense: 2009-07-03)
En la ingeniería estructural, uno de los desafíos constantes es encontrar nuevas formas de proteger las estructuras de las fuerzas medioambientales. El aislamiento sísmico se ha mostrado como una forma ...
Olm Serra, Marc (Date of defense: 2019-02-18)
The main object of study of this thesis is the development of scalable and robust solvers based on domain decomposition (DD) methods for the linear systems arising from the finite element (FE) discretization ...
Kuzmanović, Maja (Date of defense: 2017-06-23)
More than one-third of Earths available freshwater is used for anthropogenic purposes, which has led to its contamination by numerous chemical compounds. Their presence in the environment might have ...
Palacios Pierluissi, Andrea Viviana (Date of defense: 2021-09-16)
Seawater intrusion (SWI) consists in the movement of seawater (SW) into freshwater (FW) aquifers, contaminating drinking water resources. SWI, along with the parallel reduction of Submarine Groundwater ...
Lakshmikantha, M.R. (Date of defense: 2009-06-12)
The thesis focuses on the experimental and theoretical aspects of the process of cracking in drying soils. The results and conclusions were drawn from an exhaustive experimental campaign characterised ...
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 ...