Hachicha, Ahmed Amine (Date of defense: 2013-09-30)
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technologies are gaining increasing interest in electricity generation due to the good potential for scaling up renewable energy at the utility level. Parabolic trough ...
Dabbagh, Firas (Date of defense: 2017-09-06)
Without fluid turbulence, life might have rather different look. The atmosphere and oceans could nearly maintain a much larger temperature differences resulting in ultimate heating or cooling to the ...
Martínez Valdivieso, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-03-31)
This thesis focuses on the study and improvement of the techniques involved on a virtual platform for the simulation of the Aerodynamics of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines, with the ultimate objective ...
Gutiérrez Álvarez, Enrique (Date of defense: 2018-07-17)
CFD techniques are important tools for the study of multiphase flows, because most of the physical phenomena of these flows often happen on space and time scales where experimental methodologies are ...
Baez Vidal, Aleix (Date of defense: 2019-01-10)
The present thesis investigates how explicit filters can be useful in numerical simulations of turbulent, compressible flow with symmetry preserving discretizations. Such explicit filters provide stability ...
Bartrons Casademont, Eduard (Date of defense: 2018-10-05)
The present thesis aims at developing a basis for the numerical simulation of the growth and densification of macroscopic frost sheets. Notwithstanding the fact that icing has still a long way to fully ...
Amani, Ahmad (Date of defense: 2019-07-24)
The complex nature of multiphase flows, particularly in the presence of non-Newtonian rheologies in the phases, limits the applicability of theoretical analysis of physical equations as well as setting ...
Antepara Zambrano, Oscar Luis (Date of defense: 2019-01-10)
The main objective of this thesis is the development of an adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) algorithm for computational fluid dynamics simulations using hexahedral and tetrahedral meshes. This numerical ...
Valle Marchante, Nicolás (Date of defense: 2021-01-07)
Multiphase flows present a rich variety of physical instabilities, which may turn into a set of interesting techonological features. In the particular case of vertical fallings films, these features ...
Naseri, Alireza (Date of defense: 2019-07-22)
This thesis is dedicated to developing numerical methods to solve fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. FSI features in a vast range of physical systems and has a wide application in engineering. The ...