Kanzaki Cabrera, Takeichi (Date of defense: 2013-11-29)
Granular materials are multi-particle systems involved in many industrial process and everyday life. The mechanical behavior of granular media such as sand, coffee beans, planetary rings and powders are ...
López de Rioja, Víctor (Date of defense: 2019-03-11)
The thesis studies from an analytical and computational perspective, and by using reaction-diffusion equations, the spatiotemporal evolution of different populations. First, the dynamics of the T7 ...
García Rodríguez, Santiago (Date of defense: 2019-06-28)
This thesis investigates the impact response of novel laminates made with “thin-plies” as well as proposes a toughening method to improve their impact tolerance. To this purpose, we devised a wide ...
Planella Morató, Jesús (Date of defense: 2015-07-15)
Turbulence intermittency influences so many processes in natural waters on a wide range of scales. This work analyzes intermittency, both internal and external, by considering two cases: the thermocline ...
Bonastre i Muñoz, Jordi (Date of defense: 2018-01-15)
This thesis deals with the production, characterization and analysis of Fe and Co based nanocrystalline and amorphous soft-ferromagnetic alloys, alloys showing ferromagnetic hysteresis cycles with low ...
Costa Surós, Montse (Date of defense: 2014-10-02)
Improving methods for automatic and continuous description of cloud has a huge importance in order to determine the role of clouds in climate and their contribution to climate change. The geometric ...
Rasi, Silvia (Date of defense: 2019-11-12)
High temperature superconductivity and in particular YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO) coated conductors (CCs) are a crucial technology for the drastic reduction of CO2 emissions. Since nowadays YBCO CCs are not ...
Pujol Company, M. Dolors (Date of defense: 2013-04-16)
Coastal zones are governed by physical forces originating from tidal currents, waves, winds and night convection, amongst others, and are characterized by the presence of canopy meadows. This thesis ...
El Allaoui, Nazha (Date of defense: 2016-07-21)
The general objective of this doctoral thesis has been to contribute to understand the modification of hydrodynamics in fragmented canopies. The effect of different parameters such as the canopy density, ...
Sánchez Rodríguez, Daniel (Date of defense: 2015-10-14)
L'objectiu d'aquest treball és analitzar mètodes químics de baix cost com a ruta per a sintetitzar òxids avançats a baixa temperatura. En particular, hem explorat l'SHS per a la síntesi d'un òxid ...