Cortez Ordóñez, Alexandra Piedad (Date of defense: 2023-11-23)
(English) Nowadays, Bicycle Sharing Systems (BSS) have become a popular and widespread transportation system across the world thanks to their multiple environmental and health benefits, and its successful ...
Alsalti Baldellou, Àdel (Date of defense: 2023-12-18)
(English) Divergence constraints are present in the governing equations of many physical phenomena, and they usually lead to a Poisson equation whose solution is one of the most challenging parts of ...
Vila i Julià, Guillem (Date of defense: 2023-11-22)
(English) Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally, only behind cardiovascular diseases, being a major public health issue. Cancer comprises a wide group of diseases characterized by abnormal ...
Andreu Casas, Enric (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
(English) The proposed PhD thesis consists in solving the Multi-manned Assembly Line Balancing Problem (MALBP). This type of assembly lines is common in the manufacture of large products, such as ...
Piccardo, Stefano (Date of defense: 2023-12-04)
(English) We consider two-fluid problems involving immiscible Stokes fluids in contact and with surface tension at their interface. We develop, analyze, and compare two approaches for space discretization, ...
Parada Bustelo, Samuel (Date of defense: 2023-01-27)
(English) This thesis deals with finite element methods to solve compressible flow problems, an important branch of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) whose applications are widespread in many areas of ...
Esnaola Acebes, Mikel (Date of defense: 2023-06-23)
(English) Epidemiology is a relatively young and rapidly evolving science. Recent technological breakthroughs have allowed modern epidemiologists to raise increasingly ambitious research hypotheses. ...
Wang, Baoying (Date of defense: 2023-09-21)
(English) Turbulence is not only omnipresent in our daily lives but also in engineering applications. However, not until the middle of the XXth century researchers began to realize that simple, relatively ...