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 ...
Roca Cazorla, David (Date of defense: 2020-09-07)
The notion of metamaterials as artificially engineered structures designed to obtain specific material properties, typically unachievable in naturally occurring materials, has captured the attention of ...
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 ...
Samaniego Alvarado, Cristóbal (Date of defense: 2015-12-14)
This thesis is based on the implementation of a computational system to numerically simulate the interaction between a fluid and an arbitrary number of rigid bodies. This implementation was performed ...
Benedetti, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2017-05-11)
Strain localization and quasi-brittle failure in frictional-cohesive materials is still an open and challenging problem in computational mechanics. Owing to its complexity and the significant implications ...
Rahmi, Mohammad (Date of defense: 2013-04-09)
Biological membranes are continuously brought out of equilibrium, as they shape organelles, package and transport cargo, or respond to external actions. The dynamics of lipid membranes are very complex ...
Ayats López, Roger (Date of defense: 2022-04-22)
Turbulence is one of the major concerns for most technological problems involving fluid motion. Specially in aeronautics, a turbulent boundary layer results in structural stresses, vibrations and higher ...
Gaset Rifà, Jordi (Date of defense: 2018-07-25)
The theories of gravity are one of the most important topics in theoretical physics and mathematical physics nowadays. The classical formulation of gravity uses the Hilbert-Einstein Lagrangian, which ...