Ameller, David (Date of defense: 2014-01-23)
In the last decades, software engineering has become an important area of research. As researchers, we try to identify a problem, a need, or a hole in some research topic, once identified we make an ...
Codony, David (Date of defense: 2021-03-01)
This PhD thesis focuses on the development of mathematical and computational models for flexoelectricity, a relatively new electromechanical coupling that is present in any dielectric at the micron and ...
Ferré Porta, Guillem (Date of defense: 2017-09-16)
The main objective of the thesis is to study static and/or dynamic properties of a set of quantum fluids by means of quantum Monte Carlo techniques, mainly using the path integral formalism to obtain ...
Pérez Rico, Juan Luis (Date of defense: 2018-11-26)
In recent years there has been an extraordinary growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its protocols. The increasing diffusion of electronic devices with identification, computing and communication ...
Salazar Serrano, Luis José (Date of defense: 2016-10-13)
Weak Value Amplification (WVA) is a signal enhancement technique proposed in 1988 by Aharonov, Albert, and Vaidman that has been widely used to measure tiny changes that otherwise cannot be determined ...
Muixí Ballonga, Alba (Date of defense: 2020-11-30)
This thesis proposes a new computational model for the efficient simulation of crack propagation, through the combination of a phase-field model in small subdomains around crack tips and a discontinuous ...
Zhuang, Sicong (Date of defense: 2019-11-28)
Inter-node communication has turned out to be one of the determining factors of the performance on modern HPC systems. Furthermore, the situation only gets worse with the ever-incresing size of the cores ...
Raschellà, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2015-05-27)
Cognitive Radio (CR) paradigm represents an innovative solution to mitigate the spectrum scarcity problem by enabling Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA), defined in order to conciliate the existing conflicts ...
Trilla Romero, Lluís (Date of defense: 2013-11-15)
L'energia eòlica ha incrementat la seva presència a molts països i s'espera que tingui encara un pes més gran en la generació elèctrica amb la implantació de la tecnologia eòlica marina. En aquest context ...
Ahumada Sempoal, Miguel Angel (Date of defense: 2014-12-11)
A high-resolution (~1.2km) 3D circulation model nested in one-way to a coarse-resolution (~4km) 3D regional model was used to examine the interaction between the Northern Current and the Blanes submarine ...