Adaptive low and high-order hybridized methods for unsteady incompressible flow simulations 

    Karkoulias, Alexandros (Date of defense: 2020-06-17)

    Simulations of incompressible flows are performed on a daily basis to solve problems of practical and industrial interest in several fields of engineering, including automotive, aeronautical, mechanical and biomedical ...

    Advanced numerical techniques for inverse problems in geophysics 

    Ortega Gelabert, Olga (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)

    This thesis presents an efficient methodology to couple Model Order Reduction techniques within the framework of geophysical probabilistic inversion problems. Accurate models of the interaction between Earth inner processes ...

    Finite calculus. A stabilized finite element method for solving the Navier-Stokes equations. Application to ocean turbulence 

    Lamorena German, Arnel (Date of defense: 2020-09-17)

    Ocean turbulence is a classic example of turbulent motion and observations of turbulence in the ocean lack in regions of complex topography since in-situ and experimental data are complicated to obtain. As a result, ocean ...

    High-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin formulation and implicit Runge-Kutta schemes for multiphase flow through porous media 

    Costa Solé, Albert (Date of defense: 2020-07-17)

    This dissertation presents high-order hybridisable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) formulations coupled with implicit Runge-Kutta (RK) methods for the simulation of one-phase flow and two-phase flow problems. High-order-methods ...

    Large-scale tree-based unfitted finite elements for metal additive manufacturing 

    Miranda Neiva, Eric (Date of defense: 2020-10-07)

    This thesis addresses large-scale numerical simulations of partial differential equations posed on evolving geometries. Our target application is the simulation of metal additive manufacturing (or 3D printing) with powder-bed ...

    Model order reduction methods for sensor data assimilation to support the monitoring of embankment dams 

    Nasika, Christina (Date of defense: 2022-06-28)

    The latest monitoring and asset management technologies for large infrastructures involve digital representations that integrate information and physical models, exist in parallel to the real-life structures, and are ...