Gallart Escolà, Dani (Date of defense: 2019-09-27)
Heating plasmas to a relevant fusion temperature is one of the key aspects of magnetically confined fusion plasmas. Radio frequency (RF) heating with electromagnetic waves in the ion cyclotron range of ...
Escuain i Poole, Lara Sofia (Date of defense: 2019-03-28)
The brain is a complex organ whose activity spans multiple scales, both spatial and temporal. The computational unit of the brain is thought to be the neurone. At the microscopic level, neurones communicate ...
Zappalà, Dario (Date of defense: 2019-04-04)
The dynamics of the climate system plays a crucial role in the sustainability of life on Earth, and this motivates research to understand and characterise our climate and predict its evolution. In this ...
Rakha, Allah (Date of defense: 2019-09-27)
In this thesis, a detailed analysis of the experientially observed energetic particle-driven Alfvénic instabilities in tokamak and stellarator plasmas using three dimensional numerical tools based on ...
Roma Dollase, David (Date of defense: 2019-04-09)
The research of this paper-based dissertation is focused on Global Ionospheric Maps (GIM) generation and assessment. In summary, the novelty and thematic unity in this works relies on four different but ...
Levit Valenzuela, Rafael (Date of defense: 2019-12-10)
Ferroelectric materials are endowed with fascinating functional properties from the technological point of view. Consequently, they have promoted the design of ferroelectric-based devices with applications ...
Dalmau Codina, Ramon (Date of defense: 2019-06-25)
The growth in traffic increased the pressure on the environmental sustainability of air transport. In this context, many research effort has been devoted to minimise the environmental impact in the ...
Miró Jané, Arnau (Date of defense: 2019-06-19)
Synthetic jets are produced by the oscillatory movement of a membrane inside a cavity, causing fluid to enter and leave through a small orifice. This results in a net jet that is able to transfer kinetic ...
Baeza Pérez, Eduard (Date of defense: 2019-07-22)
A conclusion that can be drawn from the historical safety analyses developed for tokamaks fusion reactors is that some of the major risks involve incidents in the vacuum vessel. In order to evaluate ...
Shao, Yixie (Date of defense: 2019-02-25)
The research of this dissertation is studying the ionosphere by GPS radio occultation (RO) techniques. It is mainly divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the methodology in electron density ...