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Wang, Yufei (Fecha de defensa: 2022-07-11)
Geological Carbon Sequestration (GCS) plays a major role in mitigating the global warming due to the increasing concentration of CO2 in atmosphere. It is important to understand the GCS process to analyze and predict its ...
Hospital Bravo, Raúl (Fecha de defensa: 2021-07-05)
The design of offshore power stations (for wind, wave or tidal energy generation) requires assessing their environmental impact. In particular, it is of the major importance to predict the impact of the generated subsea ...
Moreno Martínez, Laura (Fecha de defensa: 2021-09-22)
Viscoelastic fluids are a type of non-Newtonian fluids which are formed by complex internal structures and high-molecular-weight, whose typical examples are the polymer solutions and molten polymers. Also, the viscoleastic ...
Pont Ribas, Arnau (Fecha de defensa: 2018-02-23)
The solution of the human phonation problem applying computational mechanics is covered by several research branches, such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), biomechanics or acoustics, among others. In the present ...
Santasusana Isach, Miquel (Fecha de defensa: 2016-12-01)
This works encompasses a broad review of the basic aspects of the Discrete Element Method for its application to general granular material handling problems with special emphasis on the topics of particle-structure interaction ...
Bertran Oller, Oriol (Fecha de defensa: 2023-07-11)
(English) Groundwater is now under high stress levels and its quality and quantity arise as one of the most interesting and necessary topics our community should address. This doctoral thesis is focused on the quality of ...
Solaraju Murali, Balakrishnan (Fecha de defensa: 2023-01-26)
(English) Unfavorable and extreme climate events such as drought and heat stress heavily impacts the agriculture sector and food security globally, and the impact of these climate hazards is expected to increase over the ...
Martí Donati, Alejandro (Fecha de defensa: 2017-07-14)
Explosive volcanic eruptions can eject large quantities of particulate matter that, along with other aerosol droplets and trace gases, are carried upwards into the atmosphere by the buoyant eruption column and then dispersed ...
Fernández Álvarez, Fernando Ángel (Fecha de defensa: 2018-05-03)
Flying squids develop all its life cycle in the water column, as planktonic paralarvae and then as nektonic subadults and adults. In this Ph. D. Thesis, light was shed over several poorly understood aspects of the ontogeny ...
Flo Arcas, Eva (Fecha de defensa: 2017-11-20)
Coastal inshore waters (CIW) are defined as the area of coastal waters between 0 and 200 m from the shoreline. They only represent < 1% of coastal waters, even though they are of main ecological, social, and economic ...
Fontanet i Ambròs, Mireia (Fecha de defensa: 2019-11-25)
By 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations predicts that two-thirds of the world population will experience water stress conditions. In addition, it is expected that world population will increase ...
Collico, Stefano (Fecha de defensa: 2022-06-13)
The task of geotechnical site characterization includes defining the layout of ground units and establishing their relevant engineering properties. This is an activity in which uncertainties of different nature (inherent, ...
Elkoro Ugarteburu, Ander (Fecha de defensa: 2018-10-26)
This thesis discusses the development of a new methodology for 3D printing of TiO2 nanoparticles and its applications in air purification and hydrogen production. A dosage has been obtained that allows 3D printing by DIW ...
Galeote Moreno, Eduardo (Fecha de defensa: 2018-12-14)
Fibre reinforced concrete (FRC) presents objectively proven advantages in terms of post-cracking strength and manufacturing procedures. As a result, FRC with structural responsibility is increasingly being used in the ...
Celigueta Jordana, Miguel Ángel (Fecha de defensa: 2019-11-14)
The work presented in this Thesis is a set of developments focused on the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) and its applicability in several fields in Civil Engineering. The PFEM had already been proven to be a powerful ...
Pérez Illanes, Rodrigo Alfonso (Fecha de defensa: 2024-01-16)
(English) Aquifers are naturally heterogeneous systems across multiple scales, which poses a known difficulty for grid-based solvers of solute transport. When advection is the dominant transport mechanism, concentrations ...
Tapias Camacho, Mauricio Alberto (Fecha de defensa: 2016-12-21)
This thesis presents a study of the mechanical behaviour of coarse-crushable aggregates, using the discrete element method (DEM). A novel DEM model has been developed taking into account particle breakage, the influence ...
Ballesteros Mascarell, Ainara (Fecha de defensa: 2023-01-13)
(English) Jellyfish stings cause discomfort to users of the marine environment, who sometimes require medical assistance. Although jellyfish stings are common today, the scientific community remains in disagreement on how ...
Bado, Mattia Francesco (Fecha de defensa: 2021-07-26)
The employment of a novel cutting edge strain monitoring technique named Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors (DOFS) as Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) tools is becoming increasingly common. Its popularity can be attributed ...
Barba Ferrer, Carme (Fecha de defensa: 2018-11-16)
Worldwide water demand has been increasing over time, mainly due to population growth and society development. In addition, climate change is causing a significant alteration of the periodicity and intensity of precipitation ...