Seoane Chouciño, Marcos (Date of defense: 2020-07-15)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners have become an essential tool in the medical industry due to their ability to produce high resolution images of the human body. To generate an image of the body, ...
Martínez Estévez, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2020-06-29)
In order to cope with the serious and urgent problem of global warming, it is imperative to reduce the impact of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere. One of the alternatives proposed involves the injection ...
Tello Guerra, Alexis (Date of defense: 2020-07-10)
The standard Fluid Structure Interaction coupling (velocity--pressure/displacement) is compared against two novel types of coupling, a Two Field coupling (velocity--pressure/displacement--pressure) and ...
Arashiro, Larissa Terumi (Date of defense: 2020-07-02)
Water is undoubtedly the most essential resource of humanity. However. supplying the human population with clean water has been a major challenge for decades. Contaminants in wastewaters endanger water ...
Cruz García, Rubén (Date of defense: 2020-07-01)
Arctic sea ice plays a central role in the Earth’s climate. Changes in the sea ice on seasonal-to-interannual timescales impact ecosystems, populations and a growing number of stakeholders. A prerequisite ...
Hartl, Marco (Date of defense: 2020-07-03)
The objective of this work was the improvement and control of wastewater treatment using constructed wetlands operated as Microbial Fuel Cells (CW-MFCs) and Microbial Electrolysis Cells (CW-MECs). For ...
Matas Casado, Gerard (Date of defense: 2020-11-04)
The fragmentation process in rockfalls is a complex phenomenon that is not well understood and only a few rockfall simulation models consider it explicitly. Fragmentation significantly affects the ...
Benavides, Jaime (Date of defense: 2020-02-18)
Air pollution is known to cause detrimental health effects in cities and specially on the most vulnerable population. Having access to reliable air pollutant concentration data at street-level in urban ...
Villota Cadena, Angel Patricio (Date of defense: 2020-07-09)
The objective of the doctoral thesis is to perform the numerical approximation of the transient convection-diffusion-reaction (CDR) vector equation in 2D with high order finite elements, quadratic, ...
Castellón López, Javier (Date of defense: 2020-02-18)
Soil behavior in the range of small strains should be considered in the analysis of geotechnical problems when sensitive elements are affected, which is very common in urban environments. However, some ...
624 - Civil and structural engineering in general (18)
55 - Earth Sciences. Geological sciences (17)
004 - Computer science and technology. Computing. Data processing (10)
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (5)
628 - Public health engineering. Water. Sanitation. Illuminating engineering (5)