Eijo, A. (Ariel) (Date of defense: 2014-09-25)
Although laminated materials have been used for decades, their employment has increased nowadays in the last years as a result of the gained confidence of the industry on these materials. This has ...
Franci, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2015-05-07)
The objective of this thesis is the derivation and implementation of a unified Finite Element formulation for the solution of uid and solid mechanics, Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) and coupled thermal ...
Labra, C. A. (Carlos Andrés) (Date of defense: 2012-07-19)
Modelling of granular materials, soils and rocks has been a challenging topic of investigation for decades. Classical continuum mechanics has been used to idealize soils and rocks, and numerical solution ...
Zorrilla Martínez, Rubén (Date of defense: 2020-09-21)
This thesis develops a numerical tool (the Virtual Wind Tunnel, VWT) for the resolution of problems involving fluid flow around structures. Due to the limitations that traditional methods may have in ...
Lafontaine, Nelson M. (Date of defense: 2016-01-18)
The stated goal of this work is to develop a numerical explicit finite element method able to effectively address the strain localization process, discrete fracture and fragmentation process in ...
Pouplana, I. de (Ignasi de) (Date of defense: 2018-01-25)
The objective of this thesis is the derivation and implementation of a robust Finite Element formulation for the solution of solid-pore fluid coupled problems in multi-fractured porous media. A coupled ...
Casas González, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2018-10-30)
In this work we study the numerical simulation of particle-laden fluids, with a focus on Newtonian fluids and spherical, rigid particles. We are thus dealing with a multi-phase (more precisely, a ...
Iaconeta, Ilaria (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
Bulk handling, transport and processing of granular materials and powders are fundamental operations in a wide range of industrial processes and geophysical phenomena. Particulate materials, which can ...
Cotela Dalmau, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-01-15)
This thesis explores the use of stabilized finite element formulations for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations to simulate turbulent flow problems. Turbulence is a challenging problem due to its ...