Germano, Nicola (Date of defense: 2021-12-14)
This thesis aims to propose and validate an innovative, fully open-source framework capable of performing multiscale analysis for the assessment of local wind flows within the urban fabric. Each part ...
Ritter, Josias Manuel Gisbert (Date of defense: 2021-07-16)
Flash floods are one of the most devastating natural hazards, claiming numerous lives and tremendous economic losses. One of the main reasons for their catastrophic potential is the limited time available ...
Khadivipanah, Peiman (Date of defense: 2022-02-03)
The main objective of this thesis is to describe and implement a rate-dependent (viscoplastic) constitutive equations for copper based canister using a single internal state variable and use it for ...
Giuntoli, Guido (Date of defense: 2020-01-30)
This thesis aims to develop a High-Performance Computing implementation to solve large composite materials problems through the use of the FE2 multi-scale method. Previous works have not been able to ...
Rivero, Matias Ignacio (Date of defense: 2018-04-27)
In the field of nonlinear computational solid mechanics, contact problems deal with the deformation of separate bodies which interact when they come in touch. Usually, these problems are formulated as ...
Hashemi, Mohammad Reza (Date of defense: 2022-02-22)
In numerous applications, two-phase liquid-gas transport at sub-millimeter length scales plays a substantial role in the determination of the behavior of the system at hand. As its main application, the ...
Oliver Serra, Albert (Date of defense: 2015-11-13)
Air pollution is an important topic with a great social impact; it is related with public health, environment and ecology, and climate change. Scientists have developed several models in the last thirty ...
Tosi, Riccardo (Date of defense: 2021-12-21)
Recent developments of high performance computing capabilities allow solving modern science problems employing sophisticated computational techniques. However, it is necessary to ensure the efficiency ...
Colomés Gené, Oriol (Date of defense: 2016-03-31)
In this thesis we have developed a path towards large scale Finite Element simulations of turbulent incompressible flows. We have assessed the performance of residual-based variational multiscale (VMS) ...
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 ...