Martí Cardona, Belén (Date of defense: 2014-05-14)
The Doñana wetlands, in Southwest Spain, undergo yearly cycles of inundation in fall and drying out during the spring season. As any wetland ecosystem, Doñana depends critically on its water resources. ...
Sibileau, Alberto Pedro (Date of defense: 2019-09-24)
This dissertation is motivated by the concept of materials by design. Focusing on structures, this states that the properties in a mechanical component are not only inherited by its constituent material, ...
Vilarrasa Riaño, Víctor (Date of defense: 2012-07-20)
Los procesos termo-hidro-mecánicos relacionados con el almacenamiento geológico de carbono deben ser entendidos y cuantificados para demostrar a la opinión pública de que la inyección de dióxido de ...
Martín Alcalde, Enrique (Date of defense: 2014-07-22)
The process of containerization and its continuous development involves changes and technological innovations in containerships and maritime container terminals. In the current era of "gigantism", despite ...
Casas Prat, Mercè (Date of defense: 2014-01-20)
Climate change is a hot research topic due to the consequent impacts on our environment in the near future. The last report of the International Panel on Climate Change' the leading international body ...
Núñez González, Francisco (Date of defense: 2012-07-20)
In this thesis, the interaction between flow and sediment in alluvial channels is studied from an empirical approach, for conditions close or pertaining to supercritical flow, and for four types of ...
Abdollahi, Amir (Date of defense: 2012-10-18)
The unique electro-mechanical coupling properties of ferroelectrics make them ideal materials for use in micro-devices as sensors, actuators and transducers. Nevertheless, because of the intrinsic ...
Planas Badenas, Ramon (Date of defense: 2013-11-25)
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is the physics branch that studies electrically conducting fluids under external magnetic fields. This thesis deals with the numerical approximation using stabilized finite ...
Espinoza Román, Héctor Gabriel (Date of defense: 2015-05-08)
The present work is a compilation of the research produced in the field of wave propagation modeling. It contains in-depth analysis of stability, convergence, dispersion and dissipation of spatial, ...
Avila, Matías (Date of defense: 2012-11-16)
The general description of a fluid flow involves the solution of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, a very complex problem whose mathematical structure is not well understood. It is widely accepted ...