Ros, Xavier (Date of defense: 2014-06-19)
The main topic of the thesis is the study of Elliptic PDEs. It is divided into three parts: (I) integro-differential equations, (II) stable solutions to reaction-diffusion problems, and (III) weighted ...
Gonchenko, Marina (Date of defense: 2013-04-29)
The goal of this thesis is the study of homoclinic orbits in conservative systems (area-preserving maps and Hamiltonian systems). We consider homoclinic (bi-asymptotic) orbits either to saddle periodic ...
Font Martínez, Francesc (Date of defense: 2014-07-18)
In this thesis we develop and analyse mathematical models describing phase change phenomena linked with novel technological applications. The models are based on modifications to standard phase change ...
Sánchez Martín, Patricia (Date of defense: 2015-06-29)
Most galaxies have a warped shape when they are seen from an edge-on point of view. In this work we apply dynamical system methods to find an explanation of this phenomenon that agrees with its abundance ...