González García, Juan (Date of defense: 2013-06-07)
High Performance Computing and Supercomputing is the high end area of the computing science that studies and develops the most powerful computers available. Current supercomputers are extremely complex ...
Ruiz Wills, Carlos (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)
Up to 85% of the world population suffers from low back pain, a clinical condition often related to the intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration (DD). Altered disc cell nutrition affects cell viability ...
Peco Regales, Christian (Date of defense: 2014-10-28)
Las biomembranas constituyen la estructura de separación fundamental en las celulas animales, y son importantes en el diseño de sistemas bioinspirados. Su simulación presenta desafíos, especialmente ...
Vujic, Nikola (Date of defense: 2012-06-05)
Despite the fact that the most viable L1 memories in processors are caches, on-chip local memories have been a great topic of consideration lately. Local memories are an interesting design option due ...
Fernández Díaz, Gabriel Alejandro (Date of defense: 2018-11-15)
Artificial system interaction with the real environment is in general based on the deployment of properly coordinated sensors and actuators, establishing between them a “dynamic control-loop”. The time ...
Naseri, Alireza (Date of defense: 2019-07-22)
This thesis is dedicated to developing numerical methods to solve fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. FSI features in a vast range of physical systems and has a wide application in engineering. The ...
Jakšić, Zoran (Date of defense: 2015-07-23)
The major problem in the future technology scaling is the variations in process parameters that are interpreted as imperfections in the development process. Moreover, devices are more sensitive to the ...
Cugnasco, Cesare (Date of defense: 2019-03-22)
Spatial Big Data is considered an essential trend in future scientific and business applications. Indeed, research instruments, medical devices, and social networks generate hundreds of peta bytes of ...
Pont Ribas, Arnau (Date of defense: 2018-02-23)
The solution of the human phonation problem applying computational mechanics is covered by several research branches, such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), biomechanics or acoustics, among others. ...
González Acedo, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2019-04-12)
This thesis presents the development of a parallel finite volume numerical method to analyse thermoelastic and hyperelastic materials and applied problems with mutual interaction between a fluid and a ...