Ramírez Pérez, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-06-09)
There is a growing concern for protection and conservation of coastal ecosystems, which require a proper understanding of ecosystem dynamics and the ability to detect and predict changes in the ecosystem ...
Castillo Reyes, Octavio (Date of defense: 2017-10-23)
Electromagnetic methods (EM) are an invaluable research tool in geophysics whose relevance has increased rapidly in recent years due to its wide industrial adoption. In particular, the forward modelling ...
Jiménez Franco, Ma. Abigail (Date of defense: 2017-10-05)
The Santa Fe mining district is located in the Central Andean tin belt and contains several Sn-Zn-Pb-Ag deposits. From the economic point of view, the most important deposits of the district are Japo, ...
Caballero Diaz, Luis (Date of defense: 2017-06-16)
The demand of wind energy has considerably increased during the last decades. In order to fulfil this great energy demand, wind energy conversion systems (WECS) are designed to manage higher power ...
González Bereziartua, Madalen (Date of defense: 2017-06-27)
The research work presented here deals with an approximation to the complex urban reality of the territory of Gipuzkoa from the perspective of urban centralities and their significance in the urban setup ...
Marín Sellarés, Laia (Date of defense: 2017-09-06)
The lack of housing existing in Spain during post-war period lead Spanish government to implement housing policies with financial support to those projects that meet certain conditions both constructive ...
Saloustros, Savvas (Date of defense: 2017-11-29)
Numerical methods aid significantly the engineering efforts towards the conservation of existing masonry structures and the design of new ones. Among them, macro-mechanical finite element methods based ...
Sales Zaragozá, Vicente (Date of defense: 2017-10-25)
A new passive optical network (PON) for access, making use of ultra-dense wavelength division multiplexing (UDWDM) by densely spacing channels by a few gigahertz and introducing the "wavelength-to-the-user" ...
Steegmann Mangrané, David (Date of defense: 2017-11-10)
This thesis aims to highlight the influence of food in the house and the city, focusing the study in the countries of the industrialized West, where food customs, largely because of the existence of the ...
Schillaci, Eugenio (Date of defense: 2017-12-11)
The present thesis focuses on the numerical analysis of some diverse physical set-up that involve the interaction of two -or three immiscible and incompressible phases. The simulations are carried out ...