Uddin, Azhar (Date of defense: 2019-07-23)
With the issue of the rise of anthropogenic CO2, global warming and rise of the primary energy demand, strong measures for the energy transition and the diversification with renewables and existing ...
Camargo Forero, Leonardo (Date of defense: 2019-10-25)
Supercomputing, also known as High Performance Computing (HPC), is almost everywhere (ubiquitous), from the small widget in your phone telling you that today will be a sunny day, up to the next great ...
Santolaria Castellanos, Ana Isabel (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
The main objective of this research is to offer an insight into the collection from the point of view of architecture, especially focused on domestic space. The goal is to analyse and deepen on the ...
Ananduta, Wayan Wicak (Date of defense: 2019-12-17)
Non-centralized control schemes for large-scale systems, including energy networks, are more flexible, scalable, and reliable than the centralized counterpart. These benefrts are obtained by having a ...
Iaconeta, Ilaria (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
Bulk handling, transport and processing of granular materials and powders are fundamental operations in a wide range of industrial processes and geophysical phenomena. Particulate materials, which can ...
Ramos-Monge, Elva Lizeth (Date of defense: 2019-01-30)
Nowadays, the need for ethical behavior in society is unquestionable due to dominant social problems that concern society, such as poverty, inequality and climate change. These issues have been addressed ...
Fontanet i Ambròs, Mireia (Date of defense: 2019-11-25)
By 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations predicts that two-thirds of the world population will experience water stress conditions. In addition, it is expected that world ...
Morales Planas, Sergio (Date of defense: 2019-04-09)
This thesis is the result of collaboration between the university (UPC) and the company (Fluidra SA) within the framework of the program of industrial doctorates of the agency AGAUR (Agencia de Gestión ...
Triguero Enguídanos, Jordi (Date of defense: 2019-03-08)
In this thesis, different theoretical approaches designed to study a wide interval of length- and/or time-scales have been used to examine the microscopic properties of chemical systems with varying ...
Vidas, Luciana (Date of defense: 2019-05-02)
The physics of transition-metal oxides presents a challenge to our current understanding of condensed matter physics. The main difficulty arises from a competition between electron-electron and ...