Guijarro Gamez, Grecia (Date of defense: 2020-12-21)
In this Thesis, we report a detailed study of the ground-state properties of a set of quantum few- and many-body systems by using Quantum Monte Carlo methods. First, we introduced the Variational Monte ...
Akgul, M. Zafer (Date of defense: 2021-02-11)
Due to the continuously increasing energy demand and the environmental concerns about climate changes raised by international community, alternative energy resources have been put under intense investigation ...
Álvarez Farré, Xavier (Date of defense: 2022-09-05)
(English) Continuous enhancement in hardware technologies enables scientific computing to advance incessantly and reach further aims. Since the start of the global race for exascale high-performance ...
Block, Alexander (Date of defense: 2019-09-06)
Heat transport in solids is one of the oldest problems in physics, dating back to the earliest formulations of thermodynamics. The classical laws of heat conduction are valid as long as the observed ...
Muela Castro, Jordi (Date of defense: 2018-04-11)
The present thesis is devoted to the development and implementation of mathematical models and numerical methods in order to carry out computational simulations of complex heat and mass transfer phenomena. ...
Both, Ambrus (Date of defense: 2023-06-29)
(English) In the transition to net-zero carbon emission technologies, turbulent combustion is expected to retain an important role in various applications. In particular, the aviation industry is projected ...
Mestres Junqué, Pau (Date of defense: 2017-09-07)
Optical trapping and manipulation have emerged as powerful tools to investigate single microscopic objects in a controlled environment. Using the momentum carried by light, forces can be exerted to ...
Kizildag, Deniz (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)
The work carried out in the framework of the present thesis aims at shedding light into the complex phenomena involved in turbulent water-filled cavities, questioning the validity of the well-established ...
Perarnau Llobet, Martí (Date of defense: 2016-06-06)
Thermodynamics traditionally deals with macroscopic systems at thermal equilibrium. However, since the very beginning of the theory, its range of applicability has only increased, nowadays being applied ...
Miró Jané, Arnau (Date of defense: 2019-06-19)
Synthetic jets are produced by the oscillatory movement of a membrane inside a cavity, causing fluid to enter and leave through a small orifice. This results in a net jet that is able to transfer kinetic ...