Olivella Pastallé, Sebastià (Date of defense: 1995-07-12)
Presentamos una formulación nueva para el análisis de problemas Termo-hidro-mecánicos en medios salinos. Esta formulación incluye, desde la obtención de ecuaciones de balance de masa, momento y energía ...
Hürlimann, Marcel (Date of defense: 1999-12-20)
Los grandes deslizamientos volcánicos son uno de los procesos geológicos más devastadores y pueden representar un importante peligro para la población de las zonas volcánicas. Este tipo de deslizamientos ...
Collico, Stefano (Date of defense: 2022-06-13)
The task of geotechnical site characterization includes defining the layout of ground units and establishing their relevant engineering properties. This is an activity in which uncertainties of different ...
Gasser i Rubinat, Marc (Date of defense: 2018-11-19)
The Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) is a dense (¿>1028.5 kg/m3), saline (38.5 g/kg) ocean stream originated in the evaporative Mediterranean basin flowing westward past Espartel Sill as a fast (>1 ...
Wang, Yufei (Date of defense: 2022-07-11)
Geological Carbon Sequestration (GCS) plays a major role in mitigating the global warming due to the increasing concentration of CO2 in atmosphere. It is important to understand the GCS process to analyze ...
Tubau Fernández, Isabel (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)
In the city of Barcelona and the townships situated in the deltaic area of the Besòs River, groundwater is recognized as an aspect of urban water cycle management. There is groundwater seepage into ...
Aparicio del Moral, Jesús Omar (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)
The growing global demand for water, and as a consequence, the reliability of supply of resources, is a global priority, especially in areas with semi-arid climates, such as the Campo de Cartagena area, ...
Zappalà, Dario (Date of defense: 2019-04-04)
The dynamics of the climate system plays a crucial role in the sustainability of life on Earth, and this motivates research to understand and characterise our climate and predict its evolution. In this ...
Martín Alemany, Francisco (Date of defense: 2015-07-14)
This PhD dissertation is focused on the use of the opportunity signals from the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), that scatter-off the Earth's surface for perform ocean mesoscale altimetry ...
Scaini, Chiara (Date of defense: 2015-03-18)
During April-May 2010, the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland caused the larger breakdown of civil aviation after World War II. Although the eruption was weak in intensity, the dispersal ...