Ribas Fargas, David (Date of defense: 2017-03-14)
Freshwater is a scarce resource, threatened by an ongoing pollution, global climate change and industrialization. Among other freshwater sources, groundwater is by far the most important source of usable ...
Arnau, Jose Maria (Date of defense: 2015-04-24)
The design of mobile GPUs is all about saving energy. Smartphones and tablets are battery-operated and thus any type of rendering needs to use as little energy as possible. Furthermore, smartphones do ...
Grün, Alexander (Date of defense: 2014-11-07)
In this thesis I investigate two methods for generating ultrashort laser pulses in spectral regions which are ordinarily difficult to achieve by the existing techniques. These pulses are specially ...
Serna-Olvera, Jetzabel Maritza (Date of defense: 2013-01-08)
Vehicular Ad-Hoc NETworks (VANETs) are an emerging technology which aims to improve road safety by preventing and reducing traffic accidents. While VANETs offer a great variety of promising applications, ...
Barcons Roca, Jordi (Date of defense: 2017-11-21)
Near-surface wind fields are typically obtained from mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models. These models describe the physics and dynamics of atmospheric phenomena with characteristic ...
Mariano Juste, Marina (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)
Considering that the most abundant renewable energy source is the Sun, photovoltaic technology possesses one of the highest potentials to provide environmental benign and sustainable energy worldwide. ...
Cotela Dalmau, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-01-15)
This thesis explores the use of stabilized finite element formulations for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations to simulate turbulent flow problems. Turbulence is a challenging problem due to its ...
Palumbo Fernández, Mariana (Date of defense: 2015-10-08)
The building sector is moving towards new approaches to energy efficient design, which includes not only the improvement of the thermal performance of the building envelope but also the reduction of the ...
Sainz, Ana Belén (Date of defense: 2014-02-10)
In the past century, experimental discoveries have witnessed phenomena in Nature which challenge our everyday classical intuition. In order to explain these facts, quantum theory was developed, which ...
Pieralisi, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2016-04-13)
Pervious concrete is a special material with high permeability usually obtained by reducing the amount of fine aggregates in the composition of concrete. The properties of pervious concrete not only ...