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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bou Balust, Elisenda (Date of defense: 2017-07-17)
Resonant Inductive Coupling Wireless Power Transfer (RIC-WPT) has been proven to provide very high power transfer efficiencies (above 80%) for moderate distances, and is hence foreseen as a key technology ...
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 ...
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 ...
Monells Miralles, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-01-18)
Space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems have demonstrated great effectiveness to survey wide areas, independently of the weather conditions and the day/night cycle. One of the most exploited ...
Bordas Eddy, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-02-10)
Universal Accessibility: On the need of an empathy-based architecture is a PhD thesis researching the paradigm of accessible architectural design. Starting from the very first understanding of accessibility ...
Stevanovic, Nina (Date of defense: 2017-09-07)
"Architectural heritage of Yugoslav-socialist character: ideology, memory and identity" studies the ability of architecture to represent political and cultural endeavors and developments in the period ...