Beretta, Mattia (Date of defense: 2022-07-21)
The energy sector has undergone drastic changes and critical revolutions in the last few decades. Renewable energy sources have grown significantly, now representing a sizeable share of the energy ...
Salazar Llano, Lorena (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)
This thesis analyzes the complexity of the urban system, being described with multiple variables that represent the environmental, economic, and social characters of the city. The portrayal of the urban ...
Latifi, Majid (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)
With regard to the growth in the amount of social, environmental, and biomedical information available digitally, there is a growing need for Question Answering (QA) systems that can empower users to ...
Caubet Fernández, Juan (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)
Structured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks were proposed to solve routing problems of big distributed infrastructures. But the research community has been questioning their security for years. Most prior ...
Zavala-Aké, J. Miguel (Date of defense: 2018-09-13)
The simulation and modelling of complex applications involving the interaction of processes governed by different physical principles is addressed in this thesis. The interaction of a fluid with a ...
Imdad, Kashif (Date of defense: 2017-07-17)
This thesis presents the results related to high frequency modeling of power transformers. First, a 25kVA distribution transformer under lightning surges is tested in the laboratory and its high frequency ...
Castro, Lucas Vassalle de (Date of defense: 2021-07-05)
This PhD thesis aimed at evaluating the performance of high rate algal ponds (HRAP) to post-treat the anaerobic effluent from an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor fed with sewage. The work ...
Rorato, Riccardo (Date of defense: 2019-11-08)
The shape of particles is known to play an important role in soil behaviour, with significant effects of engineering responses. Investigating how the shape of particles can be measured and quantified ...
Zurita Millán, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-09-08)
Ensuring reliability and robustness of operation is one of the main concerns in industrial anufacturing processes , dueto the ever-increasing demand for improvements over the cost and quality ofthe ...
Dimić, Vladimir (Date of defense: 2020-11-27)
Following Moore's Law, the number of transistors on chip has been increasing exponentially, which has led to the increasing complexity of modern processors. As a result, the efficient programming of ...