Bortolini, Rafaela (Date of defense: 2019-02-28)
The performance of existing buildings is receiving increased concern due to the need to renovate the aging building stock and provide better quality of life for end users. The conservation state of ...
Habibi, Kian (Date of defense: 2019-06-04)
One of the techniques to make porous membranes from polymers is based on the stretching a polymer film containing a row-nucleated !amellar structure.This special crystalline structure may be achieved ...
Villa-Arrieta, Manuel (Date of defense: 2019-07-22)
The increase in the energy consumption of cities forecasted for the coming years makes these urban areas tend to be representative of the energy sustainability of their countries. In this sense, on the ...
Sanuy Vázquez, Marc (Date of defense: 2019-11-05)
The impact of coastal storms is one of the costliest forms of natural disaster, as it affects a particularly valuable fringe both from the socioeconomic and ecologic perspectives. In addition, ...
Cordero Arias, Josbel Andreina (Date of defense: 2019-09-09)
This thesis presents an experimental approach on the subject of cracking in soils due to changes in environmental conditions, where research is mainly directed to the soil-air interface and the effect ...
Carrizo, Carlos E. (Date of defense: 2019-09-20)
Massive amounts of information are created daily in commercial fields like earth observation, that must be downloaded to earth ground stations in the short time of a satellite pass. Today, much of the ...
Turon Dols, Pau (Date of defense: 2019-11-08)
The origin of building blocks of life and how life thrived on Earth remains a topic of high interest for researchers of the Origin of Life. In this thesis, we deal with concepts, perspectives and ...
Agbemuko , Adedotun Jeremiah (Date of defense: 2019-11-08)
The proposals for large-scale deployment of renewable energy sources is leading to the need for more cross-border interconnections creating a pan-European power system, at the EU level. Such interconnections ...
An, Bo (Date of defense: 2019-12-12)
The present doctoral thesis is about the numerical investigation simulated via using lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), the applications cover a large scale of subjects, including 1. Mathematical-physical ...
Sánchez Cordero, Esteban (Date of defense: 2019-05-31)
This research project focuses on the analysis and prediction of flow structures and sediment transport process in open channels by using three-dimensional numerical models. The numerical study was ...