Zorrilla Martínez, Rubén (Date of defense: 2020-09-21)
This thesis develops a numerical tool (the Virtual Wind Tunnel, VWT) for the resolution of problems involving fluid flow around structures. Due to the limitations that traditional methods may have in ...
Steinlechner, Fabian (Date of defense: 2015-12-14)
The nonlocal correlations of entangled systems are a feature inherent to quantum theory that is fundamentally at odds with our common-sense notions of realism and locality. Additionally, entanglement ...
García-Escudero, Daniel (Date of defense: 2012-10-04)
This doctoral thesis commences, as any other research would, from an intuition that becomes a hypothesis and, therefore, a vehicle that governs the development of an entire argument. In this case, the ...
Ayala de la Hoz, Angélica (Date of defense: 2014-04-25)
Proponemos en este trabajo contribuir a esa reflexión universal, presentando una categoría de ciudad que se funda rodeada de mar. <Islas> ubicadas en un lugar geográfico específico y parte de una unidad ...
Blanco, Ana (Date of defense: 2013-03-20)
The use of fibre reinforced concrete (FRC) as a construction material has expanded beyond the traditional applications since the publication of design codes and guidelines. In fact, the industry is ...
Pérez Cáncer, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2015-02-11)
Designing parallel codes is hard. One of the most important roadblocks to parallel programming is the presence of data dependencies. These restrict parallelism and, in general, to work them around ...
Elshazly, Hatem Mohamed Abdelfattah Eid (Date of defense: 2021-01-28)
This thesis contributes from the perspective of task-based programming models to the efforts of optimizing I/O intensive applications. Throughout this thesis, we propose programming model abstractions ...
Dávalos Chargoy, César Emilio (Date of defense: 2014-06-19)
The aim of this work is to present a new procedure for modelling industrial processes that involve granular material flows, using a numerical model based on the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM). ...
Sun, Congcong (Date of defense: 2015-11-17)
This thesis is devoted to design a multi-layer MPC controller applied to the complex water network taking into account that the different layers with different time scales and control objectives have ...
Dantas, Joana Sócrates (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)
Backbone networks are responsible for long-haul data transport serving many clients with a large volume of data. Since long-haul data transport service must rely on a robust high capacity network the ...