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Llull Marroig, Antoni Ignaci (Date of defense: 2022-01-13)
Ships maneuvering in low bed clearance conditions induce sediment scour due to the high speed jet generated by a rotating propeller. Sediment scour is known to cause instability to quay structures, damage to the bed ...
Rasol, Kurdman Abdulrahman (Date of defense: 2022-01-28)
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) separates the control plane from the data plane. The initial SDN approach involves a single centralized controller, which may not scale properly as a network grows in size. Distributed ...
García Quintanilla, José Ignacio (Date of defense: 2022-01-17)
With the increasing development of renewable energy sources and their integration into the grid, international standards require next-generation plants to achieve the same levels of reliability and performance as the current ...
García Alcaraz, Teresa (Date of defense: 2022-01-17)
This thesis explores the in-between spaces of the contemporary city, and the role they have in promoting urban togetherness through interstitial practice. By looking at different processes that take place in the borderlands ...
De Santis, Dario (Date of defense: 2021-06-22)
The formulation of quantum physics stands among the most revolutionary theories of the twentieth century. During the first decades of this century, many phenomena concerning the microscopic world were unexplained or had ...
Fernández de la Rosa, Javier (Date of defense: 2022-01-18)
Sports analytics is an emerging field focused on the application of advanced data analysis for assessing the performance of professional athletes and teams. In soccer, the integration of data analysis is in its initial ...
Candelo Zuluaga, Carlos Andres (Date of defense: 2022-01-11)
In the recent years, water pumping and other hydraulic applications are increasingly demanding motors capable to operate under different working conditions, including variable pressure and volumetric flow demands. Moreover, ...
Bojovic, Biljana (Date of defense: 2022-01-12)
This PhD thesis has the characteristic to span over a long time because while working on it, I was working as a research engineer at CTTC with highly demanding development duties. This has delayed the deposit more than I ...
Bagheri Moghaddam, Faezeh (Date of defense: 2022-01-24)
This dissertation aims to improve work conditions in office buildings by implementing vertical greenery systems, such as green façades and living walls in semi-arid climates. Since building energy performance is characterized ...
Medina Pardell, Judith (Date of defense: 2021-11-30)
The invention of the laser triggered the study of light-matter interactions. In turn, the advent of artificial structured materials on micro- and nanometer scales has become a fruitful playground to tailor the propagation ...
Sandoval Núñez, Diego Aníbal (Date of defense: 2021-11-12)
Wind energy is one ofthe main renewable energies to replace fossil fuels in the generation of electricityworldwide. To enhance and accelerate its implementation at a large scale, it is vital to reduce the costs associated ...
Sànchez-Ferreres, Josep (Date of defense: 2021-09-29)
In the era of digital transformation, an increasing number of organizations are start ing to think in terms of business processes. Processes are at the very heart of each business, and must be understood and carried out ...
Palacios Pierluissi, Andrea Viviana (Date of defense: 2021-09-16)
Seawater intrusion (SWI) consists in the movement of seawater (SW) into freshwater (FW) aquifers, contaminating drinking water resources. SWI, along with the parallel reduction of Submarine Groundwater Discharge may lead ...
Giol i Draper, Pere (Date of defense: 1995-07-07)
La tesi que segueix ha estat dedicada a l’estudi del tipus de casa de residència que es desenvolupa a la Ciutat Romana i Medieval, al Raval i a la primera corona de l’Eixample de Barcelona durant el S.XIX, per l’impuls de ...
Fàbrega Alsina, Carles (Date of defense: 2020-12-17)
The granitic basement below the Triassic unconformity in the Guilleries and Roc de Frausa massifs (NE Iberia), presents widespread red stained facies characterized by plagioclase albitization, biotite chlhoritization, ...
Charosky Larrieu-Let, Guido (Date of defense: 2021-12-09)
There is a gap between industry needs and engineering graduates’ competences that since the past two decades has been under discussion. Engineering graduates are perceived as “too theoretical” by the industry and face ...
Hesp, Niels Caspar Herman (Date of defense: 2021-10-20)
Nano-optics studies the behaviour of light on the nanoscale. In particular, it probes the interaction of light with objects, often of nanometre-size, and reveals fine details of the material's optical properties. Optoelectronics ...
Prakash, Vindhiya (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
This thesis describes experimental work to generate and characterise single photons and photon pairs, with frequency content suitable for controlled interaction with cold rubidium atoms. We describe a photon-pair source, ...
Tosi, Riccardo (Date of defense: 2021-12-21)
Recent developments of high performance computing capabilities allow solving modern science problems employing sophisticated computational techniques. However, it is necessary to ensure the efficiency of state of the art ...
Roslan, Nurul Fazlin (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
Distributed Generation (DG) provides an alternative to the Centralized Generation (CG) by means of generating electricity near to the end user of power with the employment of small-scale technologies to produce electricity, ...