Bitrián Varea, Vicente (Date of defense: 2011-07-11)
La presente tesis es un estudio mediante simulaciones de dinámica molecular de los efectos de la polarización inducida en las propiedades de las sales fundidas, en concreto de los haluros de plata. Estas ...
Tiana Alsina, Jordi (Date of defense: 2011-11-10)
The purpose of this Thesis is study the dynamical behavior of semiconductor lasers with optical feedback, as well as analyze the synchronization of this kind of systems under different coupling ...
López Alonso, José Manuel (Date of defense: 2015-02-05)
Despite the large amount of research which has been conducted on turbulent flows, a full understanding of their dynamics as well as the mechanisms involved in the onset of turbulence is still missing. ...
Panadès i Guinart, Carles (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)
Even though the transition to turbulence has been studied for over a century, its complete comprehension still remains unclear even for the simplest flows and continues to be a daunting challenge for ...
Garcia Gonzalez, Ferran (Date of defense: 2012-12-01)
The study of thermal convection in rotating spherical geometry is fundamental to explain many geophysical and astrophysical phenomena such as the generation of the magnetic fields, or the differential ...
Rovira Esteva, Muriel (Date of defense: 2014-09-26)
Neutron diffraction is a powerful technique that allows to probe the structure of disordered phases across a variety of length scales. However, due to the inherent complexity of these disordered hases, ...
Torrentino, Taciano (Date of defense: 2015-07-10)
The goal of this thesis is to investigate the influence of current modulation in the dynamics of the low-frequency fluctuations (LFF) regime induced by optical feedback in semiconductor lasers. In this ...
Blay Carreras, Estel (Date of defense: 2014-07-21)
The atmospheric boundary layer is the part of the troposphere influenced by the presence of the surface, and where most weather phenomena occur. During the day, with fair weather conditions, a convective ...
Van Der Berg, Niels (Date of defense: 2012-05-11)
Shoreline sand waves are shoreline undulations with a length scale of several kilometres and a time scale of years to decades. They occur on many coasts, migrating in the direction of the dominant ...
Renedo Rouco, Isabel (Date of defense: 2014-11-13)
White dwarfs are the most common stellar evolutionary end-point. Moreover, they can be considered as reliable cosmic clocks to infer the age of a wide variety of stellar populations, including globular ...