Viúdez i Mora, Antoni (Date of defense: 2011-04-15)
Atmospheric downwelling longwave radiation is an important component of the terrestrial energy budget; since it is strongly related with the greenhouse effect, it remarkably affects the climate. In this ...
Rodríguez Amor, Daniel (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)
Physical and mathematical models are extremely useful to understand key processes in population and evolutionary dynamics. Such models allow the study of many diverse features in spatial systems such ...
Isern Sardó, Neus (Date of defense: 2011-12-01)
This thesis presents population dynamics models that can be applied to predict the rate of spread of the Neolithic transition (change from hunter-gathering to farming economics) across the European ...
Takkouk, Saddek (Date of defense: 2011-05-06)
Applicaciò d'un model de hydrodinàmica i de qualitat de l'aigua als embassaments de Sau i Boadella
Sanchez Romero, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2016-06-06)
One of the most important radiative properties of aerosols is their optical thickness (AOD), which is closely linked to the total burden of atmospheric aerosols. On the contrary, we do avail of long ...
Liv, Yi (Date of defense: 2017-10-26)
The threat of impact on laminated composite structures has been a serious concern in the aerospace industry and scientific community because the compression load-carrying capacity of the structures, ...
Ros i Sala, Àlex (Date of defense: 2016-10-26)
In the margins of continents there are the coastal zones, regions of remarkable biological productivity. Coastal zones include, among others, wetlands, that are land areas inundated permanently o ...
Kanzaki Cabrera, Takeichi (Date of defense: 2013-11-29)
Granular materials are multi-particle systems involved in many industrial process and everyday life. The mechanical behavior of granular media such as sand, coffee beans, planetary rings and powders are ...
López de Rioja, Víctor (Date of defense: 2019-03-11)
The thesis studies from an analytical and computational perspective, and by using reaction-diffusion equations, the spatiotemporal evolution of different populations. First, the dynamics of the T7 ...
García Rodríguez, Santiago (Date of defense: 2019-06-28)
This thesis investigates the impact response of novel laminates made with “thin-plies” as well as proposes a toughening method to improve their impact tolerance. To this purpose, we devised a wide ...