Barocaloric effects at first-order phase transitions 

    Aznar Luque, Araceli (Date of defense: 2021-04-15)

    Current refrigeration devices, based on vapour-compression cycles, employ refrigerants such as HFCs, which exhibit a global warming potential a thousand times higher than the one produced by CO2,. Furthermore, the increasing ...

    Development of the new AINA code and its application to the Safety Analysis of the European DEMO designs 

    Baeza Pérez, Eduard (Date of defense: 2019-07-22)

    A conclusion that can be drawn from the historical safety analyses developed for tokamaks fusion reactors is that some of the major risks involve incidents in the vacuum vessel. In order to evaluate plasma evolution and ...

    Estimation of binding free energies with Monte Carlo atomistic simulations and enhanced sampling 

    Gilabert Navarro, Joan Francesc (Date of defense: 2020-07-22)

    The advances in computing power have motivated the hope that computational methods can accelerate the pace of drug discovery pipelines. For this, fast, reliable and user-friendly tools are required. One of the fields that ...

    Flow and heat transfer of impinging synthetic jets 

    Miró Jané, Arnau (Date of defense: 2019-06-19)

    Synthetic jets are produced by the oscillatory movement of a membrane inside a cavity, causing fluid to enter and leave through a small orifice. This results in a net jet that is able to transfer kinetic energy and momentum ...

    Heat transfer correlations for liquid metal flows under nuclear fusion conditions 

    Suárez Cambra, Daniel (Date of defense: 2023-07-06)

    (English) This thesis focuses on modeling the circulation of liquid metal through the breeding blanket channels of a tokamak fusion reactor. Apart from extracting the heat produced by the nuclear reactions of the plasma, ...

    High-fidelity numerical simulations of reacting flows with tabulated chemistry 

    Both, Ambrus (Date of defense: 2023-06-29)

    (English) In the transition to net-zero carbon emission technologies, turbulent combustion is expected to retain an important role in various applications. In particular, the aviation industry is projected to widely adapt ...

    Quantum Monte Carlo study of few-and many-body bose systems in one and two dimensions 

    Guijarro Gamez, Grecia (Date of defense: 2020-12-21)

    In this Thesis, we report a detailed study of the ground-state properties of a set of quantum few- and many-body systems by using Quantum Monte Carlo methods. First, we introduced the Variational Monte Carlo and Diffusion ...

    Solid-state studies on C60 solvates 

    Ye, Jin (Date of defense: 2017-11-23)

    This thesis focuses on the thermodynamic and crystallographic characterization of C60 solvates formed with small organic molecules (CBr2(CH3)2, CBr2Cl2, CBr2H2, CBrCl2H and CBrClH2) Chapter I provides an introduction ...

    Ultracold Bose and Fermi dipolar gases : a quantum Monte Carlo study 

    Bombín Escudero, Raúl (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)

    The object of study of this thesis are dipolar systems in the quantum degenerate regime. In general, dealing with many-body systems and evaluating their properties requires to deal with the the Schrödinger equation. In the ...