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Fernández Álvarez, Fernando Ángel (Date of defense: 2018-05-03)
Flying squids develop all its life cycle in the water column, as planktonic paralarvae and then as nektonic subadults and adults. In this Ph. D. Thesis, light was shed over several poorly understood aspects of the ontogeny ...
Flo Arcas, Eva (Date of defense: 2017-11-20)
Coastal inshore waters (CIW) are defined as the area of coastal waters between 0 and 200 m from the shoreline. They only represent < 1% of coastal waters, even though they are of main ecological, social, and economic ...
Fontanet i Ambròs, Mireia (Date of defense: 2019-11-25)
By 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations predicts that two-thirds of the world population will experience water stress conditions. In addition, it is expected that world population will increase ...
Collico, Stefano (Date of defense: 2022-06-13)
The task of geotechnical site characterization includes defining the layout of ground units and establishing their relevant engineering properties. This is an activity in which uncertainties of different nature (inherent, ...
Elkoro Ugarteburu, Ander (Date of defense: 2018-10-26)
This thesis discusses the development of a new methodology for 3D printing of TiO2 nanoparticles and its applications in air purification and hydrogen production. A dosage has been obtained that allows 3D printing by DIW ...
Galeote Moreno, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)
Fibre reinforced concrete (FRC) presents objectively proven advantages in terms of post-cracking strength and manufacturing procedures. As a result, FRC with structural responsibility is increasingly being used in the ...
Celigueta Jordana, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2019-11-14)
The work presented in this Thesis is a set of developments focused on the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) and its applicability in several fields in Civil Engineering. The PFEM had already been proven to be a powerful ...
Pérez Illanes, Rodrigo Alfonso (Date of defense: 2024-01-16)
(English) Aquifers are naturally heterogeneous systems across multiple scales, which poses a known difficulty for grid-based solvers of solute transport. When advection is the dominant transport mechanism, concentrations ...
Tapias Camacho, Mauricio Alberto (Date of defense: 2016-12-21)
This thesis presents a study of the mechanical behaviour of coarse-crushable aggregates, using the discrete element method (DEM). A novel DEM model has been developed taking into account particle breakage, the influence ...
Ballesteros Mascarell, Ainara (Date of defense: 2023-01-13)
(English) Jellyfish stings cause discomfort to users of the marine environment, who sometimes require medical assistance. Although jellyfish stings are common today, the scientific community remains in disagreement on how ...
Bado, Mattia Francesco (Date of defense: 2021-07-26)
The employment of a novel cutting edge strain monitoring technique named Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors (DOFS) as Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) tools is becoming increasingly common. Its popularity can be attributed ...
Barba Ferrer, Carme (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
Worldwide water demand has been increasing over time, mainly due to population growth and society development. In addition, climate change is causing a significant alteration of the periodicity and intensity of precipitation ...
Latorre Pérez, Francisco (Date of defense: 2023-02-03)
(English) There is a myriad of microorganisms on Earth contributing to global biogeochemical cycles. In the surface ocean, the smallest microbes (picoplankton) are responsible for an important fraction of the total atmospheric ...
Salgado-Gálvez, M. A. (Date of defense: 2016-07-04)
Calderón Vega, Felícitas (Date of defense: 2021-04-20)
This thesis encompasses a set of different subjects related to metocean variables but studied from different perspectives. The metocean variables are mainly significant wave heights and wind velocities and, to a lesser ...
Arias, Dulce María (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)
Cyanobacteria are prokaryotic aerobic photosynthetic microorganisms with the capacity to remove nutrients from wastewater and synthesize a large variety of bioactive compounds and valuable byproducts. Among those valuable ...
Molins Delgado, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-12-01)
In this PhD. Thesis the results of eleven studies about the presence, distribution, and effects of personal care products (PCPs) in the environment are presented with the intention of giving a consolidated vision and to ...
El-Ghamrawy, Karim (Date of defense: 2021-04-23)
Composite materials are gaining popularity as an alternative to classical materials in many different applications. Moreover, their design is even more flexible due to the potential of additive ...
Ramírez Melgarejo, Monserrat G. (Date of defense: 2021-02-26)
A wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is a system that aims to reduce the negative impact to bodies of water where the effluent is discharged. reducing the pollutants discharged. Treatment plants have an impact on the ...
Balabanov, Oleg (Date of defense: 2019-10-11)
Solutions to high-dimensional parameter-dependent problems are in great demand in the contemporary applied science and engineering. The standard approximation methods for parametric equations can require computational ...