A geometric study of abnormality in optimal control problems for control and mechanical control systems 

    Barbero Liñán, María (Date of defense: 2008-12-19)

    Durant els darrers quaranta anys la geometria diferencial ha estat una eina fonamental per entendre la teoria de control òptim. Habitualment la millor estratègia per resoldre un problema és transformar-lo en un altre ...

    A network approach for strapdown inertial kinematic gravimetry 

    Termens Perarnau, Maria Assumpció (Date of defense: 2014-03-07)

    Compared to the conventional ground measurement of gravity, airborne gravimetry is more efficient and cost-effective. Especially, the combination of GPS and INS is known to show very good performances recovering the gravity ...

    A study on structure recovery and the broadcasting problem 

    Velona, Vasiliki (Date of defense: 2021-09-17)

    The thesis contains a study of two problems of combinatorial statistics. The first one is structure learning for partial correlation graphs and the second one is the broadcasting problem on certain families of random ...

    Additive structures and randomness in combinatorics 

    Spiegel, Christoph (Date of defense: 2020-07-03)

    Arithmetic Combinatorics, Combinatorial Number Theory, Structural Additive Theory and Additive Number Theory are just some of the terms used to describe the vast field that sits at the intersection of Number Theory and ...

    Analytic and numerical tools for the study of quasi-periodic motions in hamiltonian systems. 

    Luque Jimenez, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2010-01-12)

    És un fet ben conegut que les solucions quasi-periòdiques juguen un paper rellevant a l'hora d'entendre la dinàmica de problemes amb formulació hamiltoniana, els quals apareixen en una gran quantitat d'aplicacions en ...

    Aplicación del análisis intervalar modal a problemas en diferencias 

    Estela Carbonell, M. Rosa (Maria Rosa) (Date of defense: 2005-10-28)

    En esta tesis se presentan aplicaciones del Análisis Intervalar Modal al estudio de problemas diferenciales aplicados básicamente a la resolución de problemas del ámbito de la ingeniería, precedidos de una sucinta revisión ...

    Continuous-discontinuous modelling for quasi-brittle failure: propagating cracks in a regularised bulk 

    Tamayo Mas, Elena (Date of defense: 2013-12-05)

    A new strategy to describe failure of quasi-brittle materials -concrete, for example- is presented. Traditionally, numerical simulation of quasi-brittle failure has been tackled from two different points of view: damage ...

    Contribución al problema de interpolación de Birkhoff 

    Palacios Quiñonero, Francesc (Date of defense: 2004-12-20)

    El objetivo de esta tesis es desarrollar la interpolación de Birkhoff mediante polinomios lacunarios.<br/><br/>En la interpolación algebraica de Birkhoff se determina un polinomio de grado menor que n, para ello se emplean ...

    Desarrollo de un sistema de monitorización de la integridad estructural para aplicaciones en ingeniería mediante técnicas de reducción de la dimensionalidad 

    Agis Cherta, David (Date of defense: 2020-12-21)

    This thesis describes a structural health monitoring (SHM) strategy to detect and classify changes in structures that can be equipped with sensors. SHM is an area of great interest, because its main objective is to verify ...

    Ecuaciones en diferencias lineales de segundo orden y su aplicación al análisis matricial 

    Jiménez Jiménez, Ma. José (María José) (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)

    It is well known the important role that difference equations play in several problems of the engineering or of the science. However, whereas the expression of the solutions when the coefficients of the equations are ...

    Efficient solvers for power flow equations : parametric solutions with accuracy control assessment 

    García-Blanco, Raquel (Date of defense: 2017-02-09)

    The Power Flow model is extensively used to predict the behavior of electric grids and results in solving a nonlinear algebraic system of equations. Modeling the grid is essential for design optimization and control. Both ...

    Elliptic problems: regularity of stable solutions and a nonlocal Weierstrass extremal field theory 

    Urtiaga Erneta, Iñigo (Date of defense: 2023-07-04)

    (English) This PhD dissertation deals with qualitative questions from the theory of elliptic Partial Differential Equations (PDE) and integro-differential equations. We are primarily interested in a distinguished class of ...

    Engineering patterns of wrinkles and bubbles in supported graphene through modeling and simulation 

    Zhang, Kuang (Date of defense: 2015-06-10)

    Graphene deposited on a substrate often exhibits out-of-plane deformations with different features and origins. Networks of localized wrinkles have been observed in graphene synthesized through CVD, as a result of compressive ...

    Estimación bayesiana de cópulas extremales en procesos de Poisson 

    Ortego Martínez, María Isabel (Date of defense: 2015-02-04)

    The estimation of occurrence probabilities of extremal quantities is essential in the study of hazards associated with natural phenomena. The extremal quantities of interest usually correspond to phenomena characterized ...

    Estimates and rigidity for stable solutions to some nonlinear elliptic problems 

    Miraglio, Pietro (Date of defense: 2020-01-28)

    My thesis deals with the study of elliptic PDE. It is divided into two parts, the first one concerning a nonlinear equation involving the p-Laplacian, and the second one focused on a nonlocal problem. In the first part, ...

    Explicit integration of some integrable systems of classical mechanics 

    Basak Gancheva, Inna (Date of defense: 2011-11-28)

    The main objective of the thesis is the analytical and geometrical study of several integrable finite-dimentional dynamical systems of classical mechanics, which are closely related, namely: - the classical generalization ...

    Flexoelectricity at surface instabilities and stress singularities 

    Mohammadi, Hossein (Date of defense: 2023-06-16)

    (English) The flexoelectric effect, the two-way linear coupling between strain gradient and electric polarization (direct flexoelectricity) or electric field gradient and strain (converse flexoelectricity) universally ...

    Graph enumeration and random graphs 

    Ramos Garrido, Lander (Date of defense: 2017-03-27)

    In this thesis we use analytic combinatorics to deal with two related problems: graph enumeration and random graphs from constrained classes of graphs. We are interested in drawing a general picture of some graph families ...

    Homoclinic and chaotic phenomena to L3 in the restricted 3-Body Problem 

    Giralt Miron, Mar (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)

    (English) The Restricted 3-Body Problem models the motion of a body of negligible mass under the gravitational influence of two massive bodies, called the primaries. If the primaries perform circular motions and the ...

    Mathematical and computational modeling of flexoelectricity at mesoscopic and atomistic scales 

    Codony, David (Date of defense: 2021-03-01)

    This PhD thesis focuses on the development of mathematical and computational models for flexoelectricity, a relatively new electromechanical coupling that is present in any dielectric at the micron and sub-micron scales. ...