Ribera Ponsa, Helena (Date of defense: 2018-03-16)
In this thesis we study diffusion processes of nanoparticle evolution and develop appropriate models with the aim of being able to optimise their functions according to the needs of industry. Two distinct ...
Lahoz Vilalta, Marti (Date of defense: 2010-05-18)
The first goal of this Thesis is to contribute to the study of principally polarized abelian varieties (ppav), especially to the Schottky and the Torelli problems. Ppav admit a duality theory analogous ...
Escala Ribas, Alex (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
Electronic voting presents many challenges due to its multiple security requirements. Some of the challenges are related to guaranteeing voters' privacy and system's transparency, which are hard to ...
Vegué, Marina (Date of defense: 2018-03-23)
Structure is fundamental in shaping the types of computations that neuronal circuits can perform. Explaining the laws that determine the connectivity properties of brain networks and their implications ...
Kiesenhofer, Anna (Date of defense: 2016-12-21)
The study of b-symplectic manifolds was initiated in 2012 by the works of Victor Guillemin, Eva Miranda and Ana Rita Pires (Adv. Math. 264 (2014), 864¿896). These manifolds, which can be understood as ...
Mosaffa, Payman (Date of defense: 2017-11-11)
This thesis presents a hybrid vertex/cell-centred approach to mechanically simulate planar cellular monolayers undergoing cell reorganisation. Cell centres are represented by a triangular nodal network, ...
Kaurin, Dimitri (Date of defense: 2018-10-29)
We examine a classical problem in soft-matter physics: the specific adhesion between deformable elastic objects, such as vesicles, mediated by mobile adhesion molecules. This problem is relevant to ...
Moragas Vilarnau, Jordi (Date of defense: 2010-06-14)
Aquest treball és una contribució a l'estudi de diferents problemes que sorgeixen de dues àrees fortament connexes de la Teoria de Grafs: etiquetaments i descomposicions. Molts etiquetaments de grafs ...
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 ...
Chrysokentis, Georgios (Date of defense: 2019-04-03)
This thesis develops a large eddy simulation framework for engineering applications using the finite element method. It focuses on the numerical formulation, the wall modelling approach as well as the ...