González de Perosanz, Miguel Àngel (Date of defense: 2012-03-19)
This research work has been developed in order to contribute to the knowledge of radioactive aerosol characteristics and their behaviour in the atmosphere. The study was carried out in the city of ...
Relaño Castillo, Antonio (Date of defense: 2012-06-06)
A two-dimensional axisymmetric implementation of the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique, called for short AxisSPH, has been described in this thesis, along with a number of basic tests and ...
Casanova Bustamante, Jordi (Date of defense: 2011-11-03)
Classical nova explosions are stellar explosions that take place in close binary systems with an energy release only exceeded by gamma-ray bursts and supernova explosions. Matter from the white dwarf ...
Mas de les Valls Ortiz, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2011-12-01)
In Nuclear Fusion Technology, MHD flows can be encountered in liquid metal (LM) breeding blankets, the part of a fusion reactor where tritium, one of the fusion fuels, is to be produced. There are several ...
Martínez Rovira, Immaculada (Date of defense: 2012-03-12)
Two innovative radiotherapy (RT) approaches are under development at the ID17 Biomedical Beamline of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF): microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) and minibeam ...
Caballero Folch, Roger (Date of defense: 2015-06-05)
In this work beta-decay half-lives and neutron-emission probability values have been experimentally determined for first time in several nuclei beyond the neutron-shell closure at N=126. To this aim the ...
Perrone, Sandro (Date of defense: 2014-02-07)
This thesis is focused on the study of stochastic and nonlinear dynamics in optical systems. First, we study experimentally the dynamics of a Brownian nanometer particle in an optical trap subjected to ...
Fraga Rivas, Iria (Date of defense: 2010-02-26)
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) is one of the most widely used thermal analysis techniques for the study of transitions and relaxation processes in polymers and also in other materials. It ...
Martínez Quiroga, Victor (Date of defense: 2014-11-17)
System codes along with necessary nodalizations are valuable tools for thermal hydraulic safety analysis. Qualifying both codes and nodalizations is an essential step prior to their use in any significant ...
Bargalló Font, Enric (Date of defense: 2014-05-09)
The planned International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) has the mission to test and qualify materials for future fusion reactors. IFMIF will employ the deuteron-lithium stripping reaction ...