Ahmad, Shamshad (Date of defense: 2017-04-06)
The thesis topic is located in the domain of numerical simulation of laminar flames. The principal aim of the presented research is the study of numerical techniques for the multidimensional simulation ...
Hachicha, Ahmed Amine (Date of defense: 2013-09-30)
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technologies are gaining increasing interest in electricity generation due to the good potential for scaling up renewable energy at the utility level. Parabolic trough ...
Dabbagh, Firas (Date of defense: 2017-09-06)
Without fluid turbulence, life might have rather different look. The atmosphere and oceans could nearly maintain a much larger temperature differences resulting in ultimate heating or cooling to the ...
Martínez Valdivieso, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-03-31)
This thesis focuses on the study and improvement of the techniques involved on a virtual platform for the simulation of the Aerodynamics of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines, with the ultimate objective ...
Ventosa Molina, Jordi (Date of defense: 2015-10-02)
The present thesis aims at developing numerical methods and algorithms for the efficient simulation of diffusion flames in the flamelet regime. To tackle turbulent chemically reacting flows a double ...
Shiravand, Fatemeh (Date of defense: 2014-06-03)
Cured epoxy resins are highly cross-linked polymers which are increasingly important in high performance engineering field due to the stiffness, high strength, heat resistance and solvent resistance. ...
Zhang, Hao (Date of defense: 2014-11-28)
This thesis focuses on the numerical investigation of the particle-fluid systems based on the Discrete Element Method (DEM). The whole thesis consists of three parts, in each part we have coupled the ...
Piscia, Davide (Date of defense: 2012-12-18)
Este trabajo analiza el clima nocturno del invernadero. EL objeto del estudio es el invernadero de plástico sin calefacción, cuyo clima se estudia utilizando modelos CFD, modelos basados en los balance ...
Galione Klot, Pedro Andrés (Date of defense: 2014-12-23)
The present thesis aims at studying the use of phase change materials (PCM) in thermal energy storage (TES) applications and to develop and implement numerical tools for their evaluation. Numerical ...
Oyarzún Altamirano, Guillermo Andrés (Date of defense: 2015-10-02)
Frontiers of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) are constantly expanding and eagerly demanding more computational resources. Currently, we are experiencing an rapid evolution in the high performance ...