Giráldez García, Héctor (Date of defense: 2015-04-17)
he main objective of the present thesis is to study and optimize the sealing efficiency of air curtains. Therefore, the phenomenology of the breakthrough and the parameters which affect it has been ...
García Rivera, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2015-04-17)
Esta tesis se centra en el estudio de los diferentes mecanismos implicados en la absorción de vapor de agua en películas descendentes de configuración vertical (tipica configuracion para absorbedores ...
Hou, Xiaofei (Date of defense: 2015-06-26)
Multiphase and multicomponent flows are frequently encountered in the cooling applications due to combined heat transfer and phase change phenomena. Two-fluid and homogeneous mixture models are chosen ...
Soriano Alfonso, Francisco (Date of defense: 2015-05-22)
There is an increasing demand for vehicles with lower environmental impact and higher fuel efficiency. To meet these requirements, powertrain hybridization has been introduced in both academia and ...
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 ...
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 ...