Sadurní Caballol, Alexandre (Date of defense: 2012-09-28)
The aim of this work is to study the thermal behavior and fluid-dynamic systems, vapor compression refrigeration and its components (heat exchangers, expansion devices, compressors, connecting pipes, ...
López Sanz, Jorge (Date of defense: 2016-07-01)
Several socioeconomic factors are leading governments to encourage electric powered vehicles. Currently, the bottleneck for electric vehicles mass production lies in the high voltage battery technology. ...
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 ...
Ablanque Mejía, Nicolás (Date of defense: 2010-07-21)
The aim of this work is to study the thermal and fluid-dynamic behavior of vapor compression refrigerating systems and their constitutive elements (heat exchangers, expansion devices, compressors and ...
Kizildag, Deniz (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)
The work carried out in the framework of the present thesis aims at shedding light into the complex phenomena involved in turbulent water-filled cavities, questioning the validity of the well-established ...
López Mas, Joan (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
The present and the future expectation in parallel computing pose a new generational change in simulation and computing. Modern High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities have high computational power ...
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 ...
Sanchez Torreguitart, Ismael (Date of defense: 2019-05-23)
The present thesis incorporates the CAD model into an adjoint-based optimization loop and uses it for the shape optimization of a 2D transonic turbine blade mid-section (profile). This is demonstrated ...
Cubí Montanyà, Eduard (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)
Surgery rooms are a space type with particularly stringent indoor environmental quality (IEQ) requirements, which translate into high energy use. Due to the unclear IEQ and infection control requirements ...