Casoni Rero, Eva (Date of defense: 2011-10-14)
Aquesta tesi doctoral proposa formulacions de Galerkin Discontinu (DG) d’alt ordre per la captura de shocks, obtenint alhora solucions altament precises per problemes de flux compressible. En les ...
Zhang, Kuang (Date of defense: 2015-06-10)
Graphene deposited on a substrate often exhibits out-of-plane deformations with different features and origins. Networks of localized wrinkles have been observed in graphene synthesized through CVD, as ...
Gargallo Peiró, Abel (Date of defense: 2014-07-25)
In this thesis, a new framework to validate and generate curved high-order meshes for complex models is proposed. The main application of the proposed framework is to generate curved meshes that are ...
Hashemian, Behrooz (Date of defense: 2015-05-08)
Collective variables (CVs) are low-dimensional representations of the state of a complex system, which help us rationalize molecular conformations and sample free energy landscapes with molecular dynamics ...
Tibaduiza Burgos, Diego Alexander (Date of defense: 2013-01-18)
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is an area where the main objective is the verification of the state or the health of the structures in order to ensure proper performance and maintenance cost savings ...
Flores Baquero, Óscar (Date of defense: 2015-10-09)
El reconocimiento del Derecho Humano al Agua y Saneamiento (DHAS) a través de las resoluciones de la Asamblea General y del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas en 2010 representa un gran ...
Salas Piñón, Julián (Date of defense: 2012-12-20)
The objective of this thesis is to study cages, constructions and properties of such families of graphs. For this, the study of graphs without short cycles plays a fundamental role in order to develop ...
Ortego Martínez, María Isabel (Date of defense: 2015-02-04)
The estimation of occurrence probabilities of extremal quantities is essential in the study of hazards associated with natural phenomena. The extremal quantities of interest usually correspond to phenomena ...
Tamayo Mas, Elena (Date of defense: 2013-12-05)
A new strategy to describe failure of quasi-brittle materials -concrete, for example- is presented. Traditionally, numerical simulation of quasi-brittle failure has been tackled from two different points ...
Fuad Mohammad Naser, Mohammad (Date of defense: 2014-01-30)
Hysteresis is a nonlinear behavior encountered in a wide variety of processes including biology, optics, electronics, ferroelectricity, magnetism, mechanics, structures, among other areas. One of the ...