Katuri, Jaideep (Date of defense: 2018-09-20)
Living organisms and systems are continually converting energy, either internally stored or transduced from their surroundings, into motion. This activity and the resulting self-propulsion constantly ...
Navarro Argemí, Eloy (Date of defense: 2018-10-25)
The goal of this thesis is studying hydrodynamic effects on active colloidal suspensions. Hydrodynamic interaction is propagated through the fluid in which the colloids displace due to the flow they ...
Dal Cengio, Sara (Date of defense: 2020-12-16)
Most systems in Nature manifest complex transport phenomena arising from the interplay of multiple time and length scales, be them intrinsic in the system’s dynamics or externally enforced. It is the ...
Gascó Patiño, Toni (Date of defense: 2024-02-05)
[eng] This doctoral thesis deals with the study of the collective behavior of active particles using computacional simulations of semi-dilute solutions of microswimmers. Results are obtained for the ...