A study of hybrid powertrains and predictive algorithms applied to energy management in refuse-collecting vehicles 

    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 industry during recent ...

    Numerical simulation of turbulent diffusion flames using flamelet models on unstructured meshes 

    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 framework is used in ...

    Real-time nonlinear model predictive control for thermal management in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle 

    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. One of the main ...

    Sistema de Inyección no cartográfico para motores de ciclo otto. Gestión de transitorios 

    Gutiérrez González, Ernesto (Date of defense: 2003-01-17)

    .<br/>Se desarrolla un Sistema de Gestión de la Inyección Secuencial de Combustible en el Colector de Admisión del motor de ciclo Otto, el cual basa su gestión en tres señales analógicas que definen: la composición de la ...