Karkoulias, Alexandros (Date of defense: 2020-06-17)
Simulations of incompressible flows are performed on a daily basis to solve problems of practical and industrial interest in several fields of engineering, including automotive, aeronautical, mechanical ...
Lerch, Markus (Date of defense: 2020-03-09)
The offshore wind sector has grown significantly during the last decades driven by the increasing demand for clean energy and to reach defined energy targets based on renewable energies. As the wind ...
Lamorena German, Arnel (Date of defense: 2020-09-17)
Ocean turbulence is a classic example of turbulent motion and observations of turbulence in the ocean lack in regions of complex topography since in-situ and experimental data are complicated to obtain. ...
Miranda Neiva, Eric (Date of defense: 2020-10-07)
This thesis addresses large-scale numerical simulations of partial differential equations posed on evolving geometries. Our target application is the simulation of metal additive manufacturing (or 3D ...
Hormigo Ventura, Juan Pedro (Date of defense: 2020-11-25)
Urban tolls are nowadays one of the most promising instruments to regulate the entry of vehicles into cities, given the flexibility and versatility granted by the available technology. Although, initially, ...
Reyes Sotomayor, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2020-03-23)
This thesis presents the a stabilized projection-based Reduced Order Model (ROM) formulation in low speed fluid flows using a Variational Multi-Scale (VMS) approach. To develop this formulation we use ...
Giuntoli, Guido (Date of defense: 2020-01-30)
This thesis aims to develop a High-Performance Computing implementation to solve large composite materials problems through the use of the FE2 multi-scale method. Previous works have not been able to ...
Costa Solé, Albert (Date of defense: 2020-07-17)
This dissertation presents high-order hybridisable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) formulations coupled with implicit Runge-Kutta (RK) methods for the simulation of one-phase flow and two-phase flow ...
Zorrilla Martínez, Rubén (Date of defense: 2020-09-21)
This thesis develops a numerical tool (the Virtual Wind Tunnel, VWT) for the resolution of problems involving fluid flow around structures. Due to the limitations that traditional methods may have in ...
Ortega Gelabert, Olga (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)
This thesis presents an efficient methodology to couple Model Order Reduction techniques within the framework of geophysical probabilistic inversion problems. Accurate models of the interaction between ...