García León, Manuel (Date of defense: 2018-07-10)
The action of sea storms is one of the most complex littoral processes with deep management implications. Along the Catalan shoreline which is about 700 km long, 190 km are subject to erosion and/or ...
Cabrera Covarrubias, Francisca Guadalupe (Date of defense: 2017-07-07)
In recent years the increase in waste generated by various sectors has caused problems of waste management that mostly have as final destination the landfills; however, this option it is unacceptable ...
Bonilla de Toro, Jesús (Date of defense: 2019-12-17)
This thesis covers the development of monotonicity preserving finite element methods for hyperbolic problems. In particular, scalar convection-diffusion and Euler equations are used as model problems ...
Dorribo Dorribo, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-12-05)
The automotive industry is constantly involved in the development of new projects aimed at reducing weight, fuel consumptions and costs while improving passengers¿ safety. In order to achieve these ...
Fernández López, Cristina (Date of defense: 2019-02-01)
Torrential flows have so far been studied less than have river flows, due to the difficulty of faithfully reproducing them in the laboratory, and the few field measurements available. For this reason, ...
Pedret Rodés, Josep (Date of defense: 2017-02-16)
The Ground Penetrating Radar test applied to road engineering is overall used to determine the geometric characteristics of the pavement structure by analyzing the wave in the time domain. On many cases, ...
Jiménez Fernández de Palencia, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2010-05-17)
El primer objetivo de esta tesis es la identificación y análisis de aspectos clave para la gobernanza de los servicios de agua rural en países que adolecen de bajos niveles de cobertura, altos índices ...
Cabrerizo Sinca, Julián (Date of defense: 2017-09-07)
Road traffic accidents lead to a number of significant problems, which are clearly reflected in the social costs (injuries, repercussions, deaths, etc.) and economic costs (prevention, healthcare, lost ...
Tellez Alvarez, Jackson David (Date of defense: 2019-05-10)
This Doctoral Thesis dissertation concerns two main research topic: the analysis of the flow velocity pattern in the nearness of a grate inlet through Surface Flow Image Velocimetry (SFIV) technique and ...
De Gaspari, Francesca (Date of defense: 2015-04-30)
Geochemical and reactive transport modelling are essential tools in hydrogeology. They help to identify and assess geochemical processes occurring in applications such as groundwater contamination, ...