Liu, Chaoren (Date of defense: 2015-10-07)
Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) is often used to explore the relaxation dynamics of metallic glasses (MGs). Secondary relaxations in metallic glasses appear as an excess wing, as a shoulder of the ...
Macía Rey, Adrián (Date of defense: 2015-02-13)
A microscopic description of the many-body properties of anisotropic homogeneous gases of bosonic dipoles in two dimensions is presented and discussed. By changing the polarization angle with respect ...
Starnini, Michele (Date of defense: 2014-10-24)
The data revolution experienced by social science has revealed complex patterns of interactions in human dynamics, such as the heterogeneity and burstiness of social contacts. The recently uncovered ...
Andujar Moreno, Rabindranath (Date of defense: 2015-02-03)
This thesis explores a very well understood area of physics: computational structural dynamics. The aim is to stretch its boundaries by merging it with another very well established discipline such as ...
Sánchez Casals, Odalys (Date of defense: 2015-11-10)
The modelling of convective transport processes involving heat and mass transfer in an incompressible Newtonian fluid in cylindrical domains is a relevant research subject both for theoretical research ...