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Álvarez Farré, Xavier (Fecha de defensa: 2022-09-05)
(English) Continuous enhancement in hardware technologies enables scientific computing to advance incessantly and reach further aims. Since the start of the global race for exascale high-performance computing (HPC), ...
Antepara Zambrano, Oscar Luis (Fecha de defensa: 2019-01-10)
The main objective of this thesis is the development of an adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) algorithm for computational fluid dynamics simulations using hexahedral and tetrahedral meshes. This numerical methodology is applied ...
Aljure Osorio, David Eduardo (Fecha de defensa: 2017-06-02)
Aerodynamic analysis has become one of the most important tools in many engineering applications. In this sense, this thesis work is aimed at performing aerodynamic analysis of different geometries, expanding the available ...
Papakokkinos, Giorgos (Fecha de defensa: 2021-05-03)
Environmental concerns regarding climate change and ozone depletion urge for a paradigm shift in the cooling production. The cooling demand exhibits an alarmingly increasing trend, thus its satisfaction in a sustainable ...
Naseri, Alireza (Fecha de defensa: 2019-07-22)
This thesis is dedicated to developing numerical methods to solve fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. FSI features in a vast range of physical systems and has a wide application in engineering. The work of this ...
González Acedo, Ignacio (Fecha de defensa: 2019-04-12)
This thesis presents the development of a parallel finite volume numerical method to analyse thermoelastic and hyperelastic materials and applied problems with mutual interaction between a fluid and a structure. The ...
Morozova, Nina (Fecha de defensa: 2022-06-20)
This thesis presents a methodology for CFD-based multi-fidelity surrogate models for indoor environmental applications. The main idea of this work is to develop a model that has accuracy comparable to CFD simulations but ...
Schillaci, Eugenio (Fecha de defensa: 2017-12-11)
The present thesis focuses on the numerical analysis of some diverse physical set-up that involve the interaction of two -or three immiscible and incompressible phases. The simulations are carried out by means of finite-volume ...
Calafell Sandiumenge, Joan (Fecha de defensa: 2019-07-05)
The main purpose of this thesis has been to contribute to the development of methodologies for wall modeling Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of wall-bounded flows, especially those at high Reynolds numbers. This flow configuration ...
Baez Vidal, Aleix (Fecha de defensa: 2019-01-10)
The present thesis investigates how explicit filters can be useful in numerical simulations of turbulent, compressible flow with symmetry preserving discretizations. Such explicit filters provide stability to simulations ...
Dabbagh, Firas (Fecha de defensa: 2017-09-06)
Without fluid turbulence, life might have rather different look. The atmosphere and oceans could nearly maintain a much larger temperature differences resulting in ultimate heating or cooling to the earth surface. The water ...
Oyarzún Altamirano, Guillermo Andrés (Fecha de defensa: 2015-10-02)
Frontiers of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) are constantly expanding and eagerly demanding more computational resources. Currently, we are experiencing an rapid evolution in the high performance computing systems driven ...
Muela Castro, Jordi (Fecha de defensa: 2018-04-11)
The present thesis is devoted to the development and implementation of mathematical models and numerical methods in order to carry out computational simulations of complex heat and mass transfer phenomena. Several areas ...
Souaihi, Oussama (Fecha de defensa: 2017-12-22)
Numerical simulation play an important role in the design, engineering, operation and management of buildings. It can help reducing energy consumption, improving indoor air quality and thermal comfort and provide quantitative ...
Pont Vilchez, Arnau (Fecha de defensa: 2020-12-17)
The use of hybrid RANS-LES methods has become widespread during the last decade, as an interesting approach for covering the gap between RANS and LES turbulence models in terms of both computational resources and degree ...
Gutiérrez Álvarez, Enrique (Fecha de defensa: 2018-07-17)
CFD techniques are important tools for the study of multiphase flows, because most of the physical phenomena of these flows often happen on space and time scales where experimental methodologies are impossible in practice. ...
Bartrons Casademont, Eduard (Fecha de defensa: 2018-10-05)
The present thesis aims at developing a basis for the numerical simulation of the growth and densification of macroscopic frost sheets. Notwithstanding the fact that icing has still a long way to fully understand its ...
Jofre Cruanyes, Lluís (Fecha de defensa: 2014-07-25)
The present thesis aims at developing a basis for the numerical simulation of multiphase flows of immiscible fluids. This approach, although limited by the computational power of the present computers, is potentially very ...
Amani, Ahmad (Fecha de defensa: 2019-07-24)
The complex nature of multiphase flows, particularly in the presence of non-Newtonian rheologies in the phases, limits the applicability of theoretical analysis of physical equations as well as setting up laboratory ...
Torras Ortiz, Santiago (Fecha de defensa: 2016-02-05)
El objetivo principal de esta tesis es la resolución numérica de problemas de transferencia de calor y dinámica de fluidos y su aplicación para el estudio del comportamiento transitorio de sistemas térmicos de acumulación ...