Departament de Física
Recent Submissions
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Advanced modeling of InSAR time series for ground displacement hazard assessment
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-01-30)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) Natural movements of Earth and human-based activities generate continuous ground displacements, affecting human life and the economy. In order to mitigate and reduce the impact of such displacements, accurate and ... -
Transitional coherent structures in shear and centrifugally driven flows
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-09-21)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) Turbulence is not only omnipresent in our daily lives but also in engineering applications. However, not until the middle of the XXth century researchers began to realize that simple, relatively large-scale ... -
Contributions to real-time monitoring of the ionosphere using GNSS signals
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-03-27)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) This document presents the collection of four manuscripts published during my Doctoral academic formation, which main goal has been the real-time implementation of tools to monitor the ionosphere using Global ... -
Singularities and symmetries on the crossroads of geometry and physics
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-01-16)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) In this thesis we study several mathematical objects that are essential to formulate and model physical systems. Applying the tools provided by differential geometry, we develop and analyze different mathematical ... -
Historical copper and iron coloured glazes and glasses
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-11-17)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) Coloured glazes and glasses have attracted human interest since antiquity for their aesthetic appeal and multiple functionalities. As indicators of technological progress, artistic expression, and social ... -
Optimizing workspace division for multi-UAV systems
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-10-27)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) With the advance of UAV-related technology using several drones in the context of a single mission becomes more and more common. New problems and challenges appear as a result. When analyzing research works ... -
Contributions to multi-purpose GNSS positioning to support multi-frequency and multi-constellation with high accuracy and integrity
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-10-23)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) have revolutionized location and timing technologies due to their low cost and wide availability. Initially, GNSS was limited to the american Global Positioning System ... -
On hybrid positioning using non-semantic image information
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-10-04)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) Hybrid or multi-sensor-based positioning has been a research topic actively investigated in the last decade. In this context, the possibility of using information extracted from imaging sensors, for positioning, ... -
Heat transfer correlations for liquid metal flows under nuclear fusion conditions
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-07-06)
Doctoral thesis
Restricted access - confidentiality agreement(English) This thesis focuses on modeling the circulation of liquid metal through the breeding blanket channels of a tokamak fusion reactor. Apart from extracting the heat produced by the nuclear reactions of the plasma, ... -
Spatio-temporal quality metrics for satellite SAR interferometric data
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-07-24)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) The availability of RADAR images for monitoring Earth’s surface and its changes over time prompt the development of several interferometric SAR (InSAR) algorithms and methodologies. The Multi-temporal InSAR ... -
Hydrodynamic models of accretion onto rotating compact stars
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-07-07)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) Hydrodynamic models are essential for our understanding of the physics of stellar explosions, and specifically, for their potential contribution to the Galactic chemical abundances. In this Work, a one-dimensional ... -
Nonlinear optics at nanoscale: frequency conversion at interfaces
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-06-19)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) The use of semiconductors, metals, or ordinary dielectrics in the process of fabrication of nanodevices is at the front edge of nowadays technology. In the last decade an impressive technological progress has ...
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