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Modelling pathological effects in intracellular calcium dynamics leading to atrial fibrillation
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-07-23)
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The heart beating is produced by the synchronization of the cardiac cells' contraction. A dysregulation in this mechanism may produce episodes of abnormal heart contraction. The origin of these abnormalities often lies at ...
High-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method for viscous compressible flows
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-11-04)
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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is an essential tool for engineering design and analysis, especially in applications like aerospace, automotive and energy industries. Nowadays most commercial codes are based on Finite ...
Dynamics of disordered systems
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-11-24)
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Disordered systems are ubiquitous in nature and their study is complicated and often leads to controversial results. In any case, the important role of such systems in science and technological applications should not be ...
Collective motion and collective decision-making in animal groups : from scholling fish to swarming robots
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-06-07)
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(English) Collective behavior in animals is ubiquitous in nature. It emerges from the self-organization of interacting individuals within a group. What makes collective behavior so interesting is that the behavior of the ...
Causal inference and forescasting methods for climate data nalysis
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-07-05)
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To advance time series forecasting we need to progress on multiple fronts. In this thesis, we develop algorithms to identify causal relations which allow to identify the driving processes containing useful information for ...
Neutronics analysis and thermodynamics studies of several DEMO breeding blankets for the development of the AINA safety code
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-04-05)
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By 2050 the energy consumption is expected to increase considerably.The production might be mostly based on renewable energy mix driven by the nuclear fusion which could potentially deliver continuous, large-scale power ...
GNSS-based global ionospheric maps : real-time combination, time resolution and applications on space weather monitoring
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-14)
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The research of this paper-based dissertation is focused on the Global Ionospheric Maps (GIMs) based on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) including real-time combination, validation, time resolution and applications. ...
Light management in non-Hermitian systems
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-04-17)
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Realitzat a/amb: Università degli Studi di Firenze
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Realitzat a/amb: Università degli Studi di Firenze
The quest for new artificial structures and materials uncovers novel new light-matter interactions, and intriguing physical phenomena. Since the late 80’s purely dielectric materials have been structured, at the wavelength-scale, ...
Three-dimensional SPH simulations of the interaction between the nova ejecta and the companion star
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-05-31)
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(English) Classical and Recurrent novae are thermonuclear explosions hosted by accreting white dwarfs in stellar binary systems. Material piles up on top of the white dwarf star under mildly degenerate conditions, driving ...
Electronic & ionic conduction & correlated dielectric relaxations in molecular solids
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-11-17)
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The study of crystalline materials has played a prominent role in solid state physics, whose basic theories were formulated for crystalline matter. However, disordered materials are more abundant in nature than crystalline ...