Recent Submissions

  • Development of a topology optimisation simulation tool for thermal management systems 

    Savona, Enrico (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-02-13)
    Master thesis
    Open Access
    Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
    Els problemes de transferència de calor conjugada (CHT) tenen un paper crucial en la modelització i simulació de fenòmens de refrigeració en sistemes de gestió tèrmica, per exemple, per a vehicles elèctrics amb bateries. ...
  • Implementing and testing different formulations of the convective term in HPC finite element code using subgrid scales 

    Kabalan Ammar, Ali (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-09-27)
    Master thesis
    Open Access
    This master's thesis explores the implementation of convective schemes in incompressible flow modeling, emphasizing their impact on energy conservation, momentum, and angular momentum. Specifically the skew-symmetric term ...
  • Intelligent mesh generation for viscous flows using machine learning 

    Sánchez Gamero, Sergi (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-08)
    Master thesis
    Open Access
    Covenantee:   Swansea University
    In the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), a significant amount of computational power and human effort is dedicated to create the mesh used for solving problems related to viscous fluid flows. When dealing with ...
  • Parametric study and dimensionality reduction applied to side weir flow 

    Ortega Castro, Mónica (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-06)
    Master thesis
    Open Access
    In this work Model Order Reduction (MOR) techniques are applied for the simulation of side weirs. The main goal is to generate a surrogate model to predict the water discharge depending on the geometry (crest and length) ...
  • Numerical simulation of magnetohydrodynamic flows and its application to in-vessel components of a fusion reactor 

    Walkington, Marcel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-06)
    Master thesis
    Open Access
    Nuclear fusion, the process that could potentially bring clean, abundant, and virtually limitless power generation on Earth, has been a subject of intense research and exploration for decades. Among the scientific difficulties ...
  • Development of constitutive model and a material database for 3D printed structure via FFF 

    Simsek, Baran Mehmet (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-07-18)
    Master thesis
    Open Access
    Since 1980s, Additive Manufacturing (AM) has been used by many manufacturers to create 3D printed products. All the recent developments in AM and its ease of creating complex geometries, made AM become the preferred ...
  • Numerical simulation of the glioblastoma growth in 3D microfluidic devices 

    Arun, Akash (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-06-28)
    Master thesis
    Open Access
    The research presented in this study investigates the performance of two different approaches, namely the staggered approach and the coupled approach, in simulating growth glioblastoma cells in microfluidic devices. The ...
  • Use of clustering techniques to automate lumping of PVT properties in compositional reservoir simulation 

    Saint Antonin, Jose Andino (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-05-26)
    Master thesis
    Open Access
    Covenantee:   Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Compositional reservoir simulation run times scale with the square of the number of components used to characterize the fluid. Therefore, having usable and practical reservoir models requires that we minimize the number ...
  • Post-processed transverse stress in linear shells 

    Salvador Catalán, Oscar (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-05-26)
    Master thesis
    Restricted access - confidentiality agreement
    Transverse stresses are a frequent cause of failure in Fiber-Reinforced Polymers. Numerical prediction of the onset and evolution of this phenomenon still requires significant computational resources due to the use of ...