Space Exploration Lab

Master and Bachelor Theses

2020

  • Tests of an experimental set-up for boil-off control. Piris Sanchez Elisabet.

2019

  • CFD study of two-phase flows in hypergravity conditions with OpenFOAM.  Espinosa Miguel Adrià.

  • Acoustic control of bubbles in cryogenic tanks. López Bou Adrià.

2018

  • Analysis and simulation of a thermoelectric system for a lunar application. Serra Bertran Pol.

  • Study of a test cell for a drop tower experiment. Sabirón Paniagua David.

2017

  • Experimental study of the main component of a technology for its use in space propulsion at cryogenic conditions. Gallego Chacón Guillermo.

  • Experimental setup building and test for a drop tower. Aragonés Martíne Judith.

  • A CFD study of air flow inside a building heated by solar radiation. Jang Kweon Minho.

2016

  • Bubble dynamics in a boiling system under an acoustic field in a microgravity environment. López Martínez Gabriel.

  • Design and integration of the electronic parts of a suborbital payload. Batlle Soler Sergi.

  • Electronic System in a suborbital payload. Quintana Buil Guillem.

2012

  • Rise of randomly nucleated bubbles. Eduardo Vidal Arco Fernández.

  • Characterization of a 2.5 mm internal diameter T-junction and study of the effects of capillary contractions in two-phase flows. Ariane Salvans (UPC, ENSEEIHT)

  • Injector diameter influence in the generation of minibubbles for space applications. Evie Sann (UPC, Université Paris X).

  • Analysis of different solar energy acquisition systems for application in the Moon. Maryne Campal (UPC, Université Paris X).

  • Effects of an acoustic field on particles and bubbles in liquids. Lucia Lopes de Magalhaes (UPC, Université Paris X).

  • Analysis of a thermal energy storage system for application in the Moon. Blai Climent Molina.

  • Bubble rise controlled by an acoustic field. Roger Farrarons Clusella.

  • Numerical simulation of bouncing of bubbles impacting at a free surface. Sergio Olivera Olivera (UPC, IMFT Toulouse).

2011

  • Benchmark on cryogenic fluid behaviour for launcher tank applications. Eloi Cortés Catalán (UPC, CNES – Centre National d’Études Spatiales).

  • Design of a system to generate electricity on the Moon’s surface during the lunar night. Óscar Torroba Moreno (UPC, INSAE - Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace, University of Alabama in Huntsville).

  • Experimental study of inter-particle acoustic forces. Anna García Sabaté (UPC, ESPCI - École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris).

2010

  • Analysis and numerical simulation of the dynamics of bubbles. Num Méndez.

  • Analysis of the gravity dependence of the performance of a bubble generator. David Billlaud (UPC, ENSEEIHT).

  • Experimental analysis of bubble size dispersion in Y-junction types of bubble generators. Guillaume Aubin (UPC, ENSEEIHT).

  • On ground analysis for a two-phase flow experiment in microgravity conditions. Candy Calandra (UPC, Université Paris X).

  • Modeling of thermal environment for an astrophysical satellite. Francisco Bedmar Castillo (UPC, EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

  • Analysis of experimental data obtained at a sounding rocket campaign. Laura Duarte Medina.

2009

  • A study of phenomena around droplets impacting on a liquid surface. Sylvain Raynal (UPC, ENSEEIHT).

  • Bubble bouncing in a free surface. Emilie Nantois (UPC, Université Paris X).

  • Design of a multibubble sonoluminescence experiment for a microgravity platform. Jordi Bas Espargaró, Eloi Cortés Catalán, Eduardo Fortes Galera, Anna García Sabaté.

 

2008

  • On ground experiments with a T-shaped device for bubble injection for microgravity applications. Romain Garby (UPC, ENSEEIHT - École Supérieure Nationale d’ Electrotechnique, d’Electronique, d’Informatique, d’Hydraulique et des Télécommunications).

  • Bubble and droplet injection for microgravity applications. Mélanie Morand (UPC, Université Paris X).

  • A phase-field model study of two-dimensional dendritic growth in thermal solidification processes. Gustavo Martínez González.

2007

  • Diseño de un experimento de coalescencia de burbujas en microgravedad. Francesc Suñol Galofré.

  • On ground analysis for a two-phase flow experiment in microgravity conditions. Alice Lelong (UPC, Université Paris X).
  • Estudio y optimización CFD de la brida del motor de un coche. Tania Baranda Rivas.

2006

  • Estudio del deshielo del parabrisas de un vehículo mediante simulaciones fluidodinámicas. Pol Bueno Buendía.

  • Design of an experiment of bubble coalescence for the ESA Student Parabolic Flight Campaign. Oscar Maldonado Diaz, Ramón Pino Alfonso, Laura Sancho Vidal.

  • Front wing optimization of a competition car. Javier Ballesta Villalobos.

  • Estudio del comportamiento aerodinámico alrededor del retrovisor de un vehículo. Arnau Bonjoch Doltra.

  • Estudio de viabilidad de una torre de microgravedad en el campus de Castelldefels. Aran Sendrós Garcia

2005

  • Análisis e implementación numérica de un modelo para materiales policristalinos. Antoni Fabrés Pinar.

  • Simulación de un flujo incompresible de Couette. Eduard Ferrer Iglesias.