Development of CFD Thermal Hydraulics and Neutron Kinetics Coupling Methodologies for the Prediction of Local Safety Parameters for Light Water Reactors

This dissertation contributes to the development of high-fidelity coupled neutron kinetic and thermal hydraulic simulation tools with high resolution of the spatial discretization of the involved domains for the analysis of Light Water Reactors transient scenarios

Business plan to set up a financial consulting company in the U.S.A. specialized in investments and financial statements analysis

[EN] Maemar Finances is a business idea for the short term future and the present project is a guide on how to set up a financial advisory firm thatspecializes in investment advice and financial statement analysis services. This idea came about because one of the founders, Oscar Martinez, thinks that there are uncovered market needs. The last financial crisis keeps causing problems and has revealed a weak situation for the occidental economies. With this environment, I believe that there is a possibility for making a business that benefits society. One of the services will be to offer honest advice about investment. The other service will be to provide assistance to small and middle companies about their financial statement and try to help them to implement modifications that will make them feasible. This business plan has been done from a cautious point of view in order to be realistic and guarantee the companys feasibility, especially in a delicate moment like the present one. The business plan will be a guide for the companys activity and it will provide information for the starting point. The following chapters contain all the information needed for the business plan to accomplish the following objectives: It helps to create an image about the company and its objectives. It contributes to explain how the company to potential customers is. It helps to get external financing, presenting the company structure, the business idea and its strengths and opportunities. To sum up, the following pages explain how Maemar Finances will operate and strategize to help prove its feasibility and demonstrate that it is an interesting business and investment ideaMañes Martínez, Ó. (2012). Business Plan to set up a financial consulting company in the U.S.A. specialized in investments and financial statements analysis. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/18335.Archivo delegad

Ciència en el seu context : la introducció de la difracció de raigs X a Catalunya (1912-1936)

Once the German physicist Max von Laue discovered that crystals could diffract X rays (1912), the new phenomenon was applied to the determination of crystalline structures. This article gives some clues on how that subject was introduced in Catalonia and what work was done until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil Wa

Bogomolnyi-type bounds in unconventional superconductors without external magnetic fields

Following Bogomolnyi's classical treatment of vortices, we develop a method for finding rigorous lower bounds to the Landau-Ginzburg free energy describing unconventional superconductors in the absence of external magnetic fields. This allows a more precise description of the magnetic instabilities previously considered in these systems. In particular, we derive new sufficient conditions for the stability of both the homogeneous and inhomogeneous equilibrium states.Comment: 9 pages, Revtex, no figures, submitted to Solid State Communication