Diseño cooperativo de un sistema de comunicaciones por satélite basado en diversidad espacial

En este proyecto se han presentado los modelos de distribución de canal más comunes que se puede encontrar una señal en una transmisión. Seguidamente se ha presentado el concepto de diversidad en comunicaciones inalámbricas terrestres y se ha trasladado el escenario a comunicaciones por satélite. Para analizar la calidad de los enlaces con diversidad se ha realizado un simulador, con Matlab, que modele la estructura básica de un sistema de comunicaciones (emisor, canal y receptor). Simulando las comunicaciones entre los diferentes sistemas de diversidad se ha podido comparar la calidad de cada enlace. El modelo Alamouti ha presentado una robustez y una baja probabilidad de error que hacen que sea la mejor elección a la hora de diseñar un sistema de diversidad para comunicaciones por satélite. Utiliza la diversidad de canal para aprovechar cada pizca de señal que recibe y así poder descifrar el mensaje enviado.

Low viscosity contrast fingering in a rotating Hele-Shaw cell

We study the fingering instability of a circular interface between two immiscible liquids in a radial Hele-Shaw cell. The cell rotates around its vertical symmetry axis, and the instability is driven by the density difference between the two fluids. This kind of driving allows studying the interfacial dynamics in the particularly interesting case of an interface separating two liquids of comparable viscosity. An accurate experimental study of the number of fingers emerging from the instability reveals a slight but systematic dependence of the linear dispersion relation on the gap spacing. We show that this result is related to a modification of the interface boundary condition which incorporates stresses originated from normal velocity gradients. The early nonlinear regime shows nearly no competition between the outgrowing fingers, characteristic of low viscosity contrast flows. We perform experiments in a wide range of experimental parameters, under conditions of mass conservation (no injection), and characterize the resulting patterns by data collapses of two characteristic lengths: the radius of gyration of the pattern and the interface stretching. Deep in the nonlinear regime, the fingers which grow radially outwards stretch and become gradually thinner, to a point that the fingers pinch and emit drops. We show that the amount of liquid emitted in the first generation of drops is a constant independent of the experimental parameters. Further on there is a sharp reduction of the amount of liquid centrifugated, punctuated by periods of no observable centrifugation.

The CerdàPlan for the Extension of Barcelona: A Constructivist Analysis of a Town-planning Controversy

Peer-reviewed