Abstract
This thesis is a study of the dynamics and virialization of cosmic structures in the framework of flat cosmological models where the properties of
the dark energy component plays an important role in the global and local dynamics of the Universe. In particular, the analysis focuses on the
study of the spherical collapse model which represents a spherical homogeneous density perturbation in the cosmic fluid. It is a two-component system, made of cold
dark matter and dark energy, which initially evolves with the Universe and with time begins to decouple from the background expansion and starts
to ``turn around'' and finally collapse. It is taken into account many models with an equation of state which are constant in time. Three main
conditions for virialization will be considered and compared, and some differences in characteristic parameters will be pointed out, such as the
radius and density contrast when the structures have virialized to a final size.