Dr Monica Oliveira
Senior Lecturer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Personal statement
Mónica Oliveira is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. She has a PhD in Chemical & Process Engineering from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK), and a first degree in Chemical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (Portugal). She held a postdoc position in the Non-Newtonian Fluid Dynamics Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge MA, USA), after which she returned to the University of Porto to join CEFT (Transport Phenomena Research Centre) where she held a research position until 2012. Her research focuses on fluid flows and transport phenomena, in particular the rheology of complex fluids, non-Newtonian fluid dynamics and microfluidics. Mónica publishes her research results in leading international journals including Physical Review Letters, Physics of Fluids, Microfluidics & Nanofluidics, Soft Matter and Journal of Fluid Mechanics. She is a member of both the Society of Rheology of the American Institute of Physics, and the British Society of Rheology.
Area of Expertise
- Complex Fluid Flows
- Microfluidics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Rheology (shear and extension)
- Microdevice design/optimisation
Publications
- Multiple inlet sudden expansion flow of power-law fluids
- Carson CG, Cummings JL, Poole RJ, Zografos K, Oliveira MSN
- Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics Vol 320 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnfm.2023.105102
- Numerical model validation of the blood flow through a microchannel hyperbolic contraction
- Barbosa Filipe, Dueñas-Pamplona Jorge, Abreu Cristiano S, Oliveira Mónica S N, Lima Rui A
- Micromachines Vol 14 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/mi14101886
- Flow focusing with miscible fluids in microfluidic devices
- Houston Gemma, Capobianchi Paolo, Oliveira Monica S N
- Physics of Fluids Vol 35 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0118087
- Exploring the mechanical properties of soft materials at multiple length scales
- Laurati Marco, Tassieri Manlio, Espinosa Gabriel, Oliveira Mónica S N, Joseph Pierre
- Frontiers is Physics Vol 10 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2022.1111099
- Control of purely-elastic instabilities in cross-slot geometries
- Davoodi Mahdi, Houston Gemma, Domingues Allyson, Downie Jenna, Dennis David, Oliveira Mónica SN, Poole Robert J
- Science Talks Vol 3 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sctalk.2022.100054
- Erratum : Shear rheology of a dilute emulsion of ferrofluid droplets dispersed in a non-magnetizable carrier fluid under the influence of a uniform magnetic field (Journal of Rheology (2021) 65 (925) DOI: 10.1122/8.0000226)
- Capobianchi P, Lappa M, Oliveira M S N, Pinho F T
- Journal of Rheology Vol 66, pp. 811-811 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1122/8.0000496
Research Interests
Mónica is interested in fluid flows and transport phenomena. Currently, a major part of her research focus on rheology and flow of complex fluids in microscale devices, taking advantage of the unique conditions provided by these small-scale platforms. She has been focusing on the fundamental flow physics of complex fluids in both rheometric and microfluidic devices, but also exploring the distinctive characteristics of complex fluid flows at the micro-scale to design new microfluidic components for extensional rheometry, to develop synthetic biofluid analogues, and to enhance and control microscale mixing.
Keywords: Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, Rheology, Viscoelasticity, Elastic Instabilities, Experimental characterisation of complex fluid flows, CFD, Biofluid analogues, Red blood cell deformation, Aneurysm flows, Microfluidics, Microdevice optimisation.
Professional Activities
- Numerical Investigation of Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows in a Multi-Inlet Sudden Expansion
- Contributor
- 12/12/2022
- Characterisation of bio-particles under extensional flow using optimised microfluidic devices
- Speaker
- 24/5/2021
- Optimisation of hyperbolic microchannels for the characterisation of bio-particles mechanics
- Contributor
- 14/4/2021
- British Society of Rheology Winter Meeting 2015
- Invited speaker
- 14/12/2015
- World Congress on Computational Mechanics
- Organiser
- 20/7/2014
- 9th Annual European Rheology Conference, AERC 2014
- Chair
- 8/4/2014
Projects
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Cummings, Joshua
- Oliveira, Monica (Principal Investigator) Dong, Feng (Co-investigator) Cummings, Joshua (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- KTP - RUA. Embed an understanding of polymer chemistry, rheology and process engineering for the in-house development of medical devices.
- Liggat, John (Principal Investigator) Cormack, Peter (Co-investigator) Oliveira, Monica (Co-investigator) Yang, Liu (Co-investigator)
- 09-Jan-2022 - 08-Jan-2024
- Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Houston, Gemma
- Oliveira, Monica (Principal Investigator) Zhang, Yonghao (Co-investigator) Houston, Gemma (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 02-Jan-2023
- JAMES WEIR POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP IN THERMODYNAMICS AND FLUID MECHANICS RESEARCH | Rycroft, Ewan
- Oliveira, Monica (Principal Investigator) Haw, Mark (Co-investigator) Rycroft, Ewan (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 23-Jan-2022
- Medical Devices Doctoral Training Centre Renewal | Radhakrishnan, Pretheepan
- McKay, Geoffrey (Principal Investigator) Mottram, Nigel (Co-investigator) Oliveira, Monica (Co-investigator) Radhakrishnan, Pretheepan (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2014 - 14-Jan-2021
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Medical Devices and Health Technologies | Radhakrishnan, Pretheepan
- McKay, Geoffrey (Principal Investigator) Mottram, Nigel (Co-investigator) Oliveira, Monica (Co-investigator) Radhakrishnan, Pretheepan (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2014 - 14-Jan-2021
Contact
Dr
Monica
Oliveira
Senior Lecturer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: monica.oliveira@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 574 5060