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, the European Society of Rheology and the British Society of Rheology.
Area of Expertise
- Complex Fluid Flows
- Microfluidics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Rheology (shear and extension)
- Microdevice design/optimisation
Prize And Awards
- Teaching Excellence Award
- Recipient
- 2019
Publications
- Gravitational modes of convection in water liquid bridges
- Aljanadi Ahmed, Oliveira Monica SN, Lappa Marcello
- Physics of Fluids Vol 36 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0208126
- Effect of viscosity ratio on the behaviour of ferrofluid droplet emulsions
- Oliveira Monica, Capobianchi Paolo, Sultan G M A
- AERC2024 – Annual European Rheology Conference, April 9-12, 2024, Leeds, UK (2024)
- Creeping thermocapillary motion of a Newtonian droplet suspended in a viscoelastic fluid
- Capobianchi Paolo, Davoodi Mahdi, Poole Robert J, Lappa Marcello, Morozov Alexander, Oliveira Mónica SN
- Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics Vol 324 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnfm.2023.105168
- 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
- Rheology of ophthalmic viscoelastic devices (OVDs)
- Oliveira Monica, Castro AT, Henry C, Belkessa M, Rycroft Ewan, Syntouka Ioanna Marina, Silva AF, Sillars Fiona, Lockington D
- UK Fluids Conference 2023 (2023)
- 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
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
- Workshop ‘Chaotic Flows in Polymer Solutions’
- Organiser
- 6/1/2025
- 38th Conference of the European Colloid & Interface Society
- Member of programme committee
- 1/9/2024
- The 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 25/8/2024
- Harnessing elastic instabilities in flows with multiple streams
- Keynote speaker
- 25/8/2024
- 37th Scottish Fluid Mechanics Meeting 2024
- Participant
- 29/5/2024
- 37th Scottish Mechanics Meeting (SFMM37)
- Participant
- 27/5/2024
Projects
- EPSRC Core Equipment - Environmental Chamber and Magneto-Rheology Module
- Oliveira, Monica (Principal Investigator)
- Environmental Chamber and Magneto-Rheology Module for HR20 Discovery Hybrid Rheometer
- 18-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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