Team
Coordinators
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Prof. Dr. Mohammadmahdi Abdollahzadehsangroudi Assistant Professor * Coordinator of Numerical Modelling and Multi-physics simulation Section. 📧Email: mm.abdollahzadeh@ubi.pt 🌐Website: Personal Webpage 📄 Research Profiles: |
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Prof. Dr. Frederico Rodrigues Assistant Professor * Coordinator of Experimental electro-hydrodynamic Section. 📧Email: fmfr@ubi.pt 🌐Website: Personal Webpage 📄 Research Profiles: |
Senior Members
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Prof. Dr. José C. Páscoa Full Professor, Founder of ClusterDEM 📧Email: pascoa@ubi.pt 🌐Website: Personal Webpage 📄 Research Profiles: |
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Doctor Amine Benmoussa Researcher (Topic Leader) EHD modelling and FSI in multiphysics, with PSA Group  📧Email: amine.benmoussa@ubi.pt |
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Prof. Dr. João Pereira Professor Auxiliar Convidado| FCT Researcher Printable sensors and plasma actuators for flow control in aeronautics, with  📧Email: j.nunespereira@ubi.pt |
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Doctor Michele Trancossi Visiting Scholar (also at Sheffield Hallam University, Senior Lecturer) Fluiddynamics and second law of thermodynamics. |
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Doctor Mostafa Gerdroodbary Visiting Researcher Compressible Flow; Reduced Order Modelling; Machine Learning; DSMC |
PhD/Master Students
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Mrs Odelma Teixeira, Researcher (PhD Student) MHD modelling of plasma thrusters for cubesats 📧Email: odelma.teixeira@ubi.pt |
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Mrs Fatemeh Bagherighajari, Researcher (Ph.D. Student) Non-equilibrium plasma enhanced flame stabilization for high efficiency low emission combustion 📧Email: f.bagherighajari@ubi.pt |
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Mr Miguel Moreira, Researcher (Ph.D. Student) Experimental testing of plasma actuators 📧Email: a34263@ubi.pt |
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Miss Kateryna Shvydyuk, Researcher (Ph.D. Student) Self-sensing and self-healing ceramic composites using functionally graded materials and additive manufacturing technologies for thermal barrier coatings in aerospace applications 📧Email: kateryna.shvydyuk@ubi.pt |
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Mr Gustavo Nunes, Researcher (M.Sc. Student) Electrospray Experimental testing 📧Email: gustavo.camacho.nunes@ubi.pt |
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Mr Leonardo Mbanguine, Researcher (M.Sc. Student) Plasma actuators experimental testing 📧Email: leonardo.mbanguine@ubi.pt |
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Mr Kahinan Pastro Teixeira da Rosa, Researcher (M.Sc. Student) Numerical Simulation of Ammonia Combustion 📧Email: kahinan.rosa@ubi.pt |
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Mr Diogo Freire, Researcher (M.Sc. Student) Experiments with DBD plasma actuators 📧Email: amine.benmoussa@ubi.pt |
Project Manager/secretary
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Mrs Tatiana Nunes, Project Manager 📧Email: tatiana.tm.nunes@ubi.pt |
Alumni
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Mr Shivesh Narayan Sharma, Former Visiting Researcher Fluid dynamics, Aeronautic Engineering, also at Henri Coanda Labs LLC (USA) |
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Mr Edson Conceição, Former M.Sc. Student Numerical modelling of a Tesla disk pump |
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Doctor Reza Pendar Former Researcher, now at University of Victoria Numerical simulation of Electrohydrodynamic sprays |
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Mr Sílvio Cândido, Researcher (PhD Student) Numerical modelling of Taylor cone Electrohydrodynamics |
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Prof. Dr. Carlos Xisto Former Member (now at Chalmers University) Computational Modelling of MHD Flow. |
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Doctor Mehdi Rami, Researcher (former PhD Student) now at Aalto University Computational modelling of unsteady 3D effects in cyclorotors |
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Mr. Filipe Dias, Former Researcher Computational modelling of MHD Flows at arbitrary magnetic Reynolds number |
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Doctor Karuppusamy Periyadurai Researcher (former Post-Doc) Numerical simulation of MHD-Non-Newtonian flows |
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Mr Filipe Sabugueiro, Researcher (former M.Sc. Student) Experimental testing of Taylor cone EHD |
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Mr Gustavo Ribeiro, Researcher (former MSc Student), now at  Numerical modelling of micro-Electrothrusters for CubeSats, |
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Doctor Galina Ilieva, Researcher (former Pos-Doc), now at TU-Varna  Numerical Modelling of Propulsion Systems for Airships |
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Doctor Kuldeep Dagar, Researcher (former Post-Doc), now at University of Nottingham  Cycloidal rotors working in turbine and propulsive mode. |
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Doctor Aditya Mushyam, Researcher (former Post-Doc), now at European Space Agency (ESA), ESTEC  Computational Modelling of plasma actuators. |
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Mr. Guilherme Santos, Researcher (former M.Sc. student), now at  Experimental testing of plasma actuators using quantitative Schlieren |
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Mr. Fábio Silva Researcher (former M.Sc. Student) now at  Modeling of Turbulent Flow in an Industrial Centrifugal Pump in Direct and Reverse Mode |
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Mr. Marco Santos Researcher (former M.Sc Student) now at Experimental Modeling of an MHD pump for MEMS Applications |
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Mr. Duncan Gawel Visiting researcher from Queens University, Canada, now at  Numerical modelling of MHD flows with applications to MPD thrusters |
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Mr. Fikri Hangul Visiting researcher from Çukurova University, Turkey, now at  CFD analysis of aerodynamic performance for the UBIan prototype Eco-Marathon vehicle |
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Prof. Dr. Jakson Monteiro Researcher (former PhD Student) now at University of Cape Verde  Parametric and numerical design of cycloidal rotor thrusters |
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Mr Serafim Pinto Researcher (former M.Sc. Student), now at  Roughness for passive control of transition in 3D boundary layers. |
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Doctor Shyam Sumanta Das Post-Doc Researcher, now at  DBD Plasma Actuator Applications Design. |
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Doctor Rui Oliveira Researcher (former PhD Student), now at  Numerical Computation of Transitional Flow in Propulsion System Elements. |
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Doctor João Morgado, Researcher (former PhD Student) now at  )Propeller blade design and simulation (Creator of JBlade) |
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Mr. Nelson Mendes Researcher (former M.Sc. Student) now at  Numerical and Experimental modelling of low-Re number ground vehicles |