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I graduated in Biology sciences in the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto. A_er, I decided to do a Masters in Biomedical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, FEUP, University of Porto

Mónica Silva is a researcher at the University of Porto and part of the CEFT research group. She holds a PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering from FEUP and has a degree in Environmental Sciences from FCUP.

Her PhD work focused on using CFD to study the hydrodynamic features associated with Slug flow for both macro and micro-scales and its potential applications in medical devices. In addition, she also studied the effect that this type of flow has on two mass-transfer mechanisms: soluble wall-liquid and bubble-liquid.
She has authored several papers, having her work published in Q1 journals, as well as participating in international conferences.

She is currently part of the project NewPHYMOIL at CEFT as a postdoctoral researcher where her main tasks concern improving CFD tools to allow a detailed prediction of multiphase flows. Her main research interests lie in multiphase flows – both macro and micro scale, mass transfer mechanisms as well as in different CFD techniques (using commercial and free software solutions).


Research interests

Computational Fluids Dynamics
100%

Multiphase flow
90%

Mass transfer
70%

Microfluidics
50%


Selected publications

  • Silva, M. C. F., Araujo, J. D. P. and Campos, J. B. M. L.
    CFD studies coupling hydrodynamics and solid-liquid mass transfer in slug flow for matter removal from tube walls
    Aiche Journal, 63(6), pp. 2420-2439, 2017.
    doi: 10.1002/aic.15610

  • Silva, M. C. F., Miranda, J. M., Campos, J. B. L. M. and Araújo, J. D. P.
    Mass transfer from a Taylor bubble to the surrounding flowing liquid at the micro-scale: a numerical approach
    Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 23(4), p. 58, 2019.
    doi: 10.1007/s10404-019-2225-y