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Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho

About

Paulo Coelho is employed at the University of Porto, Portugal, in the Mechanical Engineering Department. At the University of Porto, he earned his mechanical engineering degree in 1987, his master's degree in thermal engineering in 1991, and his doctorate in mechanical engineering in 2000. He has been employed at the University of Porto since 1987.

His work primarily focuses on heat transfer characteristics, hydrodynamics, and analytical solutions for laminar flows of non-Newtonian fluids inside ducts. As part of master's theses completed in cooperation with the businesses Metalsolvus and Ramada Aços, he has also produced work in the area of improving heat treatments of steel parts.

To date, he has published 31 peer-reviewed articles in international journals with an author’s h-index of 16, excluding self-citations. He is also the author of the book "Thermodynamic Tables," 4th Edition, LIDEL, 2017.

Research interests

Biomass, Drying, Combustion

Selected publications

  1. Cruz, D. A., Coelho, P. M., and Alves, M. A. A., Simplified method for calculating heat transfer coefficients and friction factors in laminar pipe flow of non-newtonian fluids, Journal of Heat Transfer ASME Vol. 134, 2011.
  2. Oliveira, M., Duarte, A., Coelho, P.M., Marafona, J., Heat treatment of aluminum extrusion dies and study of their heating by convection/radiation, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 78, 2015.
  3. Alves, M. A., Baptista A., Coelho, P. M., Simplified method for estimating heat transfer coefficients: constant wall temperature case, Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 51, Issue 7, 2015.
  4. Coelho, P. M., and Poole, R., Heat Transfer of Bingham Fluids in an Annular Duct with Viscous Dissipation, Heat Transfer Engineering, Vol. 39, Issue 20, 2017.
  5. Mendes, M., Alves, M. A. and Coelho, P. M., Estimating Heat Transfer Coefficients and Friction Factors in Non-Newtonian Flows Between Parallel Plates, Heat Transfer Engineering, Vol. 40, Issue 7, 2018.
  6. Coelho, P. M., and Poole, R., Heat Transfer of Power-Law Fluids in Plane Couette–Poiseuille Flows with Viscous Dissipation, Heat Transfer Engineering, Vol. 41, Issue 13, 2020.
  7. Coelho, P. M., The Betz limit and the corresponding thermodynamic limit, Wind Engineering; Vol. 47(2), 2023.
  8. Coelho, P.M. and Pinho, C.T., Considerations About Equations for Steady State Flow in Natural Gas Pipelines, J. Braz. Soc. Mech. Sci. & Eng., Vol.29 nº 3, 2007.
  9. Coelho, P.M., Pinho, F.T. and Oliveira, P.J., Thermal entry flow for a viscoelastic fluid: the Graetz problem for the PTT model, Int. Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 46, 2003.
  10. Coelho, P.M. and Pinho, F.T. 2009.
  11. A generalized Brinkman number for non-Newtonian duct flows, J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech., Vol. 156, 2009.