Rheological characterization of complex fluids
FRC is a Professor of Fluid Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Brasília. He is also a researcher of CNPq- Brazil. His current research interests include: rheology of complex fluids; hydrodynamic of magnetic fluids, non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, microhydrodynamics of active and passive particles in suspensions; and mechanics of mobile suspensions in general. His group focuses on developing mathematical and computational modeling tools with experimental investigations, that is highly interdisciplinary. This Professor was the pioneer and founder of the area of Microhydrodynamics and Rheology of Complex Fluids (e.g. magnetic suspensions, emulsions, elastic fluids) at the University of Brasília - Brazil. He has supervised and guided several undergraduate and graduate students who are currently researching, advising and (or) working in that area at UnB itself and at other institutions , including companies and industries in Brazil and abroad.
 
Graduate Students working in the LAB of Microhydrodynamics and Rheology - VORTEX/ENM/FT/UnB
Education and Formation
Post Doctoral Fellowship.
Applied Math., University of California in Santa Barbara - USA, 2013-2013
Research topic: Mathematical Models for Magnetic Fluids
Research Collaboration with Prof. Hector D. Ceniceros
Post Doctoral Fellowship.
Chemical Engineering, Yale University, USA, 1998-2000
Research topic: Rheology of emulsion flows
Research advisor: Prof. Michael Loewenberg
Ph.D.
Applied Mathematics, University of Cambridge, UK, 1992-1995,
Robinson College - DAMTP - Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Complex
Fluid Group - Microhydrodynamics - (G.K. Batchelor, E.J. Hinch and J.M Rallison)
Thesis title: Hydrodynamic dispersion in suspensions
Advisor: Prof. John Hinch, FRS
M.Sc.
Mechanical Sciences, University of Brasília, Brazil, 1987-1989
Dissertation title: Nonlinear mechanisms in fluidized beds.
Advisor: Prof. Antônio F. Parentes Fortes
B.S.
Mechanical Engineering, University of Brasília, Brazil, 1981-1986
Plataform Lattes-CNPq - Link: FRC Lattes
Academic Google - Link: FRC Citations
WebGroup System-CNPq - Link: Group VORTEX
Fluid Mechanics Videos by VORTEX Group
• Video 1: Instability of a Magnetic Fluid , by Cunha, F.R. & Abade, G.C., 2002 (This video has over 46.000 views on YouTube !)
• Video 2: The amazing self-locomotion of nematodes. See also PARTT II: Microhydrodynamics of Living Suspensions. These videos have been made during the current investigations of my Ph.D student Sara Malvar (2015-current).
• Video 3: Microhydrodynamics of a single drop , by Cunha, F.R. & Dias, N.J., 2013
• Video 4: A Model of Magnetic Separation Oil-Water , by Cunha, F.R. & Sobral, Y.D., 2004
• Video 5: Thermo-Magnetic Convection , by Gontijo, R.G. & Cunha, F.R., 2011. (Presented in the 6th Internacional Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Nano-Structured Material -NANOMAT Conference - Krakow - Poland - 2011).
• Video 6: SUP - Stand up Paddle Fluid Mechanics (Hydrostatic and Dynamic - drag and lift) .
• Video 7: Talk of Prof. Hinch on the Flow of Elastic Liquids , (Opening talk of COBEM2007-Brazil)
Résumé - FRC
Professor Francisco Ricardo Cunha received the diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Brasília, Brazil, in 1986. In 1989, he received a M.S. degree in Mechanical Science from the University of Brasília, Brazil. Then at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics of University of Cambridge - UK, he was conferred, in 1995, a Ph.D. degree in Fluid Mechanics of Hydrodynamic Dispersion in Suspension Flows. He did a Postdoctoral work at Yale University (1998-2000), where he was also a visiting Associate Professor of the Chemical Engineering Department, and also a Postdoctoral program at University of California in Santa Barbara - UCSB-USA (2013). He joined the University of Brasília in 1995, and is currently Professor of Fluid Mechanics and Applied Mathematics and a Researcher (PQ) of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq – Brazil since 1996. He is a CNPq's researcher level PQ - 1, since 2000. Prof. Cunha’s current research interests are in Microhydrodynamics, Micro-Mechanics, Rheology of Complex Fluids and Hydrodynamic of Magnetic Fluids. Editor-in-Chief- of Journal of Brazilian Society Mechanical Science and Engineering (2015-2019). Prof. Cunha has published several scientific articles in indexed Journal of high impact in his area as: Physics of Fluids, J. of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Physica A, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Physics – Condensed Matter, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, J. of Fluids Engineering, Journal of Engineering Mathematics, Biomicrofluids-APS, Magnetohydrodynamics, Powder Technology, Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Computer Methods in Appl. Mechanics and Engineering. This Professor was the pioneer and founder of the area of Microhydrodynamics and Rheology of Complex Fluids (e.g. magnetic suspensions, emulsions, elastic fluids) at the University of Brasília - Brazil. He has supervised and guided several undergraduate and graduate students who are currently researching, advising and (or) working in that area at UnB itself and at other institutions , including companies and industries in Brazil and abroad. He also has supervised PhD, masters and undergraduate students currently. He has more than 1500 citations in high-impact scientific journals, resulting in an IH=21 and I10=43 (font: Google Schoolar's base). In Scopus's base he has a number of citations greater than 900 ones leading to an IH=15. His theory on hydrodynamic diffusion in suspension is largely used for modelling particle or cell's migration in blood flow.
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