PhD Candidate Rogerio Manica The University of Melbourne Particulate Fluids Processing Centre Department of Mathematics and Statistics Victoria 3010 - Australia e-mail: R.Manica@ms.unimelb.edu.au

PhD student from March 2004 to date
Supervisors: Derek Y.C. Chan and Steven L. Carnie
The University of Melbourne
Research topic: Modelling hydrodynamic interactions between deformable drops

Currently on exchange at National University of Singapore and Institute of High Performance Computing
Collabortion with Dr Evert Klaseboer.

Substitute Lecturer at UFRGS - start April, 2003 - end February, 2004

Master in Applied Mathematics - Supervisor: Dr. Alvaro Luiz De Bortoli - PPGMAp - UFRGS - 2003
Developed a numerical code in FORTRAN to solve non-Newtonian flows in channels with restrictions.

Bachelor in Applied and Computational Mathematics - UFRGS - RS - Brazil - 2002

* Colloid and surface Science

* Methods of measuring colloidal forces

* Liquid-liquid interactions

* Numerical techniques in fluids

* Computational Fluid Dynamics

* Non-Newtonian Fluid Dynamics

* Rheology

R.R. Dagastine, R. Manica, S.L. Carnie, D.Y.C. Chan, G.W. Stevens and F. Grieser, Dynamic forces between two deformable oil droplets in water, Science 113 (2006), 210-213. pdf.

R. Manica, J.N. Connor, S.L. Carnie, R.G. Horn, D.Y.C. Chan, Dynamics of interactions involving deformable drops: hydrodynamiic dimpling under attractive electrical double layer interactions, Langmuir 23 (2007), 626-637. pdf.

S.L. Carnie, D.Y.C. Chan and R. Manica, Modelling drop-drop interactions in an Atomic Force Microscope, ANZIAM Journal 46(E) (2005), C805-C819. pdf.

S.L. Carnie, D.Y.C. Chan, C. Lewis, R. Manica and R.R. Dagastine, Measurement of dynamical forces between deformable drops using the Atomic Force Microscope I - Theory Langmuir 21 (2005), 2912-2922. pdf

R. Manica and A.L. De Bortoli, Simulation of sudden expansion flows for power-law fluids, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 121 (2004) 35-40. pdf

R. Manica and A.L. De Bortoli, Simulation of incompressible non-Newtonian flows through channels with sudden expansion using the power-law model TEMA 4 (2003), 333-340. pdf

MAT01169 - Numerical Calculus

MAT01354 - Calculus and Analytical Geometry II-A

MAT01353 - Calculus and Analytical Geometry I-A

MAT01169 - Numerical Calculus

MAT01102 - Calculus I-B

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