Postdoctoral fellow Advanced experimental characterization of hydrodynamics and mixing in Taylor-Couette flows of complex fluids

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BRIEF:

Numerous industrial and environmental processes involve complex fluids, flowing in conditions where heat, mass, or momentum transport need to be optimized. Examples include bioprocesses, agri-food, pharmaceutical, advanced material, or microfluidic technology sectors. When properly harnessed, hydrodynamic instabilities can generate spatiotemporal flow structures that substantially enhance mixing, scalar transport, and transfer rates, thereby improving the performance of reaction, cultivation, separation, and transfer processes.

However, the non-Newtonian behaviour of these fluids profoundly modifies the nature, onset, structure, and dynamics of flow instabilities [1], [2], making their prediction and control particularly challenging. As a result, the relationship between flow physics, mixing efficiency, and transfer performance remains insufficiently understood [3]. Addressing these challenges requires access...