Prof. Rafael Gabler Gontijo

Professor Gontijo has experience in scientific programming applied to fluid mechanics. He has published several articles in International Conferences in the field of numerical simulation of complex turbulent flows with forced and natural heat convection. His early researches concerned the use of Finite Element Method and RANS methodology to explore the efficiency of high Reynolds turbulence models with sophisticated wall functions to model the effects of adverse pressure gradients inside turbulent boundary layers.

The focus of his actual research is the Hydrodynamics of Magnetic Fluids. This study has two important approaches: the microstructural behavior of magnetic suspensions and the macroscopic model of non linear PDE's that rules the motion of non symmetric polar fluids in the presence of external magnetic fields. This topic of research started to be investigated by Professor Gontijo during his PhD Thesis and resulted in the publication of several scientific papers published in indexed Journals. His PhD Thesis won the Prize of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences as the best Thesis in the Field of Mechanical Sciences in the years of 2013-2014.