PROFESSIONAL ADDRESS:
UFRJ/COPPE/PEM Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Technology Center, G Building
21941-914 Ilha do Fundão, RJ - Brazil Tel: +55 21 3938-8402 E-mail: gustavo.rabello@coppe.ufrj.br
Appointed as the head of the of Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics
Laboratory in March of 2024 (see LabMFA website). With more than
30 years existence, Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics Laboratory (LabMFA)
is one of the most consolidated laboratory of the Department of
Mechanical Engineering within Coppe - Graduate School of Engineering
with strong research activity providing scientific and technological
advances in the areas of fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, wind energy and
atmospheric sciences.
Appointed as the coordinator of International Affairs Office of Coppe in
2021. Consequently, I’m the first Center of Technology representative of
the internationalization council of UFRJ.
From February 2019 I have been appointed as adjunct professor of Fluid
Dynamics and Heat Transfer at the Department of Mechanical Engineering
of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) located at the
surrounding area of the city of Rio de Janeiro. I dedicate my work time
in teaching and in several research topics related to Computational
Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
From July 2014 to February 2019 I was adjoint professor of Fluid
Dynamics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Rio de
Janeiro State University (UERJ) located at Maracana neighbourhood in
the city of Rio de Janeiro. I dedicated my work time in teaching and research.
The topic of the post-doc is numerical two-phase flows with emphasis in
micro-macro two-phase flows in capillaries with different geometries
found in many applications within the oil and gas field. The work is
being performed in Gesar Group - UERJ. (GESAR) at the State University
of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ).
The topic of the post-doc is boiling and condensation in convective flow
with multiple bubbles. The work is being performed in the Nuclear
Science and Engineering (NSE) at the Massachussetts Institute of
Technology (MIT).
A new numerical method is proposed to study two-phase flow and heat
transfer for interlayer cooling of the new generation of multi-stacked
computer chips. The fluid flow equations are developed in 3-dimensions
based on the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation (ALE) and the
Finite Element Method (FEM), creating a new two-phase method with an
improved model for the liquid-gas interface.
From 2007 to mid-2008 I worked as a young researcher in the Group for
Study and Simulations of Reservoir Filling (GESAR) . This one-year
experience brought me the necessary skills for large code development,
since the multi-disciplinary project required experience in many
different areas such as engineering, biology, chemistry and mathematics.
The project consisted in numerical simulation of hydropower reservoirs filling.
Current instabilities in electrochemical cells is a research subject of
the Applied Electrochemistry Group in the Metallurgy and Materials
Program – COPPE/UFRJ. Electrochemical cells containing a 1M sulfuric
acid electrolyte and an iron rotating disk electrode are used by the
group and present this instability.
I received my bachelor diploma (B.Eng.) in mechanical engineering at the
State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) in 2005. In early 2003, I
started to be involved in research by participating in monitoring and
undergraduate research. During this period I focoused my studies on
fluid dynamics and finally presented my bachelor project
