Dr Francesco Del Giudice

• Ordering and Encapsulation in Viscoelastic Microfluidic Flows (dyfarnwyd 2023)

  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Rhodri Williams

• EG-160 Fluid Mechanics 1

  Fluid mechanics is ubiquitous in our daily life, as well as within a wide breath of engineering disciplines. For instance, fluid mechanics plays a crucial role in understanding and optimising the flow of air around aircraft, in the design and optimization of vehicles, in the design and analysis of chemical reactors, mixing vessels, heat exchangers, and other process equipment, and it also underpins several key processes taking place in our body (e.g. blood flow). This modules provides an introduction to Fluid Mechanics, with special focusing on hydrostatics, hydrodynamics and pipe flow. Hydrostatics is essential to identify points of high pressure in a system and to also identify forces acting on submerged surfaces either planar or curved. Hydrodynamics, instead, focuses on the motion of fluids and the requirement to identify pressure drops, losses, flow rate values, and forces generated by moving fluids. Pipe flow is a special case of hydrodynamics, where the fluid is forced to flow in a closed geometry that can have different types of cross-section.

• EG-211 Fluid Flow

  This module aims to extend basic concepts in fluid mechanics, namely, macroscopic balance and the use of balance equations to solve macroscopic problems in hydrostatics and hydrodynamics. In this module, instead, we will learn how to approach chemical engineering problems in absence of equations, by using our physical intuitions and the concept of dimensional analysis. Furthermore, we will learn how to employ the balance equation for microscopic flow to map the local flow field in several engineering applications. Finally, we will provide an introduction to non-Newtonian fluids.

• EG-256 Fluid Mechanics 1

  Fluid mechanics is ubiquitous in our daily life, as well as within a wide breath of engineering disciplines. For instance, fluid mechanics plays a crucial role in understanding and optimising the flow of air around aircraft, in the design and optimization of vehicles, in the design and analysis of chemical reactors, mixing vessels, heat exchangers, and other process equipment, and it also underpins several key processes taking place in our body (e.g.,blood flow). This modules provides an introduction to Fluid Mechanics, with special focusing on hydrostatics, hydrodynamics and pipe flow. Hydrostatics is essential to identify points of high pressure in a system and to also identify forces acting on submerged surfaces either planar or curved. Hydrodynamics, instead, focuses on the motion of fluids and the requirement to identify pressure drops, losses, flow rate values, and forces generated by moving fluids. Pipe flow is a special case of hydrodynamics, where the fluid is forced to flow in a closed geometry that can have different types of cross-section.

• EG-M160 Advanced Microfluidics

  Microfluidics is the set of science and technology at the micrometer scale. In the last 30 years, microfluidic devices have been widely employed for a variety of engineering applications, including cell and particle separation, fabrication of fiber, production of droplets and microparticles and characterization of complex fluids. In all these applications, chemical engineers have employed their skills to work across scientific fields in order to promote significant improvement in many areas including diagnostic, molecule detection and advanced manufacturing. Microfluidics has enormous advantages compared to conventional techniques such as small volume of samples required (less than 1 ml), easy and accurate control of flow parameters, larger sensitivity, compact size. In this course, we will introduce the advanced phenomena occurring at the micrometer scales. We will see how complex flows can be used to drive a variety of further phenomena including alignment and spacing of particles, droplet formation, particle fabrication, and cell separation. We will also see manufacturing of materials using Microfluidics devices together with recent applications in machine learning and AI. We will employ a critical approach to identify limitations of existing microfluidic technologies and we will develop a mindset oriented towards problem solving (i.e., positive attitude) and design of alternative devices for targeted applications.

• Deterministic encapsulation of particles and cells through viscoelastic ordering in microfluidic devices 2019 - 2020

  , £325,000

• Darlithydd, Prifysgol Abertawe

  Mai 2018 - Presennol

• Ysgolhaig Ôl-ddoethurol, Ysgol Graddedigion Sefydliad Gwyddoniaeth a Thechnoleg Okinawa

  2015 - 2018

• Cymrawd, Canolfan Bioddeunyddiau Uwch ar gyfer Gofal Iechyd – Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

  2012 - 2015

Cymerodd Dr Francesco Del Giudice ran weithredol mewn gweithgareddau ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd gan gynnwys y caffi OIST yn Tokyo yn 2017 (https://groups.oist.jp/ja/grad/oist-café-tokyo-july-23rd-2017-0). Mae hefyd wedi cael ei ddewis fel siaradwr gwadd i hyrwyddo gwyddoniaeth i fyfyrwyr ysgolion canol, ysgolion uwchradd ac ysgol graddedigion Japan.

Ar hyn o bryd mae Dr Del Giudice yn chwilio am weithgareddau ymgysylltu cyhoeddus newydd all ddylanwadau ar Gymru a'r DU yn gyffredinol.

• Rheo-manipulation of particle and cell trajectories in microfluidic devices

  2019

  Institute of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Llyn Efyrnwy

• Steady and transient rheology of Graphene Oxide dispersions

  2016

  Prifysgol Naples Federico II