Mario F. Trujillo Assistant Professor Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Courses Fields of Interest Representative Publications For additional information, see my

Contact Information

2043 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706

Tel: 608/262-0944 E-mail: mtrujillo@wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Mechanical Engineering
• Engineering Physics

• Engine Research Center

Courses

• ME 361: Thermodynamics
• ME 363: Fluid Dynamics
• ME 964: Special Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering-Modeling and Simulating Two-phase Flows

Fields of Interest

Modeling and Simulation of two-phase flows including:

i) Liquid sprays in a crossflow (desuperheating and Urea SCR applications)

ii) Liquid breakup and particle advection dynamics

iii) Multiple droplet impingement heat transfer

iv) Interface capturing methods (level set and Volume-of-Fluid)

v) Computational characterization of plunging of liquid jets on a quiescent pool

vi) Two-phase flow heat transfer numerics

Representative Publications

• M.F. Trujillo, J. Alvarado, E. Gehring, and G.S. Soriano, "Numerical Simulations and Experimental Characterization of Heat Transfer from a Periodic Impingement of Droplets," J. Heat Trans. (in press).
• M.F. Trujillo and A.E. Parkhill, "A Local Lagrangian Analysis of Passive Particle Advection in a Gas Flow Field," Int. J. Multiphas. Flow 37, 1201 (2011), doi:10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2011.06.003.
• D.J. Torres and M.F. Trujillo, "KIVA-4: An Unstructured ALE Code for Compressible Gas Flow With Sprays," J. Comput. Phys. 219, 943 (2006).
• M.F. Trujillo and C.F. Lee, "Modeling Film Formation due to Spray Impingement," J. Fluid Eng. 125, 104 (2003).
• M.F. Trujillo and C.F. Lee, "Modeling Crown Formation due to the Splashing of a Droplet," Phys. Fluids 13, 2503 (2001).