Benjamin Mignot
- Position
- Postgraduate Researcher
- pmbmi@leeds.ac.uk
- Location
- SCaPE 4.02
- Faculty
- Engineering and Physical Sciences
- School
- Chemical and Process Engineering
- Website
Biography
Engineer in Fluid Mechanics with an interest in Health Sciences, Benjamin worked in a company where he used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to simulate the inhalation of particles using 3D models of respiratory airways extracted from CT scans, before starting his project at the University of Leeds.
There, his research aims to develop a theoretical model of the drying rate and solid formation of exhaled droplets after being released in the atmosphere. Subsequently, the use of CFD will investigate the dispersion of these dried solid particles in confined environments with different types of ventilation and sources of particles. This linked with infectivity measurements could provide a better understanding of the transmission of respiratory diseases such as Covid-19.
Qualifications
- MSc Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Droplet evaporation modelling
- Evaporative crystallisation of sodium chloride
- Numerical methods for solving partial differential equations
- Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations of particles
Projects
Modelling of Airborne Transmissions of Respiratory Droplets Containing SARS-CoV-2 Virus