Rate My Professor Monica Gumulya

Dr. Monica Gumulya serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Curtin School of Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, at Curtin University. Holding qualifications as a chemical engineer, including a BEng/BSc in Chemistry and a PhD from Curtin University, her career has spanned research and teaching roles at the institution. Initially focused in chemical engineering, she advanced from PhD research and research associate positions to her current lecturing role, where she coordinates units such as OCHS3004 Emergency Management and Incident Investigation and OCHS2001 Workplace Human Factors.

Gumulya's research centers on fluid dynamics and transport phenomena, with expertise in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of multiphase flows. Her academic interests encompass bubble rising dynamics and interactions, turbulence generated by bubbles, experimental fluid mechanics, droplet evaporation and ejection from bursting bubbles, and particle settling in non-Newtonian fluids including viscoplastic, thixotropic, and viscoelastic types. She utilizes numerical modeling tools like FLUENT for simulations. Notable publications include "Dynamics of bubbles rising in pseudo-2D bubble column: Effect of confinement and inertia" (2020), "Characteristics of Energy Production and Dissipation around a Bubble Rising in Water" (2018), "The ejection of droplets from a bursting bubble on a liquid surface—A dimensionless criterion for ‘jet’ droplets" (2018), "Bubbles in viscous liquids: Time dependent behaviour and wake characteristics" (2016), "Evaporation of a droplet on a heated spherical particle" (2014), "Interaction of bubbles rising inline in quiescent liquid" (2017), and "Numerical simulation of the settling behaviour of particles in thixotropic fluids" (2014). Her contributions have advanced understandings of energy dissipation in bubbly flows, droplet-surface interactions, and bioaerosol formation. Gumulya has supervised higher degree research students and collaborated on interdisciplinary projects involving phase-field modeling for lithium-metal batteries and environmental monitoring.