Delara Soltani
PhD Researcher
Email: d21128089@mytudublin.ie
Biography
Delara Soltani is a PhD researcher at Technological University Dublin, supervised by Dr Sajad Alimohammadi (TU Dublin) and Prof. Tim Persoons (Trinity College Dublin). Her thesis, titled "Micro Synthetic Jets for Enhanced Microscale Mixing Applications", investigates the fluid dynamics of adjacent micro synthetic jets for mixing, pumping, and cooling in microfluidic devices. She has designed an integrated micropump-micromixer system and performs high-fidelity CFD simulations using dynamic mesh techniques and UDFs on HPC platforms including MeluXina and ICHEC clusters.
Delara holds an MSc in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Tehran (2019), where her thesis on the numerical study of liquid jets under external perturbation received a perfect grade, and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mazandaran (2011). Before starting her PhD, she worked as a design and simulation consultant and conducted research on swirl atomisers, co-flow jet disintegration, and droplet dynamics.
Research Highlight
Top: Contours of vorticity magnitude with superimposed velocity vectors, and the Q = 0 isoline to illustrate vortex structures and flow dynamics.
Bottom: Temporal variation of the Nusselt number alongside its time-averaged value, demonstrating the enhancement of heat transfer due to jet interaction.
Research Interests
- Synthetic jets and microfluidics
- Micromixer and micropump design
- Spray and atomisation (primary/secondary breakup)
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
- Fluid-solid interaction
Selected Publications
- D. Soltani, T. Persoons, S. Alimohammadi, Characteristics in a Liquid-Cooled Microchannel with a Pair of Adjacent Micro-Synthetic Jets: Influence of Reynolds Number and Stroke Length, THERMINIC 2025, IEEE.
- D. Soltani, T. Persoons, S. Alimohammadi, A novel liquid cooled heat sink with adjacent micro synthetic jets for thermal management in microelectronic devices, ITherm 2025, IEEE.
- D. Soltani, T. Persoons, S. Alimohammadi, Micromixing Strategies for Efficient Mixing Processes: A Comprehensive Review, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 34(11):113001 (2024).
- D. Soltani, T. Persoons, S. Alimohammadi, Effect of Adjacent Synthetic Jets on Mass Transfer in Microchannels, ASME MNHMT 2024, V001T08A006.
- D. Soltani, M. Shafaei, The behavior of co-flow jets coupled with longitudinal perturbation, Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics 62(1), 63-69 (2021).
- D. Soltani, M. Shafaei, Disintegration of co-flowing gas-liquid jet coupled with forced perturbation, Experimental and Computational Multiphase Flows (2021).
Awards
- 3rd Place, Paper Presentation, Sir Bernard Crossland Symposium, Belfast (2024)
- TU Dublin Scholarship (2021)
- Monash University Postgraduate Scholarship (2021)
Teaching and Supervision
- Teaching Assistant, Computer Systems and Applications for Engineers, TU Dublin (2025-2026)
- Senior Demonstrator, Design Project, TU Dublin (2022-2025)
- Co-Supervisor, MSc student project on curve micromixer optimisation, TU Dublin (2023-2024)
- Co-Supervisor, BSc student project on CFD for a spiral micromixer, TU Dublin (2022-2023)
Supervisors
- Dr Sajad Alimohammadi, Technological University Dublin
- Prof. Tim Persoons, Trinity College Dublin