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Dr Svetlana Aleksandrova

Assistant Professor

Dr Svetlana Aleksandrova

School/Department: Engineering, School of

Email: sa1020@leicester.ac.uk

Publications

  • Samuels, C., Holtzman, R., Benjamin, S., Aleksandrova, S. et al. (2023) "Wall Permeability Estimation in Automotive Particulate Filters," SAE Technical Paper 2023-24-0110. doi:10.4271/2023-24-0110
  • Fadhila, H., Medina, H., Aleksandrova, S., Benjamin, S. (2020) "A new non-linear RANS model with enhanced near-wall treatment of turbulence anisotropy", Applied Mathematical Modelling 82:293-313. doi:10.1016/j.apm.2020.01.056
  • Aleksandrova, S., Saul, J., Prantoni, M., Medina, H., Garcia Afonso, O., Bevan, M. and Benjamin, S.F. (2019) "Turbulent Flow Pressure Losses in Gasoline Particulate Filters", SAE Int. J. Engines 12(4):455-470. doi:10.4271/03-12-04-0030.
  • Prantoni, M., Aleksandrova, S., Medina, S., Saul, J. and Benjamin, S. (2019). "Modelling Pressure Losses in Gasoline Particulate Filters in High Flow Regimes and Temperatures", SAE Technical Paper 2019-01-2330. doi: 10.4271/2019-01-2330
  • Aleksandrova, S., Saul, J., Medina, H., Garcia-Afonso, O., Lin, C., Herreros, J.M, Bevan, M. and Benjamin, S. (2018). "Gasoline Particulate Filter Wall Permeability Testing", SAE Int. J. Engines 11(5):571-584. doi:10.4271/03-11-05-0039
  • Bin Rusli, I., Aleksandrova, S., Medina, H. and Benjamin, S. (2018). "Using single-sensor hot-wire anemometry for velocity measurements in confined swirling flows", Measurement 129:277-280. doi:10.1016/j.measurement.2018.07.024
  • Medina, H., Beechook, A., Fadhila, H.N., Aleksandrova, S. and Benjamin, S. (2018). "A novel laminar kinetic energy model for the prediction of pretransitional velocity fluctuations and boundary layer transition", International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 69:150-163. doi:10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2017.12.008
  • Porter, S., Saul, J.M., Aleksandrova, S.,  Medina, H.J. and Benjamin, S. (2016). "Hybrid Flow Modelling Approach Applied to Automotive Catalysts", Applied Mathematical Modelling 40:8435–8445. doi:10.1016/j.apm.2016.04.024
  • Priede, J., Aleksandrova, S. and Molokov, S. (2012). "Linear stability of magnetohydrodynamic flow in a perfectly conducting rectangular duct", J. Fluid Mech. 708:111–127. doi:10.1017/jfm.2012.276
  • Priede, J., Aleksandrova, S. and Molokov, S. (2010). "Linear stability of Hunt’s flow", J. Fluid Mech. 649:115-134. doi:10.1017/S0022112009993259

Supervision

Dr Svetlana Aleksandrova has supervised 6 PhD students to completion, 4 as the main supervisor, and 2 as the second supervisor, including:

  • Dr Sophie Porter (PhD awarded October 2016) "An assessment of CFD applied to a catalytic converter system with planar diffuser"
  • Dr Ijhar Bin Rusli (PhD awarded December 2018) "Experimental Study of Swirling Flows in Symmetric and Asymmetric Sudden Expansions with Downstream Resistance"
  • Dr Marco Prantoni (PhD awarded April 2021) "Modelling Flow and Pressure Losses in a Gasoline Particulate Filter"
  • Dr Gianluca Padula (PhD awarded May 2021) "Swirling flows in automotive aftertreatment systems"
  • Callum Samuels (current student) "Fluid Flow and Pressure Losses in Coated and Uncoated Wall-Flow Particulate Filters"

Teaching

Dr Svetlana Aleksandrova has nearly 20 years of teaching experience, teaching a range of subjects in Mathematics and Engineering, including Engineering Mathematics, Analytical Modelling, Aerodynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics.

She is currently teaching Engineering Mathematics with Programming to first year Engineering students, and Computational Fluid Dynamics to Master's students.

Svetlana also supervises individual projects at Undergraduate and Master's level.

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