Process Engineering
Juan Pablo Aguayo-Vallejo
Academic Groups

Member of the academic staff
Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering at the UNAM Faculty of Chemistry. Ph.D. from the University of Wales, Swansea, Wales, UK.
I have been a professor at UNAM, Univesidad Simón Bolívar, La Salle and at the Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala. Postdoctoral research in rheological properties of crude oil (Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo) and non-Newtonian fluids (Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales).
He sido profesor en la UNAM, Universidad Simón Bolívar, La Salle y en la Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala. Estancias Posdoctorales en propiedades reológicas de crudo (Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo) y de fluidos no newtonianos (Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales).
Heavy and extra heavy crude oil rheology
Rheology of hydrogels
- Characterization of plasticity, thixotropy and, viscoelasticity of hydrogels used in bioplotters
Teaching courses related to momentum and energy transfer, applied mathematics, separation processes and, rheology; at the undergraduate and graduate level.
- Representative of the ICAT Director before the Academic Subcommittee of the Field of Knowledge in Chemical Engineering of the postgraduate degree in engineering (SACC-IQ)
- Member of the Academic Committee for Academic Stays in Chemical Engineering
- Direction of thesis and social service
- Karen Y. Pérez-Salas, Salvador Sánchez, Gabriel Ascanio, Juan P. Aguayo. “Analytical approximation to the flow of a sPTT fluid through a planar hyperbolic contraction”. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 272 (2019) 104160.
- A. Gómez-López, V.H. Ferrer, E. Rincón, J.P. Aguayo, A.E. Chávez, R.O. Vargas. Large-amplitude oscillatory shear Flow simulation for a FENE fluid. Rheologica Acta 58 (2019) 241-260.
- M. Salinas-Vázquez, C. Echeverría, D. Porta, C. E. Stern, G. Ascanio, W. Vicente, J. P. Aguayo. Shock waves generated by sudden expansions of a water jet. Shock Waves 28 (2018) 933–937.
- I. Reyes Ocampo, J. P. Aguayo Vallejo, G. Ascanio Gasca, M. S. Córdova Aguilar. Rheological characterization of modified foodstuffs with food grade thickening agents. IOP Conf. Series: Journal of Physics: Conference series 790 (2017)
- J.P. Aguayo, H.R. Tamaddon-Jahromi, M.F. Webster. Excess pressure-drop estimation in contraction and expansion flows for constant shear viscosity, extension strain-hardening fluids. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 153 (2008), 157–176. 012028.
Graduate
Doctoral:
Daniel Esquivel Velázquez
Karen Yesenia Pérez Salas
Master’s:
Tiberio Alejandro Rangel
Undegraduate
Aloha Ixel Cisneros
Oscar Nájera