Process Engineering

Juan Pablo Aguayo-Vallejo

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