Oyuna Rybdylova

Oyuna Rybdylova is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton, and part of the Advanced Engineering Centre. She holds a PhD in Physics and Mathematics from Lomonosov Moscow State University (2012). Her research focuses on multiphase flow dynamics, with expertise in droplet dynamics, heat/mass transfer, and numerical modelling. She has contributed to projects on spray simulation, geomechanics, and fluid-structure interactions.

Key affiliations include the Sir Harry Ricardo Laboratories and collaborations across multiple universities. Her work is supported by grants from EPSRC, UKRI, and the Royal Society. She actively supervises PhD students in mathematical and numerical modelling of multiphase systems, with completed student Dr Abbas Al-Ameeri and current student Mr Zuhaib Nissar.

Research interests span:

• Gas-droplet interactions
• Evaporation and heating of droplets
• Lagrangian modelling approaches
• Shock wave particle focusing

Her recent projects include the TITANZ initiative (Net Zero shipping applications), Next-Gen Spray Simulation Models, and studies on nanofluid evaporation. She has pioneered the Fully Lagrangian Approach (FLA) for dispersed multiphase flows, implemented in OpenFOAM and ANSYS Fluent.