Andre Fellipe Vilanova de Araujo Aquino LinkedIn
PhD Candidate, University of New South Wales, Australia.
PhD Topic:
"Investigating the airflow instability in inkjet printer to understand the tiger striping print defect"
Research interests: CFD, microfluidics, inkjet systems, flow stability and external aerodynamics
Email: Andre.aquino@unsw.edu.au
The use of inkjet printers has been expanded to manufacturing electronics, solar panels, rapid prototypes, and reinforced composites. The expansion of the inkjet technology to other applications is yet limited by the restrictive print gaps (distance between media and printer head) that inkjet printers need to operate. Small print gaps prevent the printer from accommodating medias with variable thickness and increase the likelihood of the media striking the printer head and damaging the nozzles. At large print gaps, however, the print quality is likely to be compromised due to the misplacement of droplets that creates a printing defect commonly referred to as tiger-stripe. The goal of this project is to define, with the aid of CFD simulations and experiments, the airflow regimes where the tiger-striping problem occurs and characterize the flow features while relating them to the severity of problem.
Education/Employment
2019-present PhD Mechanical Engineering, UNSW, Sydney
2020-2021 Simulation Engineer, 5b – solar reinvented, Sydney
2019-2020 Engineering Internship, Memjet, Macquarie Park
2019-2019 Casual Academic, Macquarie University, Sydney
2018-2019 Masters of Research in Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park
2012-2017 Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Sao Cristovao (SE) - Brazil
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