Dr Paola Lettieri graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Roma
"La Sapienza" in 1994 and since then broadened her interest into Chemical
Engineering working in fluidization at BP Chemicals Sunbury for five years. She was
awarded a PhD from UCL in 1999 working under the supervision of Professor John Yates and
David Newton at BP on the influence of high temperature on the fluidization behaviour of
industrial catalysts. She then spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher in the BP
Technology Engineering Division working on the Computational Fluid Dynamics modelling of
gas fluidized beds. She joined the department at UCL in January 2001 as a Research Fellow
of the Royal Academy of Engineering and is a Senior Lecturer since 2006 . She is leading
the Fluidization Group, which comprises collaborations with BP and with Tioxide Ltd.,
collaborations with departments in UK , through the EPSRC SUE Waste Consortium ,
collaborations in Italy with the Universities of Genoa, L' Aquila, Naples , Salerno
, and Turin and in France with the Laboratoire Magmas et Volcanos of the University
Blaise Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand . Her research work spans a large spectrum of
fluidization aspects focusing on industrial applications and sustainable development,
including experimentation, theoretical modelling and computational fluid-dynamics (CFD)
simulations, fluid-bed rheology, and energy recovery from waste . 

Dr. Lettieri is a Chartered Engineer and Corporate Member of the Institution of Chemical
Engineers. She is on the committees of the IChemE Particle Technology Subject Group,
Young Academics Network for Chemical Engineering (YAN-CE), member of the editorial board
of the International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (IJCRE) and member of the
EPSRC College . Since 2001, she has worked with the British Association for the Advance
of Science and the Royal Academy of Engineering on the organization of the Engineering
programme for the annual BA Festival of Science.

Articles

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2D and 3D CFD Simulations of Bubbling Fluidized Beds Using Eulerian-Eulerian Models (with Luca Cammarata, Giorgio D. M. Micale, and Derek Colman), International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (2007)
This paper reports on CFD simulations of freely bubbling gas fluidized beds using CFX-4, a...
 

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A Numerical Algorithm for the Analysis of the Bubble Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Fluidized Beds Simulated by Means of CFD Multiphase-Flow Codes (with Luca Mazzei), International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (2007)
The present article describes an algorithm developed for computing the position and the equivalent diameter...
 

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CFD Simulations of Gas Fluidized Beds Using Alternative Eulerian-Eulerian Modelling Approaches (with Luca Cammarata, Giorgio D. M. Micale, and John Yates), International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (2007)
A commercially available Computational Fluid-Dynamics code, CFX-4, has been chosen to carry out computer simulations...