Nicola Mingotti

Research Associate

Research Interests

• Transport of contaminants through ventilated spaces
• Multi-phase and particle-laden flows
• Single and multi-phase plumes and thermals
• Natural ventilation
• Flow in porous media

Publications

• Mingotti, N., and Woods, A.W. Dynamics of sediment-laden plumes in the ocean Flow 2022

• James, C.B.G., Mingotti, N., and Woods, A.W. On particle separation from turbulent particle plumes in a cross-flow Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2022

• Short, C.A., Woods, A.W., Drumright, L., Zia, R., and Mingotti, N. An alternative approach to delivering safe, sustainable surgical theatre environments Buildings and Cities 2022

• Newland, E.L., Mingotti, N., and Woods, A.W. Dynamics of deep-submarine volcanic eruptions Scientific Reports 2022

• Woods, A.W., Short, C.A., Mingotti, N., Schoefert, K., Drumright, L.N., and Zia, R. Innovative practice in the manufacture of aseptic surgical environments in the late nineteenth century Journal of Architectural Conservation: historic buildings, monuments, places and landscapes 2021

• Mingotti, N., Grogono, D., Dello Ioio, G., Curran, M., Barbour, K., Taveira, M., Rudman, J., Haworth, C.S., Floto, R.A., and Woods, A.W. The Impact of Hospital-Ward Ventilation on Airborne-Pathogen Exposure. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2021

• Burridge, H.C., Bhagat, R.K., Stettler, M.E.J., Kumar, P., De Mel, I., Demis, P., Hart, A., Johnson-Llambias, Y., King, M.-.F., Klymenko, O., McMillan, A., Morawiecki, P., Pennington, T., Short, M., Sykes, D., Trinh, P.H., Wilson, S.K., Wong, C., Wragg, H., Wykes, M.S.D., Iddon, C., Woods, A.W., Mingotti, N., Bhamidipati, N., Woodward, H., Beggs, C., Davies, H., Fitzgerald, S., Pain, C., and Linden, P.F. The ventilation of buildings and other mitigating measures for COVID-19: a focus on wintertime Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2021

• Woitischek, J., Mingotti, N., Edmonds, M., and Woods, A.W. On the use of plume models to estimate the flux in volcanic gas plumes Nature Communications 2021

• Mingotti, N., Wood, R., Noakes, C., and Woods, A.W. The mixing of airborne contaminants by the repeated passage of people along a corridor Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2020

• Mingotti, N., and Woods, A.W. Stokes settling and particle-laden plumes: implications for deep-sea mining and volcanic eruption plumes Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2020

• Mingotti, N., and Woods, A.W. Multiphase plumes in a stratified ambient Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2019

• Mingotti, N., and Cardoso, S.S.S. Mixing and reaction in turbulent plumes: the limits of slow and instantaneous chemical kinetics Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2019

• Woods, A.W., and Mingotti, N. Topographic viscous fingering: fluidfluid displacement in a channel of non-uniform gap width Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2016

• Mingotti, N., and Woods, A.W. On turbulent particle fountains Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2016

• Mingotti, N., and Woods, A.W. On the transport of heavy particles through a downward displacement-ventilated space Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2015

• Mingotti, N., and Woods, A.W. On the transport of heavy particles through an upward displacement-ventilated space Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2015

• Mingotti, N., Chenvidyakarn, T., and Woods, A.W. Combined impacts of climate and wall insulation on the energy benefit of an extra layer of glazing in the facade Energy and Buildings 2013

• Mingotti, N., Chenvidyakarn, T., and Woods, A.W. Corrigendum to “The fluid mechanics of the natural ventilation of a narrow-cavity double-skin facade” [Building and Environment 46 (2011) 807–823] Building and Environment 2011

• Mingotti, N., Chenvidyakarn, T., and Woods, A.W. The fluid mechanics of the natural ventilation of a narrow-cavity double-skin facade Building and Environment 2011