Valentina Shevtsova

Ikerbasque Research Professor, Mondragon University

Ikerbasque research professor at Mondragon University.

Research line:

Fluid behaviour in microgravity.

Previous research experience at Russian Academy of Sciences, Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain), Dept. Aerospace Eng. University of Nagoya (Japan), ZARM (Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity) (Bremen, Germany), Microgravity Research Center of Brussels University (Belgium).

PhD in Physics and Math., Moscow University of Physics and Technology (MIPT), (1980) Moscow, USSR.

2024

Article / Effect of liner thermal properties and liner pre-cooling on the thermal management of fast-filling of hydrogen tanks

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Blanco-Aguilera, R.; Martinez-Agirre, M.; Berasategi, J.; Penalba, M.; Bou-Ali, M.M.; Shevtsova, V.

Article / A hybrid 1D-CFD numerical framework for the thermofluidic assessment and design of PEM fuel cell and electrolysers

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Berasategi, J.; Penalba, M.; Blanco-Aguilera, R.; Martinez-Agirre, M.; Bou-Ali, M.M.; Shevtsova, V.

Article / Three-dimensional effects during thermocapillary-driven melting of PCMs in cuboidal containers in microgravity

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Šeta, B.; Sánchez, P.S.; Dubert, D.; Massons, J.; Gavaldà, J.; Porter, J.; Bou-Ali, M.M.; Ruiz, X.; Shevtsova, V.

Article / The effect of small perturbation on dynamics of absorptive LiBr-water solution

Physics of Fluids

Arroiabe, P.F.; Martinez-Agirre, M.; Nepomnyashchy, A.; Bou-Ali, M.M.; Shevtsova, V.

Article / Thermodiffusion, diffusion and Soret coefficients of binary polymeric mixtures in toluene and cyclohexane

Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics

Sanjuan, A.; Sommermann, D.; Köhler, W.; Shevtsova, V.; Bou-Ali, M.M.

Article / Enhancing PCM thermal management in multi-cycle melting-solidification

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Dubert, D.; Šeta, B.; Massons, J.; Gavaldà, J.; Bou-Ali, M.M.; Ruiz, X.; Shevtsova, V.

Article / Isothermal and non-isothermal transport properties of diluted fullerene binary and ternary aromatic solvent mixtures

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Errarte, A.; Sommermann, D.; Shevtsova, V.; Köhler, W.; Bou-Ali, M.M.

Article / Application of a three-laser optical digital interferometry in a thermogravitational analysis for binary and ternary mixtures

Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics

Errarte, A.; Sanjuan, A.; Mialdun, A.; Alonso, M.; Andonegui, I.; Shevtsova, V.; Bou-Ali, M.M.

Review / Perspective of research on diffusion: From microgravity to space exploration

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Vailati, A.; Šeta, B.; Bou-Ali, M.M.; Shevtsova, V.

2023

Article / Diffusion of hydrocarbons diluted in supercritical carbon dioxide

Scientific Reports

Saric, D.; Guevara-Carrion, G.; Gaponenko, Y.; Shevtsova, V.; Vrabec, J.

Article / The “Effect of Marangoni Convection on Heat Transfer in Phase Change Materials” experiment

Acta Astronautica

Porter, J.; Laverón-Simavilla, A.; Bou-Ali, M.M.; Ruiz, X.; Gavalda, F.; Ezquerro, J.M.; Salgado Sánchez, P.; Martínez, U.; Gligor, D.; Tinao, I.; Gómez, J.; Fernández, J.; Rodríguez, J.; Borshchak Kachalov, A.; Lapuerta, V.; Seta, B.; Massons, J.; Dubert, D.; Sanjuan, A.; Shevtsova, V.; García-Fernández, L.

Article / Effect of heat transfer through an interface on convective melting dynamics of phase change materials

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Šeta, B.; Dubert, D.; Gavalda, J.; Massons, J.; Bou-Ali, M.M.; Ruiz, X.; Shevtsova, V.

Article / Cross diffusion governs an oscillatory instability in a ternary mixture with the Soret effect

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Seta, B.; Errarte, A.; Mialdun, A.; Ryzhkov, I.I.; Bou-Ali, M.M.; Shevtsova, V.

Article / Measurement of Diffusion of Atmospheric Gases in a Liquid Perfluoro Compound by Means of an Optical Technique

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Mialdun, A.; Yasnou, V.; Barakhovskaia, E.; Glushchuk, A.; Shevtsova, V.

Article / Variety of flow patterns in a liquid bridge subjected to a gas stream

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Gaponenko, Y.; Yasnou, V.; Mialdun, A.; Bou-Ali, M.M.; Nepomnyashchy, A.; Shevtsova, V.

Article / Oscillatory instability caused by the interplay of Soret effect and cross-diffusion

Physics of Fluids

Seta, B.; Errarte, A.; Ryzhkov, I.I.; Bou-Ali, M.M.; Shevtsova, V.

Article / Binary Diffusion Coefficients for Short Chain Alcohols in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide—Experimental and Predictive Correlations

Molecules

Santos, C.I.A.V.; Ribeiro, A.C.F.; Shevtsova, V.

Review / Diffusion in liquid mixtures

npj Microgravity

Vailati, A.; Bataller, H.; Bou-Ali, M.M.; Carpineti, M.; Cerbino, R.; Croccolo, F.; Egelhaaf, S.U.; Giavazzi, F.; Giraudet, C.; Guevara-Carrion, G.; Horváth, D.; Köhler, W.; Mialdun, A.; Porter, J.; Schwarzenberger, K.; Shevtsova, V.; De Wit, A.

Review / The Measurement of Soret and Thermodiffusion Coefficients in Binary and Ternary Liquid Mixtures

International Journal of Thermophysics

Köhler, W.; Mialdun, A.; Bou-Ali, M.M.; Shevtsova, V.

2022

Article / Thermophysical, Optical, and Mass Transport Properties of C60Fullerene Solutions in Toluene and Tetralin

Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data

Errarte, A.; Schraml, M.; Köhler, W.; Shevtsova, V.; Bou-Ali, M.M.; Mialdun, A.

Article / Pattern selection for convective flow in a liquid bridge subjected to remote thermal action

Physics of Fluids

Gaponenko, Y.; Yano, T.; Nishino, K.; Matsumoto, S.; Shevtsova, V.

Article / Transitions between nonlinear regimes in melting and liquid bridges in microgravity

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

S̆eta, B.; Dubert, D.; Prats, M.; Gavalda, J.; Massons, J.; Bou-Ali, M.M.; Ruiz, X.; Shevtsova, V.

2021

Article / Soret vector for description of multicomponent mixtures

Scientific Reports

Mialdun, A.; Bou-Ali, M.; Shevtsova, V.

Article / The Soret coefficients of the ternary system water/ethanol/triethylene glycol and its corresponding binary mixtures

European Physical Journal E

Schraml, M.; Bataller, H.; Bauer, C.; Bou-Ali, M.M.; Croccolo, F.; Lapeira, E.; Mialdun, A.; Möckel, P.; Ndjaka, A.T.; Shevtsova, V.; Köhler, W.

Article / A ternary mixture at the border of Soret separation stability

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Prokopev, S.; Lyubimova, T.; Mialdun, A.; Shevtsova, V.

Article / Investigation of diffusive and optical properties of vapour-air mixtures: The benefits of interferometry

Chemical Engineering Science

Shevchenko, V.; Mialdun, A.; Yasnou, V.; Lyulin, Y.V.; Ouerdane, H.; Shevtsova, V.

Article / Effect of the supporting disks shape on nonlinear flow dynamics in a liquid bridge

Physics of Fluids

Gaponenko, Y.; Yasnou, V.; Mialdun, A.; Nepomnyashchy, A.; Shevtsova, V.

2020

Article / Diffusion of Quinine with Ethanol as a Co-Solvent in Supercritical CO2

Molecules

Gaponenko, Y.; Mialdun, A.; Shevtsova, V.

2023

The Editor-in-Chief of the Microgravity Science and Technology Journal (https://www.springer.com/journal/12217/editors)

The chair of Microgravity Sciences and Processes Committee (A2) of the International Astronautical Federation, www.iafastro.org

2022

The Editor-in-Chief of the Microgravity Science and Technology Journal

2023

The paper "Cross diffusion governs an oscillatory instability in a ternary mixture with the Soret effect " was selected as a “hot paper” of the Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. journal in 2023, as an acknowledgment of its high download rate.

This review paper "The Measurement of Soret and Thermodiffusion Coefficients in Binary and Ternary Liquid Mixtures" published in Int. Journal of Thermophysics (2023) is nominated for the prestigious Ared Cezairliyan Best Paper Prize 2024.

2023

Invited talk | Scientific outcome from microgravity experiments and beyond

15th International Meeting on Thermodiffusion (IMT 15), Tarragona - Spain - Invited talk

V. Shevtsova, W. Koehler, M. M. Bou-Ali, A. Mialdun

Oral presentation | Nonlinear dynamics of phase change material at the melting stage.

11th Conference of the International Marangoni Association (IMA11), Bordeaux - France - Oral presentation

B. Seta, D. Dubert, Jna. Gavaldà, J. Massons, M. M. Bou-Ali, X. Ruiz and V. Shevtsova

Oral presentation | Numerical model of the transport phenomena in the absorption of LiBr-H2O +surfactant mixtures

11th Conference of the International Marangoni Association (IMA11), Bordeaux - France - Oral presentation

PF. Arroiabe, M. Martinez-Agirre, M. M. Bou-Ali, V.Shevtsova

Oral presentation | Simultaneous appearance of fingers and overstable instability in isothermal ternary systems

15th International Meeting on Thermodiffusion (IMT 15), Tarragona - Spain - Oral presentation

B. Seta, J. Spangenberg, Fn. Gavalda, M. M.Bou-Ali, X.Ruiz, V. Shevtsova

Oral presentation | Analysis of the thermogravitational behaviour of binary liquid mixtures for positive and negative Soret coefficients

15th International Meeting on Thermodiffusion (IMT 15), Tarragona - Spain - Oral presentation

A. Sanjuan, B. Šeta, V. Shevtsova, M. Mounir Bou-Ali and C. Santamaria

2022

Oral presentation | Instability caused by interplay of Soret and cross-diffusion in ternary mixture

27th European Low Gravity Research Association Biennial Symposium and General Assembly September 6-9, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal - Oral presentation

V. Shevtsova, B. Seta, A. Errarte, M. Bou-Ali

Oral presentation | Effect of thermocapillary convection on the melting of phase change materials

JITH 2022 - 19th edition of the international thermal days, Tanger – Maroc - Oral presentation

B. SETA, J. GAVALDA, X. RUIZ, W. Koehler, M. M.BOU-ALI, V.SHEVTSOVA

2021

Conference Paper | Secondary Faraday waves in microgravity

Journal of Physics: Conference Series - Conference Paper

Labrador, E.; Salgado Sánchez, P.; Porter, J.; Shevtsova, V.

Conference Paper | Behaviour of a Ternary Mixture with the Net Separation Ratio Close to Zero

Journal of Physics: Conference Series - Conference Paper

Lyubimova, T.; Prokopev, S.; Shevtsova, V.