Director
Assistant Professor
His main areas of research is developing Finite Volume Methodologies for Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer to simulate:
- Falling film and two-phase flows
- Unsteady condensation, absorption, and evaporation
- Flow and thermal fields around moving oscillating bodies
- All-speed flows
- Desalination with falling films
Collaborators
Scott Ormiston
Professor at University of Manitoba, P.Eng
Dr. Ormiston is a Mechanical Engineering professor at the University of Manitoba. His research is focused on CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) with heat and mass transfer applications. New methods have been developed to model film condensation from a mixture of a vapour and a non-condensing gas. Example application areas are models for plate and shell-and-tube heat exchangers used in the power generation, refrigeration, and chemical processing industries. New FVM-based fully coupled solution approaches have been developed for problems with strong interactions of heat and mass transfer.
Models have been developed for
- Two-phase flow of film condensation from a gas mixture (non-condensing gas and vapour or binary vapour)
- Two-phase flow of falling film absorption
- Laminar and turbulent flow in tube bundles and corrugated plate channels
- Turbulent mixed-convection flow in thyristor valve halls
- Below grade heat losses from concrete slab building foundations with in-floor heating
- Solar mass wall systems
- Branching single phase flow
Current model development efforts are focused on advanced two-phase models for
- Falling films with condensation, absorption, or evaporation
- Branching gas-liquid flows
- Bubbly flow in a vertical pipe
Jafar Al-Zaili
Assistant Professor at City, University of London
Lecturer in Power and Propulsion
His main areas of research are:
- System-level and component-level simulation and optimisation of micro gas turbines for renewable applications
- Impact of the distributed generation in large cities on the level of pollution
- High-temperature Modular compact thermal energy storage with focus on solar applications
- Pollution reduction for combustion of hydrogen as a carbon-free fuel
- The dynamics between low-carbon power technologies and supporting policies
Masoud Mohammadi
Research collaborator at the University of Tehran
Dr. Masoud Mohammadi is a research collaborator at CTFD Lab. He is a proud graduate from Faculty of New Sciences and Technology at the University of Tehran. During his doctoral research, Dr. Mohammadi numerically investigated condensation in two-phase falling films developing a fully-coupled interface tracking algorithm.
His main areas of research are:
- CVFEM and cell-centered Finite Volume Methods
- Fully coupled numerical methods for interface tracking algorithm
- Numerical investigation of condensation, absorption, and evaporation
Amin Bekhradinasab
Research collaborator at the University of Tehran
Amin Bekhradinasab obtained his MS in Aerospace Engineering from University of Tehran. His master thesis subject was focused on simulation of heat transfer in separated incompressible flow using Large Eddy simulation.
His main areas of research are:
- Turbulence and heat transfer
- Large Eddy Simulation
- Hydrogen as an alternative fuel
Reza Chamkalani
Research assistant and C++ instructor
Reza Chamkalani obtained his MS in Mechanical Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University and has worked as a researcher alongside his training activities. His research interests include CFD and Rarefied Gas Dynamics. More specifically, He is interested in developing flexible, highly efficient C++ codes which can handle complex geometries in OpenFOAM software.
The primary focus of his current activities are:
- Developing Solvers in OpenFOAM
- Training of C++ syntax and object-oriented programming.
Ph. D. Students
Behnam Cheraghi
Project: Three-dimensional simulation of unsteady heat and mass transfer crossing the interface of falling films using fully-coupled interface tracking algorithm.
Email: aer.b.cheraghi@alumni.ut.ac.ir
Hosein Noorshad
Project: Large eddy simulation of two-phase flows.
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Master Students
Ramtin Hekmatkhah
Project: Numerical simulation of unsteady vapor absorption at very low pressures using an fully coupled ALE interface tracking finite volume solver.
Email : ramtin.hekmatkhah@ut.ac.ir
Monireh Larijani
Project: Numerical modeling of falling film instabilities using a fully-coupled interface tracking algorithm.
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Alireza Mahdiloo
Project: Unsteady flow and heat transfer around a pitching oscillating cylinder.
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Alumni
1- Masoud Mohammadi (PhD)
Thesis: Developing a fully-coupled interface tracking finite volume solver for simulation of two-phase condensing flows.
2- Mahbod Seyyednia (PhD)
Thesis: Aerodynamic Analysis of An Oscillating Airfoil Equipped with An Oscillating Trailing-Edge Flap.
3- Hesamaddin Bamdad (MSc)
Project: Developing a Control Volume Finite Element Method for simulation of mixed convection heat transfer around a rotary oscillating circular cylinder.