Seyed Mohammad Ali Najafi

E-mail: manajafi@mecheng.iust.ac.ir

Educational background

• PhD: Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, (since 2013)

Thesis title: Modeling of heavy oil spray gasification

Supervisor: Dr. Hojat Ghassemi

• M.S.: Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University, 2011-2013.

Thesis title: Experimental and numerical investigation of natural ventilation and cooling in a cistern (Motamed-cistern in Laar)

Supervisor: Prof. Mahmood Yaghoubi

• B.S.: Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University, 2007-2011.

Field of Interest

• Combustion, Gasification
• Spray, Atomization
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Particle Image Velocimetry, PIV

Membership

• Iranian Combustion Institute
• Iran Construction Engineering Organization

Software skills

• Fluent (Ansys) (expert), OpenFOAM (normal user)
• SolidWorks (normal user)
• Matlab (expert)

International honors

• Gold medal, International Exhibition of Inventions, Switzerland, Genève, 2011
• Honorary diploma, Ministry  of Education, Research, Youth and Sport , Romania, 2011

Inventions

• SOSHIA, a submersible vehicle designed for exploration, damage estimation and especially for saving people in flooded area (team work, 2008-2011).
• BARDER, a robot which can climb trees for the application of Pruning (team work, 2011)

Recent publications and presentations (since 2015)

• Najafi, S. M. A., Yaghoubi, M. Thermal study of a cistern's dome (the case of Motamed cistern in Lar, Iran). Energy and Buildings, 102, 453-466, 2015.
• Kamali, M., Shirani, E., & Najafi, S. M. A. Experimental study of deformation and movement of droplets on a flat surface. The national conference in new research of industrial and mechanical engineering, Tehran, Iran, 2015 (in persian).
• Najafi, S. M. A., Yaghoubi, M. Experimental and numerical study of a cistern as a sustainable water reservoir. First National Sustainable Development conference of Energy, water and Environment Engineering systems, Tehran, Iran, 2015 (in persian).
• Mikaniki, P., Najafi, S. M. A., & Ghassemi, H. Experimental study on macroscopic structure of fuel oil spray in thermal power plants (pressure-swirl injector). 6^th conference on thermal power plants (gas, combined cycle, steam), Tehran, Iran, 2015 (in persian).
• Mikaniki, P., Najafi, S. M. A., & Ghassemi, H. Experimental study on macroscopic structure of Mazut spray. 6^th conference on fuel and combustion, Mashhad, Iran, 2016 (in persian).

References

• Dr. Hojat Ghassemi, School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology.

Email: h_ghassemi@iust.ac.ir

Phone: +98 21 77240540 Ex: 2902

• Prof. Mahmood Yaghoubi, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University.

Email: yaghoubi@shirazu.ac.ir

Phone: +98 71 32301672 Ex: 3028