Mechanical Engineering

Resume Dr. Kiumars Mazaheri

Last Update: May 2013

:: Biography

Name: Kiumars Mazaheri

Date of Birth:24-08-1958

Marital Status:Married (3 children)

:: Education

 - Mechanical Engineering (Thermo-fluid), B.Sc., Isfahan University of Technology, 1986

 - Mechanical Engineering (Thermo-fluid), M.Sc., Isfahan University of Technology, 1989

 - Mechanical Engineering (Combustion), Ph.D., McGill University (Canada), 1997

:: Experiences

Research and Education Deputy, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, 2013-present

Professor, Tarbiat Modares University, 2011 - present

Energy Conversion Group Director, Tarbiat Modares University, 2009 - 2013

Chair, Iranian Combustion Institute, 2008 - 2012

Executive Director, Fuel and Combustion (Journal, 2008 - present

Associate Professor, Tarbiat Modares University, 2005 - 2011

General Director of Research Affair, Tarbiat Modares University, 2006 - 2008

Chair, First Combustion Conference of Iran, 2006

Research Deputy, Tarbiat Modares University Faculty of Engineering, 2005 - 2006

Assistant Professor, Tarbiat Modares University, 1997 - 2005

Research Assistant, McGill University Canada, 1995 - 1997

Doctoral Candidate, McGill University Canada, 1993 - 1997

Chair, Iranian Combustion Institute, 2002 - 2006

Lecturer, Isfahan University of Technology, 1989 - 1991

Consultant, Different industries, 1986 - present

:: Research Interests

 - Gaseous detonation and explosion Modeling

 - Numerical simulation of reactive flow

 - Gas turbine combustion

 - Micro-combustors

 - Advanced industrial furnaces

 - Furnace Optimization

 - NOx reduction in industrial burners

:: Teaching Interests

 - Advanced Combustion

 - Dynamics of Compressible Flows

 - Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

 - Numerical Methods

 - Internal combustion engines.

:: Publications

A- Journal Papers

1. K.Mazaheri, A. Mahdavi, and J.H. Lee, “Numerical Study of Blast Initiation of Detonation, using a Two-Step Chemical kinetics Model,” International Journal of Engineering, Vol. 15, Part B, pp. 213-222, 2002.

2. K. Mazaheri  and J.H. Lee, “The Effect of Instability on the Direct Initiation of Detonations,”  Modares Technical and Engineering, V.6, pp. 58-72, 2002.

3. K. Mazaheri, S. A. Hashemi, and J. H. Lee, “Numerical Study of Detonation Instability for a Two-Step Kinetics Model,” Scientia Iranica, Vol. 11, No.4, pp. 292-301,2003.

4. R. Mohammadi, G. Heidarinejad, K. Mazaheri, "A New Model for Prediction of Heat diffusivity in pipe Expansion Turbulent Flows," Iranian J. Chem. Eng., V. 2, pp. 24-33, 2005.

5. Mirzaei, M., Mazaheri, K., Biglari, H., "Analytical modeling of the elastic structural response of tubes to internal detonation loading," Pressure Vessels and Piping,   V. 85, pp. 883-895, (2005)

6. Mazaheri K., Mirzaei, M., Biglari, H., " Transient Dynamic Response of Tubes to Internal Detonation Loading," Journal of Sound and Vibration, V. 297,pp. 106-122, 2006.

7. Sabzpooshani M., Mazaheri K., “Numerical Investigation of Two-Dimensional Gaseous Detonation and its Propagation in a Channel,” Energetic Material, Vol. 2, pp. 59-67, 1385.

8. Mazaheri K., S. A. Hashemi, “The Effect of Chain Initiation Reaction on the Stability of Gaseous Detonations,” Combust. Sci. and Tech., Vol. 179, pp. 1701-1736, 2007.

9. Khsoravi El-Hosseini M.,  Maerefat M., Mazaheri K., "Numerical Investigation on the Effects of Pressure Drop on Thermal Behaivior of Porous Burners," J. Heat Transfer, Vol. 130,  paper no. 032601, pp.1-5, 2008.

10. Azdast T., Behravesh A. H., Mazaheri K., and Darvishi M. M., "Numerical Simulation and Experimental Validation of Residual Stress Induced Constrained Shrinkage of Injection Molds Parts," Polymers, Vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 304-310, 2008.

11. Khosravi El-Hosseini M., Maerefat M., and Mazaheri K., “Numerical Modeling of Porous Radiant Burners using Full Reduced Kinetics Mechanism,” Iran. J. Chem. Chem. Eng., Vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 53-63, 2008.

12. Heidari A. and Maqqzaheri K., “Determination of the Equilibrium Parameters of Gaseous Detonations using a Genetic Algorithm,” Iranian J. of Chemical Engineering (IAChE), Vol. 5, No.3, pp. 3-13, 2008.

13. Sabzpooshani M., Mazaheri K., “Formation of Unburnt Pockets in Gaseous Detonation,” Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 182-189, 2009.

14. Anbarlooei H. R., Mazaheri K., "Moment of Fluid Interface Reconstruction Method in Multi-Material Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (MMALE) Algorithms," Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg., Vol. 198, pp. 3782-3794, 2009.

15. Soury H., Mazaheri K., "Utilizing Unsteady Curved Detonation Analysis and Detailed Kinetics to Study the Direct Initiation of Detonation in H2-O2 and H2-Air mixtures," International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 34, pp. 9847-9856, 2009.

16. Marefat M., Mahmoudi S. Y., and  Mazaheri K. “Numerical Simulation of Forced Convection Enhancement in a Pipe by porous Inserts,” Heat Transfer Engineering, Vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 45-56, 2011.

17. Mahmoudi Y., and Mazaheri K., "High Resolution Numerical Simulation of the Structure of Gaseous detonation," Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 33, pp. 2187-2194, 2011.

18. Marefat M.,  M. Khosravy el-Hossaini, and Mazaheri K. “Numerical Modeling of Two-Dimensional Cylindrical Porous Radiant Burners with Sidewall Heat Losses,” Journal of Porous Media, Vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 317-327, 2011.

19. Anbarlooei H. R., Mazaheri K., "”Moment of Fluid” Interface Reconstruction Method in Axisymmetric Coordinates," Int. J. Numer. Meth. Biomed. Engng. Vol. 27, pp. 1640–1651, 2011.

20. Mahmoudi Y., Mazaheri K. "Triple Points Collision and Hot Spots in Detonations with Regular Structures," Combust. Sci. Technol., Vol. 184, pp. 1135-1151, 2012.

21. Alipoor A., Mazaheri K., “The optimization of detonation properties in gaseous mixtures and mixed explosive materials” Journal of Energetic Materials, Vol. 31, pp. 115-126, 2013.

B - Conference papers

1. K. Mazaheri and J.H. Lee, (1996), “Effect of Instability on the Direct Initiation of Gaseous Detonations,” Technical Meeting of the Combustion Institute, Canadian Section.

2. K. Mazaheri and J.H. Lee,  (1997), “The Effect of Instability on the Direct Initiation of Detonations,” 16th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Poland.

3. K. Mazaheri and J.H. Lee,  (1997), “Effect of Hot Spots on the Initiation of Detonations,” 16th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Poland.

4. K. Mazaheri, S. Hashemi, and J.H. Lee, (2001), “Numerical Study of Detonation Instability for a Two-Step Kinetics Model,” 18th. International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Washington, August, 2001.

5. K. Mazaheri, A. Mahdavi, and J.H. Lee, “Numerical Study of Blast Initiation of Detonation, Using a Two-Step Chemical Kinetics Model,” Second Mediterranean Combustion Symposium, which will be held in Sharm El-Sheikh 6-11 January 2002.

6. K. Mazaheri, G. R. Alavi, “A Collocated Finite Volume Method for Navier-Stokes Equation at all Speeds,” 10th. Annual (International) Mechanical Engineering Conference, Tehran, Iran, 2002.

7. K. Mazaheri, P. Taheri, “Numerical Simulation of Underwater Explosive Bubble using Lagrangian PPM,” CFD2002, Windsor, Canada.

8. M. Darbandi, K. Mazaheri, and S. Vakilpour, "A Pressure Weighted Upwinding Scheme for Calculating Flows on Unstructured Grids,", Proceeding of the International Conference of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, (ICCME 2003), 2003.

9. M. Darbandi, K. Mazaheri, and S. Vakilpour, "The Influence of a Pressure-Weighted Upwind Scheme in Unstructured Finite-Element Grids," Fifth European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Prague, Czech Republic, Auguest 2003.

10. K. Mazaheri, and S. Sarmasti, "Extension of a High Resolution Lagrangian Method to Consider the Real Gas Effect," The Fifth Asian Computational Fluid Dynamics, Busan, Korea, October 27~ October 30, 2003.

11. H.R. Anbarlooie, K. Mazaheri, and M. Bidabadi, “ALE Simulation of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability,” 12th Annual Conference of the CFD Society of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 2004.

12. K. Mazaheri, and S. A Hashemi, “The Effect of  Chain Initiation Reaction on the Stability of Gaseous Detonations,” The 24th International Symposium on Shock Waves, ISSW24, Beijing, China, July 11-16, 2004.

13. M. Khosravi El_hosseini, M. Marefat, K. Mazaheri, "Comparison of Full Mechanism and Reduced Mechanisms in Numerical Modeling of Porous Burners," Forth Mediterranean Combustion symposiumMCS4Lisbon, October 6-10, 2005.  

14. M. Zamaninejad, K. Mazaheri, and M.R. Rajaee, "Numerical Simulation of Laminar Premixed Methane-Air Flame Using Reduced Mechanism," 2nd Int. Conference on Thermal Engineering Theory and Application, UAE, January 3-6, 2006.

15. K. Mazaheri and H.R. Anbarlooei, “Higher Order Interface Reconstruction in Multi-Material Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (MMALE) Algprithm,” 16th Annual (Int.) Conference on Mechanical Engineering, ISME2008, May 13-15, Kerman, Iran, 2008.

16. Y. Mahmoudi and K. Mazaheri, "Operator Splitting in Simulation of Detonation Structure," 22nd International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems (ICDERS 22), Minsk, Belarus, July 27-31 2009.

17. Anbarlooei H.R., Mazaheri K., "Revision of the Curvlinear Grid discritization in Lagrangian Gas Dynamics," 17th Annual (Int.) Conference on Mechanical Engineering, ISME2008, May 19-21, Tehran, Iran, 2009.

18. Mahmoudi Y., and Mazaheri K., "High Resolution Numerical Simulation of the Structure of Gaseous detonation," 33rd International Symposium on Combustion, Beijing, China, July 2010.

19. Mazaheri K., Sabzpooshani M., and Mahmoudi Y., "Numerical Study of Detonation Propagation ib a Channel with Porous Wall," 33rd International Symposium on Combustion, Beijing, China, July 2010. (Poster)

20. K. Mazaheri ,Y. Mahmoudi and M. I. Radulescu, "Diffusion in Gaseous Detonations," 23nd International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems (ICDERS 23), Irvine, USA, July 24-29 2011. K. Mazaheri

21. Mazaheri, k., Sabzpooshani, M., Y. Mahmoudi,  and M. I. Radulescu, "Numerical Study of Detonation Structure in a Channel with Porous Wall," 23nd International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems (ICDERS 23), Irvine, USA, July 24-29 2011. K. Mazaheri

22. Y. Mahmoudi, Mazaheri k., and M. I. Radulescu, "Triple Points Collision in Unstable Detonations," 23nd International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems (ICDERS 23), Irvine, USA, July 24-29 2011. K. Mazaheri

23. H. Pasdarshahri, G. Heidarinejad and K. Mazaheri “Large Eddy Simulation of One-Meter Methane Pool Fire using One equation Sub-Grid Scale Model,” Seventh Mediterranean Combustion Symposium, Sardinia, Italy, 11-15 Sep. 2011.

24. M. Hallaji, K. Mazaheri “Numerical simulation of turbulent non-premixed combustion in diluted hot coflow using PaSR combustion model,” Seventh Mediterranean Combustion Symposium, Sardinia, Italy, 11-15 Sep. 2011.

25. M. Hallaji, K. Mazaheri “Comparison of LES and RANS in numerical simulation of turbulent non-premixed flame under MILD combustion condition,” Seventh Mediterranean Combustion Symposium, Sardinia, Italy, 11-15 Sep. 2011.

26. Y. Mahmoudi, K. Mazaheri “Hydrodynamic instabilities and unreacted gas pockets in cellular detonations ,” Seventh Mediterranean Combustion Symposium, Sardinia, Italy, 11-15 Sep. 2011.

27. Mahmoudi, K. Mazaheri “Triple point collision and hot spot in detonations with regular structure,” Seventh Mediterranean Combustion Symposium, Sardinia, Italy, 11-15 Sep. 2011.

28. Hashemi A. A., Hajialigol N., and Mazaheri K., “Study of a turbulent Non-premixed methane-air reacting flame in a burner using flame holdr,” 4th Fuel and Combustion Conference of Iran, Kashan University, Kashan, Iran, February 2012.