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Professor/أستاذ:Ahmed Ibrahim Abd El-Rahman
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Mechanical Power Engineering
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| Email : | aiarahman***gmail.com |
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| Room Number : | 17304 |
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| Qualifications |
|  B.Sc. (1999) "Mechanical Power Engineering" Cairo University (Egypt) |
| M.Sc. (2003) "Mechanical Power Engineering" Cairo University (Egypt) |
| M.Sc. (2005) "Theoretical and Applied Mechanics" University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) |
| Ph.D. (2009) "Theoretical and Applied Mechanics" University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) |
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| Fields of Interest : |
| Thermoacoustic Energy Conversion Systems |
| Renewable (Solar) Fuels and (Wind) Energy Systems |
| Genetic Algorithm Optimization and Data-Driven Modeling |
| Clean Combustion Dynamics and Thermoacoustic Instabilities |
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| Recent Publications : |
| -2023-Impact of Oxygen Enrichment and CO2–H2O Dilution on Stability and Pollutant Emissions of Non‑Premixed Swirling Turbulent Flames, Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-023-00454-x |
| -2022-Field inversion for transitional flows using
continuous adjoint methods, Physics of Fluids, 34, 124110 |
| -2021-Mechanics of deformation of malaria-infected red blood cells. Mechanics Research Communications 113, p. 103666, 2021 |
| -2020-Development of a Novel Thermoacoustic
Flue-Gas Analyzer. AIP Advances 10, p.115215, 2020 |
| -2020-Shape Optimization of SG6043 Airfoil for
Small Wind Turbine Blades. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1618(4), p. 042007, 2020 |
| -2020-Novel Compact Thermoacoustic Refrigerator Driven by a Rotary Drive Mechanism. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering 21, p. 100708, 2020 |
| -2019-Assessment of the transition k-kL-Omega model application to transitional oscillatory pipe flows. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(3), 1195-1204, 2019 |
| -2017-A 3D Investigation of Thermoacoustic Fields in a Square Stack. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 108(A), 292-300, 2017 |
| -2015-Flow simulation in radial pump impellers and evaluation of slip factor. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 229(8), 1032-1041, 2015 |
| -2014-Characteristic-Based Nonlinear Simulation of Thermoacoustic Engines. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136(2), 649-658, 2014 |
| -2014-Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Thermoacoustic Refrigerator. AIAA Journal Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 28(1), 78-86, 2014 |
| -2013-Mechanics of Random-Fiber Networks. Part II: Mechanics of Uniaxial Compression. Journal of Rheology, 57(5), 1463, 2013 |
| -2013-Mechanics of Random-Fiber Networks. Part I: Generation and Characterization of Initial Geometry. ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, 80(5), 051007, 2013 |
| -2013-A Model for Fiber Length Attrition in Injection-Molded Long-Fiber Composites. Composites Part A - Applied Science and Manufacturing, 51, 11-21, 2013 |
| Recent Projects : |
| -2017-2018-Design, Construction and Testing of a 1-kW small-scale wind turbine. The project receives a full financial support from the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) and Cairo University (CU) in the amount 120,000 LE (ASRT Share: 75,000 LE; CU Share: 45,000 LE). |
| Recent Courses : |
| -2018-The 1st Winter School on Numerical Methods in Acoustics, Le Mans, France, December 2018 |
| Conferences : |
| -2023-Dynamic Stability Characteristics of
CH4/NH3 Mixtures, AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum
12-16 June 2023, San Diego, CA |
| -2020-Shape Optimization of SG6043 Airfoil for Small Wind Turbine Blades. The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE 2020), Delft, The Netherlands, Sept. 2020 |
| -2017-Transition to Turbulence in Oscillating Flows. 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration 2017 (London, UK). July 2017 |
| -2016-A Three-Dimensional Numerical Study of Laminar Reciprocating Flow in a Square Thermoacoustic Stack. Congrès Français d’Acoustique (CFA), Le Mans, France, April 11-15, 2016 |
| -2016-Particle-image-velocimetry investigation of flow morphology at sudden expansion and contraction in oscillating flows. Proceeding of the 22nd International Congress on Acoustics, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 5-9, 2016 |
| -2015-Simulation of Flow And Heat Transfer in Thermoacoustic Refrigerator Using a 3-d Periodic Cell Structure. The Third International Workshop on Thermoacoustics, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, October 26-27, 2015 |
| -2015-Numerical Investigation on the Thermoacoustic Streaming Behavior. The 22nd International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Florence, Italy, July 12-16, 2015 |
| -2013-Characteristic-Based Non-Linear Simulation of Large-Scale Standing-Wave Thermoacoustic Engines. Int’l Summer School & Workshop on Non-Normal and Nonlinear Effects in Aero- and Thermoacoustics, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany, June 18-21, 2013 |
| -2012-Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of a Thermoacoustic Refrigerator. AIAA paper 2012-4233, Proceedings of the 10th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2012 |
| -2012-Performance Characterization of a Microscale Thermoacoustic Energy Harvester. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2012 |
| -2012-Numerical Simulation of a Thermoacoustic Couple. S. F. d’Acoustique (Ed.), Acoustics 2012 Nantes, Nantes, France, April 2012 |
| Administrative Positions : |
| -2017-Acting Director of the Center of Studies and Training in Mechanical Power Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 2017-2018 |
| -2016-Head of the Fluid Mechanics Scientific Group, The Department of Mechanical Power Engineering, Cairo University. 2016-2021 |
| Awards : |
| -2022-Fulbright Scholar Grant, Fulbright Commission, USA, May 2022 |
| -2016-جائزة جامعة القاهرة التشجيعية |
| Membership in Scientific Societies : |
| -2012-Member of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV) |
| -2012-Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) |
| -2009-Member of the Biophysical Society (BPS) |
| -2004-Member of the American Physical Society (APS) |
| Professional Activities : |
| -2023-Visiting Professor, CNRS Orleans, France. Research Activities: Dynamics and Stability of Ammonia/methane Non-Premixed Combustion. |
| -2018-Visiting Researcher, The Institut P': Recherche et Ingenierie en Materiaux, Mecanique et Energetique (Pprimme) Institute, Centre National de Recherche Scientique (CNRS) UPR 3346, Poitiers 86000, France. The Department of Fluides, Thermique et Combustion. Research Activities: Experimental Acoustics: Particle Image Velocimetry Measurements on Transition to Turbulence in Oscillatory Flows |
| Invited lectures : |
| -2009-Mechanics of Random-Fiber Networks: A Direct Simulation. Nuclear Engineering Division, Argonne National Lab, June 2009
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| -2009-Mechanics of Random-Fiber Networks: A Direct Simulation. Materials Interest Group Seminar Series, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2009 |
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