Mahdi Sani is an assistant professor at School of Engineering and Science, Sharif University of Technology-Kish International Campus (SUT-Kish). He earned his PhD from Sharif University of Technology in Mechanical Engineering. He has served in different sectors including Power, Marine, Oil and Gas, and Higher Education. In industry, he served as a Mechanical Engineer in Sadra (IMICo), Monenco Iran and Pargas Iran. He has been working as a faculty member at SUT-Kish since 2009. During his time in higher education, he has also served in several executive positions including Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration (VCFA), Graduate Dean and Registrar. more ...
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Research Interests
- Energy: Direct Energy Conversion, Fuel Cell, Multiphysics Simulation, Electrochemistry, Green Energy, Energy Storage, Hydrogen Fuel, Transition to Green Energy.
- CFD: Polyhedral FVM, Dynamic Meshes, Fluid/Structure Interaction (FSI), LES, Multi-Physics Modeling, Particle Tracking, Adaptive Meshes, Parallel Processing, GPU, Multi-Grid.
- Aerosol: Physics, Measurement, Simulation, Combustion, Interaction with Continuous Phase and Turbulence, Multi-Physics Phenomena like Electric Field Effects, Condensation and Evaporation, Droplet Formation.
- Turbulence: Physics, Simulation (LES and DNS), Modeling, Interaction with other phenomena such as combustion, discontinuous phase and acoustic.
- Micro-Fluidics: Electrokinetics, Electrophoresis, Dielectrophoresis (DEP), Lab-on-Chip (LOC), Micro-Mixers, Micro-Valves, Micro-Pumps.
- Bio-Fluidics: Modeling biological systems, Living tissue, Targeted Drug delivery.
- Eager to take on any new challenge.
Currently, my most active research line is the design, simulation and optimization of multi-physics phenomena in energy systems. Interactions of fluid mechanics, electrochemistry, electric fields and particles in devices like fuel cells and micro-mixers are of special interest. Developing codes required for multi-physics simulations is also another thing I usually enjoy. I have recently successfully added electro-kinetics module to my in-house code, Rayan. Moreover, I occasionally work on anything I find interesting. more ...
Courses
I used to offer CFD, Adv. Numerical Analysis, Aerosol, Fuel Cell, Micro/Nano Fluidics, FEM-Fluids, Adv. Fluid Mechanics, Continuum Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Introduction to programming (C++), UG Numerical Analysis and, Statics and Mechanics of Materials depending on the needs. For current courses and related student resources please refer to Courses page.