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Mehrdad T. Manzari Professor of Mechanical Engineering Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 11155-9567, Iran +98 216 616 5689 (office) |
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Education: |
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PhD in Engineering, (1996) University of Wales Swansea, UK. An Unstructured Grid Finite Element Algorithm for Compressible Turbulent Flow Computations |
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MSc in Mechanical Engineering, (1988) Sharif University of Technology, Iran. Finite Element Analysis of the Non-Fourier Heat Conduction |
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BSc in Mechanical Engineering, (1986) Sharif University of Technology, Iran. Modelling of Heat and Fluid Flow in Multiphase Power-plant Heat Exchangers |
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Professional Experience: |
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2010-present |
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology |
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2007-2009 |
Director of Thermo-fluid Group, School of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology |
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2007-2009 |
Director of Center of Excellence in Energy Conversion, School of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology |
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2005-2007 |
Director of Graduate Studies, School of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology |
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2005-2010 |
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology |
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2000-2005 |
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology |
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1996-2000 |
Postdoctoral Research Officer, University of Wales Swansea, Swansea, UK |
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1994-1996 |
Research Officer, University of Wales Swansea, Swansea, UK |
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1991-1993 |
Part-time Lecturer, Sharif University of Technology and University of Tehran |
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Honors and Awards: |
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Winner of the Most Commended Paper prize of MCB Publishers, 2007. |
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Winner of the Most Commended Paper prize of MCB Publishers, 1999. |
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Finalist of the 9th R.J. Melosh Medal Competition, USA, 1997. |
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NSERC Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship, Canada, 1997 and 1998. |
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Research Interests: |
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Multiphase flows in Porous Media with applications in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs |
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Simulation of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Manufacturing Processes |
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Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems |
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Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows |
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Computational Methods in Engineering |
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Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics with Engineering Applications |
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High Performance and Parallel Computing |
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Courses Taught: |
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Thermodynamics (UG) |
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Fluid Mechanics I (UG) |
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Heat Transfer I and II (UG) |
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Design of Heat Exchangers (UG) |
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Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (UG) |
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Computational Fluid Dynamics I and II (G) |
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Finite Element Method (G) |
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Advanced Numerical Methods (G) |
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Advanced Engineering Mathematics (G) |
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Boundary Layer Theory (G) |
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Bio-fluid Mechanics (G) |
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Multiphase flows in Porous Media (G) |
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Parallel Computing for CFD Applications (G) |
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Translated Book: |
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Journal Papers: |
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Fatehi, R., Manzari, M.T., "Error Estimation in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and a New Scheme for Second Derivatives", Computer and Mathematics with Applications, To appear soon, 2010. |
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Naderan, H., Manzari, M.T., Hannani, S.K., "A Numerical Comparative Study of Various Flooding Techniques in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs", Journal of Porous Media, To appear soon, 2010. |
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Fatehi, R., Manzari, M.T., "A remedy for numerical oscillations in weakly compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, To appear soon, 2010. |
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Fatehi, R., Manzari, M.T., and Hannani, S.K., "A Finite-Volume ELLAM for Non-linear Flux Convection-Diffusion Problems", International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics, Vol. 44, pp 129-136, 2009. |
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Karimi, A., Naderan, H., Manzari, M.T., Hannani, S.K., "A Comparison between High Resolution Central and Godunov-based Schemes for the Black-oil Simulation", Int. Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 19 No. 2, pp 125-145, 2009. |
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Vakilha, M., Manzari, M.T.,"Modelling of Power-law Fluid Flow Through Porous Media Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics", Transport in Porous Media, Volume 74, Number 3, pp 331-346, 2008. |
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Hasanzadeh Lileh Koohi, A., Halali, M., Askari, M. and Manzari, M.T., "Investigation and Modeling of Splashing in the Peirce Smith Converter", Journal of Chemical Product and Process Modelling, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp 1-15, 2008. |
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Rafiee, A., Manzari, M.T., and Hosseini, S.M.,"An Incompressible SPH Method for Simulation of Unsteady Viscoelastic Free-surface Flows", International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics, Vol. 42, No. 10, pp 1210-1223, 2007. |
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Hosseini, S.M., Manzari, M.T., and Hannani, S.K., " A fully explicit three-step SPH algorithm for simulation of non-Newtonian fluid flow", Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp 715-735, 2007. |
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Naderan, H., Manzari, M.T., Hannani, S.K., "Application and Performance Comparison of High Resolution Central Schemes for the Black Oil Model", Int. Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp 736-753, 2007. |
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Monazami, R., and Manzari, M.T., "Analysis of Combined Pressure-driven Electroosmotic Flow Through Square Microchannels", Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Vol. 3, pp 123-126, 2007. |
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Qazi Zade, A., Manzari, M.T., and Hannani, S.K., "An analytical solution for thermally fully developed combined pressure-electroosmotically driven flow in microchannels", International Journal of Heat and mass Transfer, Vol. 50, pp 1087-1096, 2007. |
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Ferdowsi, P., Manzari, M.T., "A Modified Space-Time Finite Element Method for Simulation of Immiscible Incompressible Two-phase Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 2005. |
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Hosseini, S.M., and Manzari, M.T., "Simulation of Sloshing in a Semi-filled Container using SPH Method," Journal of Marine Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp 1-10, Winter 2005. |
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Manzari, M.T., "Inviscid Compressible Flow Computations on 3D Unstructured Grids," Scientia Iranica, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp 207-216, 2005. |
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Manzari, M.T., "A Time-accurate Finite Element Method Algorithm for Incompressible Flow Problems," International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow,Vol 13, No 2, pp 158-177, 2003. |
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Lewis, R.W., Manzari, M.T., and Gethin, D.T., "Thermal Optimization in the Sand Casting Process," Journal of Engineering Computations, Vol. 18, No. 3/4, pp 392-416, 2001. |
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Manzari, M.T., and Gethin, D.T., and Lewis, R.W., "Optimization of Heat Transfer Between Casting and Mould," International Journal of Cast Metal Research, Vol. 13, pp 199-206, 2000. |
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Lewis, R.W., Manzari, M.T., Ransing, R.S., and Gethin, D.T., "Casting Shape Optimization via Process Modelling," Materials & Design, Vol 21, pp 381-386, 2000. |
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Manzari, Mehrdad T.,"An explicit Finite Element Algorithm for convection heat transfer problems," Int. J. of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 9, No 8, pp 860-877 , 1999. |
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Manzari, M.T., and Morgan, K., and Hassan, O.,"3D Compressible Turbulent Flow Computations on Unstructured Grids," Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, Vol. 30, pp 335-352, 1998. |
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Manzari, Mehrdad T., and Manzari, Majid T.,"A Mixed Approach to Finite Element Analysis of Hyperbolic Heat Conduction Problems," Int. J. of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 8, No 1, pp , 1998. |
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Sai, B.V.K.S., Zienkiewicz, O.C., Manzari, M.T., Lyra, P.R.M., and Morgan, K., "General Purpose vs Special Algorithms for High Speed Flows with Shocks," Int. J. Num. Methods in Fluids, Vol. 27, pp 57-81, Special issue, Jan. 1998. |
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Lyra, P.R.M., and Manzari, M.T., and Morgan, K., and Hassan, O., and Peraire, J., "Upwind Side-based Unstructured Grid Algorithms for Compressible Viscous Flow Computations," Int. J. for Engineering Analysis and Design, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp 197-211, 1995. |
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Manzari, M.T.,"Evaluation of Temperature Jump Due to Thermal Shocks," Int. Comm. in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp 831-837, 1990. |
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Conference Papers: |
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Naderan, H., Manzari, M.T., Hannani, S.K., "Simulation of Three Phase Flow in Porous Media using a High-resolution central Scheme", Proceeding of Eccomas CFD 2006, September 5-8, Delft, Netherlands. |
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Qazi Zade, A., Manzari, M.T., Hannani, S.K., "Thermal Transport in Combined Pressure-Electroosmotically Driven Flow in Microchannels", Proceeding of ITherm2006, May 30-June 2, 2006, San Diego, USA. |
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Qazi Zade, A., Manzari, M.T., Hannani, S.K., "Compatible Numerical Schemes for Coupled Flow and Transport in Porous Media", Proceeding of ESDA2006, 8th Biennial ASME Conference on Systems Design and Analysis, July 4-7, Torino, Italy. |
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Qazi Zade, A., Monazami, R., Manzari, M.T., Bazargan, V., "A Novel Mechanism for Heat Transfer Enhancement Through Microchannels using Electrokinetic Effect," Procceding of ASME HT2005,2005 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, July 17-22, San Francisco, C.A., USA. |
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Monazami, R., Qazi Zade, A., and Manzari, M.T., "Analysis of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Microchannels using Combined Pressure Gradient and Electroosmotic Pumping," Proceeding of ICMM2005, 3rd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, June 13-15, Toronto, , Ontario, Canada. |
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Ghazi Zadeh, A., Manzari, M.T., Hannani, S.K., "A numerical study of discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for convection-diffusion problems", Proceeding of FEF05 Conference, Swansea, UK, April, 2005. |
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Ferdosi, P., Manzari, M.T., "A space-time finite element formulation for simulation of immiscible two phase flow in porous media", Proceeding of FEF05 Conference, Swansea, UK, April, 2005. |
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Bostandoust, S.M., and Manzari, M.T., Hannani, S.K., "Parallel incompressible Navier-Stokes Computation using SUPG and GLS formulations", Proceeding of 2nd BSME2004 Conference on Thermal Engineering, pages 697-706, Dhaka, 2-4 January 2004. |
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Farnoush, S., and Manzari, M.T., "An Explicit Finite Element Algorithm for Natural Convection Heat Transfer in Porous Media", Proceeding of 2nd BSME2004 Conference on Thermal Engineering, pages 645-651, Dhaka, 2-4 January 2004. |
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Manzari, M.T., "Parallel Computation of Turbulent Flow About A Complete Aircraft," Proceeding of Aero2003 Conference, AKU, Tehran, January 2003, pp 213-220. |
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Manzari, M.T., "A Time Accurate Finite Element Method for Solving Incompressible Flow Problems," Proceeding of ECCOMAS CFD 2001 Conference, Swansea, UK, 4-7 September 2001. |
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Manzari, M.T., Lewis, R.W. and Gethin, D.T., "Thermal Optimization in Casting Design," Proceeding of ISME2000 Conference, Sharif University, Tehran, Iran, 2000. |
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Manzari, M.T., Gethin, D.T., and Lewis, R.W., "Optimum Design of Chills in the Sand Casting Process," Proceeding of IMECE2000 Conference, Orlando, USA, 2000. |
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Manzari, M.T., Lewis, R.W., and Gethin, D.T., "Shape Optimization in Casting Design," Proceeding of ECCM'99 conference, Munchen, Germany, 1999. |
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Manzari, M.T., Lewis, R.W., and Gethin, D.T., "Towards Optimum Shape in Casting Design," Proceeding of OptiCon'98 conference, Altair Computing, Newport, California, 1998. |
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Lewis, R.W., Cross, J.T., Gethin, D.T., Ransing, R.S., Manzari, M.T., and Rahman, N.A., "Recent Developments in Heat Transfer and Porous Media," Proceeding of the 5th Int. Conf. on Advanced Computational Methods in Heat Transfer, Ed. Nowak, A.J., et al, Poland, 1998. |
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Manzari, M.T., Hassan, O., Morgan, K., and Weatherill, N.P., "Parallel Turbulent Flow Computations on Unstructured Tetrahedral Grids," Proceeding of the 5th ACME-UK Conference, London, 1997. |
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Manzari, M.T., Hassan, O., Morgan, K., and Weatherill, N.P., "The Parallel Computation of Turbulent Flow about Aerospace Configurations," Proceeding of the 10th International Conference on Numerical Methods for Laminar and Turbulent Flow," Swansea, UK, pp 1073-1084, 1997. |
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Manzari, Mehrdad T., and Manzari, Majid T., "A Finite Element Simulation of Thermal Wave Propagation, Proceeding of the 10th International Conference on Numerical Methods for Thermal Problems," Swansea, UK, pp 922-931, 1997. |
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Manzari, M.T., and Morgan, K.,"An unstructured Grid Finite Element Algorithm for Compressible Turbulent Flow Computation," Proceeding of the 9th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Laminar and Turbulent Flow, Atlanta, USA, 1995. |
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Manzari, M.T., and Lyra, P.R.M., and Morgan, K., and Peraire, J., "An Unstructured Grid FEM/MUSCL Algorithm for the Compressible Euler Equations," Proceeding of the 8th International Conference on Finite Elements in Fluids: New Trends and Applications, Barcelona, Spain, pp 379-388, 1993. |
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Sadeghipour, M.S., and Manzari, M.T.,"A Finite Element Solution of the Non-Fourier Heat Conduction Equation," Symposium on Numerical Heat Transfer, HTD-Vol. 130, pp 141-148, ASME Pub. New York, 1990. |
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Articles in Books: |
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Manzari, M.T., "Meshless Methods," Encylopedia of Mircofluidics and Nanofluidics, pp 1092-1100, Chief Editor: Dongqing Li, Springer, 2008. |
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Manzari, M.T., and Morgan, K., and Hassan, O.,"Compressible Turbulent Flow Computations on Unstructured Grids," Computational Fluid Dynamics Reviews, Ed. M. Hafez, 1996. |
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Morgan, K., and Hassan, O., and Manzari, M.T., and Verhoeven, N. and Weatherill, N.P., "Towards a Finite Element Capability for the Modelling of Viscous Compressible Flows," The Mathematics of Finite Elements and Applications; Highlights 1996, Ed. J.R. Whiteman, 1997. |
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Doctoral Theses Supervised: |
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Hamid Naderan: Advanced Recovery Methods for Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Sharif University of Technology, 2007 |
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Rouholah Fatehi: Multiphase Pore-scale Modelling Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, Sharif University of Technology, 2010 |
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MSc Theses Supervised: |
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H. Raisi, Near wall Second-moment closure turbulent flow modelling with the aid of DNS (2002) |
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M. Saniei, Non-Fourier heat conduction using adaptive mesh refinement (2004) |
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H. Zandavi, A Study of surge phenomenon in gas turbine plants (2004) |
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M. Tajali, Simulation of non-Newtonian flow during plastic injection molding (2003) |
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A. Ashari, Parallel FEM simulation of 3D inviscid flows on unstructured grids (2002) |
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A. Moslemi, Study of temperature rise during braking process (2003) |
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M. Fathi, Simulation of high pressure injection molding using SPH method (2003) |
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H. Pourfarzaneh, An explicit finite element algorithm for 3D convection heat transfer problems (2003) |
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M. Motaqipour, Numerical study of heat and mass transfer in porous media (2003) |
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H. Qahramani, A numerical study of cavitation process in a 3D Francis turbine (2003) |
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S. Sefidbakht, Adaptive Finite Element Solution for Compressible Flow Problems (2003) |
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A. Qazizadeh, Simulation of heat and fluid flow in porous media using Discontinuous Galerkin Method (2004) |
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P. Ferdosi, A modified Petrov-Galerkin method for simulation of two-phase flows in porous media (2004) |
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R. Fatehi, A finite volume based Eulerian-Lagrangian method for simulation of two-phase flows in porous media (2004) |
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A. Kalantarian, Numerical Simulation of two-phase flows using Multigrid techniques (2005) |
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A. Aslani, Optimization of oil recovery using numerical simulation and genetic algorithm (2005) |
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R. Monazzami, Numerical simulation of electro-osmotic flows in micro-channels (2005) |
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E. Hosseini, Simulation of two-phase flows in porous media using Discontinuous Galerkin Method (2006) |
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F. Ali-Mohammadi, Simulation of oil reservoirs using blackoil model and mixed finite element-finite volume methods (2006) |
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B. Seid-Nasrolah, Three-dimensional oil reservoir simulation using blackoil model and finite difference method (2006) |
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M. Mojaddam, Simulation of fractured oil reservoirs using blackoil model and mixed finite element-finite volume methods (2006) |
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Simulation of oil reservoirs using blackoil model and control volume based finite element method (2006) |
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F. Sanndaji, Numerical simulation of dynamics of gas flow in transmission networks (2006) |
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P. Niknahad, Numerical simulation of two-phase flows in pipes (2006) |
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R. Ramezani-Rend, Simulation of viscoelastic fluid flows in Journal Bearings using Smoothed Particle Hyrodynamics method (2007) |
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M. Vakilha, Simulation of viscoelastic fluid flows in porous media using Smoothed Particle Hyrodynamics method (2007) |
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R. Ganjedanesh, Development of a 3D blackoil reservoir simulator based on an unstructured grid finite volume formulation (2007) |
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A. Jahanifard, Simulation of polymer flooding in hydrocarbon reservoirs (2007) |
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A. Rafiei, Simulation of viscoelastic free-surface fluid flows using Smoothed Particle Hyrodynamics method (2007) |
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M. Fayyazbakhsh, Simulation of two-phase flows in capillary tubes using SPH method (2008) |
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M. Safdari, Simulation of multi-phase flows using SPH method (2008) |
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S. Qods, Simulation of blood flow in veins using SPH method (2008) |
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E. Haqiqi, Simulation of compositional reservoirs using a higher-order central difference method (2009) |
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H. Heydari, Simulation of gas-condensate reservoirs (2009) |
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A. Roostaei, Development of a parallel SPH method for non-Newtonian fluid flows (2009) |
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S. Qadami, Analysis of multi-lateral wells in hydrocarbon reservoirs (2009) |
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M. Haddad, Simulation of Vax deposition in pipes using SPH method (2010) |
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Research Grants: |
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Pars Oil and Gas Company, "Development of a Parallel Three Dimensional Blackoil Reservoir Simulator", 2007-2008. |
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Razi Petrochemical Complex, "Design of a Filter Room for Gas Turbine Power Plant", 2004-2005. |
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Ministry of Energy, "Comparative Study on the use of two different Runners for a Francis Turbine in a Hydro-electric Power Plant, 2003-2004. |