Goodarz Ahmadi
Dean, Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering
Clarkson Distinguished Professor
Robert R. Hill '48 Professor of
Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
267 CAMP
Clarkson University
PO Box 5725
Potsdam, NY 13699-5725
Phone: 315-268-2322
Fax: 315-268-6438
E-mail: ahmadi@clarkson.edu
Research Site: http://www.clarkson.edu/projects/fluidflow/
Curriculum Vitae
Teaching
Dr. Ahmadi was the recipient of the "Clarkson University Distinguished Teaching Award" in 1988, and the "Pi Tau Sigma Distinguished Teaching Award" in 1984, 1986, 1988 and 1990. He also received the "University Outstanding Advisor Award" in 1986, 1988 and 2002. Courses taught include:
ME326 - Intermediate Fluid Mechanics
ME437 - Particle Transport, Deposition and Removal I
ME529 - Stochastic Processes in Engineering
ME537 - Fluid Mechanics of Aerosols
ME637 - Particle Transport, Deposition and Removal II
ME639 - Advanced Turbulence
Research Interests
Dr. Ahmadi is currently working on EPA, DOE and NASA-funded projects for developing a new technique for modeling pollutant transport, dispersion and turbulent flows of dense and dilute, solid-gas or liquid mixtures with application to coal transport and processing, spray formation, and hot-gas filtration. Other projects are to analyze aerosol particles transport, deposition and removal in turbulent flows with application to micro-contamination control in microelectronic, xerographic and glass industries. These research projects were funded by IBM, Xerox, Corning, NASA and New York State Science and Technology Foundation (CAMP). Dr. Ahmadi has also been involved in developing schemes for active and passive vibration control of space structures during the lift off and in orbit. These research activities were funded by NSF and NASA. A related project is the base isolation of buildings in seismic regions for their protection against earthquakes.
Professor Ahmadi has authored more than 400 papers in journals, in addition to two books and numerous papers in national and international conference proceedings. He has also given more than 100 keynote lectures and invited seminars worldwide. He is on the editorial advisory board of seven technical journals and is a fellow of ASME, ISME and ISCE. He was also a Senior Research Associate at National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). More information can be found on his research Web site.
Specific Topics of Interest
- Multiphase flows
- Indoor air pollution
- Outdoor air pollution
- Lung/nose deposition
- Turbulence modeling
- Aerosol transport and deposition
- Electro-hydrodynamic flows
- Particle and fiber adhesion and removal
- Chemical-Mechanical Polishing
- Surface cleaning
- Gas filtration
- Sprays
- Nanoparticle transport
- CO2 sequestration
- Natural gas production form hydrate dissociation
- Three phase slurry reactors
- Micro-contamination control
- Vibration isolation
- Vibration control of space structures
- Base isolation of buildings
Selected Publications
Ahmadi, G., Ji, C. and Smith, D.H., Numerical Simulation of Natural Gas Production from Methane Hydrate Dissociation, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 41, pp. 269-285 (2004).
Schmidt, R., Glauser, M. and Ahmadi, G., Flow and Turbulence Condition in the Wake of a H-Section in Cross Flow, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 19, pp. 193-207 (2004).
Chrigui, M., Sadiki, A. and Ahmadi, G., Study of Interaction in Spray between evaporating Droplets and Turbulence Using Second Order Turbulence RANS modeling and a Lagrangian Approach, Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 4, pp. 162-174 (2004).
Kvasnak, W., Ahmadi, G. and Schmidt, D.J., An Engineering Model for the Fuel Spray Formation of Deforming Droplets, Atomization and Spray, Vol. 14, pp. 289-339 (2004).
Mansoori, Z., Saffar-Avval, M., Basirat Tabrizi, H., and Ahmadi, G., Experimental Study of Turbulent Gas-Solid Heat Transfer in at Different Particle Temperatures, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 28, pp. 655-665 (2004).
Marzbanrad, J., Ahmadi, G., and Jha, R., Optimal Preview Active Control of Structures During Earthquake, Engineering Structures, Vol. 26, pp. 1463-1471 (2004).
Cheng, M.C., Yu, F., Habitz, P. and Ahmadi, G., Analytical Heat Flow Modeling of Silicon-On-Insulator Devices, Solid State Electronics, Vol. 48, pp. 415-426 (2004).
Marzbanrad, J., Ahmadi, G., Zohoor, H., and Hojjat, Y., Stochastic Optimal Preview Control of a Vehicle Suspension, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 275, pp. 973-990 (2004).
Cheng, M.C., Yu, F., Jun, L., Shen, M. and Ahmadi, G., Steady-State and Dynamic Thermal Models for Heat Flow Analysis of Silicon-on-Insulator MOSFETs, Microelectronics Reliability, Vol. 44, pp. 381-396 (2004).
Ferer, M., Ji, C., Bromhal, G.S., Cook, J., Ahmadi, G. and Smith, D. H., Cross-Over from Capillary Fingering to Viscous Fingering for Immiscible Unstable Flows: Experiment and Modeling, Physical Review E, Vol. 70, 016330 pp. 1-7 (2004).