Educational Record

  • B.SC. In Mechanical Engineering "Thermo-Fluid" , Tabriz University, IRAN (1996)

                    Thesis: Simulation of Tabriz Power Plant

                    Thesis: Effect of Grain Geometry on Acoustic Instability of Solid Propellant Rocket Motors.

                    Thesis: Large-Eddy Simulation of Two-Phase Heavy-Particle-Laden Turbulent Channel Flow.

Instructed Under-Graduated Courses:

 

Fluid Mechanics I

Fluid Mechanics II

Refrigeration and Air Conditioning

Thermodynamics I

Thermodynamics II

Heat Transfer I

Department and Workgroup

Mechanical Engineering & Computational Fluid Dynamics Group (CFD Group)

Projects

  • Simulation of Vortex Shedding in Solid Propellant Rocket Motors.
  • Effect of Grain Geometry on Acoustic Instability of Solid Propellant Rocket Motors.
  • Numerical Simulation of Two-Phase Turbulent Flows
  • Gas Turbine Power Augmentation by Inlet Air Cooling (Fog, Media, Air washer and Absorption Chiller Systems)

Research Interests

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Large-eddy Simulation (LES)
  • Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS)
  • Turbulence Modeling,
  • Stochastic Modeling
  • Mesh Generation
  • Acoustics Instability in Solid Propellant Rocket Motors
  • Simulation of Reactive Turbulent Flow
  • Simulation of Two-Phase Turbulent Flows
  • Inlet Air Cooling of Gas Turbine for Power Augmentation
  • Energy Auditing in Buildings, Oil Industrials and Petrochemical Companies
  • Refrigeration and Air Conditioning

Publication

Journal Papers

1- "Evaluation of a Forth-order Finite Volume Compact Scheme for LES with Explicit Filtering ", A. Elhami Amiri, S. Kazemzadeh Hannani, F. Mashayek, Journal of Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B, Vol. 48, No. 2, 147-164, 2005.

 

2- "Large-Eddy Simulation of Heavy-Particle Transport in Turbulent Channel Flow", A. Elhami Amiri, S. Kazemzadeh Hannani, F. Mashayek, Journal of Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B, Vol. 50, 285-313, 2006.

 

2- "Large-eddy Simulation of Turbulent Channel Flow, Effect of Explicit Filtering on Convergence Rate and Nea Wall Turbulence Structures", A.Elhami Amiri, S. Kazemzadeh Hannani, F. Mashayek, Mechanical &  Aerospace Engineering Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2006.

 

4.      "Gas Turbine Power Augmentation, Qom Combined Cycle Power Plant Simulation During a year", A.R.Elhami Amiri, Journal of Electrical Science and Technology, No. 36, pp 39-49, (2003)

 

Conference Papers & Presentations

  1. "Gas Turbine Power Augmentation By Inlet Air Cooling, Part II: Effect of Humidity on Gas Turbine Operation", S. Kazemzadeh, A.Behdashti, M.H. Saeedi, A.R.Elhami Amiri, 17th International Power System Conference, pp 39-45, Tehran, Iran (2002)
  2. "Simulation of Vortex Shedding in Solid Propellant Rocket Motors", M. Gholafshani, H. Ghasemi, A.R. Elhami Amiri, Pub: ISME2000 Conference, 2000
  3. "Acoustic-Mean Flow Interaction in Solid Propellant Rocket Motors", M. Gholafshani, H. Ghasemi, A.R. Elhami Amiri, Pub: 6th Fluid Dynamics Conference, 2000
  4. "Electric Pick Shaving by Cooling Effect Translation to Midnight", A. Behdashti, A.R.Elhami Amiri, H. Ebrahimpour, G.Afshar, Pub: 1st Conference on Energy Conservation in Building, IRAN, 2002
  5. "Optimization of Nozzles Arrangement at Inlet Air Fogging System Using CFD Method, Gas Turbine Application", S. Kazemzadeh, A. Behdashti, A.R. Elhami, H. Ebrahimpour, Pub: 4th Aerospace Conference, IRAN, 2002.
  6. "Gas Turbine Power Augmentation By Inlet Air Cooling", A.Behdashti, A.R.Elhami Amiri, H. Ebrahimpour, Pub.: 3rd Conference on Quality & Productivity in Electric Industry, 2002
  7. "Effect of Explicit Filtering on The LES Prediction of Turbulent Channel Flow" A. Elhami Amiri, S. Kazemzadeh Hannani, F.Mashayek, Thirteenth Conference on finite elements For Flow Problems, 4-6 April 2005, School of Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, United Kingdom, 2005.

Patent

A. R. Elhami Amiri, Inlet Air Cooling of Gas Turbine by Fog System, Patent # 29300, Tehran/IRAN, 2004.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

SOME RESEARCH EXPERIENCES :

 

1- Developed a forth-order incompressible 3D finite volume code based on compact schemes for large eddy simulation of two-phase gas-solid turbulent channel flows.

 

2- Developed a high-order upwind finite volume, 3D compressible time-dependent Navier-Stokes Solver on unstructured tetrahedron elements

 

3- Developed a 3D incompressible, time-dependent Navier-Stokes Solver on unstructured cubic and triangular grids

 

4- Developed a 2D triangular grid generator based and Delanay triangulation

 

5- Developed a code to simulate effect of inlet air cooling on gas turbine

 

6- Work in a group to simulate flow field on internal combustion chamber

 

SOME WORK EXPERIENCES :

 

1-      1 year working in Tabriz Power Plant in the Office of Research and Planning, Tabriz, Iran. (1995-1996)

2-      8 months working in Razi research center as consultant engineer, Tehran, Iran as.(1997)

3-      1 year working in the Center for Energy Studies, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. (1998-1999)

4-      15 monthes working in Bandar Imam Petrochemical Co. as a leader of a research group, (work on energy auditing of plants), Tehran/Bandar Imam/Iran (1999-2001)

5-      2 years working in E-man Serve Company as a consultant engineer and the manager of R&D division. (2001-2003)

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCES:

 

1-      Instructed Under-Graduated Courses at University of Tabriz, Sharif University of Technology and its Golpaieghan Technical Branch: Thermodynamics I & II, Fluid Mechanics I & II, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Heat Transfer

2-      Conducted experimental labs in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics.

3-      Research assistant in the department of mechanical engineering, working on 3d modeling of transient compressible flow problems

Personal

Married, excellent health, active in sports, interested in traveling.

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Copyright : Alireza Elhami Amiri
Last revised:. 5/30/2008

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