Text Box:  AREAS OF INTEREST Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Two Phase Flow (gas-solid) Modeling of non-catalytic Fluid-Solid reactions Modeling of Vortex Tube Refrigerator Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics in Porous Media Energy Optimization in Iron&Steel making Plants Modeling of Direct Reduction Iron Technology   EDUCATION §         Apr.2005 – Jan.2006:       Special Foreign Research Student                                         Materials Reaction Engineering Lab., Department of Materials, Physics and Energy Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Nagoya University, Japan §         2000 – Present:       Ph.D. Candidate                                        “Numerical Investigation of Shaft Furnace Direct Reduction” Sharif University of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering Energy Conversion Division §         1998 – 2000:           Master of Science (M.S.)       “Experimental Modeling of Vortex Tube Refrigerator” Sharif University of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering Energy and Fluid Division §         1993 – 1998:           Bachelor of Science (B.S.)  “Theoretical and Experimental analysis of Vortex Tube” Sistan & Balouchestan  University School of  Shahid Nicbakht Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering     TEACHING EXPERIENCE §         Fall/Spring 2000:      Fluid Mechanics (undergraduate) Sharif University of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering §         Spring 2000:            Heat Transfer Laboratory (undergraduate) Sharif University of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering §         Fall 2001:                Fluid Mechanics Laboratory (undergraduate) Sharif University of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering     PUBLICATIONS JOURNALS Valipour M.S., Motamed Hashemi M.Y. and Saboohi Y., “Mathematical Modeling of Reaction in an Iron Ore Pellet With Using a Mixture of hydrogen, water vapor, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide: An isothermal study” Advanced Powder Technology, Vol. 17, No. 3,  2006. Valipour M.S. and Saboohi Y., "A non-isothermal, transient model of a non-catalytic reaction in a packed bed with a multi-component high-temperature gas mixture" Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics 2005, Elsevier Ltd.,pp.1023-1025, 2005 Saidi, M.H. and Valipour, M.S. , " Experimental Modeling of  Vortex Tube Refrigerator", Applied Thermal Engineering, 23,1971-1980, 2003. CONFERENCES Valipour M.S., Kuwabara M. and Saboohi Y., “Numerical Modeling of Non-isothermal Reduction in a Hematite Pellet with Using a Mixture of hydrogen ,water vapor, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide” CAMP-ISIJ, Vol.18, pp. 922, 2005. Valipour M.S. and Saboohi Y., "A non-isothermal, transient model of a non-catalytic reaction in a packed bed with a multi-component high-temperature gas mixture", Third M.I.T. Conference on  Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, MIT, Cambridge, USA, June 14-17, 2005. Valipour M.S. and Saboohi Y " Behavior of a hematite pellet during the reduction process" 2nd International Conference & Exhibition on New Developments in Metallurgical Process Technology, 19-21 September 2004, Riva del Garda, Italy Valipour M.S., Motamed Hashemi M.Y. and Saboohi Y. "Mathematical modeling of reaction in iron ore pellet with syngas" 16th Int. Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering (CHISA 2004), 22-26 August 2004, Prague, Czech Republic Valipour, M.S. and Saidi, M.H., "Experimental Modeling of a Vortex Tube Refrigerator" 9th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics, Isfahan, Iran, May 2002.   ولی پور محمدصادق، سعیدی محمدحسن  "مدلسازی تطبیقی فرایند جدایش انرژی در لوله گردبادی"، دهمین کنفرانس انجمن مهندسان مکانیک ایران(ISME2002)، جلد سوم،صفحه  1379-1385 ، خرداد 1381 .   سعیدی محمدحسن، ولی پور محمدصادق  "بررسی اثر پارامترهای ترموفیزیکی و هندسی بر عملکرد لوله گردبادی"، نهمین کنفرانس انجمن مهندسان مکانیک ایران(ISME 2001)، جلد سوم،صفحه271-277 ، خرداد 1380 .    Curriculum Vitae Last update : April 2007