Mohamad M. Nasr-Azadani – - College of Engineering

Mohamad M. Nasr-Azadani – - College of Engineering

Mohamad M. Nasr-Azadani
Contact Information
Room 2301, Engr II Building
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone:+1-(805) 893-6107
cellphone:+1-(805) 252-0002
Email: [email protected]
Homepage: www.engr.ucsb.edu/~mmnasr/
Education
2006–2013 PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Thesis title: Understanding turbidity currents interacting with complex seafloor topographies: A depth-resolved
numerical investigation, Adviser: Professor Eckart Meiburg.
2004–2006 MSc in Applied Mechanics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Thesis title: Applications of the Lattice-Boltzmann method in dynamics of multiphase systems, Adviser: Professor
Mirabbas Jalali.
2000–2004 BSc in Mechanical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.
Research Experience
2013 Postdoctoral Scholar, CFD-lab, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California
(August)– Santa Barbara.
Present
2007–2013 Research Assistant, Developing and utilizing high performance codes to understand gravity and
particle-laden currents, CFD-lab, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California
Santa Barbara.
Research Interests
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Geophysical fluid dynamics
Computational fluid dynamics
High-performance computing and parallel programing
Theoretical/numerical modeling of transport phenomena in aquatic and aeolian environments
Journal Publications
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, B. Kneller (2016). Mixing dynamics of turbidity currents interacting with
complex topographies, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Under review.
• M. A. Khodkar, M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg (2016). Intrusive gravity currents propagating into two-layer
stratified ambients: Vorticity modeling, Physical Review Fluids, Under review.
• A. Hogg, M. M. Nasr-Azadani, M. Ungarish, E. Meiburg (2015). Sustained gravity currents in a channel, J.
Fluid Mechanics, Under review.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, (2016). Gravity currents propagating into ambients with arbitrary shear and
density stratification: Vorticity-based modeling, Q. J. Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2739.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, (2015). Gravity currents propagating into shear, J. Fluid Mech., 778, 552-585.
• E. Meiburg, S. Radhakrishnan, M. M. Nasr-Azadani, (2015). Modeling gravity and turbidity currents: Computational approaches and challenges, Applied Mechanics Review, 67 (4), 040802.
• G. Hoffmann, M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, (2015). Sediment wave formation caused by erosional and
depositional turbidity currents: A numerical investigation, Procedia IUTAM, 15, 26-33.
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• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, (2014). Turbidity currents interacting with three-dimensional seafloor
topography, J. Fluid Mech. 745, 409-443.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, (2014). Influence of seafloor topography on the depositional behavior of
bidisperse turbidity currents: A three-dimensional, depth-resolved numerical investigation, J. Environ. Fluid
Mech. 14 (2), 319-342.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, B. Hall, E. Meiburg, (2013). Polydisperse turbidity currents propagating over complex
topography: Comparison of experimental and depth-resolved simulation results. Computers & Geosciences 53
(0), 141-153.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, (2011). TURBINS: An immersed boundary, Navier-Stokes code for the
simulation of gravity and turbidity currents interacting with complex topographies. Computers & Fluids 45 (1),
14-28.
Journal Publications: In Preparation
• Y. S. Huang, M. M. Nasr-Azadani, C. Y. Chen, E. Meiburg, Immiscible gravity currents: A numerical investigation, In prep. for Physics of Fluids.
• M. A. Khodkar, M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, Circulation-based models for gravity currents propagating in
a two-layer stratified fluid, In prep. for J. of Fluid Mech.
• B. Kneller, M. M. Nasr-Azadani, S. Radhakrishnan, E. Meiburg, Long-range sediment transport in the world’s
oceans by stably stratified turbidity currents, In prep. for Geology.
• R. Kostaschuk, M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, Pulsating continuous turbidity currents - field observations,
laboratory experiments and Direct Numerical Simulation, In prep. for Journal of Geophysical Research.
Conferences, Workshops, and Symposia
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, Mixing dynamics of turbidity currents interacting with complex topographies, Workshop
on ‘Two-Phase Continuum Models for Geophysical Particle-Fluid Flows’, Administered by the Max Planck
Institute, Dresden, Germany, March-April 2016.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, Circulation-based modeling of gravity currents propagating into ambients
with arbitrary shear and density stratification, 68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics,
Boston, Massachusetts, November 2015.
• M. A. Khodkar, M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, Vorticity models for gravity currents propagating into twolayer stratified ambients, 68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Boston, Massachusetts,
November 2015.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, Gravity currents penetrating into a sheared and stratified ambient fluid, 67th
Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Francisco, California, November 2014.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, A. Khodkar, E. Meiburg, Internal bores and gravity currents propagating into shear,
Conference on Nonlinear Effects in Internal Waves, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, June 2014.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, Gravity currents in shear: Comparison of a circulation-based model against
direct numerical simulation results, The 8th Southern California Symposium on Flow Physics, University of
California Los Angeles, California, April 2014.
• B. Kneller, M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, Turbidity currents in the ocean; Are they stably stratified?, 46th
Annual Meeting of American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, December 2013.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, Turbidity currents interacting with three-dimensional seafloor topographies: A depthresolved numerical investigation, Workshop on Particle-Laden Flows in Nature, Kavli Institute in Theoretical
Physics, UC Santa Barbara, California, September-December 2013.
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• B. Kneller, M. M. Nasr-Azadani, The nature of turbidity currents in the ocean: how do they go so far?, The
30th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology (International Association of Sedimentologists), University of Manchester,
Manchester, September 2013.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, Influence of the bottom topography on the dynamics of turbidity currents:
A numerical investigation, The 7th Southern California Symposium on Flow Physics, California Institute of
Technology, California, April 2013.
• G. Hoffmann, M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, Simulation of sediment wave generation and maintenance, 65th
Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Diego, California, November 2012.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, Depositional turbidity currents interacting with seafloor topography: Depthresolved numerical simulations, 3rd International Symposium on Shallow Flows (ISSF), Iowa City, Iowa, June
2012.
• S. Radhakrishnan, M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, High-resolution LES simulation of turbulent gravity and
turbidity currents over complex topography, 3rd International Symposium on Shallow Flows (ISSF), Iowa City,
Iowa, June 2012.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, S. Radhakrishnan, E. Meiburg, Numerical study of the interaction of bidisperse turbidity
currents with complex topography, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Annual Convention
& Exhibition (ACE), Long Beach, California, April 2012.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, A computational investigation of turbidity currents interacting with complex
terrains, The 6th Southern California Symposium on Flow Physics, University of California Santa Barbara,
California, April 2012.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, Numerical simulation of a bidisperse turbidity current interacting with a
Gaussian bump, 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Baltimore, Maryland, November
2011.
• S. Radhakrishnan, M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, Large-eddy simulation of high Reynolds number gravity
and turbidity currents, 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Baltimore, Maryland,
November 2011.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, E. Meiburg, Depth-resolved simulations of polydisperse particle-driven currents interacting
with complex topography, 7th International Symposium on Stratified Flows, Rome, Italy, August 2011.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, M. Zoellner, E. Meiburg, Turbidity currents in meandering channels, 63rd Annual Meeting
of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Long Beach, California, November 2010.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, M. Zoellner, S. Saegeler, E. Meiburg, Turbidity currents in complex topographies, The
4th Southern California Symposium on Flow Physics, University of California Irvine, California, April 2010.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, S. Saegeler, M. Zoellner, E. Meiburg, Turbidity currents in complex topographies, 62nd
Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2009.
• M. M. Nasr-Azadani, M. Zoellner, S. Saegeler, E. Meiburg, High resolution simulations of turbidity currents
flowing over complex topography, Second workshop on the modeling of turbidity currents and related gravity
currents, University of California Santa Barbara, California, June 2009.
Journal Referee
• Journal of Fluid Mechanics/Rapids
• Physics of Fluids
• Journal of Computers and Geosciences
• European Journal of Fluid Mechanics/B
• Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
• Journal of Scientific Computing
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• Journal of Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Honors and Awards
2015-August Invited talk: Modeling gravity and turbidity currents: Depth-resolved numerical simulations and a vorticity-based theoretical framework, Oceanic Research Group, Department of
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California Los Angeles.
2013-March Invited to conduct a clinic/workshop on using software packages TURBINS and PETSc,
Third Annual Meeting of the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS), Boulder,
Colorado.
2012 Travel Fellowship Grant, Graduate Division Council, UC Santa Barbara.
2011 Selected for the second joint European-US summer school on high-performancecomputing challenges in computational sciences, Organized by: DEISA, PRACE, and TeraGrid,
Lake Tahoe, California.
2010 Winner of the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS) Student Modeler of the Year Award, “For completion of an outstanding research project which involved
developing an earth science model, a highly parallel software called TURBINS and contribution
towards the advancement of geoscience modeling”.
2010 Selected for the tutorial school on fluid dynamics: Topics in turbulence, Center for Scientific
Computation and Mathematical Modeling, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
Teaching Experience
Fall-2015 Lecturer, ME152A: Fluid Mechanics I, with ∼90 students, Mechanical Engineering Department,
University of California Santa Barbara, Lectures: 3 hr/week.
Fall-2013 Lecturer, ME140A: Numerical Analysis in Engineering, with ∼90 students, Mechanical Engineering
Department, University of California Santa Barbara, Lectures: 3 hr/week.
2006-2012 Teaching assistant, Several courses related to fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and numerical
methods, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California Santa Barbara.
2008-present Undergraduate/graduate student supervisor, Supervising visiting international students to perform their undergraduate/graduate thesis projects, CFD-lab, Mechanical Engineering Department,
University of California Santa Barbara.
International Collaboration
Summer 2009 Visiting scholar, Computational Science & Engineering Laboratory, Department of Computational
Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Membership and Societies
• American Physical Society (APS)
• International Association of Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG)
• Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS)
• Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Fluids (CIRF, at UC Santa Barbara)
Skills
• Proficient in: C/C++, Fortran, MATLAB, Python, Octave, Unix, Linux
• High-performance computing and parallel programming
• Parallel softwares/packages: Proficient in MPI, PETSc, hypre. Familiar with OpenMP
• Visualization: ParaView, VisIt, Tecplot, VTK
• Languages: English (fluent), Farsi (mother tongue), German (fair)
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