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Delft, Zh, Nl

Delft, South Holland, Netherlands

Ongoing activities:• Theoretical and experimental study of defect formation susceptibility in welding and additive manufacturing• Microstructural control and functional grading in metal additive manufacturing• Computational analysis of advanced materials processing (e.g. fusion welding and additive manufacturing)• Design and development of new additive manufacturing techniques• Optimisation of additive manufacturing processes for non-metallic materials (e.g. polymers)Research grant recipient:• Successfully secured funding for the project titled "Digital Twin-Enabled Optimisation of Electric Vehicle Battery Pack Housing Manufacturing (BatHMan)"• Collaborated with researchers from TU Delft and IIT Delhi to develop innovative manufacturing techniques for electric vehicle battery pack housing• Conducted research activities, executed experiments, and analysed data to achieve project goals

Delft, South Holland, Netherlands

Research activities:• Microstructural control and functional grading in metal additive manufacturing (laser-based direct energy deposition, and wire-arc additive manufacturing)• Computational analysis of advanced laser processing of metallic materials

Delft Area, Netherlands

• Joining and Additive Manufacturing Technologies (MSc level)• Processing of Materials (MSc level)• Mechanics of Materials (BSc level)• Joining and Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (BSc level)

Delft Area, Netherlands

Extensive experience covering:• Advanced computational modelling of heat and fluid flow in metallurgy and materials processing• Developing simulation-based methodologies to study hydrodynamic instabilities in welding and additive manufacturing• Utilising data-driven approaches to optimise advanced fusion-based welding and additive manufacturing processes• Analysing molten metal droplet deposition in additive manufacturing (3D-Printing)• Executing experimental studies to explore the design space for wire-arc additive manufacturing• Assessing the performance, reliability and validity of numerical models in describing thermophysical phenomena• Numerical study of solidification and melting processes• Numerical study of multi-phase fluid flows (gas-liquid-solid)• Translating research findings into pragmatic solutionsAncillary activities:• Supervising master's and bachelor's graduation projects• Configuring, setting up and maintaining the MSE-Welding high-performance computing (HPC) cluster• Writing research grant project proposals

Delft, South Holland, Netherlands

Project: A New Simulation-based Approach to Welding Process OptimisationThis project was carried out in the framework of the Partnership Program of the Materials Innovation Institute (M2i) and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), which is part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

Geneva Area, Switzerland

Lecture topic: Innovation and Scientific WritingDelft/CERN Ideasquare Summer Course: CERN Honours Summer Programme in collaboration with TU Delft (HPD Summer School)

Research experience on:• Thermal and fluid flow analysis in microfluidics systems• Executing high-fidelity numerical simulations on high-performance computing facilities• Design optimisation of heat sinks and compact heat exchangers• Computational analysis of free-surface flows pertinent to maritime and coastal sectors• Aerodynamic analysis of transverse jet interactions with high-speed (supersonic) crossflows• Supervising bachelor's graduation research projects

• Fundamentals of molecular gas dynamics (MSc level)• Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo (DSMC) method (MSc level)• DSMC simulations using OpenFOAM (BSc and MSc levels)• Fluid flow and heat transfer simulations using ANSYS Fluent (BSc and MSc levels)

Research experience on:• Rarefied gas flows in vacuum systems• Computational modelling of radiative heat transfer in vacuum enclosures• Numerical simulation of solid surface erosion in contact with particle-laden flows using the discrete phase model (DPM)

Esfahan Province, Iran

• Enhancing the energy efficiency of a domestic refrigerator(Tasks included writing the project proposal, designing and planning the project tasks, performing numerical simulations and experimental verification, and writing project reports.)

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Mechanical Engineering | Materials Science And Engineering

Thesis title: Molten metal oscillatory behaviour in advanced fusion-based manufacturing processes

Master Of Science - Ms, Aerospace Engineering (Aerodynamics And Propulsion Systems)

Thesis title: Numerical study of rarefied nitrogen flow in micro and Nano-divergent channels using the direct simulation Monte-Carlo.