Field Work

Conducting field investigation in the north Gulf of Mexico coast, as a member of coastal engineering research group at Louisiana state University (LSU). Investigating wave flow structure and wave energy attenuation by coastal vegetation, in order to evaluate vegetation effects on coastal erosion mitigation.

Experimental Study

Conducted experimental tests in the wind engineering, at the Clemson University boundary layer wind tunnel. Other experimental research were conducted are: Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) dams, and sediment transport (Scour around bridge pier)

CFD Study

Modeled the wind engineering problems as well as the environmental fluid mechanics, using FLUENT CFD package.

Research Area

Research area focuses on both experimental and numerical field.  The main areas of research are:

  • Experimental applied fluid mechanics 
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Wind Engineering 
  • Hurricane and severe storm studies
  • Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
  • Sediment Transport, scour and erosion
  • Hydraulics, river engineering and water resources

Research

  • Conducting field research on wave energy attenuation by coastal vegetation in Terrebonne Bay, LA, in order to preserve Louisiana coast
  • Performed field research on relationship between force agents and turbidity changes in Terrebonne Bay, LA
  • Wind Borne Debris Flight in Strong Wind Storms, PhD Thesis
  • Direct method for modeling the atmospheric boundary layer at laboratory scale 
  • Effects of the particle diameter variability and the wind turbulence intensity on the flight distance and the impact kinematic energy of the wind borne debris with Matlab
  • CFD simulations and the wind tunnel tests comparison of the wind load on row houses (wind shadowing)
  • Sediment scour around the circular bridge pier in hydraulics flume 
  • Debris flight equations simulation in atmospheric boundary layer with FLUENT
  • The flight trajectory and the flight distance of the single sphere in severe winds
  • CFD and experimental tests on the wind load on row houses (wind shadowing) in the atmospheric boundary layer with FLUENT
  • A computational fluid dynamics study of coalescing turbulent slot jets with FLUENT
  • Effect of surrounding buildings on the pressure coefficients for low rise housing
  • A detention pond designing for storm water management
  • Effects of Time's Delay between mixing materials and compacting them on the properties of Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) containing Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag (GGBFS) used in RCC Dams, MSc Thesis
  • Modeling hydrodynamic seismic forces on concrete dams with ANSYS and comparing results with Westergaard theoretical pressure distribution
  • Underground water and wave motion equations modeling with finite difference method (FDM) and finite volume method (FVM) with both structured and unstructured meshes
  • An open channel flow equation Simulation (De Saint Venant equations) with characteristic method with Visual Basic
  • Cavitation, the reasons of its occurrence, its effects on hydraulic structures and the avoiding methods, for chute spillways
  • Equilibrium, penetration control, and filter design of Embankment Dams
  • Translation of the Indian standard of “Fixed-Wheel Gates Structural Design Recommendations” to Farsi