Teaching and Students Mentoring

• Hussein Farhat (Angers University, France): Numerical and experimental investigation of electronic device cooling utilizing phase change materials (2021 – present)

• Abbas El Dor (Postdoc, American University of Beirut, Lebanon): Optimization of a novel multifunctional exchanger with sine-helical channels (2020 – 2023)

• Ibrahim Mjallal (Current Status: Startup in Engineering Consultancy): Novel phase change material for cooling electronic devices (2018 – 2021)

• Aziza Hanouch (Current Status: R&D Engineer, Abbott Labs, USA): Numerical and experimental study of the heat transfer inside infant incubators using a 3D printed preterm thermal manikin with PID control (2017 – 2021)

• Hassan Karkaba (Current Status: Engineer, AGAP2, France): Design space exploration to find optimal shapes of vortex generators (2017 – 2021)

• Bineet Mehra (Current Status: R&D Engineer, Capgemini, France): Enhancement and optimization of thermal components based on local field synergy approach (2015 – 2019) 

• Assadour Khanjian (Current Status: Assistant Professor, LIU, Lebanon): Auto-adaptive flexible vortex generators for smart heat exchangers (2013 – 2019) 

• Mohamad Oneissi (Current Status: R&D Engineer, Lebanon): Heat transfer enhancement by multi-scale vortex generators (2014 – 2017)

• Samer Ali (Current Status: Assistant Professor, Lille University, France): Innovative concept of multifunctional heat exchanger/reactor by passive dynamic control using flexible vortex generators (2012 – 2015)

• Jaysen El Khazen (Current Status: Mechanical Engineer, Lebanon): Simultaneous hydrogen production using solar powered water electrolysis (2020 – 2023)

• Sangmin Lim (Current Status: Assistant Professor, Korea Air Force Academy, South Korea): Machine learning assisted resistive force theory for soft rotating robots (2021 – 2023) 

• Imad Alawiyeh (Current Status: Mechanical Engineer, Germany): Design and PID control of 3D printed preterm neonate thermal manikin (2019)

• Aziza Hannouch (Current Status: R&D Engineer, Abbott Labs, USA): Numerical modeling of the heat transfer inside infant incubators (2015)

• Hassan Karkaba (Current Status: Engineer, AGAP2, France): Numerical modeling of radiative and convective air conditioning (2014)

• Sofiane Ouarets (Current Status: Manager, France): Immiscible liquid/liquid dispersion in chaotic advection flow (2010)

• Bilal Chreim (Current Status: Department Manager, France): PIV and LDV measurement of the flow structure downstream a perforated vortex generato (2009)

• Saptarshi Joshi (UCLA): Machine learning assisted resistive force theory (2021)

• Bhrugu Mallajosyula (UCLA): Machine learning assisted resistive force theory (2020)

• Jada Samaha (Current Status: AI Engineer at BMW, Germany): Pulsed laser ablation (2019)

• Alexios Rustom (Current Status: PhD Candidate at the University of Southern California) and Khalil Al Raii (Current Status: Founder and CEO at SPEXAL): Design of an interferometer for micro-thrust measurement inside a vacuum chamber (2017 – 2018) 

• Rawad Himo (Current Status: R&D Engineer, Norsk Hydro, Norway): Lift enhancement using vortex generators on an airplane wing - numerical simulation of MHD flows (2015 – 2018)

• Master Thesis – Graduate (Polytech Nantes, LIU and NDU) (2009 – 2022)

• Capstone project – Undergraduate (NDU) (2016 – 2022)

• Research Methods in Mechanical Engineering – Graduate (NDU) (2020)

• Micro Flows and Heat Transfer – Graduate (NDU) (2019 – 2020)

• Computational Fluid Dynamics – Graduate (NDU) (2019)

• Design and Optimization of Thermal Systems – Undergraduate (NDU) (2019 – 2022)

• Internal Combustion Engines – Undergraduate (LIU and NDU) (2013 – 2022) 

• Heat Transfer – Undergraduate (LIU and NDU) (2011 – 2022) 

• Advanced Heat Transfer – Undergraduate (NDU) (2016 – 2022) 

• Fluid Mechanics 2 – Graduate (LIU) (2012 – 2014)

• Fluid Mechanics 1 – Undergraduate (LIU and NDU) (2011 – 2018) 

• Thermodynamics 2 – Undergraduate (LIU and NDU) (2013 – 2022) 

• Thermodynamics 1 - Undergraduate (LIU and NDU) (2011 – 2020) 

• Computer-Aided Design - Lab course (LIU) (2011 – 2012) 

• Physics - Lab course (Polytech Nantes) (2008 – 2010) 

• Turbomachinery - Lab course (Polytech Nantes) (2008 – 2010) 

• Fluid Mechanics - Lab course (Polytech Nantes) (2008 – 2009)

Note:

NDU = Notre Dame University Louaize

LIU = Lebanese International University

Polytech Nantes