EMPLOYMENT

Aarhus University (AU), Aarhus, Denmark

Postdoctoral Fellow, August 2021- Present

University of Western Ontario (UWO), London, Canada

Visiting Fellow, December 2017- May 2018

EDUCATION

Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (1st rank), September 2014- June 2020

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, September 2011- January 2014

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, September 2007- September 2011


RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2024

N. Zehtabiyan-Rezaie, A. Amarloo, and M. Abkar, “Secondary flows in the actuator-disk simulation of wind-turbine wakes”, Physics of Fluids, vol. 36, p. 045142, 2024.  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0203068 

N. Zehtabiyan-Rezaie, M. Abkar, “An extended k-ɛ model for wake-flow simulation of wind farms”. Renewable Energy, vol. 222, p. 119904, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2023.119904 

2023

M. Abkar, N. Zehtabiyan-Rezaie, A. Iosifidis, “Reinforcement learning for wind-farm flow control: Current state and future actions”, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, vol. 13, p. 100475, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.taml.2023.100475 

N. Zehtabiyan-Rezaie, M. Abkar, “A short note on turbulence characteristics in wind-turbine wakes”. Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics,  vol. 240, p. 105504, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2023.105504 

N. Zehtabiyan-Rezaie, A. Iosifidis, and M. Abkar, “Physics-guided machine learning for wind-farm power prediction: Toward interpretability and generalizability”, PRX Energy,  vol. 2, p. 013009, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1103/PRXEnergy.2.013009     

2022

N. Zehtabiyan-Rezaie, A. Iosifidis, and M. Abkar, “Data-driven fluid mechanics of wind farms: A review”. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, vol. 14, p. 032703, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0091980

A. Eidi, N. Zehtabiyan-Rezaie, R. Ghiassi, X. Yang, and M. Abkar, “Data-driven quantification of model-form uncertainty in Reynolds-averaged simulations of wind farms”, Physics of Fluids, vol. 34, p. 085135, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0100076 

Under review/preparation

*A. Amarloo, N. Zehtabiyan-Rezaie, and M. Abkar, “A progressive data-augmented RANS model for enhanced wind-farm simulations”, Under Review (Energy, May 2024). Preprint available at: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.04906  

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Aarhus University, Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Aarhus, Denmark

Instructor – CFD modeling in Simcenter STAR-CCM+, Autumn semester 2022 & 2023

Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tehran, Iran 

Invited Lecturer National Science Olympiad Class for Thermodynamics, April 2019

Lecturer Heat Transfer Laboratory, September 2014-September 2020

Graduate Teaching Assistant Thermodynamics 2, January 2012-May 2017

Graduate Teaching Assistant Thermodynamics 1, September 2011-January 2020

Azad University, East Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran

Invited Lecturer Thermodynamics  2 & Fuels and Combustion, Fall 2015

ACADEMIC SERVICE

IUTAM Symposium on Data-driven Modeling and Optimization in Fluid Mechanics, Denmark

Co-organizer, June 2022

Amirkabir University of Technology, Amirkabir J. of Mechanical Engineering, Tehran, Iran 

Assistant Editor & Head of Literary and Technical Editing Team, January 2015-August 2021

28th Annual International Conference of the Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineering, Iran

Session Chair, May 2020

23rd Annual International Conference of the Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineering, Iran

Session Co-chair, May 2015

Reviewer of Scientific Journals (since 2016)

Physics of Fluids, Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, Applied Energy, International Journal of Thermal Science, and International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, among others. 

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* Joint first authorship.