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.
†This paper has been selected for inclusion in the American Physical Society's Outreach-to-the-Press program. The Outreach-to-the-Press initiative involves the APS Physics press office distributing its most noteworthy papers to authors and journalists within the scientific community.
‡ This work has been selected as a Featured Article by the journal's Editors. The AIP Publishing also featured this article with a Scilight paper. Read it here: Shedding light on the state-of-the-art in data-driven modeling of wind farms
* Joint first authorship.