AHMAD FAKHERI

Office:

104 Jobst Hall

Bradley University

Peoria, IL 61625

ahmad@bradley.edu

(309) 677-2719

(309) 677-3453 (Fax)

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Education

Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering (November 1985), University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign

Doctoral Dissertation: "Analytical and Experimental Investigations of Catalytic Combustion"

M.S. - Mechanical Engineering (September 1982), University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

B.S. - Mechanical Engineering (January 1979), University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Refereed Publications

Fakheri, A, “Entropy Minimization and the Concept of Heat Exchanger Efficiency,” Journal of Heat Transfer, (To be published 2007)

Fakheri, A, “Thermal Efficiency of the Cross Flow Heat Exchangers,” Proceedings of the 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Nov 5–10, 2006, Chicago, IL, USA.

Fakheri, A, F. Fazel, “Technology Commercialization and Faculty Entrepreneurship,” Proceedings of the 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Nov 5–10, 2006, Chicago, IL, USA.

Fakheri, A, M Naraghi, “Non-Iterative Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations Using Spreadsheets,” Proceedings of the 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Nov 5–10, 2006, Chicago, IL, USA.

Fakheri, A, W. Abuzaid, J. Abou-Hanna, “Virtual Instrumentation and Virtual Experimentation,” Proceedings of the 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Nov 5–10, 2006, Chicago, IL, USA.

Abou-Hanna, J., A. Fakheri, W. Abuzaid, and K. Okamura, “Flexible LabView Based Experimental Modules for Teaching Engineering Fundamentals,” Proceedings of the 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Nov 5–10, 2006, Chicago, IL, USA.

Fakheri, A and M. Fazel, “A Methodology for Optimization of the Shell and tube Heat Exchangers in Series,” International Journal of Heat Exchangers, Vol VII no 1 (June 2006)

Al-Bakhit, H, and Fakheri, A, "Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer in Simultaneously Developing Flows in Parallel Rectangular ducts,” Journal of Applied Thermal Engineering Volume 26, Issues 5-6, Pages 596-603 (April 2006)

Chatha A., and Fakheri, A, “Experimental Investigation of Natural Convection Heat Transfer From a Horizontal Array of Three Heated Cylinders,” Proceedings of the 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Nov 5–11, 2005, Orlando, Florida, USA.

Al-Bakhit, H, and Fakheri, A, "A hybrid approach for full numerical simulation of heat exchangers,” Proceedings of the 2005 ASME Heat Transfer Summer Conference, July 17-22, 2005, San Francisco, USA

Fakheri, A., and Al-Bakhit, H., “Entrance and Wall Conduction Effects in Parallel Flow Heat Exchangers”, Fifth International Conference on Enhanced, Compact and Ultra-Compact Heat Exchangers: Science, Engineering and Technology, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, September 11-16, 2005

Fakheri, A “The Use of Spreadsheets for Solving Boundary Layer Equations,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Anaheim, California, November 13-19, 2004.

Fakheri, A and M. Fazel “Optimization of the Shell and tube Heat Exchangers,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Anaheim, California, November 13-19, 2004.

Al-Bakhit, H, and Fakheri, A, "Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer in Simultaneously Developing Flows in Parallel Rectangular ducts,” Proceedings of the 2004 ASME Heat Transfer/Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, July 11–15, 2004, Charlotte, NC, USA.

Fakheri, A, “An alternative approach for determining the correction factor and the number of shells in Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers,” Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer, Issue no. 4, 2003.

Fakheri, A, “A General Expression for the Determination of the Log Mean Temperature Correction Factor for Shell and Heat Exchangers,” Journal of Heat Transfer, V125, pp. 527-530, 2003.

Fakheri, A, "The Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger Efficiency and its relation to Effectiveness,” Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Washington, D.C., USA, November 16- 21, 2003.

Fakheri, A, "Arithmetic Mean Temperature Difference and the Concept of Heat Exchanger Efficiency,” Proceedings of the 2003 Summer ASME Heat Transfer Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 21-23, 2003.

Fakheri, A, and G. S. Sahota, "Existence of an Optimum Spacing Between Horizontal Cylinders in a Horizontal Row Cooled by Natural Convection,” Proceedings of the 2003 Summer ASME Heat Transfer Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 21-23, 2003.

Fakheri, A “Log Mean Temperature Correction factor for of Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers: An Alternative representation,” Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), New Orleans, November 17-22, 2002.

Fakheri, A, and A. Alnaeim “Forced Convective Heat Transfer from Helicoidal Pipes,” Proceedings of the 2001 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), New York, New York, November 11-16, 2001.

Kidane, G, and A. Fakheri, “Experimental Measurement of The Natural Convection Heat Transfer For Horizontal Helicoidal Pipes,” Proceedings of the 2001 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), New York, New York, November 11-16, 2001.

Al-Ahmadi, H. and Fakheri, A., “Natural Convection From Horizontal Helicoidal Pipes,” HTD-Vol 365/PID-Vol.4, Advances in Enhanced Heat Transfer, ASME 2000, Orlando, Florida, November 5-10, 2000.

Fakheri, A., J. Zhu, and M. Azeem, "Laminar Developing Flow Inside Heat Conducting Rectangular Ducts,” Proceedings of ASME Winter Annual Meeting, 1994.

Fakheri, A., "Analytical Investigation of the Air-Side Heat Transfer in Fin and Tube Heat Exchangers,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Applications of Mechanics, Tehran, Iran, June 9-12, 1992.

Safdari, Y. B., D. Witek, and A. Fakheri, "Two Dimensional Analysis for the Solar Heating of a Fluid by a Partially Radiation Absorbing medium,” Proceedings of the 16th National Passive Solar Conference of ASES, Vol. 2, Denver, CO, August 19-23, 1991.

Lee, H.S., J. A. Menart, and A. Fakheri, "Multilayer Radiation Solution for Boundary Layer Flow of Gray Gases,” American Society of Aeronautics And Astronautics (AIAA) Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp.180-185, 1990.

Fakheri, A., and S. L. Olson, "The Effects of Radiative Heat Loss on Microgravity Flame Spread,” AIAA Paper, AIAA-89-0504, 1989.

Fakheri, A., and A. Elbella, "Conjugate Heat Transfer From Heat Generating Sources to a Compressible Boundary Layer Flow," Proceedings of the ASME Winter Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1989, published in Numerical Simulation of Convection in Electronic Equipment Cooling, 1989.

Lee, H., J. Menart, and A. Fakheri, "A Multi-Layer Radiation Solution for the Boundary Layer Flow of Gray Gases" AIAA Paper, AIAA-89-0604, 1989.

Fakheri, A., R.O. Buckius and R. I. Masel, "Combustion of Rich Hydrogen Mixtures on a Nickel Oxide Catalyst," Combustion and Flame, vol 72, pp. 259-269, 1988.

Fakheri, A., "Homogeneous Combustion of Propane by an Isothermal Flat Plate," ASME Paper, 87-WA/FACT-1, 1987.

Fakheri, A. and R. O. Buckius, "Transient Analysis of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Combustion in Boundary Layer Flow," Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 53, pp. 259-275, 1987.

Fakheri, A., "Analytical Combustion Modeling Using Semiglobal Kinetics," Proceedings of Symposium on Heat and Mass Transfer in honor of Prof. B. T. Chao, Urbana, IL, Oct. 1 - 2, 1987.

Fakheri, A. and R. O. Buckius, "The Effects of Radiation Heat Transfer on Catalytic Combustion,'' Combustion and Flame, Vol. 57, pp. 275-282, 1984.

Fakheri, A. and R. O. Buckius, "Transient Catalytic Combustion on a Flat Plate,'' Combustion and Flame, Vol. 52, pp. 169 - 184, 1983.

Presentations

Fakheri, A, “Thermal Efficiency of the Cross Flow Heat Exchangers,” presented at the 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Nov 5–10, 2006, Chicago, IL, USA.

Fakheri, A, F. Fazel, “Technology Commercialization and Faculty Entrepreneurship,” presented at the 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Nov 5–10, 2006, Chicago, IL, USA.

Fakheri, A, W. Abuzaid, J. Abou-Hanna, “Virtual Instrumentation and Virtual Experimentation,” presented at the 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Nov 5–10, 2006, Chicago, IL, USA.

Fakheri, A, “Application of Virtual Instrumentation in Experimentation Courses”, presented at the 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Nov 5–11, 2005, Orlando, Florida, USA.

Chatha A., and Fakheri, A, “Experimental Investigation of Natural Convection Heat Transfer From a Horizontal Array of Three Heated Cylinders,” 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Nov 5–11, Orlando, Florida, USA.

Fakheri, A., and Al-Bakhit, H., “Entrance and Wall Conduction Effects in Parallel Flow Heat Exchangers”, Fifth International Conference on Enhanced, Compact and Ultra-Compact Heat Exchangers: Science, Engineering and Technology, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, September 11-16, 2005

Al-Bakhit, H, and Fakheri, A, "A hybrid approach for full numerical simulation of heat exchangers,” 2005 ASME Heat Transfer Summer Conference, July 17-22, 2005, San Francisco, USA

Fakheri, A “The Use of Spreadsheets for Solving Boundary Layer Equations,” 2004 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Anaheim, California, November 13-19, 2004.

Fakheri, A and M. Fazel “Optimization of the Shell and tube Heat Exchangers”, 2004 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Anaheim, California, November 13-19, 2004.

Al-Bakhit, H, and Fakheri, A, "Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer in Simultaneously Developing Flows in Parallel Rectangular ducts,” 2004 ASME Heat Transfer/Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, July 11–15, 2004, Charlotte, NC, USA.

Fakheri, A, "The Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger Efficiency and its relation to Effectiveness,” presented at the 2003 (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Washington, D.C., USA, November 16 - 21, 2003.

Fakheri, A, and G. S. Sahota, "Existence of an Optimum Spacing Between Horizontal Cylinders in a Horizontal Row Cooled by Natural Convection,” Summer ASME Heat Transfer Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 21-23, 2003.

Fakheri, A, "Arithmetic Mean Temperature Difference and the Concept of Heat Exchanger Efficiency,” Summer ASME Heat Transfer Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 21-23, 2003.

Fakheri, A “Log Mean Temperature Correction factor for of Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers: An Alternative representation,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), New Orleans, November 17-22, 2002.

Kidane, G, and A. Fakheri, “Experimental Measurement of The Natural Convection Heat Transfer For Horizontal Helicoidal Pipes,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), New York, New York, November 11-16, 2001.

Fakheri, A, and A. Alnaeim “Forced Convective Heat Transfer from Helicoidal Pipes,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), New York, New York, November 11-16, 2001.

Al-Ahmadi, H. and Fakheri, A., “Natural Convection From Horizontal Helicoidal Pipes,” The 2000 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Orlando, Florida, November 5-10, 2000.

Fakheri, A., J. Zhu, and M. Azeem, "Laminar Developing Flow Inside Heat Conducting Rectangular Ducts,” ASME Winter Annual Meeting, 1994.

Fakheri, A., A., J. Zhu, and M. Azeem, "Analytical Investigation of the Air-Side Heat Transfer in Fin and Tube Heat Exchangers," ACRC Industrial Advisory Board Meeting, Urbana, IL, Nov. 93. Also published in the reports of the Air conditioning and Refrigeration Center.

Fakheri, A., "Analytical Investigation of the Air-Side Heat Transfer in Fin and Tube Heat Exchangers,” International Conference on Engineering Applications of Mechanics, also published in the Proceedings of the conference, Tehran, Iran, June 9-12, 1992.

Safdari, Y. B., D. Witek, and A. Fakheri, "Two Dimensional Analysis for the Solar Heating of a Fluid by a Partially Radiation Absorbing medium,” 16th National Passive Solar Conference of ASES, Vol. 2, Denver, CO, August 19-23, 1991.

Fakheri, A., and S. L. Olson, "The Effects of Radiative Heat Loss on Microgravity Flame Spread,” AIAA's 27th Aerospace Science Meeting, Reno, Nevada, Jan 1989.

Fakheri, A., and A. Elbella, "Conjugate Heat Transfer From Heat Generating Sources to a Compressible Boundary Layer Flow," ASME Winter Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1989,

Lee, H., J. Menart, and A. Fakheri, "A Multi-Layer Radiation Solution for the Boundary Layer Flow of Gray Gases," AIAA's 27th Aerospace Science Meeting, Reno, Nevada, Jan 1989.

Fakheri, A., “Microgravity Flame Spread” NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio,1988.

Fakheri, A., "Homogeneous Combustion of Propane by an Isothermal Flat Plate," ASME Winter Annual Meeting, 1987.

Fakheri, A., "Analytical Combustion Modeling Using Semiglobal Kinetics," Symposium on Heat and Mass Transfer in honor of Prof. B. T. Chao, Urbana, IL, Oct. 1 - 2, 1987.

Thesis Supervision

Hussien Al-bakhit, “Flow and Heat transfer in Counter flow Heat Exchangers,” (2005).

Asim Chatha, “Optimum Spacing between Horizontal Cylinders,” (2005).

Abdelrahman Abdelrahman, “Forced Convection Heat Transfer From Horizontal Helicoidal Pipes,” 2000.

Getnet Kidane, “Natural Convection Heat Transfer From Helicoidal Pipes,” 2000.

Hamed Al-Ahmadi, “Experimental Investigations of Natural Convection Heat Transfer From Horizontal Helicoidal Pipes,” 1998.

Jun Zhu, “Investigation of Simultaneously Developing Flow in Rectangular Ducts,” 1995.

Mark Stack, “Analytical Investigation of Microgravity Combustion,” 1992.

Professional Memberships

Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Chair, The ASME Process Industries Division

Member, ASME Heat Transfer Division K-10 Committee