Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Office Bldg-63 Room-214
Phone 966-13-860 1527
Fax 966-13-860 2949 (ME Dept)
Education
Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering),Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
M.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering), Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Petroleum & Minerals,Dhahran,1995.
B.Sc (Mechanical Engineering), Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran
Courses Taught
- University Skills
- Thermal Power Plants
- Heat transfer.
- Thermodynamics, I
- Thermodynamics, II
- Fluid Mechanics
- Thermo-fluid Lab
- Pumping Machinery Lab
Research Areas
- “Flow and Heat Transfer Prediction of Smooth and Pin-fin Narrow Rectangular Channels (AR = 10) oriented at 120 from the Direction of Rotation
- Representative Publications
- El-Shaarawi, M.A.L., Budair, M.O. and Al-Qahtani, M.S.A, Turning Moment of Rotating Inner Cylinder in the Entry region of Concentric Annuli, JSME International Journal 40 (1) (1997) 67-7
- Al-Qahtani, M. S., Jang, Y. J., Chen, H. C., and Han, J. C, “Prediction of Flow and Heat Transfer in Rotating Two-Pass Rectangular Channels with 45° Rib Turbulators”, ASME J. of Turbomachinery, 124 (2) (2002) April 122-134.
- Al-Qahtani, M. S., Jang, Y. J., Chen, H. C., and Han, J. C, “Flow and Heat Transfer in Rotating Two-Pass Rectangular Channels (AR = 2) by Reynolds Stress Turbulence Model”, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 45 (9), (2002) 1823-1838.
- Al-Qahtani, M. S., Chen, H. C., and Han, J. C, “A Numerical Study of Flow and Heat Transfer in Rotating Rectangular Channels (AR = 4) with 45° Rib Turbulators by Reynolds Stress Turbulence Model”, ASME J. of heat transfer, 125 (1) Feb. (2003) pp. 19-26.
- Al-Qahtani, M. S., Chen, H. C., and Han, J. C, “Heat Transfer Prediction of Rotating Rectangular Channels Using Reynolds Stress Model”, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2005, pp. 36-47.
- Al-Qahtani, M. S., Basha, Mehaboob, “Flow and Heat Transfer Prediction in Rotating Rectangular Pin-Fin Channels (AR= 10:1)”, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Accepted: 16 March 2007.
- Al-Qahtani, M. S., Basha, Mehaboob, “Prediction of Flow and Heat Transfer in Narrow Rotating Rectangular Channels Using Reynolds Stress Model”, Heat and Mass Transfer Journal, Accepted: 12 April 2007, published online May16, 2007
- Basha, Mehaboob, Al-Qahtani, M. S., Yilbas, B. S. “Entropy generation in a rotating channel flow resembling turbine channel flow” J. Power and Energy, Vol. 221, No. 3, 2007, pp. 291-299