Professor
Contact Information
Office Bldg-63 Room-351
Phone 966-3-860 2543
Fax 966-3-860 2949 (ME Dept)
Education
Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering), The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, 1977
M.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering), Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1973
B.Sc (Mechanical Engineering), Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1967
Courses Taught
- ME 201 Dynamics
- ME 203 Thermodynamics
- ME 311 Fluid Mechanics
- ME 411 ME Senior Project I
- ME 412 ME Senior Project II
- ME 425 Compressible Fluid Flow
- ME 438 Pumping Machinery
- ME 532 Advanced Fluid Mechanics I
- ME 536 Convective Heat Transfer
- ME 555 Advanced Fluid Mechanics II
Research Areas
Steady and time-dependent boundary-layer flows, heat convection from two-dimensional and axisymmetric bodies, Heat convection in oscillating flows, Thermal and chemical pollution in coastal areas, Erosion in various flow passages, and water circulation in natural circulation boilers.
EDITORIAL WORK
- Mechanical Engineering Editor of the Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE) for 18 years (1990-2008).
- Lead Technical Editor of AJSE special issue entitled “Energy Resources and Conservation”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Volume 20, No. 4B, 1995.
- Lead Technical Editor of an AJSE special issue entitled “Heat and Fluid Flow”, published in April, 2003.
- Lead Technical Editor of an AJSE special issue entitled “Modeling of Metal Forming Processes”, December 2005.
- Editorial Board Member of Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (AAMM), 2008 – Present.
- Editorial Board Member of Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Sciences (JMES), 2012-Present.
PUBLISHED BOOKS
- H.M. Badr and W.H. Ahmed, “Pumping Machinery Theory and Practice”, John Wiley International Publishers, 2014.
- H.M. Badr and S.C.R. Dennis, "Vortex formation in unsteady flow near a moving wall", Boundary-Layer Separation Edited by F.T. Smith and S.N. Brown, pp. 235-249, Springer-Verlag, 1987.
Representative Publications
PATENTS
- H.M. Badr and W.H. Ahmed, “Dual Injection Airlift Pump”, Patent Number US2012/0308407, Issued on December 6th, 2012.
- W.H. Ahmed, H.M. Badr and A. Al-Qutub, “Multistage Pulsating Airlift Pump”, Docket No. 35000.12, Patent No. US 8721297, Patent issued on May 22nd, 2014.
- W.H. Ahmed, M. El-Nakla, A. Al-Sarkhi and H.M. Badr, “Sensor for Two-Phase Flow Measurements”, Docket No. 35000.41, Patent No. US 8820175, Patent issued Sept. 4th, 2014.
- H.M. Badr and W.H. Ahmed, ”Oil-water Separator”, Patent Pending, docket number 36000.61, Serial No. US14/270266, May 5th, 2014.
- W.H. Ahmed and H.M. Badr, “Airlift Pump with Helical Flow Pattern”, Patent pending, U.S. Patent Office, Serial No. 13/910,106, June, 2013.
Some Selected Publications
- Ahmed, WH; Aman, AM; Badr, HM; Al-Qutub, AM; Air injection methods: The key to a better performance of airlift pumps;2016
- Habib, MA; Nemitallah, MA; Ahmed, P; Sharqawy, MH; Badr, HM; Muhammad, I; Yaqub, M; Experimental analysis of oxygen-methane combustion inside a gas turbine reactor under various operating conditions;2015
- Habib, MA; Tahir, F; Nemitallah, MA; Ahmed, WH; Badr, HM; Experimental and numerical analysis of oxy-fuel combustion in a porous plate reactor; 2015
- Nemitallah, MA; Ben-Mansour, R; Habib, MA; Ahmed, WH; Toor, IH; Gasem, ZM; Badr, HM; Solid Particle Erosion Downstream of an Orifice;2015
- Malik, J; Toor, IH; Ahmed, WH; Gasem, ZM; Habib, MA; Ben-Mansour, R; Badr, HM;Evaluating the Effect of Hardness on Erosion Characteristics of Aluminum and Steels;2014
- Ahmed, WH; Bello, MM; El Nakla, M; Al Sarkhi, A; Badr, HM; Experimental investigation of flow accelerated corrosion under two-phase flow conditions;2014
- Malik, J; Toor, IH; Ahmed, WH; Gasem, ZM; Habib, MA; Ben-Mansour, R; Badr, HM; Investigations on the Corrosion-Enhanced Erosion Behavior of Carbon Steel AISI 1020;2014
- Farooqui, AE; Badr, HM; Habib, MA; Ben-Mansour, R; Numerical investigation of combustion characteristics in an oxygen transport reactor;2014
