
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office Bldg-63 Room-202
Phone 966-13-860 1747
Fax 966-13-860 2949 (ME Dept)
Education
Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering), Texas A&M University, College Station, TX,2004
M.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering), King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran,1999
B.Sc (Mechanical Engineering), King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran,1996
Courses Taught
- ME 203 Thermodynamic I
- ME 204 Thermodynamic II
- ME 311 Fluid Mechanics
- ME 315 Heat Transfer
- ME 316 Thermo-Fluid Lab
- ME 351 Applied Mechanical Eng. Co-op (Coordinator)
- ME 411-412 Senior Design Project
- ME 415 Applied Senior Design Project
Research Areas
Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, Numerical Techniques, Heat Exchangers, Grid Generation Techniques
Representative Publications
Journal Publications
- Rafique, MM; Gandhidasan, P; Bahaidarah, HMS ; Liquid desiccant materials and dehumidifiers - A review ;2016
- Bahaidarah, HMS; Baloch, AAB; Gandhidasan, P ; Uniform cooling of photovoltaic panels: A review ;2016
- Bahaidarah, HM; Tanweer, B; Gandhidasan, P; Rehman, S ; A Combined Optical, Thermal and Electrical Performance Study of a V-Trough PV System-Experimental and Analytical Investigations ;2015
- Baloch, AAB; Bahaidarah, HMS; Gandhidasan, P; Al-Sulaiman, FA ; Experimental and numerical performance analysis of a converging channel heat exchanger for PV cooling ;2015
- ul Qadir, N; Said, SAM; Bahaidarah, HM ; Structural stability of metal organic frameworks in aqueous media - Controlling factors and methods to improve hydrostability and hydrothermal cyclic stability ;2015
- Bahaidarah, HM; Tanweer, B; Gandhidasan, P; Ibrahim, N; Rehman, S ; Experimental and numerical study on non-concentrating and symmetric unglazed compound parabolic photovoltaic concentration systems ;2014
- Hossain, MK; Drmosh, QA; Mukhaimer, AW; Bahaidarah, HM ; Silver nanoparticles on conducting electrode: a simple two-step process for realizing plasmonic solar cell design ;2014
Conferences Publications
- Haitham M.S. Bahaidarah, N.K. Anand, and H.C. Chen "Flow and Heat Transfer over a series of In-Line Cylinders Confined in a Channel". 41st Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Sciences, Lincoln, NE October10-13, 2004.
- Haitham M.S. Bahaidarah, O. Duffuaa, and N.K. Anand, " Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Wavy Channels with Converging-Diverging Sharp Edge" Fifth International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer, Canmore, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 18-22, 2007.