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Assistant Professor 

Contact Information

Office:             Building 63, Room 156

Phone:            +966-13-860-1964

Fax:                 +966-13-860-2949 (ME Dept.)

Email:              muhammad.kamal@kfupm.edu.sa

Education

Ph.D. Energy and Combustion, University of Cambridge, UK, 2015

M.Sc. Advanced Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK, 2011

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, UET Peshawar, Pakistan, 2010

Courses Taught

• ME702: Independent Research
• ME701: Independent Research
• ME648: Combustion Emissions and Control
• ME548: Combustion Phenomena
• ME531: Advanced Thermodynamics
• ME495: Directed Research
• ME423: Energy Conversion
• ME316: Thermofluids
• ME315: Heat Transfer
• ME311: Fluid Mechanics
• ME203: Thermodynamics

Research Areas

• Combustion and emissions
• Propulsions systems
• Optical and laser diagnostics
• Turbulent stratified combustion
• Oxyfuel combustion
• Renewable fuels
• Flow and combustion instabilities
• Thermoacoustic instabilities
• Gas turbines
• Aerosol

 Representative Publications

• A. Ali, M. A. Nemitallah, A. A. Abdelhafez, M. hussain, M. M. Kamal, M. A. Habib, "Comparative analysis of the stability and structure of premixed C3H8/O2/CO2 and C3H8/O2/N2 flames for clean flexible energy production," Energy, 2020
• A. Ali, M. A. Nemitallah, A. A. Abdelhafez, B. Imteyaz, M. M. Kamal, M. A. Habib, "Numerical and experimental study of swirl premixed CH4/H2/O2/CO2 flames for controlled-emissions gas turbines," International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2020
• M. M. Kamal, "Two-line (CH*/CO2*) chemiluminescence technique for equivalence ratio mapping in turbulent stratified flames," Energy, EGY-D-19-03683, 2019
• A. Ali, M. A. Nemitallah, A. A. Abdelhafez, I. G. Elsakhawy, M. M. Kamal, M. A. Habib "Static stability and combustion characteristics of oxy-propane flames in a premixed fuel-flexible swirl combustor," Energy & Fuels, ef-2019-03157, 2019
• M. M. Kamal, B. Coriton, R. Zhou, J. H. Frank, S. Hochgreb, "Scalar dissipation rate and scales in swirling turbulent premixed flames," Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 36 (2017) 1957-1965
• M. M. Kamal, R. Barlow, S. Hochgreb, "Scalar structure of turbulent stratified swirl flames conditioned on local equivalence ratio," Combustion and Flame, 166 (2016) 76-79
• H. P. Tsui, M. M. Kamal, S. Hochgreb, W. K. Bushe, "Direct comparison of PDF and scalar dissipation rates between LEM simulations and experiments for turbulent, premixed methane air flames," Combustion and Flame, 165 (2016) 208-222
• M. M. Kamal, R. Barlow, S. Hochgreb, "Conditional analysis of turbulent premixed and stratified flames on local equivalence ratio and progress of reaction," Combustion and Flame, 162 (2015) 3896-3913
• S. Balusamy, M. M. Kamal, S.M. Lowe, B. Tian, Y. Gao, S. Hochgreb, "Laser diagnostics of pulverized coal combustion in O₂/N₂ and O₂/CO₂ conditions: Velocity and scalar measurements," Experiment in Fluids, (2015) 56:108
• M. M. Kamal, S. Balusamy, R. Zhou, S. Hochgreb, "Favre- and Reynolds-averaged velocity measurements: Interpreting PIV and LDA measurements in combustion," Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 35 (2015) 3803-3811
• M. M. Kamal, C. Duwig, S. Balusamy, R. Zhou, S. Hochgreb, "Proper orthogonal decomposition analysis of non-swirling turbulent stratified and premixed methane/air flames," Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2014