
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