Mechanical Engineering

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

People: Faculty

                                                                                  

    

Dr. Iyad Al-Zaharnah

Assistant Professor / Director (A), Innovation Center

Mechanical Engineering Department

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

*Education *Courses Taught
*Research *Contact

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Education

Ph. D. (School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering), Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, 2002

M. S. (Mechanical Engineering), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 1991

B. S. (Mechanical Engineering), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 1990

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Courses Taught

ME 205 Materials Science (Lab)
ME 307 Machine Design Lecture/Lab
ME 308 Machine Design II Lecture/Lab

ME 413

System Dynamics and Control Lecture/Lab

ME 482

Mechanical Vibrations Lecture/Lab

ME 486

Optimization of Mechanical Systems (Lab)

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Research

Areas of Research:

·          Stress and strain analysis in solids.

·          Optimization of mechanical systems (dynamic, thermal, solar, etc.).

·          Conjugate heat transfer in pipes for different types of flow (laminar, turbulent, pulsating, etc.).

·          Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer.

·          Numerical methods.

·          Dynamic and vibration problems.

·          Energy, exergy and entropy analysis of mechanical systems.

Representative Publications:

·          I. Al-Zaharnah, B.S. Yilbas and M.S. Hashmi “Conjugate Heat Transfer in Fully Developed Laminar Pipe Flow and Thermally Induced Stresses” Computer Methods and Applied Mechanical Engineering, 190, 2000, 1091-1104.

·          I. Al-Zaharnah, B.S. Yilbas and M.S. Hashmi “A study into thermal stresses in pipes subjected to turbulent flow” Accepted for publication in the journal of heat and mass transfer.

·         I. Al-Zaharnah, B.S. Yilbas and M.S. Hashmi “Pulsating flow in circular pipes-the   analysis of thermal stresses” International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, 78, 2001, pp. 567-579.

·           I. Al-Zaharnah, B.S. Yilbas and M.S. Hashmi “Thermal stresses in thick-walled pipes subjected to fully developed laminar flow” Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 118, 2001, 50-57.

·          M.A. Habib, S.A.M. Said and I. Al-Zaharnah “Optimization Of Reheat Pressures in Thermal Power Plants” Energy, 20, 6, 1995, pp. 555-565.

·          M.A. Habib, S.A.M. Said and I. Al-Zaharnah “Thermodynamic Optimization of Reheat    Regenerative Thermal Power Plants” Applied Energy, 63, 1999, pp.17-34.

·         M.A. Habib, S.A.M. Said, I. Al-Hadidy and I.Al-Zaharnah “Optimization Procedure of a Hyprid Photovoltic Wind Energy System” Energy, 24, 1999, pp. 919-929.

·          I. Al-Zaharnah, M.S. Hashmi and B.S.Yilbas “Thermal Stresses in Thick Walled Pipes Subjected to Fully Developed Laminar Flow”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies, AMP’99 and 16th Annual Conference of The Irish Manufacturing Committee, IMC 16, Vol II, 1999, pp. 1073-1086.

·          I. Al-Zaharnah, B.S. Yilbas and M.S. Hashmi “Entropy Generation in Pipe flow Due to Different Solid to Fluid Conductivity Ratios” Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on Transport Phenomena”ISTP-12.

·          M.A. Habib, S.A.M. Said and I. Al-Zaharnah  “Sizing Optimization of Hyprid Photovoltic Wind Energy Systems” Proceedings of The Fifth Saudi Engineering Conferense, 4, 1999, pp. 439-447.

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Contact

phone.gif (389 bytes) Tel: 966-3-860 4946 (Office)
fax.jpg (2610 bytes) Fax: 966-3-860 2949 (ME Department)
mail.gif (4196 bytes) E-mail: iyadtz@kfupm.edu.sa

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