Mechanical Engineering

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

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Education	Courses Taught
Research	Awards
Contact

Education

Ph.D.	Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder. Colorado, USA, 1990
M.S.	Mechanical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum  & Mineerals, Dhahran, SA, 1981
B.S.	Mechanical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum  & Mineerals, Dhahran, SA, 1978

Courses Taught

ME 201	Dynamics
ME 215	Materials Science
ME 309	Mechanics of Machines
ME 428	Structure of Flight Vehicles
ME 482	Mechanical Vibrations
ME 487	Mechanics of Materilals
ME 510	Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engneering
ME 541	Continuum Mechanics
ME 542	Elasticity

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Research

Areas:

Vibrations, Computational Mechanics ( FEM ), Wavepropagation in Solids, Ultrasonic(NDE)

Representative Publications:

E. Abdul-Aal, A. Z. Al-Garni, and Y. N. Al-Nassar, Modeling and Forecasting Monthly Electric energy Consumption in Eastern Saudi Arabia Using Abductive Networks, Energy, v. 22, No. 9, pp. 911-921, 1997. 

R. Kahraman, H. D. Zughbi, Y N. Al-Nassar, M. A. Hastaoglu and N. Sobh,  A Simplified Numerical Model for Melting of Ice with Natural Convection, Int. Comm. Heat Transfer, vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 359-368, 1998. 

Y.N. Al-Nassar, M. Siddiqui, and A. Z. Al-Garni, Artificial Neural Networks in Vibration Control of Rotor Bearing Systems, Journal Simulation Practice and Theory, 7(2000),pp 729-740. 

Y.N. Al-Nassar and B. O. Al-Bedoor, On the vibration of rotating blade with torsionally-flexible shaft , Letter to he editor, J. Sound and Vibration, (submitted)

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Awards

Graduate Scholarship from the Ministry of Education of Saudi Arabia (1983-1990).

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Contact

	Tel: 966-3-860 2838 (Office)
	Fax: 966-3-860 2949 (ME Department)
	E-mail: ynassar@kfupm.edu.sa

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