research: areas

• Expert systems for design
• Identification of nonlinear systems, and modal identification
• Active and passive vibration control
• Dynamic analysis and design of multi body systems
• Design applications of axiomatic and robust methods
• Heat transfer of pulsating internal and external flows
• Thermodynamic analysis of cogeneration and desalination systems
• Thermal and economic performance of insulation materials
• Optimization of thermal systems
• Hydrodynamics and heat transfer about confined or unconfined rotating solid bodies or internally circulating droplets
• Modeling of gas combustion in turbulent flow
• Flow and vortex modeling around two-dimensional and axisymmetric bodies
• Fouling of heat exchangers
• Turbulence, stability & flow-structure interaction
• Materials damage processes and reliability modeling
• Flow-induced corrosion of alloys in seawater
• Mechanical behavior of materials including composite materials
• Quality and reliability issues in extrusion industry
• Friction and wear of materials at elevated temperatures
• Optimization of manufacturing processes and systems
• Computer-aided manufacturing and automation
• Laser machining applications
• Modeling and simulation of laser heating
• Surface modification including coating
• Flow simulation in ducts and enclosures
• Erosion in mechanical systems
• Flow-induced vibration in piping systems

In addition, to cope with the national research plan of the kingdom some new research area attracted many of ME faculty members. These areas include:

• Water desalination
• Renewable energy
• Nano technology
• Rapid prototyping
• Advanced manufacturing and
• Mechatronics

Research Facilities

• A subsonic wind tunnel facility
• A shock tube apparatus
• Internal six-component wind tunnel strain gauge balance
• A supersonic impinging jet
• Hot-wire anemometers
• A flow-visualization facility
• A laser-Doppler velocimeter
• Laser facility for measurements
• A water tunnel
• A heat transfer coefficient test facility
• A gas-emission analyzer
• Heating bath and circulation units
• A gasoline test engine
• Advanced material testing facilities
• Computer-aided manufacturing and automation facilities
• A potentio-dyne analyzer
• Particle image velocimeter
• A vibration test rig
• An industrial balancing machine
• Electron and scanning electron microscopes
• A high-temperature friction testing facility
• A diverse array of B&K vibration measuring and recording instrumentation: vibration meters, recorders, analyzers, amplifiers, accelerometers, and transducers.
• With the recent advances in computing power, many problems that up to recently were infeasible to solve can now be answered. Research qualities can be improved with experimental and computational facilities
• Computer facilities which include workstations, networking, PCs etc. are used for research.

Software used for research includes ANSYS, FLUENT, PHENOICS, SOLID WORKS, PRO-ENGINEER etc.

Thermal Conductivity Measurements