Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology is an international and multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal covering fundamental and applied research in all disciplines of science, engineering and medicine.

Ali Akbar Ranjbar

Editorial Board Member of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Babol University of Technology, Babol, Iran

Research Areas

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Simulation of Flow and Heat Transfer in Micro & Nano Scales

Education

2000PhDMechanical Engineering, University of London, England
1988MScMechanical Engineering, Tabriz University, Iran
1984BScMechanical Engineering, AIT &Tabriz University, Iran

Experience

2010-presentHead of scientific Collaboration & International Affairs of BUT
2009-presentDean of School of Mechanical Engineering of BNUT
2006-presentEditor-in-Chief, Journal of Numerical Simulation in Engineering (JNSE)
2004-2005Research Deputy of Faculty of Engineering & Technology
2001-2004Head of Mechanical Engineering Department

Academic Achievement

University Distinguished Researcher, 2003
Province Distinguished Researcher, 2004

Membership

1993-present, Member of Iranian Hydraulic Association (IHA)
2002-present, Member of Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineers (ISME)
2000-present, Member of Iranian Organization for Engineering Order of Buildings

Publications: Journals

[1]  Esmaili, Q., Ranjbar, A.A., Abdollahzadeh, M. (2011) Numerical Simulation of Direct Methanol Fuel cell Through a 1D+1D Approach, Int. J. Green Energy, accepted.
[2]  Ranjbar, A.A., Abdollahzadeh, M., Esmaili, Q. (2011) A 1D+1D Approach Mathematical Modeling of Two Phase Multicomponent Transport Flow in PEMFC, Russian Journal of Electrochemistry, in press.
[3]  Rahgoshay, M., Ranjbar, A.A., Ramiar, A. (2011) Laminar pulsating flow of nanofluids in a circular tube with isothermal wall, Journal of International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, accepted.
[4]  Rahimi, M., Ranjbar, A.A., Hosseini, J., Abdollahzadeh, M. (2011) Natural Convection of Nanoparticle-Water Mixture near its Density Inversion in a Rectangular Enclosure, Journal of International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, in press, corrected proof.
[5]  Ranjbar, A.A., Doosti, P., Famouri, M. (2011) An Inverse Problem in Estimation of Interfacial Heat Transfer Coefficient during Two-Dimensional Solidification of Al 5%Wt-Si based on PSO, Int. J. Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, in press.
[6]  Ramiar, A., Ranjbar, A.A. (2011) Effect of Axial conduction and Variable Properties on Two Dimensional Conjugate Heat Transfer of Al2O3-EG/Water Mixture Nanofluid in Microchannel, Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, in press.
[7]  Ramiar, A., Ranjbar, A.A. (2011) Effects of Viscous Dissipation and Variable Properties on Nanofluids Flow in Two Dimensional Microchannels, Int. J. Engineering, Trans. A, Vol. 24, Issue 2, 273-286.
[8]  Ranjbar, A.A., Kashani, S., Hosseinizadeh, S.F., Ghanbarpour, M. (2011) Numerical Heat Transfer Studies of a Latent Heat Storage System Containing Nano-Enhanced Phase Change Material, J. Thermal Science, Vol. 15, No. 1, 169-181.
[9]  Ranjbar, A.A., Ghaderi, A., Famouri, M., Doosti, P. (2010) A Transient Two-Dimensional Inverse Estimation of the Metal-Mold Heat Transfer Coefficient during Squeeze Casting of Al-4.5wt%Cu, Int. J. Engineering, Trans. A, Vol. 23, Issue 3-4, 273-286.
[10]  Ranjbar, A.A., Famouri, M., Imani, A., (2010) A Transient Inverse Problem in Simultaneous Estimation of TDTP based on MEGA, Int. J. Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 20, No. 2, 201-207.
[11]  Ranjbar, A.A., Rahimi, M., Hosseini, J., (2010) Heat Transfer Enhancement in Pulsating Flows Through Parallel Bluff Plates, J. Enhanced Heat Transfer, Vol. 17, No. 2, 169-182.
[12]  Ramiar, A., Ranjbar, A.A., Hosseinizadeh, S.F. (2009) Numerical Simulation of Two Dimensional Conjugate Heat Transfer of Al2O3-Water Nanofluid in Microchannels, J. Mech. Engineering, Vol. 39, No. 2, 15-23.
[13]  Ranjbar, A.A., Ezzati, M., Famouri, M., (2009) Optimization of Experimental Design for an Inverse Estimation of the Metal-Mold Heat Transfer Coefficient in the Solidification of Sn–10% Pb, J. Materials Processing Technology, Vol. 209, No. 15-16, 5611-5617.
[14]  Ranjbar, A.A., Sedighi, K., Farhadi, M., Pourfallah, M, (2009) Computational study of the effect of different injection angle on heavy duty diesel engine combustion, J. Thermal Science, Vol. 13, No. 3, 9-21.
[15]  Ranjbar, A.A., Domairry, G. and Javadein, M.S., (2009) The Influence of a Magnetic Field on Laminar Viscous Flow in a Semi-Porous Channel, Int. J. Modern Phy. B, Vol. 23, No. 20, in press.
[16]  Ranjbar, A.A., Mirsadeghi, M., (2008) Inverse estimation of the Initial Temperature Profile in a Polymer Process , Journal of Polymer Science and Engineering, Vol. 48, No. 1, 133–140.
[17]  Imani, A., Ranjbar, A.A., Esmkhani, M., (2006) Simultaneous Estimation of Temperature-dependent Thermal Conductivity and Heat Capacity based on Modified Genetic Algorithm , Journal of Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering., Vol. 14, No. 7, pp. 767-783.
[18]  Ranjbar, A.A., (2005) A Perturbation based Analysis to Investigate the Effects of Temperature-dependent Viscosity in Two-layer Plane Couette Flow , Journal of Heat Transfer Research, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 141-149.
[19]  Ranjbar, A.A., Hooman, K., (2004) Numerical Investigation of Flow and Heat Transfer of a Liquid Metal in a Compact Heat Exchanger , Journal of Heat Transfer Research, Vol. 35, No. 3-4, pp. 229-238.
[20]  Ranjbar, A.A., Hooman, K., (2004) The Hazen-Dupuit-Darcy Model to Investigate Viscous Dissipation Effects on Thermal Development of a Liquid Metal Flow in a Porous Medium: Circular Tube with Uniform Wall Temperature , Journal of Heat Transfer Research, Vol. 35, No. 3-4, pp. 219-228.
[21]  Ranjbar, A.A., Hooman, K., (2004) Viscous Dissipation Effects on Thermally Developing Forced Convection in a Porous Medium: Circular Duct with Isothermal Wall , Journal of International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 897-907.
[22]  Hooman, K., Ranjbar, A.A., (2004) A Perturbation Based Analysis to Investigate Forced Convection in a Porous Saturated Tube, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 162, pp. 411-419.
[23]  Hooman, K., Ranjbar, A.A., (2004) A Perturbation Solution for Viscous Dissipative Laminar Flow in a Porous-saturated Pipe with Uniform Wall Temperature , International Journal of Transport Phenomena, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 307-313.
[24]  Ranjbar, A.A., Kantoori, A.A., Hooman, K., (2003) Forced Convection in a Heterogenic Porous-Medium: Parallel Plate Channel , Journal of Heat Transfer Research, Vol. 34, No. 7-8, pp. 525-531.
[25]  Hooman, K., Ranjbar, A.A., (2003) Forced Convection in a Fluid-saturated Porous-Medium Tube with Isoflux Wall , Journal of International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 30, No. 7, pp. 1015-1026.

Publications: Books/Book Chapters

[1]  Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Publication of BNUT, 2009, in Persian.
[2]  Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Applications, Publication of BNUT, 2009, in Persian.