Mehdi Raessi
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
United States of America
Biography
Mehdi Raessi joined the Mechanical Engineering Department in 2010 following a postdoctoral study at NASA-Stanford University's Center for Turbulence Research (CTR). He obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2008. During his graduate studies, he worked in the Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies (CACT). Dr. Raessi's research is primarily focused on numerical simulations of interfacial flows and two-phase flows with phase change. Using numerical simulations, he has been studying the fluid flow and heat transfer in various applications including energy systems (renewable and conventional), materials processing, and environmentally friendly refrigeration systems. In addition to academic research and teaching, Dr. Raessi has industrial experience as a research and development (R&D) specialist and applied engineer.
Research Interest
Interfacial flows Two-phase flows with phase change Microscale transport phenomena Energy systems (renewable/conventional) Materials processing Biofluid mechanics Multiscale multiphysics simulations Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer Numerical methods for modeling multiphase flows Scientific computing
Publications
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C. Freniere, A. Pathak, M. Raessi, and G. Khanna, Feasibility of Amazon’s Cloud Computing Platform for Parallel GPU-Accelerated Multiphase Flow Simulations, Computing in Science and Engineering, 18 (5), pp. 68-77 (2016).
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A. Pathak and M. Raessi, A 3D, fully Eulerian, VOF-based solver to study the interaction between two fluids and moving rigid bodies using the fictitious domain method, Journal of Computational Physics, 311, pp. 87-113 (2016).
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A. Pathak and M. Raessi, A three-dimensional volume-of-fluid method for reconstructing and advecting three-material interfaces forming contact lines, Journal of Computational Physics, 307, pp. 550–573 (2016).
