Amir Malvandi
Education
- Ph.D. Agricultural and Biological Engineering - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- M.Sc Mechanical Engineering - Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
- B.Sc Mechanical Engineering - Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
Professional Registrations
- ASABE
Resident Instruction
- ABE 436 : Renewable Energy Systems
Research Interests
- Scientific Machine Learning
- Process Intensification
- Multiphase Heat and Mass Transfer
Selected Articles in Journals
- A novel sub-pilot-scale direct-contact ultrasonic dehydration technology for sustainable production of distillers dried grains (DDG)
- Towards Efficient Modularity in Industrial Drying: A Combinatorial Optimization Viewpoint
- Real-time moisture monitoring of edible coated apple chips during hot air drying using miniature NIR spectroscopy and chemometrics
- Application of NIR spectroscopy and multivariate analysis for Non-destructive evaluation of apple moisture content during ultrasonic drying
- Drying characteristics and quality attributes of apple slices dried by a non-thermal ultrasonic contact drying method
- Modeling and parallel computation of the non-linear interaction of rigid bodies with incompressible multi-phase flow
- Torsion and curvature effects on fluid flow in a helical annulus
- Non-destructive measurement and real-time monitoring of apple hardness during ultrasonic contact drying via portable NIR spectroscopy and machine learning
- Thermophoresis and Brownian motion effects on heat transfer enhancement at film boiling of nanofluids over a vertical cylinder
- Effects of nanoparticle migration on force convection of alumina/water nanofluid in a cooled parallel-plate channel
- Modified Buongiorno’s model for fully developed mixed convection flow of nanofluids in a vertical annular pipe
- Slip effects on unsteady stagnation point flow of a nanofluid over a stretching sheet
- Brownian motion and thermophoresis effects on slip flow of alumina/water nanofluid inside a circular microchannel in the presence of a magnetic field
- Film boiling of magnetic nanofluids (MNFs) over a vertical plate in presence of a uniform variable-directional magnetic field
- Magnetic field and slip effects on free convection inside a vertical enclosure filled with alumina/water nanofluid
- Nanoparticles migration effects on magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) laminar mixed convection of alumina/water nanofluid inside microchannels
- Magnetohydrodynamic mixed convective flow of Al2O3–water nanofluid inside a vertical microtube
- Effect of magnetic fields on heat convection inside a concentric annulus filled with Al2O3–water nanofluid
- Effects of nanoparticle migration on hydromagnetic mixed convection of alumina/water nanofluid in vertical channels with asymmetric heating
- Effects of nanoparticle migration and asymmetric heating on magnetohydrodynamic forced convection of alumina/water nanofluid in microchannels
- Thermal performance analysis of hydromagnetic Al2O3-water nanofluid flows inside a concentric microannulus considering nanoparticle migration and asymmetric heating
Journal Editorships
- Associate Editor: ASABE - Processing Systems (PRS)
Research Honors
- Ben and Georgeann Jones Graduate Student Award 2022
Other Honors
- Student Presentation Award ASABE 2022
Recent Courses Taught
- ABE 436 - Renewable Energy Systems
- ABE 498 XW3 - Special Topics