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Faculty - Majid Keyhani

Majid Keyhani

Majid Keyhani
Professor

604 Dougherty Engineering Building
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-2210
Office: (865)974-4795
Fax: (865)974-5274
Email: keyhani@utk.edu
Teaching ~ Education ~ Research Interests ~ Professional Experience ~ Professional Activities ~ Selected Publications

TEACHING

  • Heat Transfer
  • Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. 1983, The Ohio State University
  • MSME 1979, The Ohio State University
  • BSME 1977, Tri-State University

RESEARCH INTERESTS (back to top)

Experimental and numerical simulations of convective heat transfer related to electronics cooling and nuclear spent fuel handling. Numerical modeling of thermal response of decomposing and ablating thermal protection barriers related to solid rocket nozzles. Inverse analysis for control and design of solidification processes. Estimation of surface heating rate based on in-depth temperature data.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (back to top)

1985 - Present Professor: 95-present; Associate Professor: 1990-95; Assistant Professor: 1985-90, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Dept., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
Summer 1989 NASA/ASEE Faculty Research Fellow, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL.
1983 - 1984 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mech. & Aerospace Eng. Dept., Univ. of Delaware.

PUBLICATIONS (back to top)

B. Zandi, J. Lewis, H. Hamish,and M. Keyhani, “Coupled Thermal / Electrical Analysis of High Powered Electrical Systems”, ITherm 2006 (Tenth Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems) San Diego, May 30 - June 2, 2006.

Frankel, J.I., R.V. Arimilli, M. Keyhani, and J. Wu, “Heating Rate dT/dt Measurements Developed from In-Situ Thermocouples using a Voltage-Rate Interface for Advanced Thermal Diagnostics”, 25 th AIAA Aerodynamics Measurement Technology and Ground Testing Conference, San Francisco, June 5-8, 2006.

Frankel, J.I., M. Keyhani, and K. Taira, “In-phase error estimation of Experimental Data and Optimal First derivatives,” AIAA Journal, vol. 42, #5, pp. 1017-1024, 2004.

Frankel, J.I., Keyhani, M, and Taira, K. “A Modified Discrete Least-Squares Method for Optimal Solutions,” Presented at AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Paper No. AIAA 2002-0657, January 2002.

Miller, W. A. and Keyhani, M, “The Correlation of Simultaneous Heat and Mass Transfer Experimental Data for Aqueous Lithium Bromide Vertical Falling Film Absorption,” Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Vol. 123, pp. 30-42, 2001.

Hale, S.W., M. Keyhani, and J.I. Frankel, “Design and Control of Interfacial Temperature Gradients in Solidification”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 43, pp. 3795-3810, 2000.

Keyhani, M., and Dalton, T. E., "Natural Convection Heat Transfer in Horizontal Rod-Bundle Enclosures," Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol.118, No.3, pp.598-605, 1996.

PATENTS : (back to top)

“Method and Apparatus for Detecting Ice or Frost Deposition,” U.S. Patent 6,328,467.

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