Majid Keyhani
Professor |
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Majid Keyhani
403 Dougherty Hall
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37966-2210
Office : (423) 974-4795
Fax : (423) 974-5274
email : keyhani@utk.edu |
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Teaching
Heat Transfer
Fluid Mechanics
Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow |
Education
Ph.D. 1983 The Ohio State University
MSME 1979 The Ohio State University
BSME 1977 Tri-State University |
Research
Buoyancy Driven Flows
Thermal Response of Decomposing Composites
Design of Solidification Processes
Inverse Analysis |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Experimental and numerical simulations of heat transfer and fluid flow phenomena
related to electronics cooling and nuclear spent fuel handling, thermal response of
decomposing composites used as thermal barriers, e.g., liners of solid rocket nozzles,
design and control of solidification processes through inverse analysis.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| 1985 - Present |
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Professor: 95-present; Associate Professor:
1990-95; Assistant Professor: 1985-90. |
| Summer 1989 |
NASA/ASEE Faculty Research Fellow, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL. |
| 1983 - 1984 |
Post-Doctoral Fellow & part-time Instructor, Mech. Eng., Univ. of Delaware. |
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Full Member (1984- )
Associate Member (1977-83) |
American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) |
| Member (1977- ) |
Pi Tau Sigma |
| Associate Member (1981- ) |
Sigma Xi |
Chairman (1994-97)
Member (1985-93) |
K-19 Committee on Environmental Heat Transfer, ASME Heat Transfer Division (HTD) |
Chairman (1986-89)
Member (1989-92) |
Committee on Visualization of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, ASME HTD |
| Member (1991- 92) |
Committee on Membership Development, ASME HTD |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Frankel, J.I., Keyhani, M.,"A New Approach for Solving Inverse Solidification
Design Problems," Journal of Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B, Vol. 30, No. 2,
pp. 161-177, 1996.
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, 1966.
Desai, C.P., Vafai, K., and Keyhani, M., "On the Natural Convection in a Cavity
with a Cooled Top Wall and multiple Protruding Heaters," Journal of Electronic
Packaging, Vol. 117, 1995, pp. 34-45.
Keyhani, M., and Polehn, R.A., "Finite Difference Modeling of Anisotropic
Flows," Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 117, No. 2, pp. 458-464, 1995.
Keyhani, M., and Luo, L., "A Numerical study of Convection Heat Transfer Within
Enclosed Horizontal Rod-Bundles," Journal of Nuclear Science and Engineering,
Vol. 119, No. 2, 1995, pp. 116-127.
Polehn, R.A., Keyhani, M., and Parang, M., "Transient Compressible Flow in
Variable Permeability Media," Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol.
8, No. 2, 1994, pp. 378-381.
Partridge, W.P. Jr., and Keyhani, M., "A Generalized procedure for Reducing
Interferometric Data," Journal of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol.
8, pp. 112-117, 1994.
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