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Contact Information: 2057 ERF Phone: (312) 996-1154 Fax: (312) 413-0447 E-Mail: mashayek@uic.edu

Farzad Mashayek
Professor and Associate Head
Director of Graduate Studies

B.S., Mechanical Engineering (1986)
Sharif (Arya-Mehr) University of Technology

M.S., Mechanical Engineering (1988)
Sharif (Arya-Mehr) University of Technology

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering (1994)
SUNY at Buffalo

• Fellow of the ASME, 2006
• Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2001
• Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research, 1999
• CAREER award, National Science Foundation, 1999

Selected Publications

Mashayek, F., "Numerical Investigation of Reacting Droplets in Homogeneous Shear Turbulence," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 405, 1-36, 2000.
Mashayek, F., "Droplet-Turbulence Interactions in Low Mach Number Homogeneous Shear Two-Phase Flows," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 367, 163-203, 1998.

Pandya, R.V.R. and Mashayek, F., "Turbulent Thermal Diffusion and Barodiffusion of Dispersed (Particle) Phase in Turbulent Flows," Physical Review Letters, in press.

Pandya, R.V.R. and Mashayek, F., "Probability Density Function Modeling of Evaporating Droplets Dispersed in Isotropic Turbulence," AIAA Journal, 39(10), 2001.

Pandya, R.V.R. and Mashayek, F., "PDF Model Equation for Particle Charging in Homogeneous Dusty Plasma," Physical Review E, 64, 036405, 2001.

Mashayek, F., "Dynamics of Evaporating Drops. Part I: Formulation and Evaporation Model," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 44(8), 1517-1526, 2001.

Mashayek, F., "Dynamics of Evaporating Drops. Part II: Free Oscillations," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 44(8), 1527-1541, 2001.

Complete List of Publications

Research Interests

Two-phase turbulent reactive flow
Direct numerical simulation
Probability density function (pdf) modeling
Statistical and stochastic modeling
Free-surface flow and interface modeling
Nanoparticle dynamics in dusty plasma

Laboratory

Computational Multiphase Transport Laboratory (CMTL)
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