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Goodarz Ahmadi

Goodarz Ahmadi
Dean, Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering
Clarkson Distinguished Professor
Robert R. Hill '48 Professor
Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
267 CAMP
Clarkson University
PO Box 5700
Potsdam, NY 13699-5700

Phone: 315-268-2322
E-mail: ahmadi@clarkson.edu
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Educational Background:
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 1970
M.S., Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 1968

Memberships:
ASME Fellow, ASEE, SES

Research Interests:

  • Particle transport, adhesion and removal
  • Turbulence
  • Hot-gas filtration
  • Combustion
  • Spray formation
  • Hydrates
  • Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
  • Rheology of suspensions
  • Granular flows
  • Multiphase mixtures
  • Microcontamination control
  • Slurry flows
  • Vibration control
  • Tribology

Related Facilities:

  • Aerosol wind tunnel
  • Laser-Doppler and hot wire anemometry systems
  • Phase-Doppler anemometer (PDA)
  • Particle image velocimeter (PIV)
  • Isokinetic sampling probe
  • Digital imagery laboratory
  • Granular flow shear device
  • Simple shear flow device

Conducted Research on:

  • Particle transport and deposition
  • Particle and fiber transport, adhesion and removal
  • Hot-gas filtration
  • Coal combustor
  • Spray
  • Microcontamination control
  • Computer simulation of flow
  • Granular flow modeling
  • Multiphase flow
  • Vibrations and random vibrations
  • Turbulence modeling
  • Vibration isolation
  • Flow of liquid crystals
  • Stability of structures
  • Mechanics of suspensions
  • Plasma turbulence
  • Energy conversion
  • Lubrication
  • Continuum mechanics

Patents:

  • Aeroelastic Wind Energy Converter

Publications