Alireza Ashari

**** ******* *****, ********, ** *3226, USA

Email: abldmg@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 804-***-****

Education:

PhD Candidate (Research Assistant) (Aug.

****-*******)

Sub-Division of Thermo-Fluid

Mechanical Engineering Department,

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA, USA

GPA=4.0/4.0

Graduation: Expected August 2010

PhD Student (Teaching Assistant) (Jan. 2007-

Aug. 2007)

Sub-Division of Thermo-Fluid

Mechanical Engineering Department,

Oklahoma State University (OSU), Stillwater, OK, USA

MS in Mechanical Engineering (Aug. 2000-

Oct. 2002)

Center of Excellence in Energy Conversion,

Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran

GPA: 17.35/20

BS in Mechanical Engineering (Aug. 1995-

Aug. 2000)

Sub-Division of Thermo-Fluid

Persian Gulf University (PGU), Bushehr, Iran

GPA: 14.56/20

Residence Status

Permanent Resident of United States

Professional Accomplishments:

. Modeling & Experiment on Two-phase Fluid Transport in Porous Materials

(at Porous Media & Multiphase Flow Laboratory, VCU)

o Developed a two-scale modeling technique for simulating the

release of lotion from wet fibrous media when moved against a

flat surface with different hydrophobicity. Model has the

ability to simulate fibrous samples with blends and multi-layers

of porous and non-porous fibers.

o Designed a CNC-based test setup and established a methodology to

measure the rate of lotion release from wet fibrous samples

during wiping on different surfaces, speeds, and pressures

o Developed a simulation procedure for prediction the rate of

fluid absorption thin/thick multi-layer fibrous media composed

of porous and non-porous fibers.

o Designed a CNC-based test setup to measure fluid height rise

nonwoven media for the purpose of calculating the effective

contact angle between a fluid and the media

o Prepared bi-monthly reports for the sponsoring company

(Ahlstrom) since October 2007.

. Oil and Gas Industry (at Namvaran Co. Tehran, Iran)

o Process Engineer

. Responsible for fluid flow simulation and pipe sizing with

chemical engineering software such as Hysis and

complementary modules, Engineering, Procurement,

Construction, Commissioning (EPCC) Project,

. Responsible for flare network design in Oil Production and

Gas Gathering units with Flarenet software/ Basic

Engineering Design (E) project,

o Machinery Lead Engineer

. Responsible for design & selecting rotary machines based on

API, ASME, etc. industrial standards, basic engineering

design(E) project, Mansuri Oil Field Development,

. Responsible for feasibility study project, Semnan combined

cycle power plant,

. Responsible for design, selecting, purchasing, installation

of rotary machines projects in oil, gas and petroleum

projects based on API, ASME, etc. industrial standard,

Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning

(EPCC) project, 3rd natural gas fractioning in Bandar

Emam,

o CFD Engineer

. Conducted turbulent flow simulation in two air cooler

bundles in NGL 900/100 factory using Fluent CFD code

. Responsible for transient fluid flow and water hammer

simulation in pipelines with surge analysis software such

as AFT Impulse in oil, gas and petroleum industry.

. Parallel Processing for Fluid Flow Simulation (at SUT, Tehran, Iran)

o Collaborated in setting up the first parallel supercomputer

(network cluster of parallel PC's) in SUT

o Worked on improving performance of a parallel 3-D compressible

inviscid flow solver when running on a network of workstations

. Polymer Injection and Molding Industry (at Bushehr Polymer Industrial

Group, ARAS Co., Bushehr, Iran)

o As a plant manager, produced baby accessories such as baby

feeding bottle, baby rubber nipple, baby rubber and baby

pacifier in different styles

o Experience in Injection and Molding of polymer materials such as

Polypropylene (PP), Polycarbonate, Crystal and Silicon

. Teaching and Teaching Assistantships (at PGU, Bushehr, Iran and OSU,

Stillwater, OK, USA)

o As a visiting faculty, taught different mechanical engineering

courses in undergraduate level such as Fluid Mechanic, Computer

Programming, Gas Turbines, Steam Power Plants and Combustion

Engines for duration of three semesters at PGU

o Teacher Assistant (TA) of fluid mechanic during period of BSc

education for duration of four semester at PGU

o Teacher Assistant (TA) of heat transfer course in undergraduate

level during PhD education for duration of one semester at OSU

Employment History:

Multiple Engineering Positions (Oct. 2003-

Oct. 2006)

Namvaran Co., Tehran, Iran (www.namvaran.com)

Lecturer (Jan. 2002-Aug.

2004)

Mechanical Engineering Department

Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran (www.pgu.ac.ir)

Plant Manager (Nov. 2002-Oct.

2003)

Bushehr Polymer Industrial Group,

ARAS Co., Bushehr, Iran (www.bfpig.com)

Intern Researcher (Feb. 2001-

Jul. 2002)

NIRO Research Institute, Tehran, Iran (www.nri.ac.ir)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications:

. A. Ashari, T. M. Bucher, and H.V. Tafreshi, A Diffusion-Controlled

Boundary Condition for Modeling the Motion-Induced Fluid Release from

Partially-Saturated Fibrous Fabrics (in preparation)

. A. Ashari, T.M. Bucher, and H.V. Tafreshi, Effects of Fiber

Orientation and Microstructural Composition on Capillary Pressure of

Nonwoven Fibrous Media (in preparation)

. A. Ashari, M. Bucher, and H.V. Tafreshi, A Semi-Analytical Model for

Simulating Fluid Transport in Multi-Layered Fibrous Sheets Made up of

Solid and Porous Fibers, Computational Material Science (accepted)

. S. Fotovati, H.V. Tafreshi, A. Ashari, S.A. Hosseini, and B.

Pourdeyhimi, Analytical Expressions for Predicting Capture Efficiency

of Bimodal Fibrous Filters, Journal of Aerosol Science 41, 295 (2010)

. A. Ashari, T.M. Bucher, H.V. Tafreshi, M. A. Tahir, and M.S.A. Rahman,

Modeling Fluid Spread in Thin Fibrous Sheets: Effects of Fiber

Orientation, International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, 53, 1750

(2010)

. A. Ashari and H.V. Tafreshi, General Capillary Pressure and Relative

Permeability Expressions for Through-Plane Fluid Transport in Thin

Fibrous Sheets, Colloids and Surfaces A-Physicochemical and

Engineering Aspects 346, 114 (2009)

. A. Ashari and H.V. Tafreshi, A Two-Scale Modeling of Motion-Induced

Fluid release from Thin Fibrous Porous Media, Chemical Engineering

Science 64, 2067 (2009) [pic]

Graduate Courses:

Continuum Mechanic, Advanced Mathematic, Advanced Numerical Methods,

Advanced Fluid Mechanic, CFDI, CFDII, Advanced Thermodynamic, Viscous Flow,

Computational Heat Transfer, Turbulence Flow, Advanced Characteristic of

Materials, Fluid Transport in Porous Media (single phase), Two Phase Flow

in Porous Media, Advance Flow Control

Graduate Course Projects:

. Developed a 2-D unsteady heat conduction solver using implicit and

explicit schemes in finite difference

. Developed a 2-D flow solver via finite volume method with SIMPLE and

SIMPLEC algorithm in segregated and collocated pressure-velocity array

. Developed a 2-D unstructured mesh generator using advancing front

method

. Developed a bandwidth minimization algorithm in conductivity matrix

Computational Skills:

. Experienced with computational fluid dynamics packages Fluent (User

Define Functions), Gambit, GeoDict, and FlexPDE,

. Experienced with C, Fortran, MATLAB, and Mathematica programming

languages,

. Experienced with Microsoft Office,

. Familiar with Hysis (Process Engineering Design Software), AFC Impulse

(Simulation of Unsteady and Surge Flows in Pipe Lines), and

Solidworks,

. Familiar with Windows and Linux operating systems.

International Certificates:

. Turbine-driven centrifugal compressors, selection, purchasing and

testing for the petroleum industry from the Iranian Society of

Mechanical Engineers (ISME)

. Pre-delivery testing of centrifugal compressors based on API std. 617

and ASME PTC-10 from ISME

Leaderships, Membership and Honor Serves:

. Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Association- VCU- Vice

President- (Jan. 2008- Present)

. Phi Kappa Phi (Sep. 2009- Present)

. Student honor Council- VCU- (Jan-June 2008)

References:

. Dr. Hooman Vahedi Tafreshi, Qimonda Assistant Professor, Department of

Mechanical Engineering, Richmond, VA, USA, Email: abldmg@r.postjobfree.com,

Phone: 804-***-****

. Dr. Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, Caudill Eminent Professor, Virginia

Commonwealth University, Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Richmond, VA, USA, E-mail: abldmg@r.postjobfree.com, Phone: 804-***-****

. Dr. P. Worth Longest, Qimonda Associate Professor, Virginia

Commonwealth University, Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Richmond, VA, USA, E-mail: abldmg@r.postjobfree.com, Phone: 804-***-****

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