Engineer Power Plant

FARID BEHZAD, PHD, E.I.T.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Advantix Systems 03/2014-present

CFD Engineer/R&D Engineer

As the company only fluid expert, reported directly to CTO and supported multiple product teams through CFD simulations

to solve all engineering problems related to airflow, multiphase flow and, heat and mass transfer. Accomplishments include:

• Identified 75% reduction in heat loss. Developed UDFs joint with ANSYS Fluent for numerical simulation of

heat/mass transport and distribution of aqueous two-phase flow inside the containment sumps of the units to reduce the

energy loss.

• Increase air flow capacity of air conditioning units up to 35%. Optimized airflow pattern to reduce pressure drop

through CFD analysis for four different product lines of the liquid desiccant air conditioning units’ components (coils, fan

housings and, mass exchanger) for variety range of unit capacities (500-22,500 CFM).

• Recognized/eliminated the source of carry-over liquid desiccant after the heat/mass exchanger. The proposed

modified manifold led to negligible carry over and the proposed design was patented (pending).

• Reduced the cost of heat exchangers and mass exchanger up to 25%. Leading combination of experimental tests and

CFD numerical analysis plans to resize/reselect the evaporators, condensers, air-finned coils and media beds.

• Collaborating with design engineers and test engineers to launch of new generation 22,500 CFM liquid desiccant air

conditioning unit.

• Assessed test results, developed correlations from experimental data and suggested corrective actions as required to

optimize air flow pattern and heat/mass transfer.

• Daily collaboration with refrigeration, heat transfer, manufacturing and control engineers as well as other key areas

of the organization to creatively and jointly develop the overall optimal solutions.

Clarkson University 01/2010-02/2014

CFD Researcher/Code Developer

Investigation of dynamics of flow over airfoils and turbine blades in favor of flow control and drag reduction. The project

was founded by The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

• Developed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes for detailed flow simulation of a NACA0015 airfoil in the

turbulent regime, up to a Reynolds of 100,000. (C++ code)

• Designed control algorithms for flow over NACA0015 airfoil using characteristic flow structures. The results

showed up to 7% reduction in drag and increase in lift force.

• Performed reduced order CFD simulations using modes. Reduced cost by factor of 20 for high Reynolds number

flows.

• Developed a computational method to extract and study the main fluid structures (coherent) of the flow.

• Wrote Finite Element and POD-ROM code to investigate the numerical error of non-linear reduced order models.

Applied the static condensation FEA numerical method to reduced order models of heat transfer in electrical chips.

• Developed a reduced-order modeling method based on the energy norm.

• Sped up simulations by a factor of 20. Numerically implemented static condensation of reduced order models in

parallel.

Behin-Kavan Energy Company 06/2006-12/2009

CFD engineer / Software Developer

Small software development firm that focused on energy conservation, as well as flow and heat transfer computation

analysis. Project manager for teams of five to six on each project assigned. Client list included IFCO.

• Developed specific software for sustainable energy modeling of multi-residential complexes using C#.

• Developed cost estimation and Return On Investment (ROI) code of energy conservation for HVAC systems of

residential buildings. Provided BFGS optimization and energy analysis of fuel consumption for residential engine room.

Renewable Energy Organization (SUNA) (Internship) 03/2005-01/2006

Mechanical Engineer and Software Programmer

• Prepared engineering services such as drag estimation over helical turbine for tidal energy potential measurements

around south Qeshm island in Persian Gulf.

• Reviewed the design of gearbox of wind turbine. Attended practically in service and repair of wind turbine to obtain

technical skills necessary for maintenance of wind turbines for Manjil wind farm (51 wind turbines 300 kW to 660 kW)

Farab Company 05/2003-01/2004

Intern, Programmer and Engineer in Thermo Fluid Group

• Reviewed ASME and JSME standards for fire protection and lubrication systems used in hydropower plants.

• Created industrial software to preliminary design of lubrication system at hydropower plants. Initial P&ID draft was

the output of the software. The software was tested for hydropower plants Karun-1 (2000 MW) and Karkheh (520 MW).

EDUCATION

ClarksonUniversityPotsdam, NY

Created using latex2rtf 2.3.3 r1230 (released Feb 26, 2013) on Tue Jul 09 20:46:49 2013 • Ph.D. Mechanical and Aeronautical

Engineering, 2010-2014 GPA: 4.0/4.0

AmirkabirUniversity of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran

Created using latex2rtf 2.3.3 r1230 (released Feb 26, 2013) on Tue Jul 09 20:46:49 2013• M.Sc., Mechanical Eng., 2005-2008 GPA:

3.43/4.0

Created using latex2rtf 2.3.3 r1230 (released Feb 26, 2013) on Tue Jul 09 20:46:49 2013 • B.Sc., Mechanical Eng. 2000-2005 GPA:

3.06/4.0, Ranked as 3rd student out of 34

PART TIME CFD CONSULTANCY

• Two phase flow CFD simulation adjoined to a hydrodynamics/thermal turbulence model was derived to investigate

velocity/temperature fluctuation fields as well as the hydrodynamics/thermal interactions between the phases. The code

was provided for simulation of Oil/Gas pipeline networks.

• Simulated burner of combustion furnace to study the structures of the hydro/thermal turbulent flow. Reynolds up to

10000 based on diameter of burner.

• Developed software to test the reliability of steam power plant feedwater heater based on ASME PTC (Performance

test codes) 12.1. The software was employed in Shahid Rajaee Thermal Power Plant (1000 MW).

• CFD simulation in favor of investigation of different near wall models of two-equation turbulence models.

• CFD simulation of hydrodynamics/thermal field of two dimensional turbulent two-phase stratified gas-liquid pipe

flows.

• CFD simulation of nanofluid heat transfer in a pipe considering the Brownian diffusion and the thermophoresis as

representative of the slip between the phases.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

CFD/Thermal Experiences:

• Flow control in favor of drag reduction of flows over bluff bodies, Fluid’s main structures decomposition and

interaction.

• Multiphase flows including Eulerian, Lagrangian, VOF, Multi species, Stratified fluids flows and, Mixtures.

• Heat and Mass transfer of Air coils, Heat Exchangers, ICs’ Conduction, Condensation, Fans and, Media beds.

Software:

• ANSYS-Fluent including UDFs, COMSOL including LiveLink, Star CCM+.

• Designmodeler, SpaceClaim, Autodesk, Solidworks, Pro/Engineer.

• ANSYS Meshing, Gambit, Tecplot, Data Tank, FieldView, CFD-post.

• MATLAB, Maple, Mathematica, LabView.

Programming:

• C++, FORTRAN, Python, GNU Bash, Perl, C#, Microsoft SQL Server, Familiar with UNIX Environment.

Libraries & Packages:

• Message Passing Interface (MPI), Blitz++, libbinio, PETSc, NumPy, LAPACK, BLAS, IMSL.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Proper-Orthogonal-Decomposition-Based Reduced Order Models of Transient Flows. by F. Behzad, B. T. Helenbrooki,

G. Ahmadi, Journal of Computational Physics, 2015 (submitted)

•On the Sensitivity and Accuracy of Proper-Orthogonal-Decomposition-Based Reduced Order Models. by F. Behzad, B. T.

Helenbrooki, G. Ahmadi,Computer & Fluids, 2012 Volume 106, 5 January 2015, Pages 19–3.

•Thermal Stochastic Collision in Turbulent Gas-Solid Pipe Flows by F. Behzad, Z. Mansoori, M. Saffar-Avval, H.

BasiratTabrizi. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 53, Issues 5, February 2010, Pages 1175–1182.

•On the reduced order modeling of high Reynolds flowsby F. Behzad, B. T. Helenbrook, G. Ahmadi.American Physical

Society, 65th Annual Fall DFD Meeting (APS2012)

• On the reduced order modeling based on proper orthogonal decomposition by F. Behzad, B. T. Helenbrook, G. Ahmadi.

ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting (FEDSM2012)

•Turbulent Thermal Field Simulation in Two Phase Flows Using Statistical Particle Collision Model by ZohrehMansoori,

FariduddinBehzad, Majid Saffar- Avval, PayamRamezani, GoodarzAhmadi6th International Conference on Multiphase Flow,

ICMF 2007, Leipzig, Germany, July 9 – 13, 2007

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