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Gholamhassan Najafi

Gholamhassan Najafi

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Iran
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
78
Citations
21233
World Ranking
241
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Iran Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Iran Leader Award

Overview

Gholamhassan Najafi is affiliated with Tarbiat Modares University in Iran and has a substantial body of research primarily in the field of engineering. Their scholarly contributions span multiple subfields, including mechanical engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, biomedical engineering, fluid flow and transfer processes, and materials chemistry.

The research topics covered by Najafi focus notably on biodiesel production and applications, solar thermal and photovoltaic systems, advanced combustion engine technologies, solar-powered water purification methods, nanofluid flow and heat transfer, photovoltaic system optimization techniques, and heat transfer and optimization.

Najafi has published numerous articles in several frequent venues such as Sustainability, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, Fuel, SSRN Electronic Journal, and the IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering.

Frequent collaborators include Barat Ghobadian, Mazlan Mohamed, Rizalman Mamat, Shiva Gorjian, and Mostafa Esmaeili Shayan, reflecting a network of partnerships in related scientific inquiries.

Some of Najafi's recent papers are:

  • Impact of COVID-19 on the social, economic, environmental and energy domains: Lessons learnt from a global pandemic (2020), Sustainable Production and Consumption
  • A review of industrial waste heat recovery system for power generation with Organic Rankine Cycle: Recent challenges and future outlook (2020), Journal of Cleaner Production
  • A review on opportunities for implementation of solar energy technologies in agricultural greenhouses (2020), Journal of Cleaner Production
  • A Review of Hydrogen as a Fuel in Internal Combustion Engines (2021), Energies
  • Impeller shape-optimization of stirred-tank reactor: CFD and fluid structure interaction analyses (2020), Chemical Engineering Journal

Best Publications

  • Lignocellulosic biomass to bioethanol, a comprehensive review with a focus on pretreatment

    Sohrab Haghighi Mood;Amir Hossein Golfeshan;Meisam Tabatabaei;Gholamreza Salehi Jouzani

  • Current biodiesel production technologies: A comparative review

    Ahmad Abbaszaadeh;Barat Ghobadian;Mohammad Reza Omidkhah;Gholamhassan Najafi

  • Diesel engine performance and exhaust emission analysis using waste cooking biodiesel fuel with an artificial neural network

    B. Ghobadian;H. Rahimi;A.M. Nikbakht;G. Najafi

  • Impact of COVID-19 on the social, economic, environmental and energy domains: Lessons learnt from a global pandemic.

    M Mofijur;I M Rizwanul Fattah;Asraful Alam;A B M Saiful Islam

  • Performance and exhaust emissions of a gasoline engine with ethanol blended gasoline fuels using artificial neural network

    G. Najafi;B. Ghobadian;T. Tavakoli;D.R. Buttsworth

  • Effects of biodiesel from different feedstocks on engine performance and emissions: A review

    Wan Nor Maawa Wan Ghazali;Rizalman Mamat;Haji Hassan Masjuki;Gholamhassan Najafi

  • Recent progress on hybrid nanofluids in heat transfer applications: A comprehensive review

    Nor Azwadi Che Sidik;Isa Muhammad Adamu;Muhammad Mahmud Jamil;G.H.R. Kefayati

  • The Enhancement of Effective Thermal Conductivity and Effective Dynamic Viscosity of Nanofluids – A Review

    W.H. Azmi;K.V. Sharma;Rizalman Mamat;G. Najafi

  • Green fuel as alternative fuel for diesel engine: A review

    Mohd Fahmi Othman;Abdullah Adam;G. Najafi;Rizalman Mamat

  • A review of industrial waste heat recovery system for power generation with Organic Rankine Cycle: Recent challenges and future outlook

    Reyhaneh Loni;Gholamhassan Najafi;Evangelos Bellos;Fatemeh Rajaee

  • Application of artificial neural networks for the prediction of performance and exhaust emissions in SI engine using ethanol- gasoline blends

    M. Kiani Deh Kiani;B. Ghobadian;T. Tavakoli;A.M. Nikbakht

  • Alcohol based automotive fuels from first four alcohol family in compression and spark ignition engine: A review on engine performance and exhaust emissions

    I.M. Yusri;R. Mamat;G. Najafi;A. Razman

  • A review on opportunities for implementation of solar energy technologies in agricultural greenhouses

    Shiva Gorjian;Francesco Calise;Karunesh Kant;Shamim Ahamed

  • Solar energy in Iran: Current state and outlook

    G. Najafi;B. Ghobadian;R. Mamat;T. Yusaf

  • Effects of physicochemical properties of biodiesel fuel blends with alcohol on diesel engine performance and exhaust emissions: A review

    M. S.M. Zaharin;Nik Rosli Abdullah;G. Najafi;H. Sharudin

  • Diesel engine combustion characteristics using nano-particles in biodiesel-diesel blends

    G. Najafi

  • Waste fish oil biodiesel as a source of renewable fuel in Iran

    R. Yahyaee;B. Ghobadian;G. Najafi

  • Experimental Investigation of Thermal Conductivity and Electrical Conductivity of Al2O3 Nanofluid in Water - Ethylene Glycol Mixture for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Application

    Irnie Zakaria;W.H. Azmi;W.A.N.W. Mohamed;Rizalman Mamat

  • Potential of bioethanol production from agricultural wastes in Iran

    G. Najafi;B. Ghobadian;T. Tavakoli;T. Yusaf

  • Novel environmentally friendly fuel: The effects of nanographene oxide additives on the performance and emission characteristics of diesel engines fuelled with Ailanthus altissima biodiesel

    S.S. Hoseini;G. Najafi;B. Ghobadian;R. Mamat

  • Potential of biogas production in Iran

    M. Mohammadi Maghanaki;B. Ghobadian;G. Najafi;R. Janzadeh Galogah

Frequent Co-Authors

Barat Ghobadian
Barat Ghobadian Tarbiat Modares University
Rizalman Mamat
Rizalman Mamat Universiti Malaysia Pahang
Talal Yusaf
Talal Yusaf Aviation Australia
Nor Azwadi Che Sidik
Nor Azwadi Che Sidik University of Technology Malaysia
W.H. Azmi
W.H. Azmi Universiti Malaysia Pahang
M. M. Noor
M. M. Noor Universiti Malaysia Pahang
Evangelos Bellos
Evangelos Bellos University of West Attica
Mohsen Sharifpur
Mohsen Sharifpur University of the Witwatersrand
Haji Hassan Masjuki
Haji Hassan Masjuki International Islamic University Malaysia
Saeid Minaei
Saeid Minaei Tarbiat Modares University

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