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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
64
Citations
17647
World Ranking
537
National Ranking
238

Materials Science

D-Index
61
Citations
14599
World Ranking
6726
National Ranking
1695

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to the understanding of phonon physics and thermal transport in fluids and solids and for pioneering developments in the semiclassical simulation of electronic and phonon transport
  • 2010 - James Harry Potter Gold Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2002 - Heat Transfer Memorial Award, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Massoud Kaviany is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of engineering, with extensive contributions to subfields including mechanical engineering, materials chemistry, computational mechanics, electrical and electronic engineering, and aerospace engineering.

The scientist's work focuses on several key topics, notably:

  • Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies
  • Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer and Optimization
  • Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies
  • Fluid Dynamics and Mixing
  • Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
  • Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies

Massoud Kaviany has published numerous articles in academic journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Role of quenching method on cooling rate and microstructure of steels: Variations in coolant and its flow arrangement," 2022, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • "Role of substrate thermal conductivity and vapor pressure in dropwise condensation," 2020, Applied Thermal Engineering
  • "Analytic characterization and operational limits of a hybrid two-phase mechanically pumped fluid loop based on the capillary pumped loop," 2021, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • "Flow-boiling canopy wick capillary-viscous limit," 2021, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • "Surface evaporation enhancement using porous metasurfaces: 3-D multiscale, open-system wick evaporators," 2023, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Kaviany include William Worek, M Ally, Adrian Bejan, T. Butcher, and Yaroslav Chudnovsky. These collaborations have been recurrent across multiple publications.

The scientist's research has been published primarily in the following venues:

  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Heat Transfer
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Applied Thermal Engineering
  • AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2021 Forum

Massoud Kaviany has received several awards recognizing their contributions to the field. These include being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011, the James Harry Potter Gold Medal by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2010, the Heat Transfer Memorial Award by the same society in 2002, and a fellowship from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1992.

Best Publications

  • Principles of heat transfer in porous media

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  • Effective diffusivity and water-saturation distribution in single- and two-layer PEMFC diffusion medium

    Jin Hyun Nam;Massoud Kaviany

  • Pool-boiling CHF enhancement by modulated porous-layer coating: theory and experiment

    Scott G Liter;Massoud Kaviany

  • Ab initio and molecular dynamics predictions for electron and phonon transport in bismuth telluride

    Bao-Ling Huang;Massoud Kaviany

  • Quantitative validation of the Boltzmann transport equation phonon thermal conductivity model under the single-mode relaxation time approximation

    A. J. H. McGaughey;M. Kaviany

  • Laminar flow through a porous channel bounded by isothermal parallel plates

    M. Kaviany

  • Principles of Heat Transfer

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  • Slip and no-slip velocity boundary conditions at interface of porous, plain media

    M. Sahraoui;Massoud Kaviany

  • Two-medium treatment of heat transfer in porous media: numerical results for effective properties

    M. Quintard;M. Kaviany;S. Whitaker

  • Thermal conductivity decomposition and analysis using molecular dynamics simulations. Part I. Lennard-Jones argon

    A.J.H. McGaughey;M. Kaviany

  • Microporous layer for water morphology control in PEMFC

    Jin Hyun Nam;Kyu-Jin Lee;Gi-Suk Hwang;Charn-Jung Kim

  • Thermal conductivity decomposition and analysis using molecular dynamics simulations Part II. Complex silica structures

    A.J.H. McGaughey;M. Kaviany

  • Micro-thermoelectric cooler: interfacial effects on thermal and electrical transport

    Luciana W. da Silva;Massoud Kaviany

  • Heat Transfer Physics

    Massoud Kaviany

  • Thermal conductivity of a metal-organic framework (MOF-5): Part II. Measurement

    Baoling Huang;Z. Ni;A. Millward;A.J.H. Mcgaughey

  • Thermal conductivity of metal-organic framework 5 (MOF-5): Part I. Molecular dynamics simulations

    Baoling Huang;A.J.H. McGaughey;M. Kaviany

  • Nonequilibrium in the transport of heat and reactants in combustion in porous media

    A.A.M Oliveira;M Kaviany

  • Principles of Convective Heat Transfer

    Massoud Kaviany

  • Modelling radiative heat transfer in packed beds

    B. P. Singh;Massoud Kaviany

  • Effect of Pore Structure, Randomness and Size on Effective Mass Diffusivity

    Minas M. Mezedur;Massoud Kaviany;Wayne Moore

  • Temperature dependent band gap in PbX (X = S, Se, Te)

    Zachary M. Gibbs;Hyoungchul Kim;Hyoungchul Kim;Heng Wang;Robert L. White

  • Direct simulation vs volume-averaged treatment of adiabatic, premixed flame in a porous medium

    M. Sahraoui;Massoud Kaviany

Frequent Co-Authors

Moo Hwan Kim
Moo Hwan Kim Pohang University of Science and Technology
Baoling Huang
Baoling Huang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Xiulin Ruan
Xiulin Ruan Purdue University West Lafayette
Ctirad Uher
Ctirad Uher University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Alan J. H. McGaughey
Alan J. H. McGaughey Carnegie Mellon University
Ho Seon Ahn
Ho Seon Ahn Incheon National University
Khalil Najafi
Khalil Najafi University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Anton Van der Ven
Anton Van der Ven University of California, Santa Barbara
Youngsuk Nam
Youngsuk Nam Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
John W. Halloran
John W. Halloran University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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