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Mohsen Sharifpur is a researcher affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Their research spans mainly the fields of Engineering and Energy, with substantial contributions to subfields such as Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Computational Mechanics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The primary focus of Sharifpur's work involves the study of nanofluid flow and heat transfer, solar thermal and photovoltaic systems, and various heat transfer mechanisms. Other significant topics in their research portfolio include heat transfer and optimization, fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, phase change materials research, and solar-powered water purification methods.

Sharifpur has published extensively in several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
  • Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments
  • Journal of Energy Storage
  • Sustainability
  • Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Sharifpur are:

  • Nanofluids: Physical phenomena, applications in thermal systems and the environment effects - a critical review, 2021, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • A review of magnetic field influence on natural convection heat transfer performance of nanofluids in square cavities, 2020, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
  • Influence of base fluid, temperature, and concentration on the thermophysical properties of hybrid nanofluids of alumina-ferrofluid: experimental data, modeling through enhanced ANN, ANFIS, and curve fitting, 2020, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
  • Natural convective heat transfer and entropy generation of alumina/water nanofluid in a tilted enclosure with an elliptic constant temperature: Applying magnetic field and radiation effects, 2020, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
  • Low-cost bilayered structure for improving the performance of solar stills: Performance/cost analysis and water yield prediction using machine learning, 2021, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments

Sharifpur has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Josua P. Meyer
  • Jawed Mustafa
  • Saeed Alqaed
  • Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi
  • Solomon O. Giwa

This profile reflects a research career largely focused on thermal systems enhanced by nanomaterials and renewable energy technologies, supported by a consistent publication record in specialized engineering and energy journals.

Best Publications

  • The Viscosity of Nanofluids: A Review of the Theoretical, Empirical, and Numerical Models

    Josua P. Meyer;Saheed Adewale Adio;Mohsen Sharifpur;Paul N. Nwosu

  • A Review of Thermal Conductivity Models for Nanofluids

    Hikmet Ş. Aybar;Mohsen Sharifpur;M. Reza Azizian;Mehdi Mehrabi

  • Nanofluids: Physical phenomena, applications in thermal systems and the environment effects- a critical review

    Ahmad Hajatzadeh Pordanjani;Saeed Aghakhani;Masoud Afrand;Mohsen Sharifpur;Mohsen Sharifpur;Mohsen Sharifpur

  • Influence of base fluid, temperature, and concentration on the thermophysical properties of hybrid nanofluids of alumina–ferrofluid: experimental data, modeling through enhanced ANN, ANFIS, and curve fitting

    S. O. Giwa;M. Sharifpur;M. Goodarzi;H. Alsulami

  • A review of magnetic field influence on natural convection heat transfer performance of nanofluids in square cavities

    S. O. Giwa;M. Sharifpur;M. Sharifpur;M. H. Ahmadi;J. P. Meyer

  • Natural convective heat transfer and entropy generation of alumina/water nanofluid in a tilted enclosure with an elliptic constant temperature: Applying magnetic field and radiation effects

    Saeed Aghakhani;Ahmad Hajatzadeh Pordanjani;Masoud Afrand;Mohsen Sharifpur

  • Experimental investigation on cavity flow natural convection of Al2O3–water nanofluids ☆

    Hadi Ghodsinezhad;Mohsen Sharifpur;Josua Petrus Meyer

  • Experimental study of thermo-convection performance of hybrid nanofluids of Al2O3-MWCNT/water in a differentially heated square cavity

    Solomon O. Giwa;Mohsen Sharifpur;Josua P. Meyer

  • Thermal performance enhancement in heat exchangers using active and passive techniques: a detailed review

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  • Thermodynamic and economic analysis of performance evaluation of all the thermal power plants: A review

    Mohammad H. Ahmadi;Mohammad Alhuyi Nazari;Milad Sadeghzadeh;Fathollah Pourfayaz

  • Low-cost bilayered structure for improving the performance of solar stills: Performance/cost analysis and water yield prediction using machine learning

    Ammar H. Elsheikh;S. Shanmugan;Ravishankar Sathyamurthy;Amrit Kumar Thakur

  • A new model for density of nanofluids including nanolayer

    Mohsen Sharifpur;Saboura Yousefi;Josua Petrus Meyer

  • Effect of nanoparticle shape on the performance of thermal systems utilizing nanofluids: A critical review

    Iman Zahmatkesh;Mikhail Sheremet;Liu Yang;Saeed Zeinali Heris

  • Numerical simulation of the effect of battery distance and inlet and outlet length on the cooling of cylindrical lithium-ion batteries and overall performance of thermal management system

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  • Experimental study on natural convection of MWCNT-water nanofluids in a square enclosure

    I.D. Garbadeen;M. Sharifpur;J.M. Slabber;J.P. Meyer

  • Experimental Investigation on Stability, Viscosity, and Electrical Conductivity of Water-Based Hybrid Nanofluid of MWCNT-Fe2O3.

    Solomon O. Giwa;Mohsen Sharifpur;Mohammad H. Ahmadi;S. M. Sohel Murshed

  • Numerical study on performance of double-fluid parabolic trough solar collector occupied with hybrid non-Newtonian nanofluids: Investigation of effects of helical absorber tube using deep learning

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  • Thermal Conductivity Enhancement of Metal Oxide Nanofluids: A Critical Review

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  • CFD modelling of heat transfer and pressure drops for nanofluids through vertical tubes in laminar flow by Lagrangian and Eulerian approaches

    Mostafa Mahdavi;Mohsen Sharifpur;Josua P. Meyer

  • Experimental investigation and model development for thermal conductivity of α-Al2O3-glycerol nanofluids

    Mohsen Sharifpur;Ntumba Tshimanga;Josua P. Meyer;O. Manca

  • Experimental investigation and model development for effective viscosity of Al2O3–glycerol nanofluids by using dimensional analysis and GMDH-NN methods

    Mohsen Sharifpur;Saheed Adewale Adio;Josua Petrus Meyer

  • Thermodynamic evaluation and multi-objective optimization of molten carbonate fuel cell-supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle hybrid system

    Mohammad Ali Jokar;Mohammad H. Ahmadi;Mohsen Sharifpur;Josua P. Meyer

  • Viscosity of nanofluids based on an artificial intelligence model

    M. Mehrabi;Mohsen Sharifpur;Josua P. Meyer

  • Application of the FCM-based neuro-fuzzy inference system and genetic algorithm-polynomial neural network approaches to modelling the thermal conductivity of alumina–water nanofluids

    M. Mehrabi;Mohsen Sharifpur;Josua P. Meyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Josua P. Meyer
Josua P. Meyer Stellenbosch University
Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi
Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi Shahrood University of Technology
S. Mohammad Sajadi
S. Mohammad Sajadi Cihan University-Erbil
Milad Sadeghzadeh
Milad Sadeghzadeh University of Tehran
Alibek Issakhov
Alibek Issakhov Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Omid Mahian
Omid Mahian Xi'an Jiaotong University
Somchai Wongwises
Somchai Wongwises King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
A. Muthu Manokar
A. Muthu Manokar SRM TRP Engineering College
Ravishankar Sathyamurthy
Ravishankar Sathyamurthy King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
S. M. Sohel Murshed
S. M. Sohel Murshed University of Lisbon

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