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Mathematics
Pakistan
2026

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Mathematics

D-Index
56
Citations
9802
World Ranking
745
National Ranking
3

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
61
Citations
12184
World Ranking
655
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mathematics in Pakistan Leader Award
  • 1998 - Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences

Overview

Saleem Asghar is affiliated with COMSATS University Islamabad in Pakistan, focusing on Environmental Science with contributions across several subfields, including Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering, and Plant Science.

Their research spans several main topics, notably:

  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • Enzyme-mediated dye degradation
  • Microbial Metabolism and Applications
  • Arsenic contamination and mitigation
  • Plasma Applications and Diagnostics

Recent publications by Saleem Asghar include:

  • Optimization of Simultaneous Nutrients and Chemical Oxygen Demand Removal from Anaerobically Digested Liquid Dairy Manure in a Two-Step Fed Sequencing Batch Reactor System Using Taguchi Method and Grey Relational Analysis, 2023, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology
  • Leveraging molecular docking to understand Congo red degradation by Staphylococcus caprae MB400, 2023, Archives of Microbiology
  • Performance evaluation and optimization of simultaneous phosphorus and nitrogen removal from anaerobically digested liquid-dairy-manure using an intermittently-aerated-extended-idle sequencing batch reactor, 2023, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
  • Mineralization of Rhodamine B dye in water using dielectric barrier plasma jet with process optimization, 2025, Results in Engineering

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Lide Chen (2 publications)
  • Brian He (2 publications)
  • Zarrin Basharat (1 publication)
  • Azra Yasmin (1 publication)
  • Md. Mokter Hossain (1 publication)

Saleem Asghar has been recognized as a Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences since 1998.

Best Publications

  • Stagnation-point flow of a nanofluid towards a stretching sheet

    M. Mustafa;T. Hayat;T. Hayat;I. Pop;S. Asghar

  • Homotopy analysis of MHD flows of an Oldroyd 8-constant fluid

    T. Hayat;M. Khan;S. Asghar

  • Comparison between the HAM and HPM solutions of thin film flows of non-Newtonian fluids on a moving belt

    M. Sajid;M. Sajid;T. Hayat;S. Asghar

  • Homotopy Perturbation Method and Axisymmetric Flow over a Stretching Sheet

    P. D. Ariel;T. Hayat;S. Asghar

  • Hall effects on peristaltic flow of a Maxwell fluid in a porous medium

    T. Hayat;N. Ali;S. Asghar

  • Effects of mass transfer on MHD flow of casson fluid with chemical reaction and suction

    S. A. Shehzad;T. Hayat;M. Qasim;S. Asghar

  • Some simple flows of an Oldroyd-B fluid

    T. Hayat;A.M. Siddiqui;S. Asghar

  • Effects of radiation and magnetic field on the mixed convection stagnation-point flow over a vertical stretching sheet in a porous medium

    T. Hayat;Z. Abbas;I. Pop;S. Asghar

  • On the analytic solution of the steady flow of a fourth grade fluid

    M. Sajid;M. Sajid;T. Hayat;S. Asghar

  • The flow of an elastico-viscous fluid past a stretching sheet with partial slip

    P. D. Ariel;T. Hayat;S. Asghar

  • The influence of thermal radiation on MHD flow of a second grade fluid

    T. Hayat;Z. Abbas;M. Sajid;M. Sajid;S. Asghar

  • Slip effects on the peristaltic transport of MHD fluid with variable viscosity

    N. Ali;Q. Hussain;T. Hayat;S. Asghar

  • Peristaltic transport of a third-order fluid in a circular cylindrical tube

    T. Hayat;T. Hayat;Yongqi Wang;A. M. Siddiqui;K. Hutter

  • Flow of nanofluid past a Riga plate

    Adeel Ahmad;Adeel Ahmad;Saleem Asghar;Saleem Asghar;Sumaira Afzal

  • On the MHD flow of a second grade fluid in a porous channel

    T. Hayat;Naveed Ahmed;M. Sajid;S. Asghar

  • Exact solution for MHD flow of a generalized Oldroyd-B fluid with modified Darcy’s law

    M. Khan;T. Hayat;S. Asghar

  • Periodic unidirectional flows of a viscoelastic fluid with the fractional Maxwell model

    T Hayat;S Nadeem;S Asghar

  • Peristaltic transport of an Oldroyd-B fluid in a planar channel

    Tasawar Hayat;Tasawar Hayat;Yongqi Wang;Kolumban Hutter;S. Asghar

  • Radiative effects in a three-dimensional flow of MHD Eyring-Powell fluid

    T. Hayat;M. Awais;S. Asghar

  • Non-similar analytic solution for MHD flow and heat transfer in a third-order fluid over a stretching sheet

    M. Sajid;M. Sajid;T. Hayat;S. Asghar

  • Unsteady flow with heat and mass transfer of a third grade fluid over a stretching surface in the presence of chemical reaction

    T. Hayat;M. Mustafa;S. Asghar

Frequent Co-Authors

Tasawar Hayat
Tasawar Hayat Quaid-i-Azam University
Asim Siddiqui
Asim Siddiqui Pennsylvania State University
Md. Anwar Hossain
Md. Anwar Hossain University of Dhaka
Muhammad Sajid
Muhammad Sajid International Islamic University, Islamabad
Rahmat Ellahi
Rahmat Ellahi International Islamic University, Islamabad
Sohail Nadeem
Sohail Nadeem Quaid-i-Azam University
Masood Khan
Masood Khan Quaid-i-Azam University
Bashir Ahmad
Bashir Ahmad King Abdulaziz University
Zaheer Abbas
Zaheer Abbas Islamia University of Bahawalpur

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