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D-Index
41
Citations
7980
World Ranking
1897
National Ranking
713

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For experimentally validated thermal hydraulic analyses of multiphase flow fields for nuclear reactor operations.
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2003 - Gold George Westinghouse Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Yassin A. Hassan is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily lies in the field of Engineering, with significant contributions in Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics covered by Yassin A. Hassan include:

  • Nuclear reactor physics and engineering
  • Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics
  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Heat transfer and supercritical fluids
  • Nuclear Materials and Properties
  • Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies
  • Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are:

  • Joseph Seo
  • Rodolfo Vaghetto
  • Elia Merzari
  • N. K. Anand
  • Hansol Kim

The venues where Yassin A. Hassan has frequently published include:

  • Nuclear Engineering and Design
  • Physics of Fluids
  • Nuclear Technology
  • International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
  • Transactions of the American Nuclear Society - Volume 123

Recent publications by Yassin A. Hassan reflect a focus on fluid dynamics, turbulent flows, and nuclear reactor simulations:

  • "Sneezing and asymptomatic virus transmission", 2020, Physics of Fluids
  • "Toward Exascale: Overview of Large Eddy Simulations and Direct Numerical Simulations of Nuclear Reactor Flows with the Spectral Element Method in Nek5000", 2020, Nuclear Technology
  • "Experimental investigation of turbulent wake flows in a helically wrapped rod bundle in presence of localized blockages", 2020, Physics of Fluids
  • "RANS simulations for transition and turbulent flow regimes in wire-wrapped rod bundles", 2021, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
  • "Feasibility of full-core pin resolved CFD simulations of small modular reactor with momentum sources", 2021, Nuclear Engineering and Design

Yassin A. Hassan has been recognized with several awards throughout their career:

  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2019) for experimentally validated thermal hydraulic analyses of multiphase flow fields for nuclear reactor operations
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2008)
  • Gold George Westinghouse Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2003)
  • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1996)

Best Publications

  • A two-equation turbulence model of turbulent bubbly flows

    A.A. Troshko;Y.A. Hassan

  • A comparative study of direct-forcing immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann methods for stationary complex boundaries

    Shin K. Kang;Yassin A. Hassan

  • Flow visualization in a pebble bed reactor experiment using PIV and refractive index matching techniques

    Yassin A. Hassan;E.E. Dominguez-Ontiveros

  • SIMULTANEOUS VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS OF BOTH COMPONENTS OF A TWO-PHASE FLOW USING PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY

    Y.A. Hassan;T.K. Blanchat;C.H. Seeley;R.E. Canaan

  • Sneezing and asymptomatic virus transmission

    Giacomo Busco;Se Ro Yang;Joseph Seo;Yassin A. Hassan

  • New tracking algorithm for particle image velocimetry

    K. Okamoto;Y. A. Hassan;W. D. Schmidl

  • Full-field bubbly flow velocity measurements using a multiframe particle tracking technique

    Y. A. Hassan;R. E. Canaan

  • Approximation of turbulent conditional averages by stochastic estimation

    R. J. Adrian;B. G. Jones;M. K. Chung;Yassin Hassan

  • Large eddy simulation in pebble bed gas cooled core reactors

    Yassin A. Hassan

  • Discussion of proposed mechanisms of thermal conductivity enhancement in nanofluids

    Chu Nie;W.H. Marlow;Y.A. Hassan

  • A direct-forcing immersed boundary method for the thermal lattice Boltzmann method

    Shin K. Kang;Yassin A. Hassan

  • The effect of lattice models within the lattice Boltzmann method in the simulation of wall-bounded turbulent flows

    Shin K. Kang;Yassin A. Hassan

  • Non-intrusive experimental investigation of flow behavior inside a 5 × 5 rod bundle with spacer grids using PIV and MIR

    Elvis E. Dominguez-Ontiveros;Yassin A. Hassan

  • Experimental benchmark data for PWR rod bundle with spacer-grids

    Elvis E. Dominguez-Ontiveros;Yassin A. Hassan;Michael E. Conner;Zeses Karoutas

  • Stereoscopic particle image velocimetry measurements of flow in a rod bundle with a spacer grid and mixing vanes at a low Reynolds number

    Thien Nguyen;Yassin Hassan

  • Interfacial complexation explains anomalous diffusion in nanofluids.

    Serdar Ozturk;Yassin A. Hassan;Victor M. Ugaz

  • Large eddy simulation of turbulent crossflow in tube bundles

    H.R. Barsamian;Y.A. Hassan

  • PIV flow visualisation using particle tracking techniques

    Y A Hassan;T K Blanchat;C H Seeley

  • Improvement of the subcooled boiling model for low-pressure conditions in thermal-hydraulic codes

    Sridhar Hari;Yassin A. Hassan

  • Stereoscopic PIV measurements of near-wall flow in a tightly packed rod bundle with wire spacers

    Thien Nguyen;Nolan Goth;Philip Jones;Rodolfo Vaghetto

  • Hydraulic Benchmark Data for PWR Mixing Vane Grid

    Michael E. Conner;Yassin A. Hassan;Elvis E. Dominguez-Ontiveros

  • PTV experiments of subcooled boiling flow through a vertical rectangular channel

    C.E. Estrada-Perez;Y.A. Hassan

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Fischer
Paul Fischer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sharath S. Girimaji
Sharath S. Girimaji Texas A&M University
Ronald J. Adrian
Ronald J. Adrian Arizona State University
Michael L. Corradini
Michael L. Corradini University of Wisconsin–Madison
Vincent Mousseau
Vincent Mousseau CentraleSupélec
Dirk Lucas
Dirk Lucas Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Djamel Lakehal
Djamel Lakehal ETH Zurich

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