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Zafar Hayat Khan

Zafar Hayat Khan

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
56
Citations
9753
World Ranking
870
National Ranking
110

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Thousand Talents Plan the Introduction of High-level Talents at Home and Abroad in Sichuan Province
  • 2018 - Shah Jahan Prize in Mathematics for Young Scientists Under 40
  • 2017 - Productive Scientists of Pakistan under 40
  • 2016 - Research Productivity Award (RPA) from Pakistan Council for Science and Technology
  • 2015 - Research Productivity Award (RPA) from Pakistan Council for Science and Technology

Overview

Zafar Hayat Khan is affiliated with Nanning Normal University in China and specializes in the field of engineering, with a particular focus on mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, and computational mechanics. Their research portfolio includes extensive work in modeling and simulation as well as electrical and electronic engineering.

The primary research topics addressed by Khan encompass:

  • Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Mechanisms
  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Heat Transfer and Optimization
  • Fractional Differential Equations Solutions
  • Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media
  • Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems

Khan has authored numerous papers published in established academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Physics of Fluids
  • International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
  • ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics / Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik
  • Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
  • Heat Transfer

Selected recent papers authored by Khan are:

  • Finite element analysis of hybrid nanofluid flow and heat transfer in a split lid-driven square cavity with Y-shaped obstacle, 2020, Physics of Fluids
  • Non-Newtonian fluid flow around a Y-shaped fin embedded in a square cavity, 2020, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
  • Effects of volume fraction on water-based carbon nanotubes flow in a right-angle trapezoidal cavity: FEM based analysis, 2020, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Impact of multiple slips and thermal radiation on heat and mass transfer in MHD Maxwell hybrid nanofluid flow over porous stretching sheet, 2024, Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
  • Heat generation/absorption on MHD flow of a micropolar fluid over a heated stretching surface in the presence of the boundary parameter, 2021, Heat Transfer

Khan collaborates with several researchers regularly. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Waqar A. Khan
  • Muhammad Hamid
  • Muhammad Usman
  • Rashid Ahmad
  • Rizwan Ul Haq

Best Publications

  • Buoyancy effects on MHD stagnation point flow and heat transfer of a nanofluid past a convectively heated stretching/shrinking sheet

    O.D. Makinde;W.A. Khan;Z.H. Khan

  • MHD three-dimensional Casson fluid flow past a porous linearly stretching sheet

    S. Nadeem;Rizwan Ul Haq;Noreen Sher Akbar;Z.H. Khan

  • Numerical study of MHD boundary layer flow of a Maxwell fluid past a stretching sheet in the presence of nanoparticles

    S. Nadeem;Rizwan Ul Haq;Z.H. Khan

  • Numerical analysis of magnetic field effects on Eyring-Powell fluid flow towards a stretching sheet

    Noreen Sher Akbar;Abdelhalim Ebaid;Z.H. Khan

  • Numerical solutions of Magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow of tangent hyperbolic fluid towards a stretching sheet

    Noreen Sher Akbar;S. Nadeem;R. Ul Haq;Z. H. Khan

  • Fluid flow and heat transfer of carbon nanotubes along a flat plate with Navier slip boundary

    W. A. Khan;Z. H. Khan;M. Rahi

  • Thermal radiation and slip effects on MHD stagnation point flow of nanofluid over a stretching sheet

    Rizwan Ul Haq;Rizwan Ul Haq;Sohail Nadeem;Zafar Hayat Khan;Noreen Sher Akbar

  • MHD boundary layer flow of a nanofluid containing gyrotactic microorganisms past a vertical plate with Navier slip

    W.A. Khan;O.D. Makinde;Z.H. Khan;Z.H. Khan

  • Convective heat transfer in MHD slip flow over a stretching surface in the presence of carbon nanotubes

    Rizwan Ul Haq;Rizwan Ul Haq;Sohail Nadeem;Z.H. Khan;Z.H. Khan;N.F.M. Noor

  • N-Transform - Properties and Applications

    Zafar H. Khan;Waqar. A. Khan

  • Non-aligned MHD stagnation point flow of variable viscosity nanofluids past a stretching sheet with radiative heat

    W.A. Khan;O.D. Makinde;Z.H. Khan

  • Radiation effects on MHD stagnation point flow of nano fluid towards a stretching surface with convective boundary condition

    Noreen Sher Akbar;S. Nadeem;Rizwan Ul Haq;Z.H. Khan

  • Heat transfer analysis of water-based nanofluid over an exponentially stretching sheet

    Sohail Nadeem;Rizwan Ul Haq;Zafar Hayat Khan

  • 3D free convective MHD flow of nanofluid over permeable linear stretching sheet with thermal radiation

    M.K. Nayak;Noreen Sher Akbar;V.S. Pandey;Zafar Hayat Khan

  • Dual solutions and stability analysis of flow and heat transfer of Casson fluid over a stretching sheet

    M. Hamid;M. Usman;Z.H. Khan;Z.H. Khan;R. Ahmad

  • Numerical solution of non-Newtonian nanofluid flow over a stretching sheet

    S. Nadeem;Rizwan Ul Haq;Z. H. Khan

  • Convective heat transfer and MHD effects on Casson nanofluid flow over a shrinking sheet

    Rizwan Ul Haq;Rizwan Ul Haq;Sohail Nadeem;Zafar Hayyat Khan;Toyin Gideon Okedayo

  • MHD boundary layer slip flow and heat transfer of ferrofluid along a stretching cylinder with prescribed heat flux.

    Muhammad Qasim;Zafar Hayat Khan;Waqar Ahmad Khan;Inayat Ali Shah

  • Thermophysical effects of carbon nanotubes on MHD flow over a stretching surface

    Rizwan Ul Haq;Rizwan Ul Haq;Zafar Hayat Khan;Zafar Hayat Khan;Waqar Ahmed Khan

  • The combined effects of slip and convective boundary conditions on stagnation-point flow of CNT suspended nanofluid over a stretching sheet

    Noreen Sher Akbar;Zafar Hayat Khan;Zafar Hayat Khan;S. Nadeem

Frequent Co-Authors

Noreen Sher Akbar
Noreen Sher Akbar National University of Sciences and Technology
Rizwan Ul Haq
Rizwan Ul Haq National University of Sciences and Technology
Waqar A. Khan
Waqar A. Khan Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University
Sohail Nadeem
Sohail Nadeem Quaid-i-Azam University
Oluwole Daniel Makinde
Oluwole Daniel Makinde Stellenbosch University
Dharmendra Tripathi
Dharmendra Tripathi National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand
O. Anwar Bég
O. Anwar Bég University of Salford
Changhoon Lee
Changhoon Lee Yonsei University
Mikhail A. Sheremet
Mikhail A. Sheremet National Research Tomsk State University
Zakia Hammouch
Zakia Hammouch Universite Moulay Ismail De Meknes

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