Mehran Ahmadi

Research interests

• Sustainable Buildings, Net-Zero Buildings, Passive House
• Building Systems Energy Modeling
• Cooling and Refrigeration Systems
• HVAC Systems
• CFD and FEA Analysis

Teaching interests

• Thermodynamics
• Fluid Mechanics
• Heat Transfer
• Refrigeration Systems
• HVAC Design and Analysis
• Energy Systems Modeling for Buildings
• Engineering Design

Recently taught courses

• SEE 100 - Engineering Graphics and Software for Design
• SEE 111 - Integrated Energy Solution I
• SEE 221 - Statics and Mechanics of Material
• SEE 224 - Thermodynamics for Energy Engineering
• SEE 352 - Power Generation and Conversion
• SEE 464 – Energy Systems Modeling for Buildings
• MSE 223 - Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
• MSE 321 - Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

Selected recent publications

• Bahrehmand, Hesam; Ahmadi, Mehran; Bahrami, Majid; Analytical modeling of oscillatory heat transfer in coated sorption beds, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 121,09-Jan,2018, Pergamon
• Garcia-Poulin, Mikel; Ahmadi, Mehran; Bahrami, Majid; Lau, Eric; Botting, Chris; Thermal resistance of electrical insulation for bolted and clamped discrete power devices, 2018 34th Thermal Measurement, Modeling & Management Symposium (SEMI-THERM) ,176-180,2018, IEEE
• Cermak, Martin; Ahmadi, Mehran; Bahrami, Majid; Lau, Kevin; Development of a passively cooled outdoor telecom power enclosure, 2017 33rd Thermal Measurement, Modeling & Management Symposium (SEMI-THERM) ,13-18,2017, IEEE
• Gholami, Ali; Ahmadi, Mehran; Bahrami, Majid; A modified steady state method for measurement of in-plane thermal conductivity, 2016 32nd Thermal Measurement, Modeling & Management Symposium (SEMI-THERM) ,22-26,2016, IEEE
• Ahmadi, Mehran; Pakdaman, Mohammad Fakoor; Bahrami, Majid; Analytical investigation of thermal contact resistance (TCR) behavior under time-dependent thermal load, 2016 32nd Thermal Measurement, Modeling & Management Symposium (SEMI-THERM) , 15-21,2016, IEEE
• Ahmadi, Mehran; Thimmaiah, Poovanna; Bahrami, Majid; Sedraoui, Khaled; Sait, Hani H; Djilali, Ned; Experimental and numerical investigation of a solar eductor-assisted low-pressure water desalination system, Science Bulletin,61,12,959-973,2016, Science China Press
• Fakoor-Pakdaman, M; Ahmadi, Mehran; Bagheri, Farshid; Bahrami, Majid; Optimal time-varying heat transfer in multilayered packages with arbitrary heat generations and contact resistance, Journal of Heat Transfer,137,8,2015, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection
• Ahmadi, Mehran; Fakoor-Pakdaman, Mohammad; Bahrami, Majid; Natural convection from vertical parallel plates: an integral method solution, Journal of Thermophysics and heat transfer,29,1,140-149,2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Fakoor-Pakdaman, M; Ahmadi, Mehran; Bahrami, Majid; Temperature-aware time-varying convection over a duty cycle for a given system thermal-topology, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer,87,418-428,2015, Pergamon
• Ahmadi, Mehran; Bagheri, Farshid; Bahrami, Majid; Optimal Time-Varying Heat Transfer in Multilayered Packages with Arbitrary Heat Generations and Contact Resistance,2015, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• Fakoor-Pakdaman, M; Ahmadi, Mehran; Bahrami, Majid; Unsteady internal forced-convective flow under dynamic time-dependent boundary temperature, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer,28,3,463-473,2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Gholami, A; Ahmadi, M; Bahrami, M; A new analytical approach for dynamic modeling of passive multicomponent cooling systems, Journal of Electronic Packaging,136,3,31010,2014, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Ahmadi, Mehran; Mostafavi, Golnoosh; Bahrami, Majid; Natural convection from rectangular interrupted fins, International Journal of Thermal Sciences,82,62-71,2014, Elsevier Masson
• Fakoor-Pakdaman, M; Ahmadi, Mehran; Bagheri, Farshid; Bahrami, Majid; Dynamic heat transfer inside multilayered packages with arbitrary heat generations, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer,28,4,687-699,2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Fakoor-Pakdaman, M; Ahmadi, Mehran; Andisheh-Tadbir, Mehdi; Bahrami, Majid; Optimal unsteady convection over a duty cycle for arbitrary unsteady flow under dynamic thermal load, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer,78,1187-1198,2014, Pergamon
• Ahmadi, Mehran; Mostafavi, Golnoosh; Bahrami, Majid; Natural convection from interrupted vertical walls, Journal of Heat Transfer,136,11,2014, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection
• Ahmadi, Mehran; Gholami, Ali; Bahrami, Majid; Lau, Kevin; Passive cooling of outside plant power systems, a green solution to reduce energy consumption ,2014 IEEE 36th International Telecommunications Energy Conference (INTELEC),09-Jan,2014, IEEE
• Ahmadi, Mehran; Pushing the Limits of Natural Convection Heat Transfer from the Heatsinks,2014, Applied Sciences:
• Gholami, A; Ahmadi, M; Bahrami, M; An integrated analytical approach for system-level transient modeling of passive cooling systems, 2014, International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics
• Mostafavi, Golnoosh; Ahmadi, Mehran; Bahrami, Majid; Effect of fin interruptions on natural convection heat transfer from a rectangular interrupted single-wall, International Electronic Packaging Technical Conference and Exhibition, 55768, V002T08A029,2013, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Mostafavi, Golnoosh; Ahmadi, Mehran; Bahrami, Majid; Effects of Geometrical Parameters on Natural Convective Heat Transfer from Vertically Mounted Rectangular Interrupted Fins, Heat Transfer Summer Conference, 44786,717-727,2012, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Yousefi, T; Karami, A; Mahmoudinezhad, S; Jalilian, M Mahdipour; Ahmadi, M; Modeling the Free Convection Heat Transfer in a Partitioned Cavity by the Use of Fuzzy Logic, International Journal of Modeling and Optimization,1,4,284,2011, IACSIT Press
• Ahmadi, M; Avval, M Saffar; Yousefi, T; Goharkhah, M; Nasr, B; Ashjaee, M; Temperature measurement of a premixed radially symmetric methane flame jet using the Mach–Zehnder Interferometry, Optics and Lasers in Engineering,49,7,859-865,2011, Elsevier