Borazjani, Iman
individual record
Associate Professor
Positions:
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
overview
My research interests are in developing advanced computational tools for biofluids and fluid-structure interaction problems, which we employ to advance knowledge and gain insights into the physics of important biological/engineering flows.
education and training
- Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota - (Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States) 2008
- M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology - (Atlanta, Georgia, United States) 2005
- B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology - (Tehran, Iran) 2002
selected publications
Academic Articles68
- Doranehgard, M. H., Karimi, N., Borazjani, I., & Li, L. (2024). Breaking the symmetry of a wavy channel alters the route to chaotic flow. Physical Review E. 109(4), 045103.
- Asadi, H., & Borazjani, I. (2023). A contact model based on the coefficient of restitution for simulations of bio-prosthetic heart valves.. 39(9), e3754.
- Simmons, T., Daghooghi, M., & Borazjani, I. (2023). Dynamics of non-spherical particles resting on a flat surface in a viscous fluid. Physics of Fluids. 35(4), 043334.
- Ogunka, U. E., Akbarzadeh, A. M., & Borazjani, I. (2023). Mechanisms of Morphing Wall Flow Control by Traveling Waves over an Airfoil. AIAA Journal. 61(4), 1687-1707.
- Akbarzadeh, A., & Borazjani, I. (2023). Numerical Simulations of the NREL Phase VI Wind Turbine with Low-Amplitude Sinusoidal Pitch. Fluids. 8(7), 201-201.
Chapters3
- Borazjani, I., & Akbarzadeh, A. (2020). Large Eddy Simulations of Flows with Moving Boundaries. Livescu, D., Nouri, A. G., Battaglia, F., & Givi, P. (Eds.), Modeling and Simulation of Turbulent Mixing and Reaction. 201-225. Springer Nature.
- Sotiropoulos, F., Aidun, C., Borazjani, I., & MacMeccan, R. (2011). Computational Techniques for Biological Fluids: From Blood Vessel Scale to Blood Cells. IMAGE-BASED COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF THE HUMAN CIRCULATORY AND PULMONARY SYSTEMS: METHODS AND APPLICATIONS. 105-155. Springer Nature.
- Borazjani, I., Le, T., & Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). Hemodynamic Effects of the Orientation of a Bi-leaflet Mechanical Heart Valve Implanted in an Anatomic Aorta. IFMBE proceedings. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany. 1230-1233. Springer Nature.
Conference Papers41
- Ogunka, U. E., Akbarzadeh, A., & Borazjani, I. (2023). Effect of Reynolds Number on Traveling Wave Flow Control. AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum.
- Ogunka, U. E., Akbarzadeh, A., & Borazjani, I. (2022). FLOW CONTROL with TRAVELING-WAVE SURFACE MORPHING at POST-STALL ANGLES of ATTACK. AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum.
- Akbarzadeh, A., & Borazjani, I. (2022). Large eddy Simulation of turbulent compressible wavy channels. AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum.
- Akbarzadeh, A., & Borazjani, I. (2021). A compressible LES with immersed boundary method. AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum.
- Borazjani, I. (2021). Hydrodynamics of aquatic swimming: inspiration for flow control. Proceedings of SPIE, Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication XI. 11586, 115860k-115860k-2.
Repository Documents / Preprints2
- Hedayat, M., Patel, T. R., Belohlavek, M., Hoffmann, K. R., & Borazjani, I. (2019). A hybrid echocardiography-computational fluid dynamics framework for ventricular flow simulations.
- Hedayat, M., & Borazjani, I. (2019). A parallel dynamic overset grid framework for immersed boundary methods.
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Principal Investigator8
- CAREER: Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) in Biological Flows awarded by National Science Foundation 2018 - 2021
Co-Principal Investigator1
awards and honors
recent teaching activities
- MEEN344 Fluid Mechanics Instructor
- MEEN421 Thermo Fluid Anly & Desn Instructor
- MEEN489 Sptp: Cfd Instructor
- MEEN491 Hnr-research Instructor
- MEEN491 Research Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations
- Aanandh Manjunathan, Sujyesh (2021-11). Flow induced vibration of a circular cylinder with an attached elastic plate of high aspect ratio. (Master's Thesis)
- Hedayat, Mohammadali (2020-04). Platelet Activation in Artificial Heart Valves. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Kim, Taeouk N/A (2020-04). Automatic Segmentation of the Echocardiographic Images Using Machine Learning. (Master's Thesis)
Email
iman@tamu.edu
First Name
Iman
Last Name
Borazjani