S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan

Professor

Office:	Love, Room 308
Phone:	404.894.3746
Fax:	404.894.3733
E-mail:

Education

• Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1983
• M.Sc., Imperial College, University of London, 1978

Research Areas and Descriptors

• Heat Transfer, Combustion, and Energy Systems and Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics; Multiphase flow, aerosol and particle transport, microscale heat transfer, and nuclear reactor thermohydraulics

Background

Dr. Ghiaasiaan began at Tech in 1991 as an Associate Professor. Prior, he was Senior Staff Scientist at Science Applications International Corporation.

Research

Dr. Ghiaasiaan has performed research on a variety of issues in thermal/fluid science. Prior to joining Georgia Tech his research was primarily in the areas of nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics and safety, ocean thermal energy conversion, and aerosol transport.

At Georgia Tech, in addition to the aforementioned subjects, he has conducted research on flow and heat transfer in microsystems, gas-fibrous slurry three-phase flows, and theoretical and computational modeling of various multiphase flow processes.

Distinctions

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • Fellow, 2004
  • National Heat Transfer Conference Best Paper Award, 1999
• Sigma Xi (Georgia Tech Chapter)
  • Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (Co-Advisor to Clint Chedester), 2003
  • Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (Co-Advisor to Weiman Ren), 1995
• Registered Professional Mechanical Engineer in California

Representative Publications

• M. A. Akbar and S. M. Ghiaasiaan. 2005. Radiation Heat Transfer and Soot Thermophoresis in Lamimar Tube Flow. Numerical Heat Transfer 47, 1-18.
• T. Xie, S. M. Ghiaasiaan, and S. Karrila. 2004. Artificial Neural Network Approach for Flow Regime Classification in Gas-Liquid Fiber Flows Based on Frequency Domain Analysis of Pressure Signals. Chemical Engineering Science 59, 2241-2251.
• S. M. Ghiaasiaan. 2003. Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow and Boiling in Mini and Microchannels. Multiphase Science and Technology 15, 323-336.
• M. K. Akbar and S. M. Ghiaasiaan. 2003. Stability of Stratified Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow in Horizontal Annular Channels. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 28, 17-21.
• J. H. Yan, T. S. Laker and S. M. Ghiaasiaan. 2003. Linear Stability of Inverted Annular Flow in Capillaries. International Journal of Heat Fluid Flow 24, 122-129.