Advanced Materials-Based Fluids for Thermal Systems

Hafiz Muhammad Ali is currently working as an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. He received his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom, in 2011. He was a postdoc at Water and Energy Laboratory of University of California at Merced, United States, during 2015-16. Dr. Ali is a noted faculty member having thermal sciences, heat transfer, and solar energy as his major areas of interest. His research interests include electronics cooling, condensation, nanofluids, heat transfer devices, and thermal management. He is the recipient of the “Best Young Research Scholar Award” for 2017 in the Engineering category, conferred by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan at the 7th HEC Outstanding Research Award Ceremony. He also had the honor of receiving HEC’s Best Research Paper Award (2013/2014) and Research Productivity Award by Pakistan Council of Science and Technology (2016-17). Apart from his academic duties, he is actively involved with editorial duties in several international journals, notably Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (Springer), International Journal of Thermofluids (Elsevier), Journal Thermal Science, and Journal of Mechanical Engineering.

1. Introduction to nanofluids 2. Investigating magnetohydrodynamic natural convection in nanofluid-saturated enclosures through asymptotic expansions 3. Impact of nanoparticle aggregation and uniform horizontal magnetic field on melting heat transfer phenomena of nanofluid flow over rotating disk 4. Application of nanofluids in refrigeration and air-conditioning 5. Application of ferrofluids for heat transfer enhancement 6. Nanofluids - magnetic field interaction for heat transfer enhancement 7. Impact of nonlinear thermal radiation and ohmic heating on MHD darcy forchheimer flow of water-based carbon nanotubes in the presence of non-uniform heat source 8. Thermophysical properties and heat transfer characteristic of copper oxide-based ethylene glycol/water as a coolant for car radiator 9. Discussion on the stability of nanofluids for optimal thermal applications 10. Flow boiling behaviour of nanofluids 11. Entropy optimization of magneto nanofluid flow over a wedge under the Influence of magnetophoresis 12. Non-axisymmetric Homann stagnation point flow of nanofluid towards a flat surface in presence nanoparticle diameter and solid-liquid interfacial layer 13. On the hydrothermal performance of radiative hybrid nanofluid over a slippery revolving disk in presence of highly oscillating magnetic field 14. Applications of nanofluids and future directions