CV

Education

2014-present PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia
2012-2014 MASc in Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia
2006-2011 BSc in Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

Awards and honors

2018 Killam Graduate Teaching Award
2018 Department of Mechanical Engineering Teaching Scholarship
2018 PIMS Travel Fund for Semine d’Etude Maths-Entreprises
2017 Teaching-As-Reseach Award
2016 Continuing Graduate Student Merit Award for Outstanding Research and Leadership Contribution
2014 Entrance Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia
2013 Second Best Poster Prize, UBC Research Day, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of British Columbia
2013 3-Minute Thesis, Third place, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia
2012 Entrance Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia
2011 RERI fellowship for PhD studies, Imperial College (declined)

Publications

9) A. Maleki, I. Frgaard, “Tracking fluid interfaces in primary cementing of surface casing”, Phys Fluids, Submitted.
8) A. Renteria, A. Maleki, I. Frgaard, B. Lund, A. Taghipour, J. Ytrehus, “Effects of irregularity on the displacement flows in primary cementing of highly deviated wells”, J. Petrol. Sci. Eng. Submitted.
7) N. Hanachi, A. Maleki, I. Frigaard, “A model for foamed cementing of oil and gas wells”, J. Eng. Math. Submitted.
6) A. Maleki, S. Hormozi, “Submerged jet shearing of viscoplastic sludge”, J. non-Newt. Fluid Mech., 252, 19-27, 2018
5) A. Maleki and I. Frigaard, “Primary cementing of oil and gas wells in turbulent and mixed flow regimes”,  J. Eng. Math, 201-230, 2017
4) N.J. Balmforth, R. Craster, D. Hewitt, S. Hormozi and A. Maleki, “Viscoplastic boundary layer”, J. Fluid Mech. 813, 929-954, 2017
3) A. Maleki and I.A. Frigaard, “Axial dispersion in weakly turbulent flows of yield stress fluids”, J. non-Newt. Fluid Mech. 235, 1-19, 2016
2) A. Maleki, S. Hormozi, A. Roustaei and I.A. Frigaard, “Macro-size drop encapsulation”, J. Fluid Mech. 769, 482-521, 2015
1) A. Aminzadeh, A. Maleki , B. Firoozabadi and H. Afshin, “On the motion of Newtonian and non-Newtonian liquid drops”, Sci. Iran Trans B: Mech. Eng. 19, 1265 – 1278, 2012

Poster and Oral Presentations

2018-08 SIGGRAPH2018, Vancouver, Canada
2018-06 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering, Madrid, Spain
2018-06 Canadian Engineering Education Conference, Vancouver, Canada
2016-08 24th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Montreal,  Canada
2016-08 The XVIIth International Congress on Rheology, Kyoto, Japan
2015-10 Viscoplastic Fluids: From Theory to Application, Banff, Canada
2014-07 Sixth Pacific Rim Conference on Rheology, Melbourne, Australia
2014-06 Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
2013-08 UBC Research Day, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CanadaTeaching experience

Teaching

University of British Columbia Instructor: Differential Calculus, Heat Transfer

Guest Lecturer: Fluid Mechanics, Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
Teaching Assistant: Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer
Access & Diversity Peer Tutor: Tutoring students with physical and mental disabilities

BC Science World Facilitator: Future Science Leader program
Sharif University of Technology Teaching assistant: Fluid Mechanics I, Fluid Mechanics II, Thermodynamics II, Solid Mechanics Laboratory

Reviewer

Journal of non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
Physics of Fluids
MECCANICA
Canadian Journal of Physics