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 |
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 |