Education
| 2010-2015 | PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia (supervised by Ian Frigaard) |
| 2008-2010 | MS in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (supervised by Juan Santiago) |
| 2003-2008 | BS in Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran |
| 1999-2003 | Nodet high school, Tehran |
Awards and honors
| 2010 | Department Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia |
| 2010-2014 | Four Year Doctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia |
| 2008-2010 | Niles & Mary Lyn Moseley Engineering Fellowship Award, Stanford University |
| 2008 | USC Provost’s Ph.D. Fellowship, University of Southern California (declined) |
| 2008 | Graduate Fellowship for Ph.D. program in Applied Mathematics, Brown University (declined) |
| 2001 | Honorary member of Iranian Aerospace Society |
Publications
| I. Karimfazli and I.A. Frigaard. “Flow, onset and stability: qualitative analysis of yield stress fluid flow in enclosures.” J. non-Newtonian Fluid. (accepted) |
| I. Karimfazli, I.A. Frigaard, and A. Wachs. “Thermal plumes in visco-plastic fluids: flow onset and development.” J. Fluid Mech. 787 (2016): 474-507. |
| I. Karimfazli , I.A. Frigaard, and A. Wachs. “A novel heat transfer switch using the yield stress.” J. Fluid Mech. 783 (2015): 526-566. |
| I. Karimfazli and I.A. Frigaard. “Natural convection flows of a Bingham fluid in a long vertical channel.” J. non-Newtonian Fluid. 201 (2013): 39–55. |
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K. Sadeghy, S.M. Taghavi, N. Khabazi, M. Mirzadeh, and I. Karimfazli. “On the use of hydrodynamic instability test as an efficient tool for evaluating viscoelastic fluid models.” Adv. Studies Theor. Phys 1.8 (2007): 367-379.
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Presentations
| 2016-08 | 24th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Montreal, QC, Canada |
| 2016-08 | The XVIIth International Congress on Rheology, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2016-06 | Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society Annual Meeting, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
| 2015-10 | Viscoplastic Fluids: From Theory to Application, Banff, AB, Canada |
| 2015-06 | The 2015 AMMCS-CAIMS Congress, Waterloo, ON, Canada |
| 2014-06 | Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, SK, Canada |
| 2014-04 | 9th Annual European Rheology Conference, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 2013-11 | Viscoplastic Fluids: From Theory to Application, Rueil-Malmaison, France |
| 2013-06 | Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society Annual Meeting, Quebec City, QC, Canada |
| 2012-09 | 6th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences an Engineering, Vienna, Austria |
| 2012-06 | Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada |
Teaching experience
| University of British Columbia | Instructor: Differential calculus Teaching assistant: Engineering analysis (B. Homsy), Fluid dynamics (G. Elfring), Engineering science II (C. Ollivier-Gooch |
| Stanford University | Teaching assistant: Linear Algebra with Applications to Engineering Computation (P. Moin) |
| University of Tehran | Teaching assistant: Fluid Mechanics I, Thermodynamics I |