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issam lakkis, Ph.D., MIT

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Professor and Chair, Department of Mehanical Engineering

Principal Investigator, Microflows and Micro Scale Heat Transfer Lab, IOEC, 311 

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Faculty of Engineering and Architecture

American University of Beirut

issam.lakkis_AT_aub.edu.lb

Current Students

Samer Salloum, Ph.D. Candidate

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Grid-Free Modeling of Atmospheric Dynamics and Species Transport

Mirvat Shamseddine, Ph.D. Candidate

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Fluid-Gas Interaction in Microdevices (DSMC + FEM) 

Abed El Kader Baayoun, Masters Student

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Modeling Air Pollution in Lebanon: Building an Emission Inventory for Pollution Sources and Coupling it with the WRF-Chemistry Model

Mohamad Ghadban, Masters Student

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Developing a Multiscale Pollution Transport Tool Coupled With an Improved Weather Forecast

Alaa Imad, Masters Student

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A Model of Air Pollution Dispersion for Assessing the Effect on Cardiovascular Diseases (Beirut, Lebanon)

Alumni

Ali Yehya, Masters Student

 

Modeling of Gases Transport and Exchange in the airways, blood, and tissue

Samah El-Mohtar, Masters Student

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Grid-Free Modeling of Large Scale Ocean Dynamics and Species Transport

Nadim Diab, Ph.D.,  2012 

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DSMC investigation of the unsteady dynamics of a squeeze film beneath a microstructure undergoing large oscillations

Elias Mkanna, Masters, 2015

 

Model-based investigation of gas exchange in pulmonary capillaries due to various scenarios of lung abnormalities and treatments

Mohammad Cheikh, Masters, 2014

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A microfluidic transistor for analog micro-flows control

Mohammad Allouche, Masters 2014

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Development of general circulation model for a land planet in parallel with weather forecast automation

Ibrahim Chamseddine, Masters, 2014

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A model of neonatal oxygenation covering the dynamics of the alveoli

Rana Nicolas, Masters, 2012

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Molecular dynamics of water, investigation of rigid non polarizable models from structure to dynamics

Naima Hammoud,

 

Masters, AUB, 2010, The unsteady dynamics of a jet impinging on a moving plate.

Ph.D., Princeton, 2016, On instabilities in thin film flows.

Balsam Nehme, Masters, 2007

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System level modeling of microfluidic devices

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