311 Irani Oxi Engineering Complex
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut
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 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