Nanofluids: Preparation, Applications and Simulation Methods

Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi is Professor of Mechanical Engineering, in the Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, in Chengdu, China. He completed his Ph. D in Mechanical Engineering from Tarbiat Modares University, Iran in 2002 and then went on to pursue his professional career at Bu Ali Sina University in Iran until 2014. He then took up the position of full professor at Bu Ali Sina University and moved to Tongji University in Shanghai until the end of 2016 and following a short tenure at the University of Birmingham, UK he returned to Tongji University in December 2018. He has held numerous invited positions at international universities including the University of Sherbrooke in Canada; the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa; the Universite Paris Ouest in France, and King Mongkut’s University of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand. A commended Highly Cited Researcher for 2018, 2019 and 2020, he has published over 345 journal papers indexed in Scopus and Web of Science (h-index=72), and 50 conference papers. He is an associate editor for more than five international journals and is an active member of the editorial boards for more than 45 national or international journals. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of High Energetic Materials and is an active member of the South African Institution of Mechanical Engineering, and the Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineers. His research interests include energy, energy generation, conversion and storage engineering, entropy, heat transfer, mechanical engineering, nonlinear analysis, and thermodynamics.

Sahar Zinatloo-Ajabshir is Associate Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. She obtained her M.Sc. in nanoscience and nanotechnology from the University of Tehran, in 2010. Then after completing her PhD in nanoscience and nanotechnology in 2015 from the University of Kashan, she then went on to join the group of Professor Masoud Salavati-Niasari as a post-doc researcher. She became a faculty member of the University of Bonab, in 2017. Her research interests include the development of different types of nanoscale materials, especially the preparation of ceramic nanomaterials and investigation of their applications in various fields such as hydrogen storage, photocatalysis, environmental remediation, and drug delivery systems. During her career, she has published several scientific papers in high impact factor journals, as well as book chapters, books and conference proceedings. She is also an active referee or on the editorial board for several international journals.