Dr. Muhammad Ali Rob Sharif – College of Engineering

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

214 Hardaway
(205) 348-8052
(205) 348-7240
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Education

Ph.D., Engineering Science, Clarkson University, 1988
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1984
M.Engg., Hydraulic Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, 1976
B.Sc.Engg., Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1973

Dr. Muhammad Ali Rob Sharif has extensive experience in numerical modeling of diversified thermal-hydraulic transport problems. Topics include:

Turbulent impinging jet heat transfer from a surface.
Conjugate heat transfer in microchannel cooling using nanofluids.
Separation of nanoparticles form nanofluids (U.S. Department of Energy sponsored).
Surface roughness effects on equilibrium and non-equilibrium turbulent boundary layer (Air Force Office of Scientific Research sponsored).
Laminar and turbulent natural and mixed convection in cavities.
Turbulent dispersed particulate flow – tundish flow application in steel casting (U.S. Department of Energy sponsored).

Kaurwar, A., Gupta, S., Satankar, R.K., Oommen, J.M., Dave, L., Sharif, M.A.R., Soboyejo, A.B.O., Plappally, A.K., “Modeling Strength of Clay Ceramic Water Filtration Materials as a function of Surface,” Desalination and Water Treatment, Vol. 157, pp. 332-341, 2019.
Papon, E.A., Haque, A., and Sharif, M.A.R., “Effect of Nozzle Geometry on Melt Flow Simulation and Structural Property of Thermoplastic Nanocomposites in Fused Deposition Modeling,” Proceedings of the American Society for Composites—Thirty-Second Technical Conference, October 23-25, 2017, West Lafayette, IN doi:10.12783/asc2017/15339.
Afroz, F. and Sharif, M.A.R., “Numerical study of turbulent annular impinging jet flow and heat transfer from a flat surface,” Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 138, pp. 154-172, 2018, doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2018.04.007.
Afroz, F. and Sharif, M.A.R., “Numerical Analysis of the Flow Separation and Adverse Pressure Gradient in Laminar Boundary Layer over a Flat Plate Due to a Rotating Cylinder in the Vicinity,” Fluid Dynamics Research, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp 025501, 2018, doi:10.1088/1873-7005/aa9629.
Sharif, M.A.R., “Numerical Analysis of Heat Transfer from a Hot Plane Surface Due to Round Turbulent Swirling Jet Impingement,” Computational Thermal Sciences, Vol. 8, No. 6 pp. 489–507, 2016. doi:10.1615/ComputThermalScien.2015014345.