Majid Mohammadian

Associate Professor

Email: majid.mohammadian@uOttawa.ca

Department of Civil Engineering

161 Louis Pasteur, CBY A114

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5

Tel (613) 562-5800-ext 6492

Fax: (613) 562-5173

Academic Background

B.Sc., Sharif University of Technology, Iran

M.Sc., Sharif University of Technology, Iran

Ph.D., Laval University, Canada

NSERC Postdoctoral fellow (2006-2007), New York University, Courant Inst. of Mathematical Sciences

NSERC Postdoctoral fellow (2007-2008), Environment Canada, Numerical Prediction Division

Research Scientist (2008-2009), Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, M.I.T.

Research Interests

Computational fluid dynamics

Nmerical modeling of flow, sediment and water quality

Shallow water flows

Large scale turbulence modeling

Fourier analysis

 

Announcements

Postdoctoral position in Qatar University in Collaboration with U Ottawa

Selected Publications

1)  A. Beljadid, Mohammadian A. (2012), ‘Numerical simulation of rotation dominated shallow water flows using finite volume methods’, accepted in Computers and Fluids (Elsevier).

2) T. Odyemi, Mohammadian A., O. Seidou (2012), ‘Application of Chebyshev Pseudospectral Method to van der Waals Fluids’, accepted in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations (Elsevier).

3) Mohammadian A., Charron M. (2011), ‘Analytical and Chebyshev Pseudo Spectral Numerical Solutions for a Class of Horizontal Flows Dominated by Heat Sources’, in press in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids.

4) Mohammadian A., Charron M. (2011), ‘New Analytical and CWENO Numerical Solutions for Axisymmetric Horizontal Flows with Heat Sources’, in press in Applied Mathematical Modeling.

5) Ghoreishi A, Hassani F., Mohammadian A. (2011), ‘An assessment of thawing in frozen rocks of backfilled underground mines’, in press in International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences.

6) Mohammadian A., Marshall J. (2010), ‘A Vortex in Cell Model for the Quasi- Geostrophic Dynamics’, Ocean Modeling, 32, 132-142.

7) Majda A., Xing Y., Mohammadian A. (2010), ‘Multi-scale Equations for the Hurricane Embryo ’, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 657, 478-501.

8) Mohammadian A.  (2010), ‘Numerical Approximation of Viscous Terms in Curvilinear Models for Shallow Waters’, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 63:584–599.

9) Mohammadian A., Le Roux D. (2008), ‘Fourier Analysis of a Class of Upwind Schemes in Shallow Water Systems for Gravity and Rossby waves’, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 57, 4, 389-416.

10) Majda A., Mohammadian A., Xing Y. (2008), ‘Vertically Sheared Horizontal Flows with Mass Sources: A Canonical Balanced Model’, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 102, 6, 543-591.

11) LeFloch P., Mohammadian A. (2008), ‘Why Many Theories of Shock Waves Are Necessary. Fourth-Order Models, Kinetic Functions, and Equivalent Equation’, Journal of Computational Physics, 227, 8, 4162-4189.

12) Mohammadian A., Le Roux D., Tajrishi M. (2007), ‘A Conservative Extension of the Method of Characteristics for 1D Shallow Flows’, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Vol. 31 (2), pp 332-348.

13) Mohammadian A., Le Roux D. (2006), ‘Simulation of Shallow Flows over Variable Topography Using Unstructured Grid’, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 52 (5), pp 473-498.

14) Mohammadian A., Le Roux D., (2006), ‘A Conservative Semi-Lagrangian Method for the Shallow Water Equations’, Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 174 (2),  pp.99-108.

15) Mohammadian A., Le Roux D., Tajrishi M., Mazaheri K. (2005), ‘A Mass Conservative Scheme for Simulating Shallow Flows over Variable Topography Using Unstructured Grid’, Advances in Water Resources, Vol. 28, pp. 523-537.

16) Kolahdoozan M, Taher-Shamsi A., Sadeghi M., Mohammadian A., (2005), ‘2D Model for Lateral Intake Flows’, Water Management, 158 (4), 141-150.

17) Mohammadian A., Tajrishi M., Lotfi F. (2004), ‘Two Dimensional Simulation of Flow and Morphological Processes near the Headlands Using Unstructured Grids’. International Journal of Sediment Research, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 258-277.

 

Projects sponsored by:

 

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 Qatar National Research Fund