Amin Etminan

B.Eng., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Memorial University of Newfoundland), E.I.T.

  • Assistant Professor
Contact Information

Ph: 709-864-7492
Em: aetminan[at]mun.ca
Office: EN3031

Expertise
  • Energy
  • Thermo-fluids
Research Interests

Fluid Dynamics, Multiphase Flow, Bluff Bodies, Heat Transfer, Thermal Systems, Sustainbale Energy Systems, CO2 Capturing

Personal Profile

I earned my bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, specializing in thermo-fluids and energy systems, from Persian Gulf University, Iran, 2004. I began my graduate journey following this by joining the Energy Conversion program at Yazy University, Iran, in 2004. During my graduate studies, I explored fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics research, explicitly examining the behavior of flow passing single and tandem square cylinders in laminar and turbulent flow regimes. I successfully obtained a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2007.

Subsequently, I dedicated 11 years to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Azad University, Iran, where I served as an instructor. In 2018, I seized the opportunity to further advance my expertise by enrolling in the Ph.D. program in Mechanical Engineering Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN). My doctoral research focused on explaining the hydrodynamics and heat transfer phenomena in gas-liquid and liquid-liquid two-phase flow within micro- and milli-scaled channels, numerically and experimentally. This academic journey concluded with the completion of my Ph.D. in 2022.

Post-Ph.D., my professional journey led me to a position as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Microfluidics Lab at MUN. During this tenure, my research encompassed an in-depth exploration of heat transfer patterns in Taylor flow. Additionally, I undertook the task of modeling and prototyping a liquid-based cooling system for gaming computers, employing both experimental and numerical methods to analyze two-phase flow. I extended my research focus to investigate heat transfer enhancement in double-pipe heat exchangers, employing a novel design of vortex generators and incorporating nanoparticles.

In September 2023, I assumed the role of Teaching Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at MUN. My primary focus is teaching thermo-fluids courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Simultaneously, I am supervising multiple projects dealing with energy systems, two-phase flows, and CO2 capturing.

I am an Engineer-in-Training (E.I.T.) with Professional Engineers & Geoscientists Newfoundland & Labrador (PEGNL), hold memberships in the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). I am also serving as a reviewer for Nature: Scientific Reports; Wiley: International Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics; Institute of Physics (IOP); Canadian Science Publishing (CSP): Transaction of Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering; MDPI: Processes, Energies, Mathematics, Water, Aerospace, Materials.

Honours/Awards/Accreditation
  • Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management, University of Virginia 2023
  • Professional Development Fund, Postdoctoral Fellows, Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) 2023
  • Mitacs Accelerate Grant, Lab2Market (L2M), Dalhousie University 2023
  • Top Cited Article, Wiley, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (CJCE) 2021 and 2022
  • Dr. Jack Clark Graduate Award, Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) 2020
  • Excellent TA Award (Three times), Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) 2019, 2020 & 2022
  • Top Research Award, Azad University, Neyriz, Iran 2011, 2012 & 2013
  • Nice Presentation Award, International Conference on Applications of Fluid Engineering, India 2012
  • Top Author Award, National Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz, Iran 2011
  • Top Author Award, Regional Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Iran 2009 & 2010
Publications
Journal Papers:
  1. A. Etminan and Z. Harun (2024) Analysis of Fluid-Flow Characteristics and Heat-Transfer Patterns around a Square Bluff Body, International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research, 5(1): 49-66.
  2. M.U., Khan Mughal, K. Waheed, M.I. Sadiq, A.H. Molla, Z. Harun, A. Etminan (2024) Water Flow Boiling in Micro/Mini Channels Using Volume of Fluid Model, Applied Sciences, 14(2), 759.
  3. A. Etminan and Y.S. Muzychka (2024) Effects of Flow Characteristics on the Heat Transfer Mechanism in Taylor Flow, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 219:124917.
  4. S. Barati, A. Etminan, K. Pope (2024) Numerical Investigation of Heat Transfer and Turbulent Fluid Flow for Transverse Vortex Generators with Nanoparticles, Heat Transfer Research, 55(1):1-21.
  5. A. Etminan, Y.S. Muzychka, K. Pope (2023) Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Heat Transfer and Flow Phenomena in Taylor Flow through a Straight Mini-channel, ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 145(8): 081801.
  6. F. Sahari Moghaddam, M. El‐Naghy, A. Aborig, A. Etminan (2023) Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand Simulation Including Wormhole Propagation and Foamy Oil Behaviour, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 101(4): 2050-2059.
  7. Z. Harun, N.I. Azhar, U.K.L. Campus, A.A. Abbas, E.R. Lotfy, M.S.H. Al-Furjan, A. Etminan (2022) Variation of the Urban Heat Island Intensity over One Year in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 19(3): 167-188.
  8. A. Etminan, Y.S. Muzychka, K. Pope, B. Nyantekyi-Kwakye (2022) Flow Visualization: State-of-the-art Development of Micro-Particle Image Velocimetry, Measurement Science and Technology, 33: 092002.
  9. A. Etminan, Y.S. Muzychka, K. Pope (2022) Liquid Film Thickness of Two-Phase Slug Flows in Capillary Microchannels: A Review Paper, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 100(2): 325-348.
  10. A. Etminan, Y.S. Muzychka, K. Pope (2021) Numerical Investigation of Gas-Liquid and Liquid-Liquid Taylor Flow Through a Circular Microchannel with a Sudden Expansion, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 1: 1-17.
  11. A. Etminan and Y.S. Muzychka (2021) Three-Dimensional Mathematical Analysis of the Diffusion of Reactive Hormone from a Transdermal Drug Patch, Progress in Canadian Mechanical Engineering, 4: 1-6.
  12. A. Etminan, Y.S. Muzychka, K. Pope (2021) A Review on the Hydrodynamics of Taylor Flow in Microchannels: Experimental and Computational Studies, Processes, 9(5): 870.
  13. A. Etminan and Z. Harun (2021) Forced Convective Heat Transfer Analysis for Two-Dimensional Slot Jet of Water-Cuo Nanofluid, Journal of Engineering, 33(2): 229-238.
  14. A. Etminan, Y.S. Muzychka, K. Pope (2021) Film Thickness and Pressure Drop for Gas-Liquid Taylor Flow in Microchannels, Journal of Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer, 8(1): 60-71.
  15. A. Etminan, A. Bodaghkhani, Y.S. Muzychka (2020) Numerical Simulation of Laminar Vortex- Shedding Flow around a very Slender and Rectangular Bluff Body, Journal of Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer, 7: 37-45.
  16. A. Etminan and Z. Harun (2020) Numerical Simulation of a Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell with Rectangular and Triangular Cross-Section Area Channels, International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology, 9(4): 282-288.
  17. A. Etminan, A. Sharifian, E. Reda, Z. Harun (2018) Time-Averaged Heat Transfer and Vortex Shedding of a Singular and Twin Heated Bluff Bodies in Cross Flow, International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(3.17): 270-276.
  18. A. Etminan, Z. Harun, A. Sharifian (2017) Numerical Investigation of Nanofluid Laminar Forced Convective Heat Transfer inside an Equilateral Triangular Tube, IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 51: 1-6.
  19. A. Etminan, A. Sharifian, Z. Harun (2016) Numerical Simulation of Three Dimensional Turbulent Flow Structure and Heat Transfer in Ribbed-Straight, Divergent and Convergent Ducts, International Journal of Mechanics, 10: 362-367.
  20. A. Etminan and H. Gharehchahi (2013) Numerical Analysis of Bat-Ball Collision Performance in Cricket, International Journal of Mining, Metallurgy & Mechanical Engineering, 1(2): 164-167.
  21. H. Gharehchahi and A. Etminan (2013) Study the Interface Shape of Tooling and Work Piece Contact During a Flow Forming Operation, International Journal of Mining, Metallurgy & Mechanical Engineering, 1(2): 178-182.
  22. A. Etminan (2013) Flow and Heat Transfer over Two Bluff Bodies from very Low to High Reynolds Numbers in the Laminar and Turbulent Flow Regimes, International Journal of Advanced Design and Manufacturing Technology, 6(2): 61-72.
  23. A. Etminan and A. Barzegar (2012) Instantaneous and Time-Averaged Flow Structure around Two Heated Square Cylinders in the Laminar Flow Regime, Applied Mechanics and Materials, 110: 2896-2902.
  24. A. Etminan, H. Jafarizadeh, M. Moosavi, K. Akramian (2012) Determination of Flow Characteristics and Turbulent Heat Transfer in a Ribbed Roughened Square Duct, Part 1: Turbulence Models, Applied Mechanics and Materials, 110: 2359-2363.
  25. A. Etminan, H. Jafarizadeh, M. Moosavi, K. Akramian (2012) Determination of Flow Characteristics and Turbulent Heat Transfer in a Ribbed Roughened Square Duct, Part 2: Numerical Simulations, Applied Mechanics and Materials, 110: 2364-2369.
  26. K. Akramian, M. Moosavi, A. Etminan (2012) Exergy Analysis of Micro Gas Turbine Tri-Generation System, Advanced Materials Research, 433: 6641-6645.
  27. A. Etminan, M. Moosavi, N. Ghaedsharafi (2011) Determination of Flow Configurations and Fluid Forces Acting on Two Tandem Square Cylinders in Cross-Flow and its Wake Patterns, International Journal of Mechanics, 5(2): 63-74.
  28. A. Sohankar and A. Etminan (2009) Forced‐Convection Heat Transfer from Tandem Square Cylinders in Cross Flow at Low Reynolds Numbers, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 60(7): 733-751.
  29. A. Etminan (2009) Fluctuating Flow Characteristics and Heat Transfer from Two in-Tandem Square Cylinders, International Journal of Advanced Design and Manufacturing Technology, 3(1).
Peer-reviewed Conference Papers:
  1. A. Etminan and Y.S. Muzychka (2023) Heat Transfer Enhancement in Liquid-Liquid Slug Flow in Minichannels, Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering Conference (CSME 2023), Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
  2. A. Etminan, Y.S. Muzychka, K. Pope (2022) Heat Transfer and Transport Phenomena for Taylor Flow in a Straight Mini-channel, Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering Conference (CSME 2022), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  3. A. Etminan, Y.S. Muzychka, K. Pope (2021) CFD Modeling for Gas-Liquid and Liquid-Liquid Taylor Flows in the Entrance Region of Microchannels, ASME FEDSM Conference, USA.
  4. A. Etminan, Y.S. Muzychka, K. Pope (2020) Numerical Simulation of Taylor Flow in the Entrance Region of Microchannels, 5th World Congress on Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer, Lisbon, Portugal.
  5. A. Etminan, Eslam Reda, A. Sharifian, Z. Harun (2017) Time-Averaged Flow and Vortex Shedding of a Singular and Twin Heated Bluff Bodies in Cross Flow, International Conference on Recent Advances in Automotive Engineering & Mobility Research, Bangi-Putrajaya, Malaysia.
  6. A. Etminan, Z. Harun, A. Sharifian (2016) Numerical Investigation of Nanofluid Laminar Forced Convective Heat Transfer inside an Equilateral Triangular Tube, International Conference on Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Development, Sanya, China.
  7. Z. Harun. A.A. Abbas, A. Etminan, B. Nurgroho, V. Kulandaivelu, M. Khashehchi (2014) Effects of Riblet on Flow Structure around a NACA 0026 Airfoil, The 25th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena, Krabi, Thailand.
  8. A. Etminan, M. Moosavi, N. Ghaedsharafi (2011) Characteristics of Aerodynamics Forces Acting on Two Square Cylinders in the Streamwise Direction and its Wake Patterns, Proceedings of the 10th European Conference of Chemical Engineering, Tenerife, Spain.
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