Dr. Iman Borazjani

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University 

Dr. Borazjani received his PhD, MSc, and BSc degrees in mechanical engineering from University of Minnesota, Georgia Tech, and Sharif University in 2008, 2005, and 2002, respectively. He joined the J Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University in 2018 as a tenured Associate Professor and is currently an Associate Professor and the Sallie and Don Davis ‘61 Faculty Fellow. Dr. Borazjani’s research is on developing advanced computational tools for simulating fluid-structure interaction in engineering and biological flows. He is the recipient of the 2013 Scientific Development award from American Heart Association, the 2013 Doctoral New Investigator from American Chemical Society, 2015 CAREER award from National Science Foundation, and 2018 Fulbright award. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and a Fellow of ASME.

Topic: "Simulations of Biological Flows: From Fish Swimming to Cardiovascular Flows"

Abstract: Simulations of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) that occur in many biological flows can serve as an inspiration to improve engineering designs. Nevertheless, simulating FSI at realistic Reynolds number is still challenging. We have developed advanced computational tools that can simulate flow with moving boundaries and FSI efficiently on high-performance computing clusters and applied to a variety of problems including cardiovascular flows and aquatic swimming. We will discuss the developments of hybrid echo-CFD framework to simulate the flow and obtain tissue properties of the heart based on 2D echocardiography, the most common and low-cost imaging technique. Furthermore, we discuss how studying aquatic swimmers has inspired new flow control actuators to reattach the flow in incompressible and compressible flow regimes.

Thursday, October 31, 2024

11:00am

102 BEH

Host: Peyman Givi