Personal Information

 Associate Professor

Department of

Faculty of Engineering - Department of Mechanical Engineering

Contact Information

Phone: 12-6402000 Ext. 72585

Email: nabdulhafiz@kau.edu.sa

Nazrul-Islam Abdulhafiz

 Associate Professor

Profile

Completed undergraduate (mechanical engineering) degree in 1988 and postgraduate (thermal engineering) degree in 1990 from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. Obtained PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India in 1997. My PhD work was related to mixed convection heat transfer. Joined teaching profession in the year 1996. My main research interests are:  mixed convection heat transfer, CFD, nanofluids and renewable energy.

Education

  • 1988

    Bachelor degree from Department of Mechanical EngineeringEngineering, Aligarh Muslim University, India, Aligarh, الهــــــند

  • 1990

    Master degree from Department of Mechanical EngineeringEngineering, Aligarh Muslim University, India, Aligarh, الهــــــند

  • 1997

    Doctorate degree from Mechanical Engineering DepartmentEngineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, Mumbai, الهــــــند

Employment

  • 1996-1998

    Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering Department, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, New Delhi, الهــــــند

  • 1998-2002

    Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering Department, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, Aligarh, الهــــــند

  • 2002-2006

    Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering Department, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, Aligarh, الهــــــند

  • 2006-حاليا

    Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Jeddah, المملكة العربية السعودية

Research Interests

Heat Transfer and Computational Fluid Dynamics; Renewable Energy, nanofluids.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

  1. M. Amir, Abdullah Y. Usmani, M. Varshney, S. Fahad Anwer, Saleem A. Khan, Nazrul Islam, and Amjad Ali Pasha; “Analysing Spatio-temporal flow hemodynamics in an artery manifesting stenosis”, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Vol. 218, 2022.

    doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2022.107072

     

  2. Nazrul Islam, Kashif Irshad, Md Hasan Zahir and Saiful Islam, “Numerical and experimental study on the performance of a Photovoltaic Trombe wall system with Venetian blinds”, Energy, Vol.218, 2021.

    doi.org/10.1016/J.ENERGY.2020.119542

     

  3. Likhan Das;  Fazlay Rubbi;  Khairul Habib;  R. SaidurNazrul Islam;  Bidyut Baran Saha;  Navid Aslfattahi;  Kashif Irshad; “Hydrothermal performance improvement of an inserted double pipe heat exchanger with Ionanofluid,”Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, Vol. 28, 2021.

    doi.org/10.1016/J.CSITE.2021.101533

     

  4. Pasha, Amjad A., D. Siva Krishna Reddy, Mohammed Mahdi Abdulla, S. Nadaraja Pillai, Nazrul Islam, Khalid A. Juhany, V. Mahendra Reddy, and Abdul Gani Abdul Jameel. “Numerical Analysis to Evaluate the Effect of Wall Temperature on Skin Friction and Stanton Number for Turbulent Flows over a Flat Plate from Mach 2–8.” Arabian Journal for Science & Engineering (Springer), Vol.46, 2021.

    doi:10.1007/s13369-021-06170-w

     

  5. Badr Ali Bzya Albeshri, Nazrul Islam, Ahmad Yahya Bokhary & Amjad Ali Pasha. “Hydrodynamic Analysis of Laminar Mixed Convective Flow of Ag-TiO2-Water Hybrid Nanofluid in a Horizontal Annulus”, CFD Letters, 13(7), 2021.

    doi.org/10.37934/cfdl.13.7.4557

     

  6. Amjad Ali Pasha, Meshal Nuwaym Al-Harbi, Surfarazhussain S. Halkarni, Nazrul Islam, D. Siva Krishna Reddy, S. Nadaraja Pillai, & Ufaith Qadiri. (2021). CFD study of Convective Heat Transfer of Water Flow Through Micro-Pipe with Mixed Constant Wall Temperature and Heat Flux Wall Boundary Conditions. CFD Letters, 13(7), 2021.

    doi.org/10.37934/cfdl.13.7.1326

     

  7. Amjad Ali Pasha, M. Abdul Raheem, N. Islam, K. A. Juhany, A. Mushtaq and S. S. Halkarni, “CFD Study of Variable Property Effects on Laminar Micro-convective Heat Transfer”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Springer, Vol.44(6), 2019.

    doi.org/10.1007/s13369-019-03797-8  

  8. M. Siddique, A.-R. A. Khaled, N. I. Abdulhafiz, and A. Y. Boukhary; “Recent Advances in Heat Transfer Enhancements - A Review Report”, International Journal of Chemical Engineering (2010)

doi.org/10.1155/2010/106461

 

  1. Nazrul Islam, Gaitonde U. N. and Sharma G. K; “Mixed Convection Heat Transfer in the Entrance Region of Horizontal Annuli”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Vol. 44, (2001)

doi.org/10.1016/S0017-9310(00)00223-4

 

  1. Islam, N;  Gaitonde, UN;  Sharma, GK;  Combined free and forced convection heat transfer in a horizontal annulus, Proceedings of 11th International Heat Transfer Conference, ISBN : 1-56032-797-9, Vol.3 (1998).

 doi.org/10.1615/IHTC11.3210 

Scientific interests

Expertise in the area of heat transfer and computational fluid dynamics. 

Courses

Power Plants MEP MEP473
Senior Project 499 MEP499
THESIS 699 MEP699

Areas of expertise

Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics organized national level heat transfer conference, supervised many master thesis , Teaching and research in undergraduate and postgraduate level