DR. SALAH HAFEZ

Assistant Professor, Aeronautical Engineering Dept., King Abdulaziz Univ.

 

 

 

Education

 

Degree

Field

Institution

Year

 

Dip Ed

Education

The University of Melbourne, Australia

2002

 

PhD

Mechanical Engineering

The University of Melbourne, Australia

1991

 

MS

Mechanical  Engineering

Cairo University, Egypt

1985

 

BS

Mechanical  Engineering

Cairo University, Egypt

1979

 

 

 

Service in KAU

 

Date of original appointment:

2006

Number of years of service:

2

Years

 

From

to

Academic Rank

Department

 

2006

Date

Assistant Professor

Aeronautical Engineering

 

 

 

Other Related Experience

 

Courses Taught

Aerodynamic Laboratory, Viscous Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering laboratories, Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Methods, Heat Transfer, Advanced Fluid Dynamics , Boundary Layer Theory, Heat Transfer, Turbomachinery

 

 

 

Thesis Supervised

1.

Modelling of turbulent flows in S-shaped diffusing duct, MS Thesis, 1998.

 

2.

Experimental study of the flow in multi-connected complex ducts, MS Thesis, 1998.

 

3.

Experimental study of flow along an external corner, PhD Thesis, 2004.

 

 

 

Other Research and Teaching Experience

1979-1986

Tutor, Cairo University, Egypt.

 

1986-1990

PhD Student/Tutor, The University of Melbourne, Australia

 

1991-1992

Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne, Australia

 

1993-1998

Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering, Cairo University

 

1999-2006

Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne, Australia

 

 

 

Consulting, Funded Research Projects and Patents

 

1.

Testing and modifying the flow pattern before waste heat boiler for the extension of the Cairo west thermal power station.  Final report, “The Flow Model Test”, submitted to Hamza & Assoc., Cairo, Egypt, 1993.

 

2.

Mechanical design of Olympic swimming pool piping systems and accessories, consultation assignment with Hamza & Assoc., Cairo, Egypt, 1996.

 

3.

Assessment of different water lifting devices employed within a 100MW novel Hydro scheme. Final report ''An assessment of the MEP2 water pumping device" consultation assignment with Woodshed Technologies, Melbourne–Australia (confidential), 2006.

 

 

 

States or countries in which professionally licensed or certified

 

Egypt

 

 

 

Scientific and professional societies of which a member

 

 

Society

Rank

Member Since

 

1.

Egyptian Syndicate of Professional Engineers

Member

1979

 

 

Honors and Awards

 

1.

I.B.M Cairo Scientific Centre, May - September 1984 and 1985.

 

2.

Melbourne University Postgraduate Scholarship, 1986-1990.

 

 

 

Institutional and professional service in the last five years (administration, committees, units, etc.)

 

1.

Head of the Department Laboratories committee, AE Dept., KAU, 2006-present

 

2.

Academic advisor for more than 20 students, Aeronautical Eng. Dept., KAU, 2006-present.

 

 

 

Percentage of time available for academic activities

 

Research:

30%

 

  

Teaching: 60%

     Other academic activities:

10%

 

 

 

 

Percentage of time committed to the program:

100%

 

 

 

 

Principal publications of the last five years

 

1.

Hafez S. A comparative study on high Reynolds number turbulent boundary layer., 16AFMC, University of Queensland-Australia,  Dec. 2007.

 

2.

Nickels TB, Maursic I, Hafez S., Hutchins, N and Chong MS (2007) some predictions of the attached eddy model for a high Reynolds number boundary layer. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 365, 807-822, 2007.

 

3.

Nickels TB, Maursic I, Hafez S. and Chong MS (2005) Evidence for the k-1 law in a high Reynolds number turbulent boundary layer. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 074501-1-074501-4, 2004.

 

4.

Hafez S., Chong MS, Maursic I and Jones MB (2004) Observations on high Reynolds number turbulent boundary layer measurements. 15 AFMC, University of Sydney, Australia, 2004.

 

5.

 

Nickels TB, Hafez S., Chong MS and  Maursic I (2004) Evidence of the –1 law in a high Reynolds number turbulent boundary layer. 15 AFMC, University of Sydney, Australia, 2004.

 

6.

Hafez S., Jones MB. and Chong MS (2004) The zero pressure gradient turbulent boundary layers and its approach to equilibrium. 10th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics, Sri Lanka, 2003.

 

7.

Moinuddin, K.A.M., Hafez, S., Joubert, P.N. and Chong, M.S. and Hafez, S., “Experimental investigation of turbulent boundary layer developing along a streamwise external corner (chine). Exp. Thermal and Fluid Science. Vol. 27, 5, 2003.

 

 

 

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