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Pooya Movahed
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email: pooyam@umich.edu
Education
Ph.D. thesis
Research interests
Fluid mechanics, including computational fluid dynamics(CFD), Richtmyer-Meshkov instability, Rayleigh-Taylor instability,
shock/turbulence interaction, turbulent multi-material mixing,
high-speed flows and shock waves, aeroacoustics, combustion, cavitation and bubble dynamics, and high-performance computing.
Peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, A solution-adaptive method for efficient compressible multifluid simulations, with application to the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability, J. Comput. Phys., 239, (2013), 166-186.
- M. T. Henry de Frahan, P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, Numerical simulations of a shock interacting with successive interfaces using the Discontinuous Galerkin method: the multilayered
Richtmyer-Meshkov and Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities, Shock Waves, (2014).
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, The mixing region in freely decaying variable-density turbulence, submitted.
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, On the treatment of material interfaces in the presence of finite mass physical diffusion, in preparation.
- P. Movahed, D. R. Dowling, E. Johnsen, The role of wall confinement on the decay rate of an initially isotropic turbulent field, in preparation.
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, Turbulent mixing in the presence of gravity, with application to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability, in preparation.
Conference proceedings
- E. Johnsen, P. Movahed, D. R. Dowling, A numerical study of turbulence in boxes with no-slip walls and of varying volume-to-surface ratios, 45th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, June 2015, Dallas, Texas.
- M. T. Henry de Frahan, P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, Investigating the multi-layered Richtmyer-Meshkov instability with high-order accurate numerical methods, ISSW29, July 2013.
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, Turbulence diffusion effects at material interfaces, with application to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability, AIAA paper 2013-3121, 43rd AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, June 2013, San Diego, California.
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, Numerical simulations of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability with reshock, AIAA paper 2011-3689, 20th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, June 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii.
- P. Movahed, M.H. Rahimian, Parametric Study of Mixed Convection in channels with a Convex Surface, ICNAAM 2008, September 2008, Psalidi, Kos, Greece.
Presentations
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, Variable-density turbulent mixing in the presence and absence of a constant acceleration field, Gallery of Fluid Motion, APS-DFD, November 2014, San Francisco, California.
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, On the treatment of material interfaces in the presence of finite mass physical diffusion, APS-DFD, November 2014, San Francisco, California.
- D. R. Dowling, P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, The role of wall confinement on the decay rate of an initially isotropic turbulent field, APS-DFD, November 2014, San Francisco, California.
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, On the role of a pre-existing turbulent field in the development of a mixing region in the presence of an acceleration field, 14th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, August 2014, San Francisco, California.
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, Direct numerical simulation of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a pre-existing turbulent field, 17th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, June 2014, East Lansing, Michigan.
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, Free shearless multi-material turbulent mixing in the presence and absence of gravity, APS-DFD, November 2013, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, Free shearless multi-material turbulent mixing, Gallery of Fluid Motion, APS-DFD, November 2013, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- B. Leu, P. Sheth, A. Liu, P. Mohaved, E. Johnsen, Visualization of compressible turbulence and mixing generated by hydrodynamic instabilities, XSEDE13, July 2013, San Diego, California.
- P. Movahed, B. Fryxell, E. Johnsen, Numerical investigations of Rayleigh-Taylor instability development from an initially isotropic turbulent velocity field, APS-DFD, November 2012, San Diego, California.
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, Low-dissipation hybrid schemes for simulations of compressible multicomponent flows, APS-DFD, November 2011, Baltimore, Maryland.
- P. Movahed, S. Varadan, E. Johnsen, Turbulence characteristics of the mixing region in the planar Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability, APS-DPP, November 2011, Utah.
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, Low-dissipation hybrid schemes for simulations of compressible multicomponent flows, Engineering Graduate Symposium, November 2011, UM.
- S. Varadan, P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, Compressible Turbulence and Interfacial Instabilities, Annual MIPSE Symposium, September 2011, UM.
- P. Movahed, S. Varadan, E. Johnsen, Low-dissipation hybrid schemes for simulations of compressible multicomponent flows, PSAAP2011 Review-CRASH, October 2011, UM.
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, Multi-Layered Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability, Annual MIPSE Symposium, September 2010, UM.
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, Numerical Investigation of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability, PSAAP2010 Review-CRASH, October 2010, UM.
- P. Movahed, E. Johnsen, Numerical Investigation of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability, Engineering Graduate Symposium, November 2010, UM.
- P. Movahed, K. Sadeghy, MHD Power-Law Fluid Flow over a stretching Sheet, ISME 2009, May 2009, Tehran, Iran.
- A. Satary, P. Movahed, K. Sadeghy, Laminar Boundary Layer Flow of Power-Law Fluids over Wavy Surfaces, ISME 2009, May 2009, Tehran, Iran.
- V. Esfahanian, H. Moqtaderi, P. Movahed, F. Vakili, Accuracy Analysis on Taylor Analogy Breakup Models Family, 12ACFM, August 2008, Daejeon, Korea.
Invited talks
- Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 2014, Urbana, IL.
- Center for Turbulence Research Tea Seminars, Stanford University, May 2014, San Francisco, CA.
- Shell Oil Company, Dec 2013, Houston, TX.
Honors/awards
- Richard and Eleanor Towner Distinguished Academic Achievement Prize, University of Michigan, 2014.
- Awarded NSF XSEDE award (4M CPU hours) as a CO-PI, 2014.
- Alexander Azarkin Scholarship for achievement in applied mechanics at the University of Michigan, 2013.
- Awarded NSF XSEDE award (1.5M CPU hours) as a CO-PI, 2013.
- F.O.E (Faculty of Engineering) award, University of Tehran, 2006.
Memberships
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Last updated: December 22, 2014