News - Mehdi Mortazavi

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January 29, 2019: Researchers from Toyota Motor North America visited MTFL for potential research collaboration on transport phenomena in PEM fuel cells!

Thomas DeMonte was awarded the 2nd place in senior design poster presentation at the College of Engineering Senior Design Expo event. Thomas, in collaboration with Brett Sherman, studied the effect of gas diffusion layer (GDL) compression on water percolation within the plane of the GDL in PEM fuel cells. Tom's project was selected for this competitive award among the pool of over 100 participants in College of Engineering Senior Design Expo. Congratulations Tom!

Senior design presentations, May 2018

MTFL students successfully presented their senior design projects. Projects were also presented at the College of Engineering Senior Design Expo event. Luke Gonyea, Edward Nemchinsky, and Thomas Kozak worked on flow boiling in microchannel project. Mohammad Salem and Abdulrahman Alfaifi studied the effect of fin perforation on heat transfer from hydronic baseboards. Abdulmajeed Aziz studied the effect of superimposing acoustic pressure wave on air stream on water removal from PEM fuel cell flow channels. Thomas DeMonte and Brett Sherman studied the effect of gas diffusion layer (GDL) compression on water percolation within the plane of the GDL in PEM fuel cells. Each project included design, fabrication, assembling, and testing of the test section and experimental setup.

To learn more about senior design projects completed by MTFL members, please watch a short video for each project by simply clicking on the projects listed below (sorry for the background noise as the battery testing machine was running at the time!)
Video: Flow boiling in microchannel
Video: Water percolation in GDL of PEM fuel cell
Video: Enhanced heat transfer in perforated fin baseboards
Video: Enhanced water removal in PEM fuel cell flow channel by superimposing acoustic pressure wave

Conference attended, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Mar 2018

Mehdi Mortazavi attended the 3rd Thermal and Fluid Conference (TFEC) organized by American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE). In this conference, he presented "Analysis of Liquid-Gas Two-Phase Flow Pressure Drop Signature in Minichannels"

Journal paper accepted in Energy, Sep 2017

Mahbod Heidari, Mehdi Mortazavi, Alfred Rufer, Design, Modeling, and Experimental Validation of a Novel Finned Reciprocating Compressor for Isothermal Compressed Air Energy Storage Applications

Conference attended, Toronto, Canada, Aug 2017

Mehdi Mortazavi Attended 2017 International Conference on Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer in Toronto, Canada, and presented "Interaction Between Liquid Droplet Growth and Two-Phase Pressure Drop in PEM Fuel Cell Flow Channels". He also chaired the Heat Transfer session on this conference.

KEEN ICE Workshop, Denver, CO, Aug 2017

Mehdi Mortazavi attended KEEN Innovative Curriculum with Entrepreneurial mindset workshop (ICE) in Denver, CO. During this 3.5-day workshop, fundamental pedagogical techniques of EML, ACL, and PBL were discussed and practiced. In this workshop, he also designed and presented an EML module for his ME 304 - Thermodynamics II course.

Mehdi Mortazavi presenting the EML course module he designed during the workshop.

Senior design presentation award, WNE, May 2017

Luke Allison, an undergraduate ME student, received Best Senior Design Presentation Award in College of Engineering Senior Design Expo. Luke joined MTFL in Fall 2016 and collaborated with Kyle Barrett on his senior design project to study enhanced heat transfer by designing perforated fins for the application of residential baseboards. Congratulations Luke!

Luke Allison (left) presenting his senior design project in COE Senior Design Expo

KEEN Integrated e-Learning Module Workshop, Columbus, OH, June 2017

Mehdi Mortazavi attended KEEN Integrated e-Learning Module Workshop developed by University of New Haven. The module he will be developing is Thinking Creatively which will be deployed in his ME 303 - Thermodynamics I class.

KEEN Winter Conference, Jacksonville, FL, January 2017

Mehdi Mortazavi attended KEEN Winter Conference in Jacksonville, FL. Small ACL and EML modules were practiced in different modules during this conference.