Mohammad Faghri is a professor of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics at the University of Rhode Island. He is internationally known for his work in Computational Fluid Dynamics and for his experimental research on fluid flow and heat transfer in micro scale devices. Faghri has published more than 200 journal articles and is the author or editor of six books on a range of topics, including: heat exchangers, modeling of thermal processes, heat and fluid flow in microscale and nanoscale structures, heat transfer in gas turbines, modeling and simulation of turbulent heat transfer, and transport phenomena in fuel cells. He has served on the editorial boards of four journals and is the recipient of the 2004 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, the most prestigious national award in the field of heat transfer. He is a Fellow of ASME and was selected as the Jubilee Professor at Chalmers University and the Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellow at Lund Institute of Technology, both in Sweden.
Degrees
- Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, 1973