Goodarz Ahmadi
Goodarz Ahmadi
Dean, Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering
Clarkson Distinguished Professor
Robert R. Hill '48 Professor
Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
102 B CAMP
Clarkson University
PO Box 5700
Potsdam, NY 13699-5700
Phone: 315-268-2322
E-mail: gahmadi@clarkson.edu
Research Web site
Educational Background:
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 1970
M.S., Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 1968
Memberships:
ASME Fellow, ASEE, SES
Research Interests:
- Particle transport, adhesion and removal
- Turbulence
- Hot-gas filtration
- Combustion
- Spray formation
- Hydrates
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
- Rheology of suspensions
- Granular flows
- Multiphase mixtures
- Microcontamination control
- Slurry flows
- Vibration control
- Tribology
Related Facilities:
- Aerosol wind tunnel
- Laser-Doppler and hot wire anemometry systems
- Phase-Doppler anemometer (PDA)
- Particle image velocimeter (PIV)
- Isokinetic sampling probe
- Digital imagery laboratory
- Granular flow shear device
- Simple shear flow device
Conducted Research on:
- Particle transport and deposition
- Particle and fiber transport, adhesion and removal
- Hot-gas filtration
- Coal combustor
- Spray
- Microcontamination control
- Computer simulation of flow
- Granular flow modeling
- Multiphase flow
- Vibrations and random vibrations
- Turbulence modeling
- Vibration isolation
- Flow of liquid crystals
- Stability of structures
- Mechanics of suspensions
- Plasma turbulence
- Energy conversion
- Lubrication
- Continuum mechanics
Patents:
- Aeroelastic Wind Energy Converter








