Ovais Khan
Assistant Professor
Engineering
Schreiner University
Biography
Dr. Khan has joined the Department of Engineering at Schreiner University, he has been working as a faculty member at Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Tuskegee University. He has been working at the University of Kentucky as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow where worked on the heat transfer analysis of re-entry vehicle and devoted significant effort to perform computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling.
Degrees Earned
University of Kentucky, 2012 • Postdoctoral Scholar, Mechanical Engineering, Lexington, KY, USA. Wichita State University, 2009 • Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Wichita, KS, USA.
Research Areas
Engineering
Research Interests
Dr. Khan has been involved in teaching and research activities related to fluid dynamics, aerodynamics and heat transfer analysis. His, current research is focused on high-fidelity computational analysis of fluid dynamic problems from low-speed to high-speed regimes, renewable energy resources and conduction heat transfer.
Topical Areas
Fluid and Plasma Physics; Mechanical Engineering
Research Synergy
Dr. Khan has expertise in conducting cutting-edge research in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of contemporary fluid flow problems of several engineering applications. This is a state-of-the-art area of research where Dr. Khan has been continuing collaborative research tasks. He has good experience of performing collaborative research activities with well-known scientists and researchers, which has resulted in several peer-reviewed research publications and presentations. In addition, he has been mentoring a diversified workforce of underrepresented minorities students at several institutions. This opportunity will contribute to further enhance the research capacity at Schreiner University by developing a research-education framework in an essential engineering area – computational modeling and simulation. It will provide an opportunity for underrepresented minority students to get involved in leading-edge research projects and enroll in courses related to computational modeling and analysis.
Motivation
I have strong passion to develop a research-education framework in the field of computational fluid dynamics at Schreiner University. The planned summer research activity will address two key components essential to advance the teaching-research infrastructure at Schreiner University. First element is the training of students for research in computational fluid dynamics and parallel computing. The second component is that of providing research experiences to the undergraduate students from underrepresented groups in mechanical engineering. It is noteworthy to mention that Schreiner University is an HSI that offers an ABET-accredited Mechanical Engineering program. This opportunity will certainly help prepare a skillful diversified workforce that consists of underrepresented groups in science and engineering.
Supervising Students Plan
Dr. Ovais Khan has significant experience of mentoring and supervising undergraduate students. Dr. Khan teaches a class on CFD titled “Computational Modeling and Simulation” in the Engineering Department at Schreiner University. In this class, students get an opportunity to learn basics of developing a typical CFD code, implementation of the code, and use commercial CFD code for solving several real world engineering problems by generating meshes using a commercial grid generator. In addition, Dr. Khan assigns some projects to the class students where they applied their knowledge and experience of CFD to solve real-world engineering problems. For the proposed summer research experience, it is planned that the students will be involved in research activities related to computational fluid dynamics and High Performance Computing. Some details of the mentoring activities are provided: a) First, orientation activities will be carried out where students will be taught basics of performing research activities. This will include literature/book search in the library and through electronic database, library visits, reading research articles and scientific publications. b) Dr. Khan will provide basic training to the students to run in-house and commercial CFD codes at the available computational resources and High Performance Computing facilities. Students will learn to perform the development of numerical model, generation of mesh and application of boundary conditions. c) Their performance will be continuously monitored through weekly meetings and progress report. d) The students will be guided and trained to prepare manuscripts for publications to scientific journals and presentations to professional conferences.
Student Merit
Two students have been selected from the class of twenty. They have demonstrated good attributes of learning. Their performance is outstanding, and their GPA is above 3.5 on a scale of 4. I have been assigning some projects to these students where they applied their knowledge and experience of the subject. The performance of Mr. Jose Coronado and Ms. Kearsten White is outstanding to solve real-world engineering problems.
Lightning Talk Title
Research Activities in Computational Modeling of Fluid Dynamics Problems
Keywords
High-resolution numerical schemes Shock/boundary layer interaction Magneto-hydrodynamics Machine Learning Model for Nusselt Number