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The HPC (and/or scientific visualization) resources and services used in this work were provided by the Research Computing group in Texas A&M University at Qatar. Research Computing is funded by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (http://www.qf.org.qa). 

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Journal Papers:

  1. O. Bouhali et al., Development and performance of large scale triple GEM for CMS, Proceedings of International conference on MicroPattern Gaseous Detectors, JINST(2013) 8 C11017 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/8/11/C11017

  2. Devanuri, J., Ozalp, N. (2013). Numerical investigation of particle deposition inside aero-shielded solar cyclone reactor: A promising solution for reactor clogging. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Volume 40, p. 198-209.

  3. Ozalp, N., Chien M.H., Morrison, G. (2013). CFD and PIV characterization of a solar cyclone reactor. ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Volume 135, p. 031003/1-15.

  4. Costandy, J., El Ghazal, N. Mohamed, M., Menon, A., Shilapuram, V., Ozalp, N. (2012). Effect of reactor geometry on the temperature distribution of hydrogen producing solar reactors. Selected paper for the Special Issue of ICH2P (International Conference on Hydrogen Production), International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 37, p. 16581-16590.

  5. Ibrik, K., Al-Meer, M., Ozalp, N. (2012). Catalytic solar thermochemical processing for enhanced heat transfer and emission-free production of hydrogen. Chemical Engineering Transactions, Volume 29, p. 499-504.

  6. Muhammad, S., Kyran, S.J., Raju, R.K., Brothers, E.N., Darensbourg, D.J., Bengali, A.A. , Time-resolved infrared spectroscopy studies of olefin binding in photogenerated CpRu(CO)X (X = Cl, I) transients 2012   Organometallics 31 (10) , pp. 3972-3979

  7. Shibl, M.F., Dang, L., Raju, R.K., Hall, M.B., Brothers, E.N., A mechanism for the addition of ethylene to nickel bis-dithiolene  , 2012 , International Journal of Quantum Chemistry    Article in Press

  8. Tai-Chia Lin, Milivoj Belić, Milan Petrović, Najdan Aleksić, and Goong Chen, “Ground-state counterpropagating solitons in photorefractive media with saturable nonlinearity”, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B30 (2013) 1036-1040

  9. M. Abou Ghantous et al., Cooperative Jahn-Teller effect in a 2D mesoscopic C60n- system with D5d symmetry adsorbed on buffer layers using Ising EFT model, Eur. Phys. J. B (2012) 85:178

  10. D. Ghader et al., Spin waves transport across a ferrimagnetically ordered nanojunction of cobalt-gadolinium alloy between cobalt leads, Eur. Phys. J. B(2013) 86:180

  11. Aleksandra Strinic, Milan Petrovic, Najdan Aleksic, and Milivoj Belic, “Perturbed fundamental solitons in nonlocal uniaxial nematic liquid crystals”, Optics Communications 286 (2013) 309–312

  12. Milan Petrovic and Milivoj Belic, ”Conservation and transfer of orbital angular momentum of light in optically induced photonic lattices”, Journal of optics 14 (2012) 075204

  13. Aleksandra Strinic and Milan Petrovic, “Finite-size effects in fundamental solitons in highly nonlocal nematic liquid crystals”, Phys. Scr. T149 (2012) 014038

  14. Fedwa El Mellouhi, E. N. Brothers, M. J. Lucero and G. E. Scuseria: Neutral Defects in SrTiO3 Studied with Screened Hybrid Density Functional Theory, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter,  25, 135501 (2013).

  15.  Fedwa El Mellouhi, E. N. Brothers, M. J. Lucero, Ireneusz W. Bulik and G. E. Scuseria : Structural Phase Transitions of the Metal Oxide Perovskites SrTiO3, LaAlO3 and LaTiO3 Studied with a Screened Hybrid Functional  Phys. Rev. B 87, 035107 (2013).

  16. Orillano M.,   Al-Nuaimi I.,   Al-Mohandi D.,   Warrag S.,  Elbashir N. O. (2012) “Role of aromatics and paraffinic hydrocarbons on synthetic jet fuels properties.” Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum Proceedings Abstract, Vol. 2012 DOI: 10.5339/qfarf.2012.EEOS2. 

  17. Bohra M.,  Rahman J.,  Elmalik E.,   Blank J., Elbashir N. O. (2012) “Development of visualization models to guide the design of future generations of synthetic fuels from natural gas” Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum Proceedings, Vol. 2012; DOI: 10.5339/qfarf.2012.EEPS4.

  18. Warrag S., Ibrahim Al-Nuaimi, E. E. Elmalik, N. O. Elbashir (2012) “Properties Driven Design of Synthetic Jet Fuels Derived from Natural Gas Via Gas-to-Liquid Technology” American Chemical Society, Preprint Paper- Division of Energy & Fuels Chemistry; 57(2) 796-797.

  19. R. Sniatynsky, B. G. Janesko, Fedwa El-Mellouhi, and E.  N. Brothers: Screened Hybrid Density Functional Theory for NH3 Decomposition on Si(100) accepted for publication in J Phys Chem C  116,  26396–26404 (2012).

  20. Dongming Wei, Alejandro Sarria, Mohamed B. Elgindi, "Critical Buckling Loads of the Perfect Hollomon's Power-law Columns" Mechanics Research Communications, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechrescom.2012.09.004, September 2012.  

  21. Yun Cheng, Timothy Carson, Mohamed B. M. Elgindi, ”A Note on the Proof of the Perron-Frobenius Theorem,” Applied Mathematics, Volume 3, No. 11, 2012.  

  22. M.B.M. Elgindi, Dongming Wei, "ON THE GLOBAL SOLVABILITY OF THE EQUILIBRIUM EQUATIONS OF A SUPPORTED HOLLOMON BEAM SUBJECT TO AXIAL LOAD," Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 6, 2012, no. 120, 5981 - 5992.  

  23. P. Brockman, T. Carson, Y. Cheng, T. M. Elgindi, K. Jensen, X. Zhoun, M. B. M. Elgindi, "Homotopy Method for the Eigenvalues of Symmetric Tridi-diagonal Matrices," Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/J.cam.2012.08.010.  

  24. Dongming Wei, Yu Liu, Mohamed B. Elgindi, "Some Generalized Trigonometric Sine Functions and Their Applications" Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 6, 2012, no. 122, 6053 - 6068.Najdan Aleksic, Milan Petrovic, Aleksandra Strinic, and Milivoj Belic, "Solitons in highly nonlocal liquid crystals: Variational approach", Phys. Rev. A 85 (2012) 033826 

  25. Najdan Aleksic, Milan Petrovic, Aleksandra Strinic, and Milivoj Belic, "Solitons in highly nonlocal liquid crystals: Variational approach", Phys. Rev. A 85 (2012) 033826

  26. Milan Petrovic, Aleksanra Strinic, and Milivoj Belic, "Breathers in biased highly nonlocal uniaxial nematic liquid crytals", Phy. Scr. 85 (2012) 015403

  27. Vidyasagar Shilapuram, D.Jayakrishna, Nesrin Ozalp. Residence time distribution and flow field study of aero-shielded solar cyclone reactor for emission-free generation of hydrogen. International journal of hydrogen energy, article in presss, 2011. doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.08.035.

  28. Shilapuram, V., JayaKrishna, D., Ozalp, N. RTD analysis of aero-shielded solar cyclone reactor for emission-free generation of hydrogen. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, published online, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.08.035.

  29. Ozalp, N., Kanjirakat, A. (2010). A CFD study on the effect of carbon particle seeding for the improvement of solar reactor performance. ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, December 2010, Volume 132, Issue 12, p. 122901.

  30. Ozalp, N., Jayakrishna, D. (2010). CFD Analysis of multi-phase turbulent flow in a solar reactor for emission-free generation of hydrogen. Chemical Engineering Transactions, Volume 21, p.1081-1086.

  31. Ozalp, N., Jayakrishna, D. (2010). CFD analysis on the influence of helical carving in a vortex flow reactor. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 35, p. 6248-6260.

  32. Ozalp, N., Kanjirakat, A. (2010). Lagrangian characterization of multi-phase turbulent flow in a solar reactor for particle deposition prediction. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 35, p. 4496-4509.

  33. F. Mellouhi et al., “Modeling of the cubic and antiferrodistortive phases of SrTiO3 with screened hybrid density functional theory”, PHYSICAL REVIEW B 84, 115122 (2011)

  34. Costandy, J., El Ghazal, N., Mohamed, M. T., Menon, A., Shilapuram, V., Ozalp, N. Effect of reactor geometry on the temperature distribution of hydrogen producing solar reactors. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2012), doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.02.193

  35. Olewski T., Nayak S., Basha O. and Waldram S.P., Medium scale LNG-related experiments and CFD simulation of water curtain, Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 24, 798-804. 2011, DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2011.06.005

  36. Subramanya Nayak, Tejas Bhatelia, Tomasz Olewski and Simon Waldram, “Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Spill and Dispersion: Safety Assessment”, Hydrocarbon World, Volume 6, Issue 2, December 2011

Conference Proceedings:

  1. Ozalp, N., Chien, S.M., Morrison, G. (2012). Experimental evaluation of solar cyclone reactor via Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference. Paper No: HT2012-58149.

  2. Ozalp, N. (2012). Energy, environment, and economical advantages of solar thermal cracking of natural gas. ASME 31st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore, and Arctic Engineering. Paper No: OMAE2012-84222. 

  3.  Ozalp, N., Toyama, A., Jayakrishna, D., Rowshan, R., Al-Hamidi, Y. (2010). Effect of camera-like aperture in quest for maintaining quasi-constant radiation inside a solar reactor. ASME 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability (ES2010). Paper No: ES2010-90327.

  4. Ozalp, N., Jayakrishna, D. (2010). CFD Analysis of multi-phase turbulent flow in a solar reactor for emission-free generation of hydrogen. 13th Conference on Process Integration, Modeling and Optimization for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction. Paper No: 412.

  5. Ozalp, N., Shilapuram, V., Jayakrishna, D. (2010). Modeling of a vortex-flow reactor using N-Plug reactors approach. ASME 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability (ES2010). Paper No: ES2010-90324.

  6. Ozalp, N., Jayakrishna, D. (2010). Numerical study on the thermal interaction of gas-particle transport for a vortex flow solar reactor. ASME 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability (ES2010). Paper No: ES2010-90325.

  7. Ozalp, N., Kanjirakat, A. (2010). A CFD study on the effect of carbon particle seeding for the improvement of solar reactor performance. ASME 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability (ES2010). Paper No: ES2010-90326.

  8. Yi Liu, Tomasz Olewski, Luc Vechot, Xiaodan Gao, Sam Mannan. Modelling of a cryogenic liquid pool boiling using CFD code. 2011 MKOPSC International Symposium, College Station, TX, USA October 25-27,2011.

  9. Fadwa El Mellouhi, Edward N. Bothers, Melissa J. Lucero, Gustavo E. Scuseria. “Ab initio study of the structural phase transition of SrTiO3”, 51st Sanibel Symposium, St. Simons Island, USA, March 2011.

  10. O. Bouhali and A. Sheharyar, “3D stereoscopic visualization as a powerful teaching tool”, Proceeding of the International Forum on Engineering Education 2010, Sharjah, UAE.

  11. Costandy, J., El Ghazal, N., Mohamed, M. T., Menon, A., Shilapuram, V., Ozalp, N. Effect of reactor geometry on the temperature distribution of hydrogen producing solar reactors. International Conference on Hydrogen Production (ICH2P-11), Thessloniki, Greece June 19-22, 2011.

  12. Tomasz Olewski, Omar Basha, Simon Waldram, Sam Mannan and Luc Véchot, “Mitigation of LNG dispersion using two dimensional (2D) water curtains”, HAZARDS XXI: Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 11-14 April 2011, Britannia Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, UK

  13. Tomasz Olewski, Luc Véchot and Simon Waldram, “The flat-fan water curtain and fences as an LNG vapor mitigation measure – the experiments, analyses and CFD simulations”, Texas A&M at Qatar Safety Symposium, 15-16 March 2011, Doha, Qatar

  14. Tomasz Olewski, Mohamed Al-Siraji, Subramanya Nayak, and Luc Vechot, Mitigation of Vapor Dispersion Using Two Dimensional Water Curtain, Hazards Asia Pacific Conference, 27 – 29 September 2011

  15. Liu, Y.; Olewski, T.; Véchot, L.; Mannan, M. S. In Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center International Symposium: College Station, TX, US, 2011.

  16. Osorio, C.; Vechot, L.; Olewski, T.; Liu, Y.; Al-Meer, M.; Mannan, M. S. In Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center International Symposium: College Station, TX, US, 2011.

​Posters & Oral Presentations:

  1. O. Bouhali, July 2013: “Large Scale development of GEM for CMS muon system upgrade”, MicroPattern Gaseous Detectors conference and RD51 meeting, Zaragoza, 2013. 

  2. O. Bouhali, M. Karkoub, A. Sheharyar, “Pipeline Inspection using omni-directional catadioptric vision systems”, QF Annual Research Forum, November, 2011.

  3. O. Bouhali, R. Sadr, A. Sheharyar, “Massive Parallel simulation of nano-particles near the wall”, QF Annual Research Forum, November, 2011.

  4. F. Mellouhi, “Challenges and Recent Advances in Numerical Simulation: Understanding Semiconductors and Metal Oxide Heterostructures.” TAMUQ science program seminar, February 2011.

  5. Fadwa El Mellouhi, Edward N. Bothers, Melissa J. Lucero, Gustavo E. Scuseria, “An initial study of the structural phase transition of SrTiO3”, by, Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum, Doha, Qatar, November 2010.

  6. F. Mellouhi, “Challenges and Recent Advances in Numerical Simulation: Understanding Semiconductors and Metal Oxide Heterostructures.” TAMUQ science program seminar, February 2011.

  7. O. Bouhali, “High Performance Computing in Engineeing Research”, Qf Annual research Forum, 2010