Professor O. Anwar Bég

Current positions

Lecturer in Fluid Mechanics

BIOGRAPHY

I joined Salford University as Lecturer in Fluid Mechanics in March 2016 and have introduced new research themes in CFD, nanofluid dynamics, multiphysical electromagnetic flows, rocket propulsion, coating simulation, solar nanotechnology, biomedical fluid dynamics, supercritical thermodynamics and thermo-elasticity. Earlier in my career I developed and delivered the MEng (Hons) Aerospace Engineering degree at Sheffield Hallam University (2007-2012) and  led research in theoretical biofluid mechanics and computational rocket heat transfer. I taught aerodynamics, thermofluids, energy systems, railway fluid mechanics, propulsion, heat transfer, aero-structures and solid mechanics. I have collaborated with international research groups in the USA, Malaysia, Holland, France, Canada, Pakistan, India and Algeria. My research work/supervision has resulted in 3 recent awards: in 2017 (RAEs Teddy Fielding Prize, awarded to my BEng (Hons) aeronautical student Betty Islam for her final year project on aircraft wing water ingress simulation, based on a Lufthansa Malta placement secured by Mr. Ali Kadir which led to a journal publication in Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering in May 2019), in 2018 (Vice Chancellor Award for Research Excellence for my sustained output in leading high impact factor international journals and integration of new research themes into the engineering curriculum) and in 2019 (Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship for Aerospace Research, awarded to my PhD student, S. Kuharat). I have been ranked as “internationally excellent” in the Internal Peer Review Process (March 2019). In May 2017 I was appointed to the editorial board of Journal of Nanofluids – the only journal in the world which focuses specifically on this key area of engineering science- in recognition of sustained contributions in nanofluid simulation in inter-disciplinary areas including medicine, energy and aerospace. I have been UK editor for the Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (Singapore/USA) since 2010 and have coordinated many contributions in the areas of biological heat and mass transfer. I have developed new pathways for high-temperature corrosion simulation with Mr. Ali Kadir, Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering. I have chaired special themes at international conferences including most recently at the 20th Int. Conf. Heat Transfer/Fluid Mechanics, Istanbul, Turkey, August (2018) where I also presented multiple works. I have co-edited a special volume, Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences (2016) which attracted dozens of international contributions. I have also published 4 invited book chapters on state-of-the-art techniques including computational bio-nano-fluid dynamics (Computational Approaches in Biomedical Nano-Engineering, Wiley, USA, 2019) and multi-physical electro-magnetic propulsion fluid dynamics (Mathematical Modelling: Methods, Applications & Research, Nova Science, New York, 2018). Much of my work has appeared in the leading journals in their respective fields with high impact factors. At Salford University I have mobilized a new thrust in nanotechnology and have combined biology, energy sciences, computational methods and nanoscience to design multiple MSc projects, 2 new PhD projects (in solar and corrosion protection) and new collaborations with engineering faculty. I have embraced a strongly inter-disciplinary approach in my work which is in line with the ethos of the new unified School of Science, Engineering and Environment. My book “Giants of Engineering Science” (2003) which was translated into Chinese in 2008, has also been mentioned on the profile of Professor K.J. Bathe of MIT, a world authority in computational mechanics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus-Jürgen_Bathe). My work has received 44,000 thousand reads on Researchgate (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/O_Beg ), and is rated 41.14 which is in the top 5% of all members of this international database. I have developed many new areas of integrated multi-physical modelling including electro-kinetic nanofluid dynamics, which has been recognized, for example, with my work being published in the Harvard Medical School journal, Microvascular Research.

Areas of research

Thermophysics, CFD, Biofluids, Magneto-Nanofluids, Astronautics