Mohammad Sadegh Valipour

In the Name of God
Tel: +98-231-3366352
School of Mechanical Engineering
Semnan University,
P.O.Box: 35196-45399
Semnan,
Iran
Fax: +98-231-3354122
Mobile phone:+98-9127056214
E-mail1: msvalipour@semnan.ac.ir
E-mail2: valipours_m@yahoo.com
Home Page:
http://profs.semnan.ac.ir/mvalipour/index.php
Mohammad Sadegh Valipour
Education
• B.Sc, Mechanical Eng., Thermo-Fluid field
1998 Sistan & Baluchestan University Zahedan, Iran
• M.Sc, Mechanical Eng., Energy Conversion field
2000 Sharif University of Technology Tehran, Iran
• PhD, Mechanical Eng., Energy Conversion field
2007 Sharif University of Technology Tehran, Iran
Work Experience
Energy Optimization Researcher
• 2000- 2004 Sharif Energy Research Institute(SERI), Sharif
University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Teaching Assistant
• 2000- 2004 School of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology,
Tehran, Iran
- Fluid Mechanics(for Under graduate)
- Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
- Heat Transfer Laboratory
Advanced Thermodynamic & Heat Transfer Researcher
• 2002-2007 Center of Excellence in Energy Conversion, School of
Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University. of Technology
DRI(Direct Reduction Iron) Technology researcher
• Nov. 2003-Apr. 2005, Iran International Engineering Company(IRITEC)
• 2006- present, Iran International Engineering Company(IRITEC)
Special foreign researcher
• Apr.2005-Jan. 2006………..Materials Reaction Engineering Lab.,
Department of Materials, Physics and Energy Engineering, Graduate
School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan
Assistant Professor
• July 2006-Present, School of Mechanical Engineering , Semnan
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University, Semnan, Iran.
Director of Semnan University Technology Incubator
• Nov. 2010-Present, Semnan University Technology Incubator, Semnan,
Iran.
Interests &
Activities
• Vertical and horizontal wind tunnels
• Modeling of Chemical Engineering Reactors
• Heat and Mass Transfer and Fluid Dynamics in Porous Media
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Energy Optimization in Ironmaking & Steelmaking Plants
• Two Phase Flow (Gas-Solid)
• Modeling of Heterogeneous gas-solid reactions
• Modeling of Vortex Tube Refrigerator
• Modeling of Granular Materials
• Energy and Exergy analysis of process
Taught Courses
Under Graduate
• Fluid Mechanics I & II
• Fluid Mechanics Lab.
• Engineering Mathematics
• Power Plants technology
Graduate
• Convection Heat transfer
• Energy Management
• Advanced Engineering Mathematics II
• Energy System Analysis
• Transport phenomena in porous media
Honor and
Awards
• Young Researcher Fellowship from MIT, 2005.
• Awarded Scholarship from Nagoya University of Japan as Special
Foreign Student, 2005.
• Awarded Scholarship from Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and
Technology
• Nominated as Top Student of Engineering School in Bs.c., 1998
• Membership of ISIJ (Iron and Steel Institute of Japan)
• Membership of ISME(Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineers)
•
Editor for
• Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Research
Reviewer for • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
• Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics
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• Advanced Powder Technology
• International Journal of Refrigeration
• Journal of Modeling in Engineering(in Persian)
Publications
Journals
1. M. Biglari, M.S. Valipour, E. Assareh, M. Nedaei, I. Poultangari “A New
Solution for Natural Convection of Darcian Fluid about aVertical Full Cone
Embedded in Porous Media Prescribed Wall Temperature” Global Journal of
Science, Engineering and Technology (ISSN: 2322-2441)Issue 11, 2013, pp.
10-18
2. M.S. Valipour, R. Masoodi, S. Rashidi, M. Bovand ,“Numerical Study of Flow
around and through a Porous Diamond Cylinder in Different Apex Angels”,
International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow ,
Accepted.
3. M.S. Valipour, R. Masoodi, S. Rashidi, M. Bovand, M. Mirhosseini, “A
numerical study on convection around a square cylinder using AL 2 O 3 –H 2 O
nanofluid”, Journal of Thermal Science2013, OnLine-First
doi:10.2298/TSCI121224061V.
4. S. Rashidi, A.Tamayol, M.S.Valipour, N.Shokri, “Fluid flow and forced
convection heat transfer around a solid cylinder wrapped with a porous ring”,
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 63 (2013) 91–100.
5. Rahbar N., Taherian M., Shateri M., Valipour M.S., “Numerical investigation
on flow behavior and energy separation in a micro-scale vortex tube”, Thermal
Science 2012 OnLine-First, doi:10.2298/TSCI120316206R.
6. Ghadi A.Z., Goodarzian H., Gorji-Bandpy M., Valipour M.S. “Numerical
Investigation of Magnetic Effect on Forced Convection around Two-
Dimensional Circular Cylinder Embedded in Porous Media”, Engineering
Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 6(3), 395-402.
7. Valipour M.S., Ghadi A.Z., “Numerical Investigation of Forced Convective
Heat Transfer around and through a Porous Circular Cylinder with Internal
Heat Generation ”, J. Heat Transfer - Transaction ASME, 134(6).
8. M.S. Valipour, M.H. Mokhtari, “Effect of Water Gas Shift Reaction on the
Non-Isothermal Reduction of Wustite Porous Pellet Using Syngas”,
International Journal of ISSI, 8 (2011), 9-15.
9. Valipour M.S., Ghadi A.Z., “Numerical investigation of fluid flow and heat
transfer around solid circular cylinder utilizing nanofluid”, Int. Commun. Heat
Mass Transf., 2011, 38(9), 1296-1304.
10. Valipour M.S., Niazi, N., “Experimental modeling of a curved Ranque-
Hilsch vortex tube refrigerator”, International Journal of Refrigeration, 2011,
34(4), 1109-1116.
11. Valipour M.S. “Mathematical Modelling of a Non-catalytic Gas-Solid
Reaction: The Hematite Pellet Reduction with Syngas” Scientia Iranica,
Transactions C : Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 2009, 16, 108-124.
12. Khoshandam, B., Kumar, R. V., Valipour, M. S. and Darzi, H. R.,
"Modeling of non-catalytic gas-solid reactions-Multicomponent nonequimolar
counter-diffusion of gaseous phase", Transactions of the Institutions of Mining
and Metallurgy, Section C: Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy 118
(2), pp. 85-97.
13. Valipour M.S. and Khoshandam B., “Numerical Modeling of Nonisothermal
Reduction of a wustite Pellet with Syngas”, Ironmaking and
Steelmaking, 36, 91-96, 2009.
14. Valipour M.S. and Saboohi Y., “Numerical Investigation of
Nonisothermal Reduction of Hematite Using Syngas: The Shaft Scale
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Study” Modelling and Simulation in Material Science and Engineering, 15,
487-507, 2007.
15. Valipour M.S. and Saboohi Y., “Modeling of Multiple Noncatalytic Gas-
Solid Reactions in a Moving Bed of Porous Pellets Based on Finite Volume
Method” Heat and Mass Transfer, 43, 881-894, 2007.
16. Valipour M.S., Motamed Hashemi M.Y. and Saboohi Y., “Mathematical
Modeling of Reaction in an Iron Ore Pellet With Using a Mixture of
hydrogen, water vapor, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide: An isothermal
study” Advanced Powder Technology, 17(3), 277-295, 2006.
17. Valipour M.S. and Saboohi Y., "A non-isothermal, transient model of a
non-catalytic reaction in a packed bed with a multi-component hightemperature
gas mixture" in Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics
2005(Ed: K.J. Bathe), Elsevier Ltd., pp.1023-1025, 2005.
18. Saidi, M.H. and Valipour, M.S., "Experimental Modeling of Vortex Tube
Refrigerator", J. of Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol.23, pp.1971-1980,
2003.
Conference papers
1. M.S. Valipour, M. Sadeghi, A. H. Mahmoudi, M. Shahi, H. Gandaghi,
“Numerical modeling of ground water flow and contaminant transport in a
saturated porous medium”, AIP Conf. Proc. 1453, pp. 111-114;
doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4711161 (4 pages), POROUS MEDIA AND ITS
APPLICATIONS IN SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, AND INDUSTRY: Fourth
International Conference, June 2012, Potsdam, Germany.
2. Valipour M.S. and Kuwabara M., “Effect of dual gas injection system on the
performance of the moving bed reactor: The reduction of hematite pellets with
hydrogen”, SCANMET III, June 2008, Lulea, Sweden.
3. Khoshandam, B., Kumar, R. V., Valipour, M. S. and Darzi, H. R., "Modeling of
non-catalytic gas-solid reactions-Multicomponent nonequimolar counterdiffusion
of gaseous phase", 5th International Chemical Engineering Congress,
Kish Island, Iran, Jan. 2008.
4. Valipour M.S., Kuwabara M. and Khoshandam B., “Numerical Modeling of
Non-isothermal Reduction of a wustite Pellet with Syngas”, First joint
conference on Metallurgical and Casting conference, Zobe Ahan, Isfahan, Iran,
2007.
5. Valipour M.S., Kuwabara M. and Saboohi Y., “Numerical Modeling of Nonisothermal
Reduction in a Hematite Pellet with Using a Mixture of
H
2 , H 2
O, COand CO
2 ” CAMP-ISIJ, Vol.18, pp. 922, 2005.
6. Valipour M.S. and Saboohi Y. , " A non-isothermal, transient model of noncatalytic
reaction in packed bed with a multi-component high temperature gas
mixture" 3 rd MIT conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, June
14-17, 2005, MIT, Cambridge, USA.
7. Valipour M.S. and Saboohi Y " Behavior of an Iron ore pellet during the
reduction process" 2 nd International Conference & Exhibition on New
Developments in Metallurgical Process Technology, 19-21 September 2004,
Riva del Garda, Italy.
8. Valipour M.S., Motamed Hashemi M.Y. and Saboohi Y. "Mathematical
modeling of reaction in iron ore pellet with syngas" 16 th Int. Congress of
Chemical and Process Engineering (CHISA 2004), 22-26 August 2004, Prague,
Czech Republic.
9. Valipour, M.S., Saidi, M.H., “Adaptive Modeling of Energy Separation in
Vortex Tube” Proceeding of 10 th Annual (International) Mechanical Engineering
Conference (ISME2002), 24-26 May, 2002.
10. Valipour, M.S. and Saidi, M.H., "Experimental Modeling of a Vortex Tube
Refrigerator" 9 th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics, Isfahan, Iran, May 2002.
11. Saidi, M.H., Valipour, M.S., “Effect of Thermo-physical and Geometrical
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Parameters on Vortex Tube Performance” 9 th Annual and 5 th International
Mechanical Engineering Conference (ISME2001) May 26-28, 2002.
Book and Reports
1. Valipour M.S. “Review of Direct Reduction Processes based on Consumption
Energy”, Sharif University of Technology, Sharif Energy Research
Institute,2002,Internal Report.(In Persian Language)
2. Valipour M.S. “Direct Reduction Based on Midrex Process”, Sharif University
of Technology, Sharif Energy Research Institute ,2002, Internal Report.(In
Persian Language)
3. Valipour M.S. “Developing a Computer Code for Solving Fluid Flow using
Finite Element Method Based on GLS”, Sharif University of Technology, 2002.
4. Valipour M.S. “Developing Computational Fluid Dynamics Codes in
Collocated Grid System”, Sharif University of Technology, 2003.
5. Nazer H.H.K and Valipour M.S. " Fluid Mechanics Laboratory: Instruction
booklet " , Sharif University of Technology, 2004.(In Persian).
6. Valipour M.S., “Developing a Computer Code for modeling non-catalytic gassolid
reactions in a porous pellet based on FVM”, Sharif University of
Technology, 2004.
7. Valipour M.S., “Developing a Computer Code for Solving Fluid Flow ,Heat and
Mass Transfer in a Moving packed bed reactor based on FVM”, Nagoya
University and Sharif University of Technology, 2005.
8.
Publication in Persian Language
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