Contact
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering Dept
- mkhalid1@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Fluid-Structure Interactions Heat Transfer Renewable Energy Systems Multiphysics Computational Modeling Bio-Inspired Engineering Hydrodynamics Aerodynamics Flow-Induced Acoustics Nonlinear Dynamics
About
Experience:
- Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lakehead University, Canada (2023 - Present)
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada (2021 - Present)
- Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada (2022)
- Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada (2020 - 2021)
- International Exchange Research Fellow, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Peking University, China (2019 - 2021)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Jiangsu University, China (2017 - 2018)
- Visiting Research Fellow, Division of Mechanics, Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China (2018)
- Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan (2012 - 2019)
- Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan (2009 - 2012)
- Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, HITEC University, Pakistan (2008 - 2009)
Education:
- PhD in Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan (2016)
- Visiting Doctoral Research Scholar, University of Virginia, USA (2014-2015)
- MSc in Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan (2009)
- BE in Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan (2007)
Research
Journal Publications:
- G Zhu, Y Zhao, Z Wang, MSU Khalid, and MB Liu, “Semi-resolved CFD-DEM simulation of fine particle migration with heat transfer in heterogeneous porous media”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 197: 123349, 2022.
- ZL Zhang, C Shu, MSU Khalid, Z Chen, and W Liu, “Investigations on the hydroelastic slamming of deformable wedges by using the smoothed particle element method”, Journal of Fluids and Structures, 114: 103732, 2022.
- H Farooq, MSU Khalid, I Akhtar, and A Hemmati, “Nonlinear response of passively flapping airfoils”. Ocean Engineering, 261: 112071, 2022.
- H Farooq, M Ghommem, MSU Khalid, and I Akhtar, “Numerical investigation of hydrodynamic performance of flapping foils for energy harvesting”, Ocean Engineering, 260: 112005, 2022.
- M Temesgen, MSU Khalid, D Wood, and BT Admasu, “Some effects of turbine inertia on the starting performance of vertical-axis hydrokinetic turbine”, Ocean Engineering, 252: 111143, 2022.
- T Asim, I Sheikh, A Hemmati, and MSU Khalid, “A review of recent advancements in offshore wind turbines technology”, Energies, 15(2): 579, 2022.
- S Verma, MSU Khalid, and A Hemmati, “On association of lift generation, wake topology and kinematics of oscillating foils”, International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, 14: 17568293211073959, 2022.
- A Gungor, MSU Khalid, and A Hemmati, “How does switching synchronization of pitching parallel foils from out-of-phase to in-phase change their wake dynamics?”, Physics of Fluids, 33: 081901, 2021.
- ZL Zhang, T Long, MSU Khalid, HS Zhang, MB Liu, and C Shu, “Modeling violent liquid sloshing without and with deformable structures by using an element-particle coupling strategy”, Applied Ocean Research, 114: 102774, 2021.
- MSU Khalid, J Wang, I Akhtar, H Dong, MB Liu, and A. Hemmati, “Larger wavelengths suit the hydrodynamics of carangiform swimmers”, Physical Review Fluids, 6: 073101, 2021 (featured as the Editors' Suggestion).
- MSU Khalid, J Wang, I Akhtar, H Dong, MB Liu, and A Hemmati, “Why do anguilliform swimmers undulate their bodies with wavelengths shorter than bodylengths?”, Physics of Fluids, 33: 031911, 2021 (featured as the Editor’s Pick).
- MSU Khalid, J Wang, I Akhtar, H Dong, and MB Liu, “Modal decompositions of the kinematics of Crevalle Jack and the fluid-caudal fin interaction”, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 16: 016018, 2020.
- MSU Khalid, J Wang, H Dong, and MB Liu, “Flow transitions and mappings for undulatory swimmers”, Physical Review Fluids, 5(6), 063104, 2020.
- M Usman, M Hamid, MSU Khalid, RU Haq, and MB Liu, “A robust scheme based on novel-operational matrices for some classes of time-fractional nonlinear problems arising in mechanics and mathematical physics”, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 36(6): 1566-1600, 2020, 2020
- ZL Zhang, MSU Khalid, T Long, J Chang, and MB Liu, “Investigations on sloshing mitigation using elastic baffles by coupling smoothed finite element method and decoupled finite particle method”, Journal of Fluids and Structures, 94, 102942, 2020.
- MSU Khalid, I Akhtar, and B Wu, “Quantification of flow noise Produced by an Oscillating Hydrofoil”, Ocean Engineering, 171, 377-390, 2019.
- R Salzar, G Taylor, MSU Khalid, and A Abdelkefi, “Optimal design and energy harvesting performance of carangiform fish-like robotic system”, Smart Materials and Structures, 27, 075045, 2018.
- MSU Khalid, I Akhtar, H Dong, N Ahsan, X Jiang, and B Wu, “Bifurcations and route to chaos for flow over an oscillating airfoil”, Journal of Fluids and Structures, 80, 262-274, 2018.
- MSU Khalid, I Akhtar, H Imtiaz, H Dong, and B Wu, “On the hydrodynamics and nonlinear interaction between fish in tandem”, Ocean Engineering, 157C, 108-120, 2018.
- MSU Khalid and I Akhtar, “Nonlinear reduced-order models for aerodynamic lift produced by oscillating airfoils”, Journal of Computational & Nonlinear Dynamics, 12(5), 051019, 2017.
- MSU Khalid, I Akhtar, and H Dong, “Hydrodynamics of a tandem fish school with asynchronous undulation of individuals”, Journal of Fluids and Structures, 66, 19-35, 2016.
- MSU Khalid, T Rabbani, I Akhtar, N Durrani, and MS Siddiqui, “Reduced-order modeling of torque on a vertical-axis wind turbine at varying tip-speed ratios”, Journal of Computation and Nonlinear Dynamics, 10(4), 041012, 2015.
- MSU Khalid, I Akhtar, and N Durrani, “Analysis of Strouhal number based equivalence of pitching and plunging airfoils and wake deflection”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 229(8), 1423-1434, 2015.