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Muhammad Khalid, PhD, PEng.

Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering Dept
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Faculty of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering Dept
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mkhalid1@ualberta.ca
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering Dept
Email
mkhalid1@ualberta.ca

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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:

  1.  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.
  2. 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.
  3. H Farooq, MSU Khalid, I Akhtar, and A Hemmati, “Nonlinear response of passively flapping airfoils”. Ocean Engineering, 261: 112071, 2022.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. T Asim, I Sheikh, A Hemmati, and MSU Khalid, “A review of recent advancements in offshore wind turbines technology”, Energies, 15(2): 579, 2022.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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).
  11. 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).
  12. 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.
  13. MSU Khalid, J Wang, H Dong, and MB Liu, “Flow transitions and mappings for undulatory swimmers”, Physical Review Fluids, 5(6), 063104, 2020.
  14. 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
  15. 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.
  16. MSU Khalid, I Akhtar, and B Wu, “Quantification of flow noise Produced by an Oscillating Hydrofoil”, Ocean Engineering, 171, 377-390, 2019.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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. 
  23. 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.