Lecturer
Phone Number: 805-756-3022
Email: ehasanim@calpoly.edu
Office Number: 13-260
Websites
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=YYjcQIcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&gmla=AGd7smH6I0iIOTiJ91n8Vx3FX1H9JkiUigwIkf_4dcANHROtA_Sxaftu8jTV07Oc_anrpn_zP9zqnA-s-_IYtfjKmB5dR_wnEZu3gw
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emad-Hasani-Malekshah
- Personal Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/e-h-malekshah/home
Education
- PhD Mechanical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Poland, 2024
- BS Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Iran, 2015
Research Interests
- Primary Research Interests: Multiphase Flows; Cavitation; Turbulent Flows; Bubble Dynamics.
- Secondary Research Interests: Natural Convection; Aerodynamics; Flow Control Methods.
Professional Appointments
- Post-Doctoral Teaching/Research Scholar (Full-time Lecturer), Cal Poly, 2025-Present
- Young Scientist Research Fellow, Silesian University of Technology, Poland, 2021-2023
- Research Assistant, Silesian University of Technology, Poland, 2020-2024
Awards and Honors
- Ph.D. Degree Conferred with Distinction, Silesian University of Technology, 2024
- Top-100 Outstanding Young Researcher Award (in Poland), Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), 2023
- Best Ph.D. Student Award, Silesian University of Technology, 2023
- Best Ph.D. Student Award, Silesian University of Technology, 2022
- Ranked in the Top-10 Students among B.Sc. graduates of Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, 2015
Research Experience
- Visiting Scholar, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, USA, Oct 2023 – Jan 2024
- Visiting Postgraduate Student, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, Jul 2022
- Short Term Internship, The Chair of Fluid Mechanics, Dresden University of Technology (TUD), Germany, Sep 2021
- Young Scientist Research Fellow, Department of Power Engineering and Turbomachinery, Silesian University of Technology, Poland, 2021 – 2023
- Research Assistant, Department of Power Engineering and Turbomachinery, Silesian University of Technology, Poland, 2020 – 2024
Teaching Experience
- Thermodynamics I, CalPoly, Winter Quarter 2025
Presentation/Conferences
- 14th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer ICCHMT 2023, Düsseldorf, Germany. (oral presentation), Sep 2023
- 2nd Spanish Fluid Mechanics Conference, Barcelona, Spain. (oral presentation), Jul 2023
- 34th Turbomachinery workshop, Gda´nsk, Poland. (oral and poster presentations), Sep 2022
- XXV Fluid Mechanics Conference, Rzeszów, Poland. (poster presentation, print abstract), Sep 2022
- Turbo Expo 2022 (ASME), Rotterdam, Netherlands. (oral presentation, proceeding paper), Jun 2022
- 9th Environmental Protection and Energy conference, Gliwice, Poland. (oral presentation), Dec 2021
- XV Research & Development in Power Engineering Conference, Warsaw, Poland. (oral presentation, print abstract), Dec 2021
- XIV Workshop & Summer School “Multiphase Flows”, Gdansk, Poland. (poster presentation), Sep 2021
Selected Publications
- Malekshah, E. H., Wróblewski, W., & Majkut, M. (2024). Benchmark Experimental Study on Cavitating Flow Around Clark-Y 11.7% Hydrofoil at Various Angles of Attack Under Controlled Levels of Dissolved Air. European Journal of Mechanics – B/Fluids, 109, 162-169.
- Rusin, K., Wróblewski, W., Malekshah, E. H., Pahlavanzadeh, M., & Rulik, S. (2024). Extended analytical model of Tesla turbine with advanced modelling of velocity profile in minichannel between corotating disks with consideration of surface roughness. Energy, 307, 132775.
- Malekshah, E. H., Wróblewski, W., & Majkut, M. (2024). Investigation on natural to ventilated cavitation considering the air-vapor interactions by Merging theory with insight on air jet location/rate effect. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 220, 124968.
- Malekshah, E. H., Wróblewski, W., Bochon, K., & Majkut, M. (2023). Experimental analysis on dynamic/morphological quality of cavitation induced by different air injection rates and sites. Physics of Fluids, 35(1).
- Malekshah, E. H., & Wróblewski, W. (2022). Effect of turbulence modelling and non-condensable gas on cloud cavity dynamics. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 98, 109070.
- Malekshah, E. H., Wróblewski, W., Bochon, K., & Majkut, M. (2022). Evaluation of modified turbulent viscosity on shedding dynamic of three-phase cloud cavitation around hydrofoil – numerical/experimental analysis. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, 32(12), 3863-3880.
- Malekshah, E. H., Wróblewski, W., & Majkut, M. (2022). Dissolved air effects on three-phase hydrodynamic cavitation in large scale Venturi-Experimental/numerical analysis. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 90, 106199.
- Malekshah, E. H., & Wróblewski, W. (2022). Merging theory-based cavitation model adaptable with non-condensable gas effects in prediction of compressible three-phase cavitating flow. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 196, 123279.
- Wróblewski, W., Bochon, K., Majkut, M., Rusin, K., & Malekshah, E. H. (2022). Numerical study of cavitating flow over hydrofoil in the presence of air. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, 32(5), 1440-1462.
- Malekshah, E. H., Wróblewski, W., Bochon, K., Majkut, M., & Rusin, K. (2022). Experimental analysis on unsteady characteristics of sheet/cloud cavitating Venturi flow under the effect of dissolved air. Archives of Thermodynamics, 63-84.
- Wróblewski, W., Bochon, K., Majkut, M., Malekshah, E. H., Rusin, K., & Strozik, M. (2021). An experimental/numerical assessment over the influence of the dissolved air on the instantaneous characteristics/shedding frequency of cavitating flow. Ocean Engineering, 240, 109960.
Conference Proceedings
- Rusin, K., Wróblewski, W., Rulik, S., Pahlavanzadeh, M., & Malekshah, E. H. (2023, June). Investigation on the Influence of Surface Roughness of Rotating Microchannel on Flow Conditions. In TurboExpo: Power for Land, Sea, and Air (Vol. 87110, p. V13DT35A007). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
- Rusin, K., Malekshah, E. H., Wróblewski, W., & Rulik, S. (2022, June). Improvement of the Semi-Analytical Model of a Tesla Disc Turbine by the Correction of the Velocity Profile. In Turbo Expo: Power for Land, Sea, and Air (Vol. 86106, p. V10BT35A016). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.