Faculty


Abdelfattah M.G. Zebib
Professor
Email : zebib@jove.rutgers.edu
Phone : (732)445-3268

Education
  • Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado
  • M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado
  • B.S. Mechanical Power Engineering, Cairo University
Work Experience
  • Chairman, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Graduate Director, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Deputy Dean, School of Engineering, Rutgers University
  • Professor II (distinguished), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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Students Advised
  • Pravin Subramanian - Theoretical and computational study of solutocapillary spherical convection in microencapsulation
    - January 2006
  • Asad Khan - Three dimensional thermal convection of infinite Prandtl number fluid in a spherical shell
    - May 1982
  • Kevin Kennedy - An investigation of combined free and forced convection for laminar horizontal channel flow with local heat sources prescribed on the boundaries
    - May 1982
  • George Dyke - Vertical Bridgman crystal growth
    - October 1997
  • Jieyong Xu - Boundary element simulations of two dimensional convective flows
    - May 1994
  • Michael R. Mundrane - Three-dimensional thermocapillary convection
    - January 1992
  • Hong Zhou - Influence of solidification on time-dependent convection
    - October 1991
  • Alessandro Bottaro - Natural Convection in Czochralski Bulk Flow
    - January 1987
  • Mohammed Afrid - Natural convection cooling of heated components mounted on a vertical wall
    - May 1987
  • Atul Goyal - High Rayleigh Number thermal convection in a spherical shell
    - October 1982
  • Alessandro Bottaro - Three-dimensional convection in cylindrical geometry
    - January 1989
  • Xiaolong L. Yang - Absolute and convective instabilities of a viscous flow past a circular cylinder
    - May 1989
  • Bok-Cheol Sim - Thermocapillary convection in cylindrical geometries
    - January 2002
  • Cedric Le Cunff - Stability of boundary layer flow on curved surfaces
    - May 1998
  • Jieyong Xu - Stability analysis of two- and three-dimensional thermocapillary convection
    - October 1997
  • James T. Ratcliff - Thermal convection with temperature-dependent viscosity: A numerical investigation of the effects of variable viscosity on thermal convection in geophysical contexts (University of California, Los Angeles (Co-advisor))
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  • Michael R. Mundrane - Oscillatory thermocapillary convection
    - May 1995
  • Hong Zhou - Crystal growth by physical vapor transport
    - May 1995
  • Theodore Vaskopulos - Forced Fiber Cooling ((Co-advisor))
    - May 1994
  • Camille Gervasio - A study of thermal convection in low Prandtl number fluids
    - May 1991
  • Mohammed Afrid - Three-dimensional thermal convection
    - May 1990
  • Ashfaque Mohammed - Numerical solution of a flow past a sphere at values of Reynolds Numbers less than 10
    - May 1981

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Awards and Honors
  • Fellow , American Physical Society
Editorship
  • Physics of Fluids, American Institute of Physics
    Associate Editor
Courses Taught
  • Computers for engineers
    Fall
  • Advanced Engineering Analysis
    Fall
  • Advanced Thermodynamic Theory
    Fall
  • Fluid Mechanics II
    Fall
  • Fluid Mechanics I
    Fall
  • Convection Heat Transfer
    Fall
  • Conduction Heat Transfer
    Fall
  • Heat Transfer
    Fall
  • Compressible Flow
    Fall
  • Thermodynamics
    Fall
  • M.E. Measurements
    Fall
  • Fluid Mechanics
    Fall
  • Applied Thermodynamics
    Fall
  • Thermodynamics
    Fall
  • M.E. Comp. Anal. & Design
    Fall
  • Hydrodynamic Stability
    Fall

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Publications

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