Team – Concordia FSI & Aero Lab

Principle Investigator

Dr. Kheiri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial & Aerospace Engineering at Concordia University. He received a BSc (2005) and an MSc (2008) in Aerospace Engineering, both from Sharif University of Technology and a PhD (2014) in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University. Prior to joining Concordia University in 2017, he worked as a senior researcher for nearly two years on several wind power generation and energy storage projects. He is the director of the FSI&AERO Lab at Concordia University. His current research focuses on the aerodynamic modelling of crosswind kite systems, vortex-induced vibrations of offshore platforms, and aeroelasticity and control of aircraft wings.

PhD Students undertake particularly fundamental research in our lab:

Shahrzad Tabatabaei (2017-Present)

Shahrzad Tabatabaei is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial & Aerospace Engineering at Concordia University. She received a B.Sc. (2013) and an M.Sc. (2016) in Mechanical Engineering, both from Iran University of Science and Technology. Shahrzad is currently a Surgical Innovation Fellow in the Experimental Surgery Department of McGill University. Her current research focuses on the nonlinear dynamics and stability of flexible slender structures in fluid flow with application to ablation catheters.

Mahdi Riazat (2018-Present)

Mahdi Riazat has joined the FSI&AERO Lab in 2018. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate, and his research is on flow-induced vibration of pipes conveying fluid subjected to external excitation, such as external fluid flow and imperfect-support. Mahdi received his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (2014) and B.Sc. from Tehran University (2012). He had done multiple projects in different programming languages, had a background in structural analysis, analytical modeling, and computational fluid dynamics.

Abhishek Barat (2019-Present)

Abhishek Barat joined the FSI&AERO Lab in 2019. His current research interests focus on understanding the fluid-structure interactions which often lead to aero-elastic instabilities. He is interested in development of high fidelity numerical methods to predict these instabilities occurring in compressors and turbines in turbomachinery. Abhishek received an MS (2014) in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, and a B. Tech (2009) in Mechanical Engineering from MANIT, Bhopal, India.

MASc Students are mostly focused on applied research in our lab:

Amar Fayyad K. Akberali (2019-Present)

Amar Fayyad K.A., is a graduate research student in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering at Concordia University. He received an MSc in Aerospace Dynamics from Cranfield University (2017) and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from Kerala University (2012). Before joining Concordia University, he has worked as an engineer in aerospace, tire and construction industries. His research involves aerodynamics, rotational flows, propeller and turbine aerodynamics, aircraft simulations and aeroelasticity. Currently he focusses on developing an aerodynamic model to predict the performance of airborne wind energy systems and the aeroelastic modeling of its tether.

Sina Rangriz (2021-Present)

Sina Rangriz has earned his BSc degree (2020) in Aerospace Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran. Currently, he is pursuing a master’s in Mechanical Engineering at Concordia University. His primary research focus is on the study of wake flow of crosswind kite power systems used for harnessing high-altitude wind energy.

Reza Khoshbakht (2021-Present)

Reza Khoshbakht is an MSc student in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering at Concordia University. He received his first MSc degree from Khaje Nasir University in 2010 and his bachelor’s from the University of Mazandaran in 2007. He has started his 2nd master’s in winter 2020 and also is a fellow of surgical innovation in the NSERC CREATE program at McGill University. His research includes modeling blood flow in porous media, stenosis arteries flow, fluid characteristics in catheterization and cardiovascular procedures, and minimally invasive surgeries. Now he works on blood flow and catheter interaction during the ablation procedure.

Antoine Boissinot (2021-Present)

Antoine Boissinot has received a B.Sc. (2021) in Engineering Physics from Université Laval, with a special focus on the Aeronautics and Aerospace. Having a great interest in aerodynamics, Antoine decided to continue his training towards the master’s by specializing in aeroelasticity. He will join the FSI&AERO Lab in the fall of 2021. Antoine has worked over two summers in the field of acoustic and vibration at Soft dB Inc. and worked for nearly a year with composite materials and their mechanics at the M³C laboratory at Université Laval.

Undergraduate Students are the integral part of both fundamental and applied research undertaken in our lab:

Mher M. Karakouzian (2021-Present)

Mher Marc Karakouzian is currently in his final undergraduate term at Concordia University. His interests are in fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, and aeroelasticity, especially from the theoretical perspective. He did his first undergraduate project with Dr. Nabil Esmail on exact solutions to some fluid dynamics problems (e.g. heated cylinder) and is currently working in the FSI&AERO Lab on analytical solutions for the wakes involved in crosswind kite-power systems. In the coming fall, he will start his MSc in Applied Mathematics at Queen’s University, investigating fluid-solid interactions, under the supervision of Dr. Giusy Mazzone.

Wesam Abu Ahmad (2021-Present)