Audai Hussein Al-Abbas

Date of Birth

1975-01-19

Degree

phd

General & Specialist

Mechanical Engineering - Fluid Mechanics

E-mail

audai.hussein@uowa.edu.iq

University granting the Degree

Swinburne University of Technology

Academic Title

Professor

college

College of engineering

Professional Bodies/Professional Recognition:

1- Member of the Iraqi Engineers Syndicate.

2- Member of the Iraqi Academics Syndicate.

3- Editorial member of a number of scientific journals in mechanical engineering.

4-An international evaluator for a number of reputable international journals and holds
the rank of Mentor on the Publons website.

5-Member of QUVAE Foundation for Advanced Scientific Research Publishing

Academic work Experience:

1- Worked as an engineer in the laboratories of mechanical engineering department of
university of technology/ Baghdad from 1997 to 1999.
2- Worked as an assistant lecturer in the mechanical engineering department of Al-
Rasheed college/ Baghdad from 2002-2004.
3- Worked as a consultant in some industrial companies such as Al-Furat Company for
chemical production and the General Company for mechanical industries in fields of
fluid mechanics and thermal engineering in 2001.
4- Worked as a lecturer in power mechanics engineering department of Technical
College AL-Mussaib (TCM) / Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University (ATU) from
2004 and up to date.
5- Worked as a Deputy Head of power mechanics engineering department at the
Technical College AL-Mussaib (TCM) from 2013 to 2016.
6- Worked as a Head of power mechanics engineering department at the Technical
College AL-Mussaib (TCM), Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University (ATU), Kufa ,
IRAQ from February 2017 to September 2021.
7- Member of the Central Academic Promotions Committee of Al-Furat Al-Awsat
Technical University from 2022 and up to date.
8- Supervisor of a number of doctoral and master’s students in a number of Iraqi
universities.

9- Work as an external lecturer in the Department of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineering / College of Engineering / Warith Al-Anbiya University (peace be upon him) for the period from 2024 to date.

Courses, seminars and workshops Delivered:

Holding a number of training and educational courses and workshops on thermal and hydraulic power plants, as well as on clean energy sources, in addition to the uses of phase change materials in modern engineering applications.

Scientific research, books, and other publications:

Publications:
Title of book chapter:
1- Al-Abbas, AH & Naser, J. 2013, “Oxy-fuel combustion in the lab-scale and large-scale
fuel-fired furnaces for thermal power generations”, published in the book under theworking title “Thermal Power Plants - Advanced Applications", ISBN 980-953-307-821-
7, Chapter 3, pp: 51-84, in “InTech” publisher.
Peer-reviewed international journals:
2- Al-Abbas, AH & Naser, J. 2012, “Numerical study of one air-fired and two oxy-fuel
combustion cases of propane in a 100 kW furnace”, Energy & Fuels, vol. 26, no. 2, pp.
952–967, Impact Factor 2.444.
3- Al-Abbas, AH, Naser, J & Dodds, D 2011, “CFD modelling of air-fired and oxy-fuel
combustion of lignite in a 100 kW furnace”, Fuel, vol. 90, no. 5, pp. 1778-1795. Impact
Factor 3.791.
4- Al-Abbas, AH & Naser, J. 2012, “Effect of chemical reaction mechanisms and nitric
oxides modelling on air-fired and oxy-fuel combustion of lignite in a 100 kW furnace”,
Energy & Fuels, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 3329–3348, Impact Factor 2.444.
5- Al-Abbas, AH, Naser, J & Dodds, D, 2012, “CFD modelling of air-fired and oxy-fuel
combustion in a large-scale furnace at Loy Yang A brown coal power station”, Fuel, vol.
102, pp. 646-665, Impact Factor 3.791.
6- Al-Abbas, AH & Naser, J. Hussein, EK 2013, “Numerical simulation of brown coal
combustion in a 550 MW tangentially-fired furnace under different operating conditions”,
Fuel, vol. 107, pp. 688-698, Impact Factor 3.791.
7- Hart, J., AH. Al-Abbas, and J. Naser, 2013, “Numerical investigation of pyrolysis of a Loy
Yang coal in a lab-scale furnace at elevated pressures”, Heat and Mass Transfer, 2013, vol.
49, pp. 1725-1732. Impact factor 0.84.
8- Abdul Ameer, M., and AH. Al-Abbas, 2013, “Experimental and Numerical Investigations
of the Effect of Net Positive Suction Head on Water Hammer In Pipeline Systems”,
International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT), Volume-3,
Issue-1, P. 86-91. Impact Factor 1.0.
9- Mrs. Rana Ali Hussein, Dr. Audai Hussein Al-Abbas, Dr. Abdulla Dhayea Assi, 2014,”
Effect of Fuel Types on Combustion Characteristics and Performance of a Four Stroke IC
Engine”, Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications, Vol. 4, Issue 4( Version
1), April 2014, pp.417-425. Impact factor 1.69.
10- Exergy analysis of Shell and helical coil heat exchanger and design optimization, AH Al-
Abbas, AA Mohammed, AS Hassoon, Heat and Mass Transfer, 1-10
11- Improving the efficiency and performance of centrifugal pump through model
development and numerical analysis for the pump impeller, MN Hawas, AA Mohammed,
AH Al-Abbas, International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research 9
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12- TURBULENT HEAT TRANSFER FOR INTERNAL FLOW OF ETHYLENE
GLYCOLAL2O3 NANOFLUID IN A SPIRAL GROOVED TUBE WITH TWISTEDTAPE INSERTS, HN Ahmed Fakhrey Khudheyer, Audai Hussein Al-Abbas, Mihail-
Bogdan Carutasiu, Journal of Thermal Engineering 7 (May 2021), 761-772.
13- Experimental Investigation of Combustion Characteristics and Emission in IC Engine by
Using Recirculation of Exhaust Gases, H Al-Gburi, AH Al-Abbas*, AA Mohammed,
Journal of Mechanical Engineering Research and Developments 44 (4), 329-336, 2021.
14- Experimental study of the thermal performance of corrugated helically coiled
tube-in-tube heat exchanger, H Al-Gburi, AA Mohammed, AH Al-Abbas, Front. Heat
Mass Transf.2023, 20, 1-7.
15- Optimization of wickless heat pipe heat exchanger using R1234-yf and ethanol as
working fluids, OR Alkhafaj, NJ Yasin, AH Al-abbas, International Journal of Applied
Science and Engineering, 2023, 20 (3), 1-12.
Peer-reviewed international conferences:
16- Al-Abbas, AH & Naser, J. 2011 “CFD Modelling of Air-Fired and Oxy-Fuel
Combustion in a 100 kW Unit Firing Propane”, Proceedings of the 9th International
Conference on Mechanical Engineering in Dhaka.
17- Al-Abbas, AH , Naser, J , and Blicblau, A 2012 “ Computational Fluid Dynamics
modelling of Chemistry Reaction Schemes in a Lab-Scale Oxy-Fuel Furnace”,
Proceeding of the 9th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics in the
Minerals and process Industries in Melbourne, Australia, 10-12 December 2012, ISBN
9781922173010.
18- Al-Abbas, AH , Naser, J , Dodds, D , and Blicblau, A 2013 “Numerical modelling of
oxy-fuel combustion in a full-scale tangentially-fired pulverized coal boiler”, Proceeding
of the 5th BSME International Conference on Thermal Engineering in Bangladesh,
Procedia Engineering, Volume 56, 2013, Pages 375-380.
19- Al-Abbas, AH & Naser, J. 2013, “Computational fluid dynamic modelling of a 550 MW
tangentially-fired furnace under different operating conditions”, Proceeding of the 5th
BSME International Conference on Thermal Engineering in Bangladesh, Procedia
Engineering, Volume 56, 2013, Pages 387-392.
20- Al-Abbas, AH., 2014,” Numerical Study of Thermal Performance for Solar Heating
System”, Proceeding of 1st ICESA international Conference on Engineering, College of
Engineering/ University of Kerbala, December 2014, (ICESA).
21- Rana Ali Hussein, Atheer Saleh Hassoon, Audai Hussein Al-Abbas, 2018,
“Experimental Study for the Combustion Characteristics of IC Engine Operated with
Blended Fuels”, 2nd international conference on engineering sciences, college of
engineering/ kerbala university, 26-27 march 2018.

22- Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling Study for the Thermal Performance of the Pin
Fins Under Different Parameters, ORA, AH Alabbas, The Fourth Postgraduate
Engineering Conference 745 (IOP Conf. Series …, December 2019).
Peer-reviewed national journals:
23- Al-Abbas, AH. 2008, “Study on the Effect of Die Profile on the Generation of Heat and
the Equivalent Stresses Produced during Extrusion Process”, Al-Taqani Journal,
Baghdad, Volume 21, 2008, No. 1, Pages 122-130.
24- Al-Abbas, AH & Abdulla Dhayea Assi. Hussein, EK “Influences of friction conditions
on sheet hydroforming used in automobile industries, Al-Taqani Journal, Baghdad,
Volume 28, 2015, No. 1, Pages 1-13.
25- Al-Abbas, AH. “Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Modeling Study of Thermal
Performance for Multipurpose Solar Heating System”, Al-Nahrain Journal for
Engineering Sciences (NJES) Vol.20 No.1, 2017 pp.222 – 234.
26- Experimental Study of the Wickless Heat Pipe Heat Exchanger by Using Nano Fluid,OR
Skheel, NJ Yasin, AH Al-abbas, SA Soomro, Journal of Techniques, 2023, 5 (4), 115-
130.

Courses taught:

Fluid mechanics, Thermodynamics, Heat transfer, Advanced mathematics, Advanced
power plants, Engineering drawing, Advanced thermodynamics.