Name: Melik Sahraoui

 

Title: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Preparatory Institute of Engineering Studies at Tunis, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Tunisia Polytechnic School

 

Address: Tunisia Polytechnic School, Rue El-Khawarizmi, B.P. 743, La Marsa 2078, Tunisia

Office Telephone: (+216) 97 143 772

 

Fax: (+216) 71 748 843

 

Email: m_sahraoui@yahoo.com  

Education: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 1991; Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 1988; Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 1986.

Research Interests: Heat Transfer, Renewable Energies, Electronics cooling, Fluid Mechanics, Porous Media.

 

Patent:

 

Pell D., Sahraoui M., and Zapach T. “Electronics enclosure for power electronics with passive thermal management”, United States Patent Office Number 6,084,772.

 

Recent Publications:

 

Articles published international journals

 

1.      Sahraoui M. and Kaviany M., "Direct Simulation Versus Local, Phase-Volume Averaged Description of Adiabatic Premixed Flame in a Porous Medium," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 37, pp. 2817-2834, 1994.

 

2.      Sahraoui M. and Kaviany M., "Slip and No-Slip Temperature Boundary Conditions at Interface of Porous, Plain Media: Convection," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 37, pp. 1029-1044, 1994.

 

3.      Marshall H., Sahraoui M., and Kaviany M., "An Improved Analytic Solution for Analysis of Particle Trajectories in Fibrous, Two-Dimensional Filters," Physics of Fluids, Vol.6, pp. 507-520, 1994.

 

4.      Sahraoui M. and Kaviany M., "Slip and No-Slip Temperature Boundary Conditions at Interface of Porous, Plain Media: Conduction," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 36, pp. 1019-1033, 1993.

 

5.      Sahraoui M. and Kaviany M., "Slip and No-Slip Velocity Boundary Conditions at Interface of Porous, Plain Media," International  Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer,  Vol. 35, pp. 927-944, 1992.

 

6.      Sahraoui M., Kaviany M., and Marshall H., "Natural Convection from Horizontal Disks and Rings," ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 112, pp. 110-116, 1990.

 

Papers presented at international conferences

 

  1. Sahraoui M., “Prediction of Temperature for Underground Telecom Equipment,” IEEE-ITHERM 2002, pp. 730-736, San Diego, California, June 2002.

  1. Sahraoui M., and Refai-Ahmed G., “Flat Plate Fin Heat Sinks In Natural Convection Telecommunication Modules,” InterPack, Hawaii, July 1999.
  1. Sahraoui M. and Kaviany M., "Slip and No-Slip Temperature Boundary Conditions at Interface of Porous, Plain Media: Convection.", 28th ASME National Heat Transfer Conference, San Diego, California, August, 1992.

4.      Sahraoui M., Marshall H., and Kaviany M., "Hydrodynamic Interactions Among Fibers in High Efficiency Filters," 23rd Annual Meeting of the Fine Particle Society, Las Vegas, July 1992.

 

5.      Sahraoui M. and Kaviany M., "Slip and No-Slip Temperature Boundary Conditions at Interface of Porous, Plain Media: Conduction," ASME HTD-Vol. 186, pp. 33-47, 1991 ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, December, 1991.

 

6.      Sahraoui M. and Kaviany M., "Slip and No-slip Conditions at Interface of Porous, Plain Media," 3rd ASME/JSME Thermal Engineering Conference, Reno, Nevada, March, 1991.

 

7.      Sahraoui M. and Kaviany M., "Hydrodynamic Boundary Condition for the Interface between Porous and Plain Media," 42nd Annual Meeting of APS, Fluid Dynamics Division, San Francisco, California, November, 1989.

 

8.      Sahraoui M., Kaviany M., and Marshall H., "Natural Convection from Horizontal Disks and Rings," 1988 ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, November , 1988.


9. Sahraoui M., Kharrat C., Yermani Z. and Halouani K. “Two-Dimensional Modeling of Transport Phenomena in a PEMFC”, Colloque Franco – Tunisien “ Les Milieux Poreux”, CFT’07, Sousse, Tunisia.

 

10. Sahraoui M., Kharrat C., Yermani Z and Halouani K “Two-Dimensional Modeling of Electrochemical

and Transport Phenomena in a PEM Fuel Cell”, ICAMEM 2006, Hammamet, Tunisia.

 

11. Yermani Z. , Sahraoui M.and Halouani K, “Two-Dimensional Modeling of PEM Fuel Cell”, ICAMEM 2006, Hammamet, Tunisia.

 

12. Boukadi F., Sahraoui M., Seibi A., Barhoumi A., Bemani A, Maamari R. and M. Wadhahi M. “TAGOGD Simulation of a Naturally-fractured Carbonate in Oman”, ICAMEM 2006, Hammamet, Tunisia.