1. Area of Expertise/Interest: Low speed aerodynamics, wake flows, flow field measurements and instrumentation, experimental techniques, flow control

2. Projects:

• "Aerodynamic performance and longitudinal stability analyses of delta- and double-delta wing configurations" (CI), Budget: SR 63,500.

• “Numerical Simulation of the Turbulent Flow Around Generic Automotive Bluff Body” (PI), Budget SR 50,000.

3. Thesis/Dissertation Supervision:

4. Experimental Tools and Software Capabilities:

i)        Experimental Tools  

·        Wind Tunnel Testing

·        Particle Image Velocimetry (2-D and 3-D PIV)

·        Wind Tunnel Strain Gauge Balance

·        Hot Wire Measurements

·        Pressure Transducers

·        Multi-tube Manometers

·        Smoke Wire Visualization

·        Vacuum Bagging

·        CNC Foam Cutting

·        Foam-Composite Lamination

ii)      Software 

·        Fluent (CFD)

·        Gambit (Mesh generator)

·        Tgrid (Advanced mesh generator)

·        Tecplot (Visualization)

·        Davis 7 (PIV processing)

·        EnSight (Visualization)

·        Catia (CAD, CAE)

·        Autocad (CAD)

·        SolidWorks (CAD, CAE)

·        Foamworks (CNC Foam Cutting)

·        Matlab (Engineering Computing)

·        Maple

·        MS Windows, Linux, Unix

·        MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage and Visio, Outlook

·        Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat

5. Publications

i) Refereed Journal/Conference Papers: 

1. Abdullah M. Al-Garni, “Measurements of the cross-flow velocity field in the wake of an idealized pickup truck model using particle image velocimetry” 14th Int. Symp on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, Lisbon, Portugal, 07-10 July, 2008.

2. Abdullah M. Al-Garni, “Low speed calibration of hot-wire anemometers” Flow Measurement and Instrumentation, Vol. 18, 2007, pp. 95-98. 

3. Abdullah M. Al-Garni, “Control of flow separation over an airfoil using leading-edge rotation” under preparation for journal publications. 

4. Abdullah M. Al-Garni and Luis P. Bernal “Experimental study of the flow around pick-up truck” submitted for journal publications. 

5. Abdullah M. Al-Garni and Luis P. Bernal, “SUV aerodynamics: an experimental study” to be submitted for journal publications 2006.  

6. Abdullah M. Al-Garni, “Proper orthogonal decomposition of the flow around 3-D bluff body”. Under preparation for conference publication. 

7. M. Tozan, A.Z. Al-Garni, Abdullah M. Al-Garni, A. Jamal, “Failure distribution modeling for planned replacement of aircraft auxiliary power unit oil pumps”, Maintenance Journal, Vol. 19, No.1, Feb. 2006. 

8. A.Z. Al-Garni, A. Jamal, A.M. Ahmed, Abdullah M. Al-Garni, M. Tozan, “Failure-rate prediction for De Havilland Dash-8 tires employing neural network techniques”, J. of Aircraft, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2006. 

9. Ahmed Z. Al-Garni, Farooq Saeed, Abdullah M. Al-Garni, Ayman Abdullah, and Ayman Kassem “Experimental and numerical investigation of 65-deg delta and 65/40-deg double delta wings,” AIAA paper 2006-0063. 

10. A.Z. Al-Garni, M. Tozan, Abdullah M. Al-Garni, A. Jamal, “Comparative analysis of the Weibull and artificial neural network models for predicting failures of aircraft auxiliary power unit oil pumps”, Journal of Aircraft, 2005. 

11. A.Z. Al-Garni, M. Tozan, Abdullah M. Al-Garni, A. Jamal, “Artificial neural network as an alternative to regression analysis in modeling failure distributions of aircraft components”, Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, 2005.

12. Abdullah M. Al-Garni, Luis P. Bernal and Bahram Khalighi, “Experimental investigation of the flow around a generic SUV,” SAE Paper 2004-01-0228. 

13. Abdullah M. Al-Garni, Luis P. Bernal and Bahram Khalighi, “Experimental investigation of the near wake of a pick-up truck,” SAE Paper 2003-01-0651. 

14. M. Tozan, A. Z. Al-Garni, Abdullah M. Al-Garni, A. Jamal, “Failure data analysis for aircraft maintenance planning” 3^rd aircraft engineering symposium, Jeddah, Dec. 2004. 

15. Abdullah M. Al-Garni and Luis P. Bernal, “POD analysis of PIV measurements in complex near wake flows,” APS 56th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 48, No. 10, pp. 53, 2003 (abstract only).

16. Luis P. Bernal, Abdullah M Al-Garni, “PIV study of the near wake of a pickup truck” the Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles: Trucks, Buses and Trains. December 2002, Monterey-Pacific Grove, California. (presentation only).

17. Ahmed Z. Al-Garni, Saad A. Ahmed, Ahmet Z. Sahin, Abdullah M. Al-Garni, “An experimental study of a 65-degree delta wing with different pitching rates,” Canadian Aeron. & Space J., Vol. 47 No.2 , 2001 pp. 85-93. 

18. Al-Garni, Ahmed Z. Al-Garni, Abdullah M. Al-Garni, Saad A. Ahmed and Ahmet Z. Sahin, “Flow Control for an Airfoil with Leading-Edge Rotation: An Experimental Study,” J. of Aircraft, Vol. 37 No.4, 2000, pp. 617-622.  

ii) Technical Reports: 

1. Ahmed Z. Al-Garni, Farooq Saeed, Abdullah M. Al-Garni 2006 Aerodyanmic Performance and Longitudinal Stability Analyses of Delta and Double Delta wing configurations. Report no. FT/2004-08, KFUPM. 

2. Luis P. Bernal, Szabolzs O. Balkanyi and Abdullah M Al-Garni 2001 High Reynolds Number Performance of Drag Reduction Devices. Report no. N002139-01, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. 

3. Abdullah M. Al-Garni and L. P. Bernal 2002 Unsteady Pressure Measurements in a Pickup Truck Model. Report no. N002139-02, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan. Download Summary

4. Abdullah M. Al-Garni and L. P. Bernal 2003 Velocity Field Measurements in a Pickup Truck Model. Report no. N002139-03, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan. Download Summary

5. Abdullah M. Al-Garni and L. P. Bernal 2003 PIV Measurements of Cross-Flow Velocity Field in the Near Wake of a Pickup Truck. Report no. N002139-04, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan. Download Summary

6. Abdullah M. Al-Garni and L. P. Bernal 2003 Experimental Investigation of the Near Wake of a Sport Utility Vehicle Report no. N002139-05, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan. Download Summary

iii) Seminars and Conference Presentations: 

Date	Title	Organizer/Place
2/01/1424 (5-03-2003)	Experimental Investigation of the Near Wake of a Pickup Truck	2003 SAE Conference/ Detroit, USA
13/02/1424(15-04-2003)	PIV Measurements in the Near Wake of a Pickup Truck	Mech. Eng. Dept. /Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
16/02/1425 (6-04-2004)	Fundamental Investigation of Road Vehicle Aerodynamics	Aero. Eng. Dept. /KFUPM Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
13/11/1425 (25-12-2004)	An Experimental Investigation of an Airfoil with a Moving-Surface Boundary Layer Control	Aero. Eng. Dept. /KFUPM Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

6. Editorial Board and Reviewer:

·        Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Dynamics of Fluids (IJDF)

·        Ad-hoc Reviewer, the Journal of Engineering Research (TJER)