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Team Members

Dr. Wael H. Ahmed

Dr. Wael Ahmed is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. After he finished his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from McMaster University, in Canada in 2005, he joined the research and development division of Atomic of Energy of Canada Ltd and spent three years in the nuclear power generating industry providing technical consultation to several power plants in the area of Flow Accelerated Corrosion and Multiphase Flow. Before joining KFUPM, he worked as senior analyst at AMEC-North America in providing technical support to Fossil Power Plant in the area of plant life assessment.  Dr. Ahmed carried out multi-million dollars research and project work to Ontario Power Generation, Hydro-Quebec, Gas-Tops, Bruce Power and Pratt& Whitney Canada in the areas of Flow Accelerated Corrosion and multiphase flow. Dr. Ahmed has conducted several research projects and published over 28 peer reviewed papers/ technical reports on multiphase flow and Flow accelerated corrosion in respected journals and refereed conferences.  In addition, he patented new measurement technology in the area of component health monitoring. He is a member of both American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO). Currently, Dr. Ahmed is conducting both analytical and experimental research in the area of multiphase flow related to the power generation and oil production industries.

Dr. Abdelsalam Al-Sarkhi

Dr. Abdelsalam Al-Sarkhi received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1999.  His B.Sc. and M.S degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology.  He spent two years as a post-doctoral research associate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Professor Thomas J. Hanratty working in multiphase flow area.  Dr. Alsarkhi served as a research associate for a multi hundred of thousand dollars projects to investigate the effect of chemical additive on multiphase flow behavior.  Al-Sarkhi also has conducted several consultation studies for international companies abroad related to multiphase flow.  Al-Sarkhi has been a faculty member of Mechanical Engineering Department at Hashemite University in Jordan from fall 2001 to fall 2007.  He has conducted several research projects (internally and externally funded) and published several peer reviewed papers on multiphase flow in pipes in respected journals.  Dr. Al-sarkhi served as a senior research associate at University of Tulsa/ Fluid Flow Projects (a worldwide well known group in multiphase flow), he worked on multi-hundred of thousand of US Dollar projects in multiphase flow area which is of interest to a consortium of more than 15 oil companies. He is a member of both Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Dr. Al-sarkhi will be conducting both analytical and experimental research in multiphase flow related to oil production and transportation, high viscosity oil production and effect of drag reducing additives on multiphase flow behavior. Dr. Al-sarkhi also will participate with other members in providing workshops and short courses in the area of multiphase flow.

Dr. Meamer El Nakla

Dr. El Nakla holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Ottawa since 2006. Dr. El Nakla earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. For the last eight years, Dr. El Nakla worked solely on research topics related to multiphase flow and heat transfer finishing more than 10 projects as a primary or co-investigator. Dr. El Nakla's experience in the field of multiphase flow includes his work as a research associate with the University of Ottawa Thermalhydraulics Group and as a Thermalhydraulics Analyst with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Currently El Nakla works as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at KFUPM and a Thermalhydraulics Consultant at Thermalhydraulics Consultants Inc. The research interests of Dr. El Nakla are in experimentation and modeling of multiphase flow and heat transfer. Some of the achievements in the area of multiphase flow include improvements of the film-boiling look-up tables (currently adopted by nuclear industry), experimental investigation of the effect of axial heat flux (AFD) distribution on critical heat flux (CHF) in tubes, experimental research of the flow obstruction effect on CHF in tubes with uniform and non-uniform AFD profiles, experimental studies on the effect of AFD on post dryout heat transfer in tubes with and without flow obstructions, fluid-to-fluid modeling of film boiling heat transfer (first full scale documented study in the literature on the topic), experimental investigation and analytical modeling of inverted annular flow film boiling heat transfer, and transient effect of CHF in nuclear bundles.

Dr. C. Y. Ching

Dr. Chan Y Ching is currently a professor at McMaster University (working as a search consultant for our group). Dr. Ching, the director of the thermal management and research group at McMaster University and consider to be an expert in two-phase and heat transfer.

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Mr. Alsurakji holds a M.Sc degree in Mechanical Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals since 2012. He earned his B.Sc. from An-Najah National University. 

During Master degree, Eng. Alsurakji built strong experience in the field of multiphase flow. One of the achievement in this area was building a look-up tables for two-phase frictional pressure drop multiplier. 

Currently Alsurakji works as Lecturer-B in the Mechanical Engineering Department at KFUPM and doing his PhD degree.