Ali Akbar Shahbazi

Curriculum Vitae

a.shahbazi65@gmail.com

shahbazi@qut.ac.ir

 

 

Dr. Ali Shahbazi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Qom University of Technology, received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in Energy Conversion from the University of Tehran in 2019. He commenced his professional career in the fall of 2024 as a faculty member and Assistant Professor at Qom University of Technology.

His primary research interests focus on mathematical and thermodynamic modeling of energy systems and the solution of governing equations for mechanical phenomena, with an emphasis on turbomachinery, turbulent flows, and energy storage systems (such as batteries). In his research, he employs advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods, reduced-order modeling, and numerical analyses.

In his future research, he seeks to apply novel numerical and computational methods to solve complex problems in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics, with the aim of developing more accurate and efficient models for energy conversion and storage systems.

 

 

2013-2019 o Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering; University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

 Supervisor: Prof. Vahid Esfahanian.

 Thesis Title: Thermo-Electrochemical Structure Analysis of Lead-Acid Batteries Using Numerical Simulation and Cluster-Based Reduced-Order Modeling

2009-2012 o M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering; University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

 Supervisor: Prof. Vahid Esfahanian.

 Thesis Title: 3D Conjugate Heat Transfer Modeling of Gas Turbine Vane for Blade Life Assessment (19/20)

2005-2009 o B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering; Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

 Supervisor: Prof. Hamid Mahdigholi

 Thesis Title: Wind Turbine Blade Design (19.8/20)

 

 

o Battery & Electrochemical energy storage systems

o Gas Turbine & Turbomachinery

o Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

o Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

 

 

 Journal Articles

2026 o A Shahbazi, “Risk-informed design of solar chimney power plants: Quantifying and prioritizing uncertainty sources in solar thermal energy conversion,” Energy Conversion and Management, 2026

2026 o A Shahbazi, V Esfahanian, “Autonomous Discovery of High-Efficiency Axial Turbine Designs for Aerospace Propulsion via Reinforcement-Learning-Optimized Mean-Line Modeling,” Aerospace Science and Technology, 2026

2025 o A Shahbazi, V Esfahanian, “Improving turbulence modeling for gas turbine blades: A novel approach to address flow transition and stagnation point anomalies,” Journal of Computational Physics, 2025

2024 o V Esfahanian, A Taghavi, A Shahbazi, “Mean-line Analysis and Optimal Design of Turbines Using a Proper Algorithm for Choked Conditions,” International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2024

2023 o A. Shahbazi, V. Esfahanian, A. Taghavi, A.Salavati-Zadeh, A. Poursamad, S. Zirak, “Performance Estimation of Multi-Stage, Cooled Axial Flow Turbines Under Choked Condition,” Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023

2019 o A. Shahbazi and V. Esfahanian, “A Real-time lead-acid Battery Engine simulation Tool (BEST) based on lumped model and electrochemical structures,” Journal of Energy Storage, 24 (2019) 100780

2019 o A. Shahbazi and V. Esfahanian, “Reduced‐order modeling of lead‐acid battery using cluster analysis and orthogonal cluster analysis method,” International Journal of Energy Research, 2019. 

2013 o V. Esfahanian, A. Salavati Pour,I. Harsini, A. Haghani, R. Pasandeh, A. Shahbazi and G. Ahmadi (2013) “Numerical analysis of flow field around nrel phase ii wind turbine by a hybrid CFD/BEM method,” Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, vol. 120, pp. 29-36.

 Conference Papers

2017 o A. Shahbazi and V. Esfahanian. (2017) “Unsupervised reduce order modeling of lead-acid battery using Markov chain model,” in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Lead-Acid Batteries LABAT’2017, Golden Sands, Bulgaria.

2017 o A. Shahbazi, and V. Esfahanian. (2017) “Cluster-based reduced-order modeling of lead-acid battery,” in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Lead-Acid Batteries LABAT’2017, Golden Sands, Bulgaria.

2012 o V. Esfahanian, A. Shahbazi, and G. Ahmadi. (2012) “Conjugate heat transfer simulation of internally cooled gas turbine vane,” in Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the CFD Society of Canada and CFD 2012 Challenge, Canmore, Canada.

 

 

BSc Thermodynamics, Gas Dynamics, CFD, Engineering Mathematics

MSc CFD, Advance Engineering Mathematics

 

 

 Executive

2025-2027 o Head of the Mechanical Engineering Group

 Work

2009-2020 o Researcher of Vehicle Fuel & Environment Research Institute (VFERI)

2012 o Gas Turbine Engineer, Turbotec

2009 o Trainee of Farab Co. (water turbines)

2007 o Trainee of Saba Power Co. (wind turbine assembly and R&M)

 Industrial Projects

o Prediction of MGT40 Gas Turbine Performance at Design and Off-Design Points Using the Component Matching Method (Client: MAPNA Group, TUGA Division)

o Flow Simulation in Axial Turbines Using the Throughflow Method and Derivation of Performance Curves for the Three-Stage MGT40 Turbine at Design and Off-Design Points (Client: MAPNA Group, TUGA Division)

o Derivation of Performance Curves for MGT40 Gas Turbine Blades Using Two-Dimensional Simulation in CFX Software

o Development of Criteria and Standards for Fuel Consumption of Gas-Powered Vehicles

Client: Energy Consumption Optimization Company

 

 

o OS Windows, Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS)

o Code Development C++, Python, Fortran, Golang, Git

o Engineering Software Fluent, Gambit, Ansys CFX

o General Microsoft Office, LaTeX, Tecplot, Camtasia