Dr. Kamran Alba, Assistant Professor

Department of Engineering Technology, College of Technology

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• Areas of expertise

  • Experimental, Computational & Analytical Fluid Dynamics
  • Complex Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows, Suspensions, Multiphase, Displacements & Buoyant Flows
  • Thin-Film Flow Modelling & Stability Analysis
  • Coating & Co-Extrusion Flows

• Awards

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• Publications

  • K. Alba, R.E. Khayat and R.S. Pandher. Steady two-layer gravity-driven thin-film flow. Phys. Rev. E 77, (2008), 056304-16
  • K. Alba, P. Laure and R.E. Khayat. Transient two-layer thin-film flow inside a channel. Phys. Rev. E 84, (2011), 026320-14
  • S.M. Taghavi, K. Alba and I.A. Frigaard. Buoyant miscible displacement flows at moderate viscosity ratios and low Atwood numbers in near-horizontal ducts. Chem. Eng. Sci. 69, (2012), 404-418
  • S.M. Taghavi, K. Alba, M. Moyers-Gonzalez and I.A. Frigaard. Incomplete fluid-fluid displacement of yield stress fluids in near-horizontal pipes: experiments and theory. J. non-Newton. Fluid Mech. 167-168, (2012), 59-74 (highlighted among 15 papers published in "Virtual special issue: Yield-stress fluid flows", J. non-Newton. Fluid Mech. 2014)
  • S.M. Taghavi, K. Alba, T. Seon, K. Wielage-Burchard, D.M. Martinez and I.A. Frigaard. Miscible displacement flows in near-horizontal ducts at low Atwood number. J. Fluid Mech. 696, (2012), 175-214
  • M. Moyers-Gonzalez, K. Alba, S.M. Taghavi and I.A. Frigaard. A semi-analytical closure approximation for pipe flows of two Herschel-Bulkley fluids with a stratified interface. J. Non-Newton. Fluid Mech. 193, (2012), 49-67
  • K. Alba, S.M. Taghavi, and I.A. Frigaard. Miscible density-stable displacement flows in inclined tube. Phys. Fluids 24, (2012), 123102-11
  • K. Alba, S.M. Taghavi, and I.A. Frigaard. Miscible density-unstable displacement flows in inclined tube. Phys. Fluids 25, (2013), 067101-21 (featured in 2013 top 15 Physics of Fluids' Research Highlights)
  • K. Alba, S.M. Taghavi, J.R. de Bruyn and I.A. Frigaard. Incomplete fluid-fluid displacement of yield-stress fluids. Part 2: Highly inclined pipes. J. non-Newton. Fluid Mech. 201, (2013), 80-93
  • K. Alba, S.M. Taghavi, and I.A. Frigaard. A weighted residual method for two-layer non-Newtonian channel flows: steady-state results and their stability. J. Fluid Mech. 731, (2013), 509-544

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• Curriculum Vitae

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• Contact information

  390 College of Technology Building

  Phone: 713-743-7368 | Fax: 713-743-4032

  kalba@uh.edu