Department of
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Faculty & Staff

Dr. Mohamed Sassi Associate Professor Office: Bu Hasa 2204 Phone: +971 2 607 5491 Fax: +971 2 607 5200 Email: msassi@pi.ac.ae

• BS, University of Rochester, New York (1985)
• MS, University of California at Berkeley (1987)
• PhD, University of California at Berkeley (1990)

An active and recognized figure of the international combustion, plasma, and optical diagnostics communities, has published over fifty referred journal and conference papers, is one of the initiators of The Mediterranean Combustion Symposium and The Africa Materials Research Society for which he is one of the executive members. Professor Sassi holds a joint appointment between Mechanical and chemical engineering at PI.

HONORS and AWARDS

• BS with High Distinction
• USAID Scholarship for nine years

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Executive member of AMRS
• President of AMRS Northern Chapter
• Reviewer for IFRF Journal, Heat and Mass Transfer, Intern. Journal of Quant. Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Enhanced Heat Transfer, Energy and Fuels, Physical and Chemical News

EXPERTISE

• Combustion diagnostics and modeling
• Pollutant emissions and control
• Flameless oxidation
• Electric plasma diagnostics and modeling

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• Hidouri A Gazzah M H, Ben Ticha H, and Sassi M, "Dynamic and scalar turbulent fluctuation in a diffusion flame of anaxisymmetric methane jet into air", Computational Mechanics 31 (2003) 253-261.
• Troudi L, Ben Ahmed R, El Aissi S, Charrada K, Zissis G, and Sassi M, "Numerical modeling of a HgTII discharge lamp: Transport coefficients and thermodynamic properties", J. Phys D: Appl. Phys. 37 (2003) 1-13.
• Hamdi M, Ben Ticha H, and Sassi M, "Simulation of pollutant emissions from a gas turbine combustor", Comb. Sci. and Tech., 176(2004) 1-16.
• Hamdi M, Ben Ticha H, and Sassi M. "NOx Emission From High Temperature Air Versus Methane/Air Counter-Flow Partially Premixed Flame", IFRF Combustion Journal, Article Number 200403.