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College of Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Teaching areas

Fluid Dynamics Heat Transfer Computational Fluid Dynamics Numerical Methods

Research areas

Hydrodynamics of Complex Flows Non-Newtonian Fluids Thermal Management Phase Change Materials

Education

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Concordia University, Canada, 2023

MS, Mechanical Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates, 2018

BS, Mechanical Engineering, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2016

Professional experience

Visiting Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2024 - Present

Postdoctoral Fellow, Concordia University, Québec, Canada, 2023 - 2024

Research Assistant, Concordia University, Québec, Canada, 2018 - 2023

Teaching Assistant, Concordia University, Québec, Canada, 2020 - 2022

Research Assistant, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates, 2016 - 2018

Memberships

Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, CSME, 2021

Golden Key Honor Society, The world’s largest collegiate honor society, 2020

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 4897

Dr. Abdallah Ghazal

Visiting Assistant Professor

PhD, Concordia University, Canada

Dr. Ghazal earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Concordia University, where he also served as a postdoctoral fellow. His research combines experimental and computational approaches in the field of thermofluids, focusing on complex flow hydrodynamics and thermal management. He has received several scholarships and awards recognizing his academic and research excellence and maintains active membership in professional societies such as CSME. In addition to his research, Dr. Ghazal is deeply committed to teaching. He has taught various courses at AUS and contributed to course delivery at Concordia University. He actively integrates practical experiences into the curriculum and fosters innovation in teaching methods.

Publications

Amin Shakeri, Abdallah Ghazal And Ida Karimfazli. Bridging Experiments and Reality: 3D Simulation of Cement Slurry Injection in Plug Placement

Amin Shakeri, Abdallah Ghazal, Simon Iremonger And Ida Karimfazli. Placing Off-Bottom Cement Plugs: The Influence of Contamination from Sub-Optimal Placement.

Amin Shakeri, Abdallah Ghazal And Ida Karimfazli. Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamics of Off-Bottom Plug Placement in Eccentric Wellbores

Abdallah Ghazal, Amin Shakeri And Ida Karimfazli. Hydrodynamics of off-bottom plug placements in deviated wells, 2024

Amin Shakeri, Abdallah Ghazal And Ida Karimfazli. Unlocking the Flow: A Comparison of Off-Bottom Plug Placement Techniques in Well Abandonment, 2024

Abdallah Ghazal And Ida Karimfazli. Defying gravity: Injection of viscoplastic fluids in vertical channels, Journal Of Non-newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2024

Abdallah Ghazal And Ida Karimfazli. Placing Off-bottom Plugs: Effects of Density Difference, 2023

Kristian Harestad, Ida Karimfazli, Abdallah Ghazal, Magnus Harestad And Arild Saasen. Curing Hydrodynamic Instability During Balanced Plug Cementing, Spe Drilling & Completion, 2023

Abdallah Ghazal And Ida Karimfazli. Off-Bottom Plug Placement: On the Effects of Pulling Out of the Hole, 2022

Abdallah Ghazal And Ida Karimfazli. On the hydrodynamics of off-bottom plug placement: Effects of geometry in a 2D model problem, Journal Of Petroleum Science And Engineering, 2022

Abdallah Ghazal And Ida Karimfazli. Injecting a Viscoplastic Fluid in a Channel Filled with a Lower Density Newtonian Fluid: Effects of Premixing, 2021

Abdallah Ghazal And Ida Karimfazli. Placing off-bottom Cement Plugs: Effects of Domain Geometry, 2021

Abdallah Ghazal And Ida Karimfazli. On the hydrodynamics of off-bottom plug placement: A 2D model problem, Journal Of Petroleum Science And Engineering, 2021

Abdallah Ghazal And Ida Karimfazli. Off-bottom Plug Placement: How it works?, 2020

Salah Addin Al Omari, Abdallah Ghazal, Emad El Najjar And Zahid Qureshi. Vibration-enhanced direct contact heat exchange using gallium as a solid phase change material, International Communications In Heat And Mass Transfer, 2020

Conference Presentations

Sloping Flows: Understanding Fluid Dynamics in Heavy Viscoplastic Injection into Newtonian Channels, Nordic Rheology Conference, May 2024

Defying Gravity: The Fluid Mechanics of Off-bottom Plug Placement, 8th Pacific Rim Conference On Rheology, May 2023

Off-bottom plug placement: Progress on the accumulation and contamination of cement slurry, Predicting And Preventing Wellbore Leakage, November 2022

Density unstable displacement of a Newtonian fluid by a viscoplastic fluid: Effect of buoyancy, Annual European Rheology Conference, April 2022

Off-bottom plug placement: The accumulation and contamination of cement slurry, Cementing Forum, February 2022

Injection of a yield stress fluid into a lighter Newtonian fluid: on facilitating an unstable stratification, Annual European Rheology Conference, April 2021

Plug & Abandon Strategies: Progress on Off-Bottom Plug Cementing, Cementing Forum, August 2020

Awards and Honors

Concordia Conference and Exposition Awards, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2022

Doctoral Research Scholarship, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT), Québec, Canada, Ranked the 2nd among 22 nominated applicants in my division., 2020

Concordia Merit Scholarship, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2018

Concordia University International Tuition Award of Excellence, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2018

AUS Chancellor’s list: Gold, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2015

AUS Merit Scholarship, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2011