Hadi Bordbar, June 2021

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Hadi Bordbar

Rakentajanaukio 4 A, FI-00076 Aalto University, Espoo, Finland Tel: +358 (0) 400 38 7607 Email: [email protected] LinkedIn, Google Scholar, Aalto Webpage

PERSONAL PROFILE • I am committed to the ongoing research of Fire Protection Engineering. • I am an experienced teacher trained with up-to-date knowledge and skills of modern pedagogy. I have enduring records of teaching BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. courses in Mechanical, Energy, and Civil Engineering. • I am involved in advancing numerical and experimental research of radiation heat transfer, reaction, multiphase flow, and materials flammability in fires. • I am interested in implementing modern machine learning techniques and artificial intelligence in modeling, analyzing, and designing fire protection engineering applications, including fire detection, prevention, and extinguishing. • With over 20 years of experience in the research and development of energy and environmental technology, I have innovative and practical leadership skills to manage and lead research and development teams in relevant interdisciplinary fields such as fire protection engineering. • With multicultural background and experience, equipped with remarkable soft skills, I am always looking for new collaboration and networking possibilities. • I am a highly effective presenter of research results interested in interdisciplinary research using physical- and data-based approaches together with AI and other modern techniques.

EDUCATION 2004-2005 Laboratory of computational fluid and biofluid dynamics, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. Doctor of Science (Tech.) in Energy Engineering focuses on numerical modeling of heat and mass transfer in energy conversion processes. Thesis title: Theoretical Analysis and Simulation of Vertically Vibrated Granular Materials, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. Examiners: Professor Kambiz Vafai (University of California-Riverside), Professor Goodarz Ahmadi (Clarkson University). Grade: Passed with honor

1999-2001 Master of Science (Eng.) in Mechanical Engineering, Energy Conversion, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Thesis title: Three-dimensional modeling of a boiler furnace with radiative zone method.

1994-1999 Bachelor of Science (Eng.) in Mechanical Engineering, Thermal and Fluid Engineering, Persian Gulf University, Boushehr, Iran. Thesis title: Design and construction of Saybolt viscometer with an indirect heating system based on the ASTM standard.

EMPLOYMENT

Feb. 2018- Fire Safety Engineering Research Group,

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Aalto University, Finland. Staff Scientist Work contents: Proposing, managing, and conducting research projects, Teaching, Supervising the post-graduate students. Jan. 2014-Jan. 2018 Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. Non Tenure-Track Associate Professor (Tutkija-Opettaja in Finnish) Work contents: Proposing, managing, and conducting research projects, Teaching, Supervising the post-graduate students. Sep. 2016- School of Energy Systems, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. Adjunct Professor (Docentship) Adjunct Professor (Docent), in radiative heat transfer in energy conversion processes. May 2015 University of Sheffield, UK. Visiting Lecturer/Researcher Work Contents: Vising the Energy 2050 research team, the research group of Professor M. Pourkashanian, and the UK national center of pilot-scale advanced capture technology (PACT). Jan. 2014- June 2014 University of California-Merced. Visiting Scholar Work contents: Visiting Professor Modest’s frontier research group of thermal radiation. Jan. 2009-Dec. 2013 Laboratory of Modelling of Energy Systems, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. Senior Researcher Work contents: Proposing, managing, and conducting research projects, teaching, supervising the post-graduate students. Jan. 2006-Dec.2008 Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. Postdoctoral Researcher Work contents: Performing research. Oct. 2004-Dec.2005 Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. Ph.D. Candidate Work contents: Performing research. The quickest doctoral study in the university history with five supporting articles and the highest grade of “passed with honor”. Feb. 2002-Sep.2004 Yasuj University. Lecturer/Faculty Member Teaching and research. I taught most graduate courses of thermal and fluid engineering, including heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, engineering mathematics, numerical analysis, etc.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

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▪ Guest Editor of Sustainability 2021 (ISI IF=2.576, ISSN 2071-1050) for a special issue on numerical modeling of sustainable energy conversion processes. ▪ Topic editor of Sustainability 2020- (ISI IF=2.592). ▪ Main proposer and coordinator of a new international workgroup for thermal radiation in fire (IAFSS, MaCFP workgroup, 2021). ▪ Keynote speaker of “The 9th National Conference on CFD Applications in Chemical & Petroleum Industries”, Nov. 2018, University of Tehran, Iran. ▪ Seminar on High Fidelity Modeling of Spectral Thermal Radiation in Combustion Systems, Nov. 2018, Sharif University of Technology, Iran. ▪ Chair of the modeling session of FBC22 conference, Turku, June 2015. ▪ Member of the editorial board of “American Journal of Fluid Dynamics” since Oct. 11th, 2011. ▪ Member of advisory board/conference chair of Planetary Scientific Research Centre (PSRC) since 2011. ▪ Chair of the modeling session of the 22nd International Conference of Fluidized Bed Combustion (FBC22), Turku, Finland, June 2015. ▪ Chair of the interdisciplinary field session in the 7th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT 2010), Antalya, Turkey, July 2007. ▪ Referee of several prestigious journals, including Proceeding of the Combustion Institute (IF=5.627, 2019), Energy (IF=6.082, 2020), Applied Thermal Engineering (IF =4.725, 2020), J. of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (IF =3.047, 2020), Int. J. of Heat and Mass transfer (IF =4.947, 2019), and Int. J. for Numerical Methods in Fluids (IF =1.808, 2020), and Fire Safety J. (IF =2.295, 2020).

RESEARCH FUNDING AS WELL AS LEADERSHIP AND SUPERVISION I have been actively involved in several research projects, focusing on developing numerical modeling tools for heat and mass transfer in different energy conversion systems. Modeling radiation heat transfer, combustion, multiphase flow dynamics, particle collision, and virus-laden aerosol transport has been among my main research interests. I developed several physics-based, statistical-based, and artificial intelligence-based numerical models for various systems. Moreover, I have an ongoing patent for a modern thermal two-phase immersion cooling of super-fast charging of batteries in electric vehicles. Below are some of my previous projects, their sponsors, and role/performed actions in their executions. • 2021-2025: Principal investigator of Academy of Finland Project titled “Toward Next Generation of Spectral Radiation Models in Multiphase Reactive Flows (SPEAR)” (Under-review 2021- 2025).

• 2018-2022: Novel measurement and sensing technologies for thermal radiation of unwanted fires (THERAD). Academy of Finland, Project manager, and principal scientist. - Development of novel fire detection paradigm based on spectral radiation of fires. - Determining spectral radiation characteristics of fires by numerical modeling. - Solving high-resolution line-by-line thermal radiation along the line of the sight of a sensor. - Development of a spectral model for radiation penetration in the depth of condensed phases in fire scenarios. - Experimental measurement of absorption spectra of liquid fuels and polymers using FTIR and UV-vis spectroscopy.

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• 2019-2023: PSR-Radiation 1: Modeling of Radiation Heat Transfer Within Condensed Phases in Fire Simulations - I lead and co-supervise a doctoral study aiming at advancing the modeling capability of thermal radiation penetration in the condensed materials existing in a fire. - We have performed high-resolution FTIR and UV-vis spectroscopy of various liquid and solid fuels. - Consequently, we developed novel global FSCK models to account for in-depth radiation efficiently. - We developed an efficient model to account for the Fresnel effect at the boundary of the condensed phase. - We advance pyrolysis modeling capabilities by implementing the developed high-fidelity models for thermal radiation's directional and spectral dependency. • 2019-2023: PSR-Radiation 2: Gas Spectral Radiation Modeling in Fire - I lead and co-supervise two doctoral studies aiming at advancing the modeling capability of thermal radiation in the gas phase of fires. - We have performed a detailed analysis of the effect of fuel-rich regions on overall fire evolution in various fire scenarios. Consequently, we developed some numerical models to account for this effect. - We implement global spectral models in the OpenSource CFD code of FDS.

• 2020-2021: Research consortium to model transmission of COVID-19 virus-laden respiratory droplets in indoor ventilated spaces. Team leader - Development of Eulerian-Eulerian and Eulerian-Lagrangian models for hydrodynamics of respiratory virus-laden droplets. - Adding several critical physical phenomena to the turbulence models, including mass transfer, evaporation, gravity, and buoyancy, to address the effect of air conditioning on the risk of the virus spreading via aerosols and droplets. - Developing a novel risk assessment method to translate numerical results of fine CFD modeling to temporal safety measures such as safety distance and minimum exposure time. - Development of artificial neural network to predict the amount and spreading patterns of aerosols of speaking, coughing, and sneezing based on demographical parameters of the infected person and thermal conditions of an indoor environment. The demographical parameters include age, gender, and infection conditions. The thermal conditions contained in the ANN model were the temperature and relative humidity of the space.

• 2014-2017: Clustering Innovation Competence for Future Fuels in Power Production (CLIFF), National TEKES and industrial funding; Project manager. • Development of numerical tools to implement the full spectrum correlated K-method (FSCK), and the weighted sum of gray gases method (WSGG) for non-gray gas modeling in combustion systems. • Development of a new method for non-gray gas modeling based on a banded approach. • Implementing artificial neural network for non-gray gas modeling with the banded approach. • Development of a new method for radiation heat transfer modeling in the optically thick gas-particle mixture.

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• Modeling of char reaction in fluidized bed combustors in hybrid calculation with Eulerian- Eulerian two-phase flow model. • Studying the effect of mixing limitation on a chemical reaction in such systems by mean of Sherwood number. • Obtaining a new correlation for Sherwood number in the circulating fluidized bed system by using the CFD results. • 2011–2015: Carbone Capture and Storage Program (CCSP), National TEKES and industrial funding; Principal scientist. • Simulation of radiative heat transfer in oxy-combustion CFB furnace considering the radiation effect of gas and particle phases. • Study the effect of combustion type (Oxygen/Air-fired) on the heat transfer in the back pass channel of CFB boilers in different scales. • Development of a non-gray banded approach for non-gray modeling of radiative heat transfer in gaseous media using the discrete ordinate method. • 2011-2014: Future Fuels for Sustainable Energy Conversion (FUSEC), National TEKES and industrial funding; Principle scientist & project co-investigator. • Improvement of computational performance of classical radiative zone method. • Development of non-gray gas zone model to analyze radiative heat transfer in different combustion systems considering the spectral radiative properties of the combustion gases. • Implementing the modified zonal code in its gray and non-gray forms to analyze radiative heat transfer in the furnace of some BFB and recovery boilers. • Performance analysis of different radiative numerical models. • 2009-2012: Development of High-Efficiency CFB Technology to Provide Flexible Air/Oxy Operation for Power Plant with CCS (FLEXIBURN), Researcher • Development of a new weighted summation of gray gases model applicable to oxygen- fired combustion products. • Simulation of heat and mass transfer in convection cage of a pilot-scale oxygen-fired fluidized bed boiler of CIUDEN. • 2008–2011: Multiphase Fluidized Bed Processes in Sustainable Energy Technologies, Academy of Finland and FORTUM; Researcher. • Numerical study of forming bubble and heaping in a vertically vibrated granular bed. • Theoretical analysis and numerical simulation of spectral radiation heat transfer in combustion gases. • 2006–2008: Radiation Heat Transfer Modeling in Industrial Furnaces National TEKES and Industrial funding (Andritz, Foster Wheeler, Outotec); Principal scientist & project co- investigator. • Development of the multiscale radiative exchange method (MREM) theory for solving the radiative heat transfer in fully participating media. • Mesh size analysis to improve the computational performance of MREM. • Implementation of MREM in the simulation of radiative heat transfer in several CFB and recovery boilers. • 2004-2005: Simulation of Fluid Flow in Dense Granular Materials (Ph.D. Candidate and Researcher, 2004-2005). A Ph.D. grant from the Finnish national school of CFD.

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• Development of an analytical model for the binary collision of multi-size spherical particles. • Finite element analysis of collision between different size granular particles. • Develop a set of continuum equations for numerical modeling of dense granular material with the Eulerian-Eulerian approach and apply the model to a vertically vibrated granular bed. • Development of a discrete element model to analyze the fluid dynamics in a dense granular bed subjected to vertical vibration.

MERITS IN TEACHING AND PEDAGOGICAL COMPETENCE • Relevant Title: Adjunct Professor (Docent), in radiative heat transfer in energy conversion processes, School of Energy Systems, 2016-2021. • Courses Taught - Advanced Thermal Radiation (Ph.D., Aalto University). - Design of Energy Efficient Buildings (MSc, Aalto University). - Numerical Methods for Engineering (BSc, Aalto University). - Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer (BSc, Aalto University & Yasuj University). - Fluid mechanics (BSc, Yasuj University). - Engineering Mathematics (BSc, Yasuj University). - Computer Programming (BSc, Yasuj University).

• Pedagogical Training and Competence; - I completed the pedagogical training of Aalto University, which is an essential requirement for teaching at Aalto University as the best technical university in Finland. It consists of 25 credits in five teaching modules as listed below. Each ECTS credit equals 27 learning hours. o Aalto Peda Intro (5 credits). o Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (5 credits). o Course Design (5 credits). o DigiDevelopment Studios (5 credits). o Teaching Practice (5 credits). I also passed an extra five credits module of o Supporting Teachers' Multicultural Competence - The intensive course on Effective English Presentation (LUT, Finland).

• Supervision of Doctoral Thesis • 2008-2012, Dr. Alexander Maximov, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. “Theoretical Analysis and Numerical Simulation of Spectral Radiative Properties of Combustion Gases in Oxy/Air-Fired Combustion Systems”. • 2019-2022, Ph.D. Candidate Farid Alinejad, Aalto University, Finland. “Detailed numerical modeling of spectral thermal radiation in condensed phases involved in fire hazards”. Sample of publications is available here :1, 2, 3. • 2019-2023, Ph.D. Candidate Hosein Sadeghi, Aalto University, Finland. “High fidelity models for gas spectral radiation in fires”. • 2021-2025, Ph.D. Candidate Soroush Rashidzadeh, Aalto University, Finland. “Efficient modeling of thermal radiation in gaseous combustion products in fire”.

PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS

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My peer-reviewed scientific articles include: • Journal articles: 27 • Conference proceedings: 33 • Editorial books: 1 • Total number of articles in progress: 13 in which I acted as the corresponding author (65.5%), the first author (57%), and the last author (13%). More information about my publication records and their impacts can be found in the list of my publication and my google scholar page. During 2016-2017, due to medical surgery, I was not so active in publishing.

ACADEMIC AWARDS

• Research mobility award, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland 2014. • Research mobility award, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland 2015. • Listings in Marquis Who's Who in the World 2013 (30th Edition). • Listings in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering 2011-2012 (11th Edition) and 2016- 2017 (12 Edition). • Several publication awards from Tukisäätiö (LUT), 2005-2012. • LUT’s award for the best performance among all researchers of Lappeenranta University of Technology, 2005. • The LUT highest grade of “Passed with Honor” for doctoral dissertation, 2005. • Ph.D. student grant from the Finnish Graduate School of CFD, Helsinki, Finland, 2005. • Academic scholarship, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland, 2004. • The 1st rank student of mechanical engineering of Persian Gulf University, 1998.

INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY VISIT • Visiting researcher in the research group of Prof. Michael Modest’s in University of California- Merced, Jan. to May 2014. • International mobility grant from LUT university to visit a research group of Energy 2050 at the University of Sheffield, UK, 2015.

SKILLS • Hard Skills - Excellent leadership - Interdependent management - Strategic planning - Public speaking - Problem-solving - Teaching

• Soft Skills - Communication and networking - Teamwork - Being goal-oriented - Being fast learner - Social gracefulness and friendliness

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- Personal hobbies including sport (fitness, running, basketball), photography, reading, and movies. • Technical Skills - Programming languages: FORTRAN, Matlab, C, C++, Python, VBasic, etc. - Engineering modeling software and open-source codes: ANSYS-FLUENT, ICEM, Matlab, OpenFOAM, Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), SmokeViewer, MFIX, Mathematica, Tecplot, Feildview, Paraview, etc. - General and Managing Software such as MS Office, etc.