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Principal Investigator


 

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Prof. Kambiz Vafai

Email: vafai@engr.ucr.edu

Kambiz Vafai is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Riverside. He holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and master's and doctoral degrees in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of California, Berkeley.

 

 

 

 

Graduate Students


 

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Sainan Lu

Email: slu013@ucr.edu

Sainan Lu received her B.S. in HVAC Engineering from Changsha University of Science and Technology. She received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside in 2015. And she joined Dr. Vafai’s group. In her research work, she focused on a comparative analysis of innovative Microchannel heat sinks for electronics cooling. In Spring 2020, she started to work with Dr. Vafai for her Ph.D. program at the University of California. Her research is mainly on electronics cooling on microchips.

 

 

 

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Raha Kalantarpour

Email: rkala005@ucr.edu

Raha Kalantarpour received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. She received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology in 2019. She developed a phase-field Lattice Boltzmann model for multi-component flows in her M.S. research project. In Fall 2021 she has joined Dr. Vafai’s group for Ph.D. program. Her research will be mainly focused on Electronic Cooling simulation.

 

 

 

Visiting Students


 

 

Former Group Members


  • Arman Haghighi
  • Ali Ghahremannezhad
  • Ahmed T. Al-Sammarraie
  • Ahmed Albojamal
  • Ailian Chang
  • Chao Wang
  • Yongxing Hong
  • Wisoot Sanhan
  • Andisheh Tavakoli
  • Sanaz Fazeli
  • Erfan Kosari