- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Sallie and Don Davis '61 Faculty Fellow
- Phone: 979-458-5787
- Email: iman@tamu.edu
- Office: MEOB 428
- Research Website
- Linkedin: Profile
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota — 2008
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology — 2005
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology — 2002
Research Interests
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- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
- Fluid-structure interaction (FSI)
- High-performance computing
- Biofluids and cardiovascular flows
- bio-inspired propulsion
- Image analysis and geometry reconstruction for CFD
Awards & Honors
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Associate Fellow - 2021
- ASME Fellow - 2020
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) senior member - 2020
- Fulbright Scholar - 2017-2018
- UB Exceptional Scholars Young Investigator Award, University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York - 2015
- NSF CAREER Award - 2015
- Doctoral New Investigator award, American Chemical Society - 2013
- Scientific Development award, American Heart Association - 2013
Selected Publications
- Mishra, U., and Borazjani, I. (2025). Re-Scaling of a Fractional Step Method for Low Reynolds Number Flows and Fluid-Structure-Interaction. Journal of Fluid Structure Interaction. 136, 104331. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2025.104331
- Abbas, S., Asadi, H., and Borazjani, I. (2025). Closure Dynamics of Aortic Mechanical Heart Valves versus Bioprosthetic Heart Valves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 112, A3, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2025.354
- Daghooghi, M. Mallepadi, R. K., and Borazjani, I. (2025). Pressure and vorticity scaling in anguilliform and carangiform swimming. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 110, A28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2025.25
- Ogunka, U., Olivett, A., Akbarzadeh, A., Bhayadia, A., Karami, M. A., and Borazjani, I. (2025). Flow Control by Traveling Wave Surface Actuations. Physics of Fluids, 37(2), 027124 (Editor’s pick). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0248573
- Akbarzadeh, A., and Borazjani, I. (2024). Parallel Large Eddy Simulations with Curvilinear Immersed Boundary Method for High-Speed Flows. Computers and Fluids, 228, 106495. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2024.106495