School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
Faculty Muhammad Irfan Zafar

Muhammad Irfan Zafar

Assistant Professor
  • School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
  • 0518865976
Summary

Dr. Irfan Zafar is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan. He received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech, USA, under the US Fulbright fellowship program. His research focuses on developing foundational models in Scientific Machine Learning and their application to a broad array of scientific problems, specifically in Fluid Dynamics.

Academic Background
PhD (Fluid Dynamics) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) January 22, 2019 - May 12, 2023
Honours and Awards
Publications
Data-Driven Turbulence Modeling Approach for Cold-Wall Hypersonic Boundary Layers October 13, 2025 Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer - Pages 1-17
Neural operator-based super-fidelity: A warm-start approach for accelerating steady-state simulations May 15, 2025 Journal of Computational Physics - Volume:529, Article Number 113871
Frame Invariance and Scalability of Neural Operators for Partial Differential Equations August 01, 2022 Communications in Computational Physics - Volume 32, Issue 2, Pages 336-363
Recurrent neural network for end-to-end modeling of laminar-turbulent transition October 19, 2021 Data-Centric Engineering - Volume 2, Issue 11, Article Number e17
Convolutional neural network for transition modeling based on linear stability theory November 23, 2020 Physical Review Fluids - Volume 5, Issue 11, Article Number 113903
Toward a practical method for hypersonic transition prediction based on stability correlations October 01, 2020 AIAA Journal - Volume 58, Issue 10, Pages 4475-4484
Multiple input describing function analysis of non-classical aileron buzz March 01, 2017 Advances in Aircraft and Spacecraft Science - Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages 203-218
Analysis of Non-Classical Aileron Buzz October 01, 2016 Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio - Volume 95, Pages 191-200
Conferences
Lecturer Institute of Space Technology March 13, 2017 - January 11, 2019
Lecturer Superior University, Lahore August 07, 2015 - March 10, 2017