School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
Faculty Riaz Ahmad Khan

Riaz Ahmad Khan

Assistant Professor
Summary

A mathematician who enjoys teaching mathematics at both basic and advanced levels, particularly engineering mathematics at the university, runs a YouTube channel for mathematics lectures to assist students. In recognition of his dedication, he was awarded the title of Best Teacher for the session (2019-2020) at his current institution. He also possesses proven expertise in conducting research across multidisciplinary areas of applied mathematics, tackling problems like fluid flow and mathematical models for the spread of diseases, nonlinear control systems and has published research articles in reputable journals. In total, he has published 15 research articles.

Academic Background
PhD (Applied Mathematics (Elastodynamics)) NUST, Islamabad September 05, 2005 - September 11, 2012
Honours and Awards
SMME-Best teacher 2019-20 SMME Best teacher Award for the academic year 2019-20 December 14, 2020
Publications
Lie symmetry approach to investigate the flow and heat transfer over a stretching sheet with slip velocity and variable heat flux June 19, 2026 Journal of Mechanics - Volume:42, Pages:227-240,
Lie symmetries in nonlinear liquid film flow with heat and mass transfer and variable magnetic field October 27, 2025 FRACTALS-COMPLEX GEOMETRY PATTERNS AND SCALING IN NATURE AND SOCIETY - Pages:21
Heat transfer in MHD thin film flow with concentration using lie point symmetry approach July 16, 2023 Case Studies in Thermal Engineering - Volume 49, Article Number 103238
Analytic similarity solutions for fully resolved unsteady laminar boundary layer flow and heat transfer in the presence of radiation April 01, 2023 Heliyon - Volume 9, Issue 4, Article Number e14765
Lie symmetry and exact homotopic solutions of a non-linear double-diffusion problem February 28, 2023 Frontiers in Physics - Vol:11, Pages:10
Analytic solutions for the MHD flow and heat transfer in a thin liquid film over an unsteady stretching surface with Lie symmetry and homotopy analysis method May 16, 2022 Waves in Random and Complex Media - Pages 1-19
MPPT Control Paradigms for PMSG-WECS: A Synergistic Control Strategy With Gain-Scheduled Sliding Mode Observer October 19, 2021 IEEE Access - Volume 9, Pages 139876-139887
Dynamical features of pine wilt disease through stability, sensitivity and optimal control May 19, 2021 Advances in Difference Equations - Volume 2021, Issue 1, Article Number: 261
Bio-inspired Analytical Heuristics to Study pine Wilt Disease Model February 26, 2020 Scientific Reports - Volume10, Issue 1, Article number: 3534
On the Uniqueness Results and Value Distribution of Meromorphic Mappings August 17, 2017 Mathematics - Volume: 5, Issue: 3, Article Number: 42
On the Existence of Solutions for Stochastic Differential Equations under G-Brownian Motion January 01, 2013 Life Science Journal - Vol. 10, No 5s, Pages 255-260
Extrema of Young's modulus in hexagonal materials November 01, 2012 Applied Mathematics and Computation - Volume 219, Issue 4, Pages 2260-2266
Periodic Solution of a Cubic-Quintic Duffing Oscillator April 10, 2012 Journal of Xinyang Normal University (Natural Science Edition) - Volume: 25(2), Pages:164-168
Planes and axes of symmetry in an elastic material February 16, 2012 International Journal of Physical Sciences - Volume 7, Issue 8, pages 1141-1149
Eigenvectors of Rotation Matrix August 01, 2009 The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics - Volume 62, Issue 3, Pages 297-310
Conferences
Semi Invariants for Linear Third Order Evolution Equation September 13, 2018 - September 18, 2018 Muhammad Safdar, Riaz A. Khan, Safia Taj, 16th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics
On Differential Invariants of A Class of Generalized Diffusion Equations September 13, 2018 - September 18, 2018 Muhammad Safdar, Riaz A. Khan, safia Taj, International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM-2018)