School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
Faculty Safi Ahmed

Safi Ahmed

Assistant Professor
Summary

Dr. Safi Ahmed brings his expertise in PDE modeling and simulation that will strengthen the capabilities of NUST in computational engineering. His recent work focuses on building PDE workflows in Mathematica that help engineering and research teams cut development time, reduce onboarding costs, and adapt their models to new problems faster. His work has evolved into a modular toolkit which is well received at his teaching and talks, including his recent talk at the Wolfram PDE Colloquium 2025. ※ Courses dlivered: CS-326, Applied AI and Machine Learning (Spring 2026), ME-421, Mechanical Vibrations (Fall 2025, Fall 2026), ME-113, Statics (Fall 2025, Fall 2026)

Academic Background
PhD (CFD; Differential Equations) Kyungpook National University September 01, 2017 - July 31, 2024
Honours and Awards
Publications
Fluid–Structure Interaction Analysis of Ascendable Horizontal-Bar Wastewater Screen for Enhanced Trapping Performance December 20, 2024 Water - Volume:16, Issue:24, Article Number 3671
Enhancing heat transfer in microchannels: A systematic evaluation of crescent-like fin and wall geometries with secondary flow February 15, 2024 Applied Thermal Engineering - Volume:239, Article Number 122099
Numerical Investigation of Solid–Liquid Dissolution for Nutrient Mixing Improvement in a Thin-Layer Cascade System February 01, 2024 Waste and Biomass Volarization - Volume:15, Issue:2, Page:771-785
Hydrostructural Phenomena in a Wastewater Screening Channel with an Ascendable Sub-Screen Using the Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian Approach December 21, 2023 Applied Sciences - Volume:14, Issue:1, Article Number 76
Investigation of the hydrothermal phenomena in a wavy microchannel with secondary flow passages through mid-wall inflection points March 25, 2023 Applied Thermal Engineering - Volume:223, Article Number 120010
Hydrothermal investigation of a microchannel heat sink using secondary flows in trapezoidal and parallel orientations October 27, 2020 Energies - Volume:13, Issue:21, Article Number 5616
Investigation of the Thermal Performance of Salt Hydrate Phase Change of Nanoparticle Slurry Flow in a Microchannel January 03, 2019 Journal of Chemistry - Article Number 5271923, 10 pages
Numerical analysis of entropy generation and pressure drop performance of phase change material slurries in microchannels of high heat generating electronic devices January 30, 2018 Theoretical & Applied Science - Volume 57(1), Pages 1-8
Conferences
Navigating AI tools for Research: A Guide for Master's and PhD Students December 20, 2025 - December 20, 2025 Safi Ahmed, 15th Conference on Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science & Statistics (MACS-15)
Sensitivity in topology optimization of heat sinks for IC chip cooling August 25, 2024 - August 30, 2024 Safi Ahmed, Cheol Woo Park, International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024), Daegu, Korea, 2024
Numerical study on the phase change material applied flow in a microchannel January 09, 2023 - January 12, 2023 Safi Ahmed, Cheol Woo Park, Advances in Functional Materials 2023 (AFM 2023), Fukuoka, Japan, 2023
Investigation of thermal performance in microchannels with secondary flow November 25, 2020 - November 26, 2020 Safi Ahmed, Cheol Woo Park, Conference of the Korean Society of Visualization Information, Busan, Korea, 2021.
Thermal performance enhancement in a microchannel with secondary flow passage November 05, 2020 - November 06, 2020 Safi Ahmed, Cheol Woo Park, Conference of the Korean Society of Visualization Information, Gwangju, Korea, 2020
Salt Hydrate Slurry Flow Characteristics in a Microchannel November 29, 2018 - November 30, 2018 Safi Ahmed, Cheol Woo Park, Fall 2018 Conference of the Korean Society of Visualization Information, Busan, Korea, 2018.
Numerical study of slurry flow cooling performance with phase change nanoparticles in a microchannel May 28, 2017 - June 01, 2017 Safi Ahmed, Muhammad Bilal Sajid, Muhammad Mohib ur Rehman, Muhammad Sohail Malik, Awad Bin Saud Alquaity, 10th Intl. Conference on Computational Heat, Mass and Momentum Transfer, Seoul, Korea, 2017
Wolfram Early Career Researcher Wolfram Research January 09, 2025 - July 08, 2025
BK21 Postdoctoral Researcher Kyungpook National University (KNU) March 01, 2024 - February 28, 2025
Research Assistant Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute (GIKI) July 01, 2017 - February 28, 2018
Mechanical Engineering Intern Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) June 10, 2013 - July 25, 2013