Education

Positions and Employment

6/2007 – 8/2007 Summer Faculty Fellow, Office of Naval Research, Naval Surface Warfare Center/Carderock Division.
2005 – Present Professor, Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Jackson State University
2005 – Present Northrop Grumman Professor of Engineering, Jackson State University
2005 – Present Director, Northrop Grumman Center for HPC of Ship Systems Engineering, Jackson State University
2001 – 2004  Present Associate Professor, Department of Engineering, Clark Atlanta University
2000 – 2004  Present Director, Computation and Modeling Laboratory, Clark Atlanta University
2001 (March) Visiting Professor, Boeing Corporation, Seattle, Washington
1999 (Dec.) Visiting Professor, Chuo University (Tokyo/Japan)
1997 – 2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering, Clark Atlanta University
1996 – 1997 Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, University of Minnesota
1994 – 1996 Postdoc. Research Associate, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, University of Minnesota
1990 – 1994 Research Assistant, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, University of Minnesota
1989 – 1990 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Aeronautical Engineering, Middle East Technical University (Ankara/Turkey)

Awards and Honors (selected)

• Fellow, Office of Naval Research, Naval Surface Warfare Center/Carderock Division Summer 2007. 

• Northrop Grumman Professorship Award, January 2007.

• Northrop Grumman Professorship Award, January 2006.

• Northrop Grumman Professorship Award, January 2005.

• Jackson State University $500,000 - $1,000,000 Grantsmanship Award, October 2006.

• Most Dedicate Faculty Award in Chemical Engineering, Clark Atlanta University, Class of 2004.

• Instructional Excellence Award, Chemical Engineering, Clark Atlanta University, Class of 2003.

• Advisor Excellence Award, Science Applications International Corporation, 2001.

• Instructional Excellence Award, Chemical Engineering, Clark Atlanta University, 2000.

• U.S. Army Solder Systems Command's "Educational Award for Excellence", 1996.

• Best technical paper at the "20th Army Science Conference", Norfolk, Virginia, 1996.

• Selected 6 times as a “High Honor Student” at the Middle East Technical University, 1986-1989.

Publications (selected)

• S. Aliabadi and S. Shujaee, “Free Surface Flow Simulations Using Parallel Finite Element Method”, Simulation, Volume 76, No. 5, pp. 257-262, ISSN 0037-5497/01, (2001).
• Shahrouz Aliabadi, Andrew Johnson, Bruce Zellars, Ade Abatan, and Charlie Berger, “Parallel Simulation of Flows in Open Channels”, Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 18/5, Pages:  627-637 (2002).
• S. Aliabadi, J. Abedi, B. Zellars and K. Bota “New Finite Element Technique for Simulation of Wave-Object Interaction”, AIAA Paper 2002-0876 (2002).
• S. Aliabadi, A. Johnson, A. A. Abatan, J. Abedi, Y. Yeboah and K. Bota, “Stabilized Finite Element Formulation of Buoyancy Driven Incompressible Flows”, Journal of Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering (CNME), Volume 18, Issue 5, Pages: 315-324 (2002).
• S. Aliabadi, J. Abedi, B. Zellars, K. Bota and A. Johnson, “Simulation Technique for Wave Generation ”, Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 19:349-359 (2003).
• Shahrouz Aliabadi, Andrew Johnson and Jalal Abedi, “Comparison of Finite Element and Pendulum Models for Simulation of Sloshing”, Computer and Fluids 32 535-545 (2003).
• S. Aliabadi, J. Abedi and B. Zellars, “Parallel Finite Element Simulation of Mooring Forces on Floating Objects”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids; 41:809-822 (2003).
• Shuang-Zhang Tu and Shahrouz Aliabadi, “An Alternative to slope limiter in Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method” AIAA Paper, 2004-0076.
• S. Aliabadi, A. Johnson, J. Abedi, S. Tu and A. Tate, “High Performance Simulation of Contaminant Dispersion on the Cray X1: Verification and Implementation”, Journal of Aerospace Engineering Computing, Information, and Communication, (1542-9423) 2004 vol. 1 no. 8, pages (341-361).
• Shuang-Zhang Tu and Shahrouz Aliabadi, “A Slope Limiting Procedure in Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method for Gas Dynamics Applications”, International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, V2: 163-178, 2005.
• Shuang-Zhang Tu and Shahrouz Aliabadi, “Computation of High Temperature Equilibrium Airflows Using Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method”, Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 21, Issue 12, pp. 735-745, (2005).
• Shuangzhang Tu, Shahrouz Aliabadi, Andrew Johnson and Marvin Watts, “A Robust Parallel Implicit Finite Volume Solver for High Speed Compressible Flows”, 43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, Nevada, 10 - 13 Jan 2005. AIAA-2005-1396.
• Shuangzhang Tu and Shahrouz Aliabadi, “Simulation of Cavitating Flows Using Stabilized Finite Element Method”, 43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, Nevada, 10 - 13 Jan 2005. AIAA-2005-1288.
• S. Aliabadi, S. Tu, M. Watts, A. Ji and A. Johnson, “Integrated High Performance Computational Tools for Simulations of Transport and Diffusion of Contaminants in Urban Areas”, International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 20, Nos. 3-4, March-May 2006, 253-267.
• Marvin Watts, Shuangzhang Tu, Andrew Fuller, Reena Patel, and Shahrouz Aliabadi, “Performance of CaMEL, a Truly Matrix-free, Parallel and Vectorized Unstructured Finite Volume Solver for Compressible Flows”, submitted to Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering.
• Shuangzhang Tu and Shahrouz Aliabadi, “Development of a Hybrid Finite Volume/Element Solver for Incompressible Flows”, accepted for publication in the international journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids.

Recent Synergistic Activities

• 9th International Conference on High Performance Computing.  Chairing the Session VII. Bangalore, India, Dec 18-21, 2002.
• CFD/CSM for Projectile’s Aerodynamics and Propulsion Workshop. Organizing Committee. Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA, August 13-14, 2002.
• Computational Hydrodynamics and Free-Surface Flows. Mini Symposium in 7th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM7). Organizers: Shahrouz Aliabadi (CAU) and Charlie Berger (ERDC).
• Computational Hydrodynamics and Free-Surface Flows. Mini Symposium in 7th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM7). Session Chair.
• Programming Environment and Training Technical meeting. Clark Atlanta University, Feb. 3-6, 2003. Organizer.
• Keynote Speaker in the Finite Element in Flow Problems 2003 conference, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan, April 2-4, 2003.
• Environmental Flow II. Finite Element in Flow Problems ’03 Conference, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan, April 2-4, 2003. Session Chair.
• Computational Techniques for Problems with Moving Boundaries and Interfaces. World Congress on Computational Mechanics, China, September 4-9, 2004. Mini-Symposium Organizer.
• Computational Techniques for Problems with Moving Boundaries and Interfaces. World Congress on Computational Mechanics, China, September 4-9, 2004. Chairperson.
• 3D Data Modeling and Visualization. IASTED International Conference on Environmental Modeling and Simulation, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, Nov 22-24, 2004. Chairperson.
• Novel Computational Methods in Moving Boundary Problems. Mini Symposium in 8th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM8). Mini-Symposium Organizer. July 25-27, 2005, Austin, TX.
• Novel Computational Methods in Moving Boundary Problems. Mini Symposium in 8th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM8). Chair Person Organizer. July 25-27, 2005, Austin, TX.
• Multiphase Flow 2005, Third International Conference on Computational Methods in Multiphase Flow, 31 October - 2 November 2005, Portland, Maine, USA. Chairperson on 7th session.
• Keynote Speaker, Parallel CFD Conference, Antalya, Turkey, May 21-24, 2007.
• Organizing Session entitled “High Performance Computing for Flows with Moving Boundaries”, Parallel CFD Conference, Antalya, Turkey, May 21-24, 2007.
• Developed one of the most efficient parallel finite element flow solvers.
• Solved the largest flow problem implicitly using a totally unstructured mesh with more than two billion elements (2003).