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█ Mohammad Javad Ostad Mirza Tehrani, Ph.D.
█ Assistant Professor
█ Hydraulics Group ▪ Civil Engineering Faculty ▪ K.N. Toosi University of Technology
█ mohammad [dot] tehrani [at] kntu [dot] ac [dot] ir ▪ +98 (0)21 8820 14 30 (Ext: 283)
Curriculum Vitae
Educational Record
2016
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering-Hydraulic structures, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Thesis Title: Experimental study on the influence of abrupt slope changes on flow characteristics over stepped spillways.
2010
M.Sc. in Civil Engineering-Hydraulics, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Thesis Title: Flow behavior at annular aerators in Tunnels (Air concentration variations downstream of aerators in horseshoe tunnels).
2007
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Work Experiences
March 2024 - August 2024
Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI), Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy.
Visiting Guest Professor, Hydraulic Structures Laboratory, Institute of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST - Ostschweizer Fachhochschule), Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland.
September 2021 - September 2022
Consultatnt in International Cooperation Affairs, Water Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.
October 2020
Member of Civil Engineering Referee Group, 22nd Khwarizmi Youth Award, Tehran, Iran.
Since September 2020
President and member of the B.Sc. Course Revision Commitee, Civil Engineering Faculty, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Since September 2020
Assistant Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, Civil Engineering Faculty, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Adjunct lecturer in "Open Channel Hydraulics" and "Fluid Mechanics", Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
July 2017 - July 2019
Post-doctoral researcher and lecturer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
February 2014 - February 2016
Researcher at CERIS-IST, Lisbon, Portugal.
July 2012 - July 2013
Teacher assistant in “Hydraulic structures and schemes” and “General Physics I”, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
October 2011 - March 2016
Doctoral Assistant at LCH-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
September 2009 - October 2010
Researcher at the Department of Hydraulics, Water Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.
Research Interests
Basic - classical hydraulics.
Hydraulic structures and Hydropower.
Air-water flows, aeration and aerators on tunnels and smooth/stepped spillways
River engineering and reservoir sedimentation
Flow pattern in complex flow boundaries (turbulence, secondary flows and etc...).
Achivements, Awards and Scholarships
Joint Research Grant, Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI), Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy.
Research Partnership Grant 2022, Leading House South Asia and Iran, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), Switzerland.
2021
Young Assistant Professors Grant Award, Iranian National Elites Foundation, INEF-KNTU-11/60695/2021.
2020
High Ranked Universities Alumni Tenure Track Professorship, Iranian National Elites Foundation, INEF-KNTU-25/89531/2020.
2018
Complementary Post-doctoral research fellow scholarship, Iranian National Elites Foundation, INEF-AUT 20/142/2018.
2017
Distinguished paper award, 16th Iranian Hydraulic Congress, Ardabil, Iran.
2017
Post-doctoral research fellow scholarship, Iranian National Elites Foundation, INEF-AUT 20/142/2017.
2011
Joint doctoral initiative scholarship, IST-EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland.
2011
Doctoral study scholarship, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), (SFRH/BD/51527/2011), Portugal.
2011
Unconditional offer for Doctor of Philosophy, University of Queensland, Australia, Provider Code: 00025B.
2010
Distinguished paper award, 9th Iranian Hydraulic Congress, Tehran, Iran, published in the special issue of Iranian Journal of Hydraulics, 2012.
2007
Distinguished bachelor student (exceptionally talented student), exempted from the M.Sc. nationwide entrance exam in Iran to pursue Master of Science study in hydraulics, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Main research projects
Design of a new structure for mitigation of urban driftwood and woody debris floods
Flood hazard and risk map: proposing a compatible manual for Iran based upon the hazard mapping procedure in Switzerland
The impact of macroplastic transport mechanism on river and urban flooding flows
Application of Low Impact development (LID) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Water engineering
Reservoir sedimentation and pressurized flushing
2019 - 2021
The effect of roughness and hydraulic conditions on the characteristics of hydraulic jump.
2018 - 2020
Flow pattern over stepped spillway, a numerical approach.
2017 - 2019
Fabricating, Calibrating and utilizing Double-tip Conductivity Probe in experimental study on flow over steep stepped spillways.
2013
Prototype measurements on Siah Bishe Upper Dam stepped spillway, IWPCO, Iran and EPFL-LCH, Switzerland.
2010
Annular aerators optimisation, Gotvand dam bottom outlet tunnels, WRI, Tehran, Iran.
Membership
Since 2018
Iranian Hydropower Association (IHA), Tehran, Iran.
Since 2011
International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR).
Since 2011
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Since 2010
Iranian Committee On Large Dams (IRCOLD), Tehran, Iran.
Since 2008
Iranian Hydraulic Association (IHA), Tehran, Iran.
Patents
Zarrati, A.R. and Ostad Mirza, M.J., Digital air Concentration resistivity probe. IR Patent 66766, 2010.
Ostad Mirza, M.J., Water splash meter. IR Patent 66765, 2010.
Book, peer reviewed conferences, workshops and journal papers
Najafzadeh A., Ostad Mirza Tehrani M.J. (2023). Can LIDs be more effective in managing stormwater runoff?, Abstract, Proceedings of the 40th IAHR World Congress, Vienna, Austria, 20-25 August.
Rostami Y., Ostad Mirza Tehrani M.J., Alizad K., Falahat H. (2023). Flood assessment for sustainable development: a case study of Bandar Abbas, Iran, Proceedings of the 40th IAHR World Congress, Vienna, Austria, 20-25 August.
Kordnaeij M., Ostad Mirza Tehrani M.J., Asghari Pari S. A., Falahat H. (2023). Energy dissipation on stepped spillways: the effect of mounted step roughness, Proceedings of the 40th IAHR World Congress, Vienna, Austria, 20-25 August.
Falahat H., Ostad Mirza Tehrani M.J. (2023). Pressurized flushing: the effect of water and sediment heights, Proceedings of the 40th IAHR World Congress, Vienna, Austria, 20-25 August.
Jalili Ghazizadeh M. R., Zarrati A. R. & Ostad Mirza Tehrani M.J. (2022). Numerical Modeling of Self-aeration in High-speed Flows over Smooth Chute Spillways, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 149 (3): 04022042, https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/JHEND8.HYENG-12914.
Asgari F., Mohajeri S. H., Mehraein M., Ostad Mirza Tehrani M.J. (2022). A new software package and filtering algorithm development for despiking doppler velocimeter data, E-proceedings of the 39th IAHR World Congress, Granada, Spain, doi://10.3850/IAHR-39WC2521716X20221215.
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Ostad Mirza Tehrani M.J., Matos J., Pfister M. & Schleiss A.J. (2021). Bottom-Pressure Development Due to an Abrupt Slope Reduction at Stepped Spillways, Water, 14 (1), 41, https://doi.org/10.3390/w14010041. |
2018
Ostad Mirza Tehrani M.J., Matos J., Pfister M, Schleiss A.J. & Zarrati A. R. (2018). Effect of flow rate on skimming flow properties over an abrupt slope change on a stepped spillway, E-proceedings of the 5th IAHR Europe Congress, Trento, Italy, 367-368, doi:10.3850/978-981-11-2731-1_328-cd.
Jafarinik S., Zarrati A. R., Jalili M. R. & Ostad Mirza Tehrani M.J. (2018). Flow over sharp-crested weirs: a numerical approach, E-proceedings of the 5th IAHR Europe Congress, Trento, Italy, 133-134.
2017
Ostad Mirza M.J., Matos J., Pfister M. & Schleiss A.J. (2017). The influence of abrupt slope changes on bottom air concentration and characteristic depth in skimming flow over stepped spillways, E-proceedings of the 16th Iranian Hydraulic Congress, Ardabil, Iran.
Ostad Mirza M.J., (2017). Experimental study on the influence of abrupt slope changes on flow characteristics over stepped spillways, Communication LCH No. 64, (Eds.), A.J. Schleiss, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, doi:10.5075/epfl-lchcomm-64.
Ostad Mirza M.J., Matos J., Pfister M. & Schleiss A.J. (2016). The effect of abrupt slope change on air entrainment and flow depths at stepped spillways, Journal of Hydraulic Research, 55 (3), 362-375, doi:10.1080/00221686.2016.1255263,http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/mSQ9pdwJ2R7ep5x5YD97/full.
Ostad Mirza M.J., (2016). Experimental study on the influence of abrupt slope changes on flow characteristics over stepped spillways. Thesis No. 6862, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-6862.
Ostad Mirza, M. J., Matos, J., Pfister, M., and Schleiss, A. J. (2015a). Air entrainment and pressure development in skimming flow on an abrupt slope change on stepped spillways. E-proceedings of the 36th IAHR World Congress, The Hague, the Netherlands, 1-9. URL: http://89.31.100.18/~iahrpapers/87169.pdf.
Ostad Mirza, M. J., Pfister, M., Schleiss, A. J., and Matos, J. (2015b). Air entrainment in skimming flow on stepped spillways: the effect of an abrupt slope change. 5th IAHR International Junior Researcher and Engineer Workshop on Hydraulic Structures, Spa, Belgium [En ligne], URL: http://popups.ulg.ac.be/IJREWHS2014/index.php?id=96.
Ostad Mirza, M. J., Matos, J., Pfister, M., and Schleiss, A. J. (2014). Review on pressure distribution on stepped spillways. 3rd IAHR Europe Congress, Book of Abstracts, Porto-Portugal. ISBN 978-989-96479-2-3.
Ostad Mirza M.J., Zarrati A.M, Roshan R., (2012). Annular aerators design. Iranian Journal of Hydraulics, 2012. (In Persian).
Ostad Mirza M.J., Zarrati A.M, (2012). Digital plate resistivity probe for measuring air concentration and water splashing in high speed air-water flows. Hydraulic Measurements & Experimental Methods Conference, Snowbird, Utah.
Ostad Mirza M.J., Zarrati A.M, Roshan R., (2011). Application of annular aerators in tunnels. 34th biennial IAHR conference, Brisbane, Australia. ISBN 978-0-85825-868-6.
Ramezanianpour, A.A. and Ostad Mirza, M.J. (2011). The specification and quality control of concrete for dams, ISBA: 978-600-160-045-6, Fadak-Isatis Publication, Tehran, Iran (in Persian).
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