Dr. Amir Danesh-Yazdi earned his Ph.D. from City University of New York in 2015. His teaching interests include fluid mechanics and heat transfer, aerodynamics, vibrations, engineering mechanics and measurements and instruments. His work appears in several publications, including the Journal of Sound and Vibration and the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. He earned the American Society of Engineering Education's Mechanics Division Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russel Johnston Jr. Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award in 2020.
Academic Degrees
- Ph.D. City University of New York (2015)
- BE City University of New York (2009)
Awards & Honors
Publications & Presentations
Shaffer, D., Ragai, I., Danesh-Yazdi, A.H. and Loker, D. (2018). Investigation of the feasibility of using microphone arrays in monitoring machining conditions. Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing, 15, 132-134.
Shaffer, D., Ragai, I., Danesh-Yazdi, A. H., Ashour, O., Lorson, P. and Plunkett, Z. (2018). Development of experiment-based mathematical models of acoustic emissions for machine condition monitoring. Procedia CIRP, 72(1), 1316-1320.
Ferko, K., Lachendro, D., Bradley, A. and Danesh-Yazdi, A. H. (2018, March). Interaction of side-by-side piezoelectric harvesters in fractal grid-generated turbulence. In Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems XII (Vol. 10595, p. 105951E). International Society for Optics and Photonics.
Ferko, K., Lachendro, D., Bradley, A. and Danesh-Yazdi, A. H. (2018, March). Feasibility study of interacting side-by-side piezoelectric harvesters in low-intensity grid-generated turbulence. In Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems XII (Vol. 10595, p. 105950Q). International Society for Optics and Photonics.
Danesh-Yazdi, A. H., Goushcha, O., Elvin, N. and Andreopoulos, Y. (2018, March). Fluidic harvester under Train of Frozen Boxcars (TFB) loading: A parametric study. In Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems XII (Vol. 10595, p. 105950O). International Society for Optics and Photonics.
Danesh-Yazdi, A. H. (2017, June). The exploded-view: A simple and intuitive approach to teaching the free-body diagram. In 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings.
Danesh-Yazdi, A. H., Elvin, N. and Andreopoulos, Y. (2017, June). Interaction of side-by-side piezoelectric beams in quiescent flow and grid turbulence. In 47th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA AVIATION Forum.
Danesh-Yazdi, A. H., Goushcha, O., Elvin, N. and Andreopoulos, Y. (2017, June). Train of frozen boxcars model for fluidic harvesters. In 47th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA AVIATION Forum.
Danesh-Yazdi, A. H., Andreopoulos, Y. and Elvin, N. (2016). Parametric analysis of fluidic energy harvesters in grid turbulence. Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 27(20), 2757-2773.
Andreopoulos, Y., Danesh-Yazdi, A. H., Goushcha, O. and Elvin, N. (2015, October). The effects of turbulence length scale on the performance of piezoelectric harvesters. In Proceedings of the ASME 2015 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference.
Danesh-Yazdi, A. H., Goushcha, O., Elvin, N. and Andreopoulos, Y. (2015). Fluidic energy harvesting beams in grid turbulence. Experiments in Fluids, 56(8), 1-14.
Danesh-Yazdi, A. H., Elvin, N. and Andreopoulos, Y. (2014). Green's function method for piezoelectric energy harvesting beams. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 333(14), 3092-3108.
Jiji, L. M. and Danesh-Yazdi, A. H. (2011). Flow and heat transfer in a micro-cylindrical gas-liquid Couette flow. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 54(13), 2913-2920