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Dr Osman Beg

Job title: 
Lecturer Mechanical Engineering

Phone 0114 225 6299 
Email O.Beg@shu.ac.uk

Course Leader:MEng (Hons) Aerospace Engineering  BEng (Hons) PhD (Manchester) MAIAA

Research leader: Biomechanics and Biotechnology, Mechanical Engineering Subject Group, Sheaf Building, Department of Engineering and Mathematics

Research interests

  • Aeronautical fluid dynamics and magnetic thruster propulsion
  • Astronautical heat transfer
  • Magneto-fluid Dynamics of energy generators
  • Biofluid Mechanics (pulsatile, peristaltic, eye, ear)
  • Numerical methods in Boundary Layer Flows
  • Magneto-Tribology and Non-Newtonian hydrodynamics
  • Gas turbine aerodynamics
  • Cryogenic thermodynamics
  • Genetic algorithms and neural networks in thermodynamic cycles
  • Nanofluid dynamics and energy enhancement          
  • Nonlinear structural dynamics of aerospace and earthquake-resistant structures
  • Homotopy analysis and Differential transform methods in viscous flow
  • Stochastic  hydrology (floods, coastal, rivers, streamflows)
  • Quantum engineering applications in semiconductor chaos and solar cells

Research collaborations

  • University of  Pittsburgh (USA)- biomagnetic fluid dynamics
  • University of South Carolina (USA)- spectral methods in heat transfer
  • Indian Institute of Technology (India)- micropolar flows and finite elements
  • CapePeninsula University (South Africa)- viscoelastic and reactive flows
  • University of Sherbrooke, Canada (USA)-  homotopy methods in nanofluids

Recent publications

All of Osman's papers can be accessed at SHURA.

1] Makinde, O.D. andO. Anwar Bég, On inherent irreversibility in a reactive hydromagnetic channel flow, J. Thermal Science, 19, 1-8 (2010).

2] Zueco, J. and O. Anwar Bég, Network numerical analysis of hydromagnetic squeeze film flow dynamics between two parallel rotating disks with induced magnetic field effects,Tribology Intern., 43, 532-543 (2010).

3] O. Anwar Bég, J. Zueco and  S.K. Ghosh Unsteady hydromagnetic  natural convection of a short-memory viscoelastic  fluid in a non-Darcian regime: network simulation, Chemical Engineering Communications, 198, 172-190 (2011).

4]O. Anwar Bég, V. R. Prasad, B. Vasu, N. Bhaskar Reddy, Q. Li and  R. Bhargava, Free convection heat and mass transfer from an isothermal  sphere to a micropolar regime with Soret/Dufour effects, Int. J Heat and Mass Transfer, 54, 9-18 (2011).

5] M.M. Rashidi, O. Anwar Bég  and A. Habibzadeh, First and second law analysis of an ejector expansion Joule-Thomson cryogenic refrigeration cycle, Int. J. Energy Research (2010).

Conferences

1] M. Narahari and  O. Anwar Bég, Effects of mass transfer and free convection currents in the flow past  an infinite vertical plate with ramped wall temperature, Proc. 5th Asian Mathematical Conf., 22-26 June, Putra World Trade Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2009).

2] R. Bhargava, Rajesh Sharma and O. Anwar Bég,A numerical solution for the effect of radiation on micropolar flow and heat transfer past a horizontal stretching sheet through porous medium, 5th IASME/WSEAS Int. Conf. Continuum Mechanics (CM’10)/7th WSEAS Int. Conf. Fluid Mechanics (Fluids ’10)/7th SWEAS Int. Conf. Heat and Mass Transfer (HMT’10), University of Cambridge, UK, February 23-25 (2010), 88-96.

3] H. A. Daud, Q. Li, O. A. Bég and S.A. Ghani, CFD modeling of blowing ratio effects on gas turbine film cooling, 11th Int. Conf. Advanced Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements in Heat Transfer, Tallinn, Estonia, 14-16 July (2010).

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