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Abdus Samad, PhD, CEng FIMechE, FASME Associate Professor

Department of Ocean Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Chennai-600036, India

Office : +91 44 2257 4826

E-mail : samad [at] iitm.ac.in

Research Interest

▪ Marine energy

▪ Turbomachinery design and optimization

▪ Surrogate based optimization methods

▪ Computational fluid dynamics

▪ Artificial Lift

Work Experience

▪ Associate Professor (from August 31, 2015), Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras,

Chennai.

▪ Assistant Professor (August 16, 2010- August 30, 2015), Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT

Madras, Chennai.

▪ Post-doctoral work (August 2008 to July 2010): University of Aberdeen/ZiLift Ltd, UK.

Fellowships

▪ PACE Fellowship 2019, May-June 2019, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, Hawai’i, USA.

▪ Brainpool Fellow at Seoul National University, funded by The Korean Federation of Science and

Technology Societies (KOFST), from June 1 to December 31, 2016. Seoul, South Korea.

▪ DAAD Fellow (July 2015-Aug 2015), Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.

▪ India Distinguished Visiting Fellow (June 2011 to September 2011), University of Nottingham, UK.

Educational Qualification

▪ Completed PhD from Inha University ((South Korea)in 2008). The area of work was to develop

optimization code and optimization turbomachinery system through CFD techniques.

▪ Completed M.Tech. from Aligarh Muslim University (India, 2004) in Mechanical Engineering

(Thermal Sciences). The thesis topic was uneven heat transfer through annuli.

▪ Completed B.Tech. from Aligarh Muslim University (India, 2004) in Mechanical Engineering.

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Projects

1. “Optimization of Wave Energy system – A Primitive Model for Indian Coastal Lines,”

Funded by DST/DAAD (India-Germany joint research project). PI: Abdus Samad/

Dominique Thevenin, CoPI: Nithya Venkatesan, 2019-2021. To be started.

2. “Development of a Strategy for Optimal Power Production From 100 kW Class Horizontal Axis

Tidal Turbines,” Indo-Korea Project, Funded by DST-KNRF. PI: Abdus Samad/Shin-Hyung Rhee,

CoPI: Nithya Venkatesan, 2018-2020. Ongoing.

3. “An Automated Optimization Framework for Turbomachinery Design,” Funded by GTRE-Bangalore,

PI/Co-PI: Abdus Samad, B.V.S.S.S. Prasad. 2017-2019. Ongoing.

4. “Design and Testing of an Impulse Turbine for Wave Energy Conversion,” funded by The Ministry

of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India. PI/Co-PI: Abdus Samad. (2016-2018). Completed.

5. “A Novel Energy Harvester from Any Vibrating Source,” funded by IIT Madras, PI: Abdus Samad,

2017-2018, Completed.

6. “Development of Marine Energy System for Indian Remote Islands,” UK-India Education and

Research Initiative (UKIERI). PI/Co-PI: Eldad Avital, Nithya Venkateshan, Abdus Samad. (2015-

2016). Completed.

7. “Pump Selection Criteria for Different Viscosity Fluids,” funded by the Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd.

PI/Co-PI: Abdus Samad, J.V.V. Aruna Kumar. (2015-2015). Completed.

8. “Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Two-Phase (Liquid-Gas) Ejector for Flare Gas

Recovery Applications,” funded by the Petroleum Institute, UAE. PI/Co-PI: Abdus Samad, Afshin

Goharzadeh. 2014-2014. Completed.

9. “Multiphase Downhole Pump Design and Optimization for Oil and Gas Field Application,” funded

by IIT Madras. PI/Co-PI: Abdus Samad (2011-2015). Completed.

10. “A Novel Progressive Cavity Pump Design and Analysis,” funded by The Department of Science and

Technology, Govt. of India. PI/Co-PI: Abdus Samad. 2012-2015. Completed.

11. “Design and Optimization of Bi-directional Flow Impulse Turbine,” funded by The Ministry of Earth

Sciences, Govt. of India. PI/Co-PI: Abdus Samad. 2013-2015. Completed.

12. “Testing a New Wave Energy Device,” funded by Ghent University, Belgium. PI/Co-PI: Abdus

Samad, Nilanjan Saha, SA Sannasiraj. 2013-2013. Completed.

13. “Lazy Wave Riser Optimization” Oceaneering Ltd. Chandigarh, PI/Co-PI: Abdus Samad. 2015-2015.

Completed.

Technology transfer

▪ Two technologies were transferred by IIT Madras to a US based company. One is related to artificial

lift/pump and the other is related to energy.

Editor/Editorial board member

▪ Associate Editor, International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems.

▪ Editor, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, Special issue, 2017-2018.

Awards/ Scholarships/Fellowships, etc. received

1. PACE Fellowship 2019, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, Hawaii, USA. May-June 2019.

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2. Melpadom Attumalil Georgekutty Young Scientist Award 2016 for outstanding contribution in the

field of Science and Technology given by Mar Thoma Syrian Church, Kerala, India.

3. Brainpool Fellowship at Seoul National University given by The Korean Federation of Science and

Technology Societies (KOFST), from June 1 to December 31, 2016.

4. Research Stays fellowship for University Academics and Scientists, 2015, DAAD from July 1 to

August 31, 2015 at Otto von Guricke University Magdeburg, Germany.

5. “Certificate of Appreciation” for rendering valuable service to the Journal of the Institution of

Engineers (India): Series C.

6. Er MP Baya National award for Technology Advancement in Mechanical Engineering from the

Institute of Engineers-India, 2014.

7. Awarded ('Invention award') by Intellectual Ventures Asia Pvt Ltd for inventing a positive

displacement pump.

8. Awarded ('Invention award') by Intellectual Ventures Asia Pvt Ltd for inventing a power take off

mechanism for the wave energy harvesting device.

9. Awarded ('Invention award') by Intellectual Ventures Asia Pvt Ltd for inventing a device for energy

harvesting from vibrations.

10. Awarded ('Invention award') by Intellectual Ventures Asia Pvt Ltd for inventing a device for timer

valve design.

11. Awarded ('Invention award') by Intellectual Ventures Asia Pvt Ltd for inventing a device for PCP

coupling design.

12. Obtained fellowship from the University of Nottingham (UK). The title of the fellowship was: India

Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Scheme 2011'.

13. Best poster award for the paper “Numerical Simulation of Film Cooling Turbine Blade,” ANSYS

Conference, May 17, 2013, Pune, India.

14. Best paper award for the paper “Performance Analysis of a Centrifugal Impeller Used for Crude Oil

Pumping,” from the Second International Conference on Drilling Technology, December 6-8, 2012,

IIT Madras, India.

15. Korean Govt fellowship (Korean Research Foundation Fellowship and Jung-Seok Memorial

Fellowship) for PhD course.

16. MHRD (Govt of India) scholarship for M.Tech. course: The scholarship is based on the score of

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) conducted by Indian Institute of Technology.

17. Atique Memorial Scholarship at school level for Excelling in School Board Examination.

Professional Body Membership

i) Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Fellow.

ii) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Fellow

iii) Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Member

iv) International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO), Member

v) National Society of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (NSFMFP), India, Life member.

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Reviewed articles from different Journals and Conferences

▪ Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer Engineering,

International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems, Journal of the Institute of Mechanical

Engineers, Renewable Energy, Energy, Applied Energy, Journal of Mechanical Engineering

Sciences, International Journal of Energy research, Journal of Fluids Engineering, Ocean

Engineering, Applied Ocean Research, ASME Journals/Conferences, IET, JPE, etc.

Courses taught

• Offshore Oil and Gas Production Systems

• Well Completion, Well Testing and Analysis

• Special Topics in Petroleum Engineering

• Engineering Drawing

• Drilling Technology

• Marine Engineering

• Computer Aided Ship Design and Drafting

• Ocean Mining and Dredging

• Artificial Lifts for Oil and Gas Productions

• Surface Facilities for Oil and Gas Handling

Invited lectures/Keynote lectures etc

1. Invited lecture, International Seminar on Ocean Energy 2019, March 04, 2019, Saga University,

Japan.

2. Invited Lecture, Short Term Course on Renewable Energy Application, December 19-23, 2018, NIT

Patna.

3. Invited lecture, PK Nag Memorial Lecture, December 20, 2018, Aliah University, Kolkata.

4. Guest lecture (Chief Guest), National Seminar on Advanced Well Simulation Technologies, Danish

Ahmed College of Engineering, Nov 15, 2018, Chennai, India.

5. Guest lecture (Chief Guest), De-Oleum, Danish Ahmed College of Engineering, August 17, 2018,

Chennai, India.

6. Invited lecture, PETRAMET 2018, March 20-21, 2018, AMET University, Chennai. India.

7. Invited lecture, Indo-Korea joint workshop on Wave and OTEC, February 22-23, 2018, IIT Madras,

India.

8. Invited lecture on “Wave Energy Turbines” at The 33rd IEA-OES Workshop on Harnessing Energy

from the Oceans – A global Scenario” 13th November, 2017, national Institute of Ocean Technology,

Chennai, India.

9. Invited lecture (keynote lecture) on Marine Energy at the 7th International Symposium on Fluid

Machinery and Fluid Engineering (ISFMFE 2016), October 18-22, 2016, Jeju, Republic of Korea.

10. Delivered a lecture on Marine Energy at Research Institute of Marine Systems Engineering, Seoul

National University, October 7, 2016, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

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11. Invited lecture on Wave Energy in India at a workshop organized by Korea Research Institute of

Ships and Ocean Engineering, October 6, 2016, Muju, Republic of Korea.

12. Invited lecture in a workshop on Oil and Gas at Inha University, October 4-5, 2016, Incheon,

Republic of Korea.

13. Invited lecture on Marine Energy at Seoul National University (SNU), September 12, 2016, Seoul,

Republic of Korea.

14. Delivered a lecture on Optimization at: Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), July 18,

2016, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea.

15. Delivered a keynote lecture on Ocean Energy in First International Conference on Hybrid Energy

Systems & Sustainability (ICHESS 2016), April 6-8, 2016, Saveetha Engineering College, Chennai,

India.

16. Delivered a lecture: Indo-Australian Marine Renewable Energy Workshop, April 4-5, 2016, IIT

Madras, Chennai, India.

17. Delivered lectures on Ocean Energy in on Energy Resources Management in Current Scenario

(TQIP Short Term Course), April 4-7, 2016, Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, India.

18. Delivered a lecture: Prof. P.K. Nag Memorial Lecture & Seminar, April 7, 2016, Aliah University,

Kolkata.

19. “Design Optimization of Ocean Energy Systems, “National Seminar on Offshore Energy – Present

Scenario, VIT University, Chennai, January 21, 2016.

20. “Optimization via Multiple-Surrogate Model,” 10th Meeting of Special Interest Group on

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (SIG-MDO), March 07-08, 2015, Bangalore.

21. “Multiphase Pumping Challenges in Oil and Gas Industry,” Fist National Conference on

Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources 2015, Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering, Chennai,

March 5-6, 2015.

22. “Design Optimization via Surrogate Based Framework,” Department of Mechanical Engineering,

The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 10, 2014.

23. “Recent Development of Turbines for Wave Energy Extraction”, Keynote lecture, International

Conference on Nonconventional Energy (ICONCE 2014), January 16-17, 2014, Kalyani, India.

24. “Turbines for Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Systems”, International Workshop on Ocean

Wave Energy, Dec. 2-3, 2013, IIT Madras, India.

25. “CFD for Turbomachinery Design". Workshop and Finishing School on Computational Fluid

Dynamics, August 31-Septmber 4, 2013, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, AMU Aligarh, India.

26. “Design and Optimization of Systems Via CFD”, February 18-19, 2012, Aligarh Muslim University,

Aligarh, India.

27. “Offshore Drilling Technology”, Delivered lecture for AICTE short course: "Perspectives of

Offshore Engineering", Nov 19-23, 2012, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.

Students guided/guiding

▪ More that 50 students/staff guided/worked in the lab.

▪ PhD students completed thesis:

o S.A.I. Bellary, PhD, 2015, Topic: “Design Optimization of Centrifugal Pump for Crude Oil

Applications”.

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o Paresh Halder, PhD, 2016, Topic: “Design and Optimization of Wells turbine”.

o Mrinal K. R., PhD, 2018, Topic: “Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Centrifugal Pump

and Progressive Cavity Pump Delivering Bentonite Based Slurry”.

o MD Hamid Siddique, PhD, 2018, Topic: “Design and Optimization of Centrifugal Pump

Impeller for Pumping Viscous Oil”.

▪ MS students completed thesis:

o Aswin Vuddagiri MS, 2014, Topic: “Numerical Analysis of Different Cavity Shapes on

Suction Surface of an Airfoil”.

o Rameez Badhurshah, MS, 2015, Topic: “Optimization of an Impulse Turbine Used for Wave

Energy Extractions”.

o Rohit Adhav, MS, 2015, Topic: “Optimization of Multiphase Flow Electric Submersible

Pump”.

o Arihant Sonawat, MS, 2015, Topic: “Flare Gas Recovery Using Ejector”.

o Ezhilsabareesh K, MS, 2018, Topic: “Shape Optimization of a Bidirectional Impulse Turbine

Through Surrogate Models”.

o Ranjith R, MS, 2019, Topic: “Loss Reduction Using Blade Lean Technique in a Bidirectional

Impulse Turbine”.

o Aravind George, MS, 2019, Topic: “Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Turbine

Induced Damping for Wave Energy Conversion”.

o Dhariyasheel Deshmukh, MS, 2019, Topic: “Study of Surface Roughness and Splitter Blade

Effect on an ESP Using CFD Technique”.

o Vishnu V., MS, 2019, Topic: “Design, Testing, and Analysis of a Novel Direct Mechanical

Drive Wave Energy Converter”.

▪ MTech students graduated:

o R Karthikeswaran, Topic: Leakage Analysis of Progressive cavity Pump

o M Nizamuddin, Topic: Design Optimization of Jet Pumps Used for Artificial Lift

o A Salam, Topic: Design and Optimization of Unidirectional Impulse Turbine For Wave

Energy Extraction

o Sarath M , Topic: Performance optimization of jet pumps used for artificial lift

o Shyam Mohan, Topic: Selection of artificial lift for mature fields

o Surjith AK, Topic: Suitable artificial lift mode for heavy oil

o Sreejith P, Topic: An Optimization Technique for Lazy Wave Configurations

o Ajay S, Topic: Experimental Characterization of Multiphase Jet Pump and Airlift Pump

o Sanoop M, Topic: Combined Effect of Surface Roughness and Crude Oil Viscosity on The

Performance of Electrical Submersible Pump

o Sachin MP, Topic: Study of Water Alternating Gas (Wag) Injection in Micro-Porous Media

o Sarath B, Topic: Design and Optimization of an OTEC Turbine

o Shobhit Agarwal, Topic: Design and Testing of a Twin Unidirectional Impulse Turbine

for Wave Energy System

o Lavakush Mishra, Topic: Parametric Study of Marine Current Turbine

o Srikant R, Topic: Experimental Analysis of Bi-Directional Wells Turbine for Oscillating

Water Column

o Bharath RV, Topic: Optimizarion of Exhaust System Using CFD Simulations

o Kumud Kumar, Topic: Experimental Study of Biplane Wells Turbine Under Bidirectional

Flow

o Srinivas C, Topic: Design, Fabrication and Numerical Analysis of A Spar Platform For A

Point Absorber Wave Energy Convertor

o Raj Kumar, Topic: Analysis of Wells Turbine Performance Parameter by Using CFD Tool

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o Sahil jawa, Topic: Numerical Analysis of Marine Ducted Propeller

o Jasmin Singh, Topic: Design of Vapour Duct Connecting Flash Chamber to Condenser in

An Open Cycle OTEC Plant Using CFD Principles

o Prasannjit Singh, Topic: Performances Enhancement of Cross Flow Current Turbine

▪ Summer trainees and other research students: several from different colleges and universities

Events/sessions organized

1. Chaired sessions in Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference 2018, Taipei, Taiwan, September 9-

14, 2018.

2. Chaired sessions in 11th International Conference on Marine Technology (MARTEC 2018), Kuala

Lumpur, Malaysia, August 13-14, 2018.

3. Organized The 4th International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018), February 18-21,

2018, IIT Madras.

4. Organized Indo-Korea joint workshop on Wave and OTEC, February 22-23, 2018, IIT Madras.

5. Organized a short term course in Advances in Oil and Gas, January 29-February 03, 2018, Chennai,

India.

6. Organized an AICTE QIP short term course in Advances in Petroleum Engineering, January 29-

February 03, 2018, Chennai, India.

7. Chaired a session, ASME GTINDIA Conference 2017, December 7-8, 2017, Bangalore, India.

8. Organized an Indo-Korea (KITECH-IITM) joint workshop, March 26-27, 2017, IIT Madras.

9. Chaired sessions of The 7th International Symposium on Fluid Machinery and Fluid Engineering

(ISFMFE 2016), October 18-22, 2016, Jeju, Republic of Korea.

10. Co-Chaired a session, ASME TurboExpo 2016, June 13-17, 2016, Seoul, South Korea.

11. Organized 3rd International Conference on Petroleum Science and Technology (ICPST 2014),

November 3-5, 2014, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.

12. Organized International Conference on Developing Unconventional Resources of Oil and Gas

(DUOG 2013), March 1-3, 2013, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.

13. Chaired a session in the ‘National Conference on Mechanical Engineering: Retrospect and Prospect,’

Feb 2-3, 2013, Suri, West Bengal, India.

14. Organized ‘International Seminar on Talent crisis in Oil and Gas industry,’ March 16-17, 2011, IIT

Madras, Chennai, India.

15. Chaired/Organized sessions in several conferences/seminars held at IIT Madras.

Technical committee/Advisory member etc.

1. Board of Studies, AMET University 2018-

2. Organizing Committee, Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (AWTEC). This is a part of

European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC). AWTEC/EWTEC organizes conferences

in alternative years.

3. Advisory committee, International Conference on Advances in Petroleum, Chemical, And Energy

Challenges on 24th and 25th March 2017 (APCEC-2017), Rae Bareli, India.

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4. The 7th International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (ICMAE) 2016,

London, July 18-22, 2016.

5. Advisory committee, National Conference on Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources (NCUHR -

15), March 5-6, Chennai, India.

6. Advisory committee, International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research & Practice (ICMRP-

2014), May 24-25, 2014, Ahmedabad, India.

7. Advisory committee and Technical committee member, International Conference on

Nonconventional Energy (ICONCE 2014), January 16-17, Kalyani, India.

8. Technical program committee, Workshop on Computational Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow,

February 18-19, 2012, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, AMU-Aligarh, India.

9. Technical program committee, Workshop and Finishing School on Computational Fluid Dynamics,

August 31-Septmber 4, 2013, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, AMU-Aligarh, India.

10. Several conferences held/to be held in IIT Madras, India.

11. Academic Assessment Committee (AAC - India) of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE,

UK).

12. Professional Review Interviewer of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE, UK).

Collaborations

▪ Queen Mary University London, UK

▪ Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India

▪ Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

▪ Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

▪ Champion of MoU between IIT Madras and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany.

Attended Workshop/etc

▪ Industry-Academia workshop on "Recent Trends in Oil Well Drilling Technology" organized by

ONGC, Chennai, 29th Oct to 2nd Nov, 2012.

▪ Industry-Academia Interface Program on "Technology Imperatives for Exploration and Production

of Oil & Gas" at ONGC Rajahmundry Asset, Rajahmundry, 26-28 March, 2012.

Administrative and other responsibilities

▪ Hindi committee, Timetable committee, PMRF selection committee, M.Tech. admission committee,

Board of Academic Research. And, many other committees in IIT Madras.

▪ Board of Studies, AMET University, Chennai.

▪ Involved in national level competitive exams, PhD Thesis committee.

▪ Examiner of several PhD thesis of Universities in India and Abroad.

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Lab development

▪ A new lab (Wave energy and Fluids Engineering Lab) was developed from scratch. The lab designs

and tests different turbines used in wave energy harvesting systems. Ministry of Earth Sciences

funded for this laboratory setup.

▪ The lab also contains artificial list system testing facility. Ministry of Science and Technology

funded to develop the facilities.

Publications

Journals

1. Mohd Imran Ansari, Mohammed Hamid Siddique, Abdus Samad, and Syed Fahad Anwer, “On the

Optimal Morphology and Performance of a Modeled Dragonfly Airfoil in Gliding Mode,” Physics of

Fluids. (Accepted). 2019.

2. Chirag Khalde, Abdus Samad and Jitendra Sangwai, “Computational and Experimental Study of

Sand Entrapment in Hydrocyclone during Desanding Operations in Oilfields: Consequences for

Leakage and Separation Efficiency,” SPE Production & Operations 2019. (Accepted).

3. Arshad Afzal, Kwang-Yong Kim, Krishnamurthy Muralidhar, Abdus Samad, Ernesto Benini,

“Optimization with Surrogate Models: Flow and Heat Transfer Applications,” Mathematical

Problems in Engineering, Volume 2019, Article ID 7194257, pp. 1-2.

4. Dhairyasheel Deshmukh and Abdus Samad, “CFD based analysis for finding critical wall roughness

on centrifugal pump at design and of design conditions,” Journal of the Brazilian Society of

Mechanical Sciences and Engineering (2019) 41:58, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40430-018-1557-y.

5. P. Madhan Kumar, Jeonghwa Seo, Shin Hyung Rhee, Abdus Samad, “Multi-fidelity Optimization of

Blade Thickness Parameters for a Horizontal Axis Tidal Stream Turbine,” Renewable Energy,

Volume 135, May 2019, Pages 277-287.

6. R. Suchithra and A. Samad, “Development of a reduced order wave to wire model of an OWC wave

energy converter for control system analysis,” Ocean Engineering, Volume 172, 15 January 2019,

Pages 614-628.

7. Tapas K. Das and Abdus Samad, A Biplane Wells Turbine with Mid-Plane Guide Vanes, Journal of

Fluids Engineering 2019. 141 (5), 051107.

8. B. Ranjit, P. Halder and A. Samad, “High-Performance Ocean Energy Harvesting Turbine Design–

Detailed flow analysis with Blade Leaning Strategy,” Proc IMechE Part A: J Power and Energy,

2018, 0(0) 1–18, DOI: 10.1177/0957650918787692.

9. A. George, R. Ananthnarayan, R. Suchithra, B. Pattanaik, P. Dudhgaonkar, P. Jalihal, A.Samad,

Experimental Analysis of a Turbine-Chamber Coupling for Wave Energy Conversion, October 2018,

International Journal of Energy Research, DOI: 10.1002/er.4230

10. Karthikeyan Thandayutham, A. Samad, A. Salam, D. Baruah, P. V. Dudhgaonkar, “Performance

Analysis of an Air Turbine for Ocean Energy Extraction Using CFD Technique,” J. Inst. Eng. India

Ser. C (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40032-018-0487-x.

11. K.R. Mrinal and Abdus Samad, “Performance Prediction of Kinetic and Screw Pumps Delivering

Slurry,” Proc IMechE Part A: J Power and Energy, 2018, Vol. 232(7) 898–911.

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12. EJ Avital, K Ai, N Venkatesan, A Samad, T Korakianitis, “Hydrodynamic Assessment of a Dual-

Rotor Horizontal Axis Marine Current Turbine,” International Journal of Global Energy Issues,

Volume 7, Issue 4.10 Special Issue 10, 2018, Pp. 455-459.

13. Paresh Halder, Francis Amal Varghese, Afzal Husain and Abdus Samad, “A Numerical Analysis of

Casing Groove Parameters on The Performance of Wave Energy Conversion Device,” International

Journal of Aerodynamics, Int. J. of Aerodynamics, 2018 Vol.6, No.2/3/4, pp.125 – 136.

14. S.A.I. Bellary, A. Husain, A. Samad and R.A. Kanai, “Performance Optimization of Centrifugal

Pump for Crude Oil Delivery,” Journal of Engineering Research 15(1):88-101, February 2018.

15. Rameez Badhurshah, Prasad Dudhgaonkar, Purnima Jalihal and Abdus Samad, “High Efficiency

Design of an Impulse Turbine Used in Oscillating Water Column to Harvest Wave Energy,”

Renewable Energy. Volume 121, June 2018, Pages 344-354.

16. M. Hamid Siddique, Arshad Afzal and Abdus Samad, “Design Optimization of the Centrifugal

Pumps via Low Fidelity Models,” Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2018, Article ID

3987594, pp. 1-14, https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/3987594.

17. P. Madhan Kumar, Paresh Halder, Abdus Samad, Shin Hyung Rhee, “Wave Energy Harvesting

Turbine: Effect of Hub-To-Tip Profile Modification,” International Journal of Fluid Machinery and

Systems, Volume 11 (2018) Issue 1, Pp. 55-62.

18. Paresh Halder, Mohamed H. Mohamed and Abdus Samad, “Wave energy conversion: Design and

shape optimization,” Ocean Engineering, Vol. 150, 15 February 2018, Pp. 337-351.

19. Paresh Halder, Afzal Husain, Mohammad Zunaid and Abdus Samad, “Newtonian and Non-

Newtonian Pulsatile Flows Through an Artery With Stenosis,” The Journal of Engineering Research

(TJER), Vol. 14, No. 2 (2017) 190-204.

20. Paresh Halder, Abdus Samad, Jun-Hee Kim and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Heat Transfer Characteristics

of Upstream Ramp Enhanced Turbine Blade Surface Cooling,” Heat Transfer Research. Volume 48,

Issue 11, 2017, pp. 969-984. DOI: 10.1615/HeatTransRes.2017015557.

21. M. Hamid Siddique, Afzal Husain and Abdus Samad, “Combined Effects of Viscosity and Surface

Roughness on Electric Submersible Pump Performance,” Proceedings of the Institution of

Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy Volume: 231 issue: 4, page(s): 303-316,

2017.

22. K.R. Mrinal and Abdus Samad, “Leakage Flow Correlation of a Progressive Cavity Pump

Delivering Shear Thinning Non-Newtonian Fluids,” International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal

Technology, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 166-186, 2017.

23. Sayed Ahmed Imran Bellary, M. Hamid Siddique, Abdus Samad, Jitendra S. Sangwai and Bohyun

Chon, “Effects of Crude Oil-Water Emulsions at Varying Water-Cut on the Performance of the

Centrifugal Pump for Artificial Lift Operation,” International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal

Technology, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 71-88, 2017.

24. K. Ezhilsabareesh, Shin Huyng Rhee, Abdus Samad, “Shape Optimization of a Bidirectional

Impulse Turbine by CFD Approach,” https://doi.org/10.1080/19942060.2017.1330709, Engineering

Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 2017.

25. Paresh Halder and Abdus Samad, “Torque and Efficiency Maximization for a Wave Energy

Harvesting Turbine: An Approach to Modify Multiple Design Variables,” International Journal of

Energy Research, Volume 41, Issue 7, 10 June 2017, Pages 1014-1028.

26. M. H. Siddique, S. A. I. Bellary, J.-H.Kim, Y.-S. Choi and A. Samad, “Experimental and Numerical

Investigation of the Performance of a Centrifugal Pump When Pumping Water and Light Crude Oil,”

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Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. November 2017, Volume 42, Issue 11, pp 4605–4615,

DOI 10.1007/s13369-017-2592-1.

27. Tapas K. Das, Paresh Halder and Abdus Samad, “Optimal Design of Air Turbines for Oscillating

Water Column Wave Energy Systems - A Review,” Ocean and Climate Systems 2017, Vol. 8(1) 37–

49, DOI: 10.1177/1759313117693639

28. Paresh Halder, Abdus Samad and Dominique thevenin, “Improved design of a Wells turbine for

higher operating range,” Renewable Energy 106 (2017) pp. 122-134.

29. Afzal Husain, Arihant Sonawat, Sarath Mohan and Abdus Samad, “Energy Efficient Design of a

Fluid Machine by Ensemble of Surrogates Assisted Evolutionary Approach,” International Journal of

Fluid Machinery and Systems, 2016. Vol. 9, No. 3, July-September 2016, pp. 265-276.

30. Paresh Halder and Abdus Samad, “Marine Energy Turbine Performance: Effect of Blade Sweep,”

Energy Procedia, Volume 90, December 2016, Pages 245–249.

31. Afzal Husain, Nasser A. Al-Azri, Abdus Samad, Kwang-Yong Kim, “Performance Analysis of

Multiple Micro-Jet Impingements Cooling Model,” Journal of Engineering Research, Volume 13,

Issue 1, 2016, Pages 58-71.

32. Rohit Adhav, Frank Kenyery and Abdus Samad, “Optimal Designs of an ESP to Handle Upto 10%

GVF,” International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology. 2014. Int. J. Oil, Gas and Coal

Technology, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2016, pp. 338-358.

33. Sayed Ahmed Imran Bellary and Abdus Samad, “An Alternative Approach to Surrogate Averaging

for a Centrifugal Impeller Shape Optimization,” International Journal of Computer Aided

Engineering and Technology, Int. J. Computer Aided Engineering and Technology, Vol. 9, No. 1,

2017, pp. 62-83.

34. Sayed Ahmed Imran Bellary, Abdus Samad, “Centrifugal Impeller Blade Shape Optimization

Through Numerical Modeling,” International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems, Vol. 9, No. 4,

October-December, 2016, pp. 313-324.

35. Paresh Halder, Abdus Samad and Shin Hyung Rhee, “Numerical Optimization of Wells Turbine for

Wave Energy Extraction” International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering,

Available online 26 July 2016, doi:10.1016/j.ijnaoe.2016.06.008

36. K.R. Mrinal, Md. Hamid Siddique, Abdus Samad, Performance Prediction of a Centrifugal Pump

Delivering Non-Newtonian Shear Thinning Fluids, July 1, 2016, Particulate Science and

Technology, DOI:10.1080/02726351.2016.1205690.

37. Paresh Halder and Abdus Samad, “Optimal Wells Turbine Speeds at Different Wave Conditions,”

International Journal of Marine Energy, 2016 Volume 16, December 2016, Pages 133–149.

38. Aswin Vuddagiri, Paresh Halder, Abdus Samad and Abhijit Chaudhuri, “Flow Analysis of Airfoil

Having Different Cavities on Its Suction Surface,” Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol.

16, No. 2, 2016, pp. 67-77.

39. Sayed Ahmed Imran Bellary, Hamid Siddique, Rohit Adhav, Bo-Hyun Chon, Frank Kenyery and

Abdus Samad, “Multiple Surrogate Coupled Evolutionary Optimization Strategy to Enhance

Centrifugal Pump Performance,” Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 2016

10:1, 172-182, DOI: 10.1080/19942060.2015.1128359.

40. Sayed Ahmed Imran Bellary, Abdus Samad, Ivo Couckuyt, and Tom Dhaene, “A Comparative

Study of Kriging Variants for the Optimization of a Turbomachinery system,” Engineering With

Computers, January 2016, Volume 32, Issue 1, pp 49-59, DOI: 10.1007/s00366-015-0398-x.

41. Paresh Halder and Abdus Samad, “Wave Energy Harvesting Turbine: Performance Enhancement,”

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Procedia Engineering, Volume 116, 2015, Pages 97–102, 2015.

42. Sayed Ahmed Imran Bellary and Abdus Samad, “Pumping Crude Oil by Centrifugal Impeller

Having Different Blade Angles and Surface Roughness,” Petroleum Exploration and Production

Technology. March 2016, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp 117-127.

43. Rameez Badhurshah and Abdus Samad, “Multi-Objective Optimization of a Bidirectional Impulse

Turbine Blade,” proceedings of the IMechE, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, vol. 229 no. 6

584-596, 2015.

44. Paresh Halder, Abdus Samad, Jin-Hyuk Kim and Young-Seok Choi, “High Performance Ocean

Energy Harvesting Turbine Design- A New Casing Treatment Scheme,” Energy, Volume 86, 15

June 2015, pp. 219–231.

45. Afzal Husain, Nasser Al-Azri, Nabeel Al-Rawahi and Abdus Samad, “Comparative Performance

Analysis of Microjet Impingement Cooling Models with Different Spent-Flow Schemes,” Journal of

Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 2015, doi: 10.2514/1.T4577.

46. Paresh Halder, Abdus Samad, “Casing Treatment of a Wave Energy Extracting Turbine”, Aquatic

Procedia 4 (2015) 516–521.

47. Sayed Ahmed Imran Bellary and Abdus Samad, “Numerical Analysis of Centrifugal Impeller for

Different Viscous Liquids,” International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems, Vol. 8, No. 1,

January-March, 2015, pp. 36-45, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5293/IJFMS.2015.8.1.036.

48. Sayed Ahmed Imran Bellary, Afzal Husain, Abdus Samad, “Effectiveness of Meta-models for

Multi-objective Optimization of Centrifugal Impeller,” Journal of Mechanical Science and

Technology 28 (12) (2014) 4947~4957, DOI 10.1007/s12206-014-1116-0

49. Rameez Badhurshah and Abdus Samad, “Surrogate Assisted Design Optimization of an Air

Turbine,” International Journal of Rotating Machinery, September, Volume 2014, Article ID

563483, 8 pages, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/563483.

50. Sarath Mohan and Abdus Samad, “Jet Pump Design Optimization by Multi-Surrogate Modeling,”

Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India): Series C, Mechanical Engineering, 2014. DOI

10.1007/s40032-014-0150-0, September, 2014, pp. 1-7.

51. Rameez Badhurshah and Abdus Samad, “Multiple Surrogate Based Optimization of a Bidirectional

Impulse Turbine for Wave Energy Conversion,” Renewable Energy, 74 (2015) 749-760.

52. Arihant Sonawat and Abdus Samad, “Performance Analysis of an Ejector for Flare Gas Recovery,”

Geosystem Engineering, 7:3, pp. 169-177, 2014, DOI: 10.1080/12269328.2014.957788.

53. S. K. A. Ahmed, A. Samad and D. Kumar, “Breakwater Wave Energy Converters - A Review”

International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 7, April 2014, pp. 497-501.

54. Rameez Badhurshah, Abdus Samad and Jitendra Sangwai, “Analysis of Flow Through Ocean

Energy Harvesting Bidirectional Impulse Turbine,” 'International Journal of Climate and Ocean

Systems. Vol. 5, No. 2, 2014, pp. 51-63.

55. Aswin Vuddagiri and Abdus Samad, “Vortex Trapping by Different Cavities on an Airfoil,” Wind

Engineering, Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 469-482, 2013.

56. Abdus Samad and Mohammad Nizamuddin, “Flow Analysis of Jet Pump Used for Oil Wells,”

International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems, Vol. 6, No. 1, January-March 2013. DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.5293/IJFMS.2012.6.1.001.

57. Abdus Samad, Yakun Guo and Iain Maclean, “Handling the Net Positive Suction Head,” Water and

Sewerage Journal, 2011.

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58. Abdus Samad, Ki-Don Lee, Kwang-Yong Kim and Jin-Hyuk Kim, “Optimum Design of A Channel

Roughened By Dimples to Improve Cooling Performance,” Frontiers of Energy and Power

Engineering in China, 2010, Volume 4, Number 2, 262-268, DOI: 10.1007/s11708-010-0012-2.

59. Abdus Samad, Ki-Don Lee and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Shape Optimization of a Dimpled Channel to

Enhance Heat Transfer Using a Weighted Average Surrogate Model,” Applied Thermal Engineering,

Volume 31, Issue 13 November 2010, pages 1114 - 1124.

60. Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Surrogate Based Optimization Techniques for Aerodynamic

Design of Turbomachinery,” International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2,

April-June 2009, No. 2, pp. 179-188.

61. Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Application of Surrogate Modeling to Design of a

Compressor Blade to Optimize Stacking and Thickness,” International Journal of Fluid Machinery

and Systems, Vol. 2, No. 1, January-March 2009, pp. 1-12.

62. Abdus Samad, Kwang-Yong Kim, and Dong-Yoon Shin, “Optimization of Cooling Channel

Roughened by Dimples,” Journal of Fluid Science and Technology, Vol. 3, No. 6, Sep. 2008, pp.

754-763.

63. Ki-Sang Lee, Kwang-Yong Kim, and Abdus Samad, “Design Optimization of Low-Speed Axial

Flow Fan Blade with Three-Dimensional RANS Analysis,” Journal of Mechanical Science and

Technology, Vol. 22, No. 10, Oct. 2008, pp. 1864-1869.

64. Abdus Samad, Kwang-Yong Kim and Jae-Ho Choi, “Blade Shape Optimization of a Transonic

Compressor by Surrogate Model,” Journal of KSME Transactions, Vol. 32, No. 4, April 2008, pp.

317-326.

65. Abdus Samad, Ki-Sang Lee, Kwang-Yong Kim, “Multi-Objective Shape Optimization of an Axial

Fan blade,” International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration, Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2008,

pp. 147-154.

66. Abdus Samad, Ki-Don Lee and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Multi-Objective Optimization of a Dimpled

Channel for Heat Transfer Augmentation,” Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 45, Number 2 /

December, 2008, pp. 207-217. DOI: 10.1007/s00231-008-0420-6

67. Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Multi-objective Optimization of an Axial Compressor

Blade,” Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, 22 (2008), No. 5, pp. 999-1007.

68. Abdus Samad, Kwang-Yong Kim, Tushar Goel, Raphael T. Haftka and Wei Shyy, “Multiple

Surrogate Modeling for Axial Compressor Blade Shape Optimization,” AIAA Journal of Propulsion

and Power, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2008, pp. 302-310.

69. Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Shape Optimization of an Axial Compressor Blade by

Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm,” Proceedings of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A-

Journal of Power and Energy, Vol. 222, No. 6, Sep. 2008, pp. 599-611.

70. Choon-Man Jang, Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Optimization of Rotor Blade Stacking

Line Using Three Different Surrogate Models,” Journal of Fluid Machinery, April 2007, pp.22-31.

71. Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Effect of surface Roughness on Performance of Axial

Compressor Blade,” Journal of Fluid Machinery, Vol. 10, No. 3, June 2007, pp. 9-16.

72. Abdus Samad, Dong-Yoon Shin, Kwang-Yong Kim, Tushar Goel, and Raphael T. Haftka,

“Surrogate Modeling for Optimization of a Dimpled Channel to Enhance Heat Transfer

Performance,” AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Volume 21, Number 3, 2007,

pp.667-670.

73. Choon-Man Jang, Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Optimal Design for Stacking Line of

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Rotor Blade in a Single-Stage Transonic Axial Compressor,” Journal of Fluid Machinery, Vol. 9,

No.3, June 2006, pp 7-13.

Conference proceedings

1. P. Madhan Kumar, Jeonghwa Seo, N. Venkatesan, Shin Hyung Rhee, Abdus Samad, Numerical

analysis on dihedral effects in ocean energy harvesting turbine , 15th Asian International Conference

on Fluid Machinery (AICFM15), Busan, Korea, September 25-27, 2019.

2. Gautam Maurya, Aravind George, Rishav Raj, Dhiman Chatterjee, Abdus Samad, “Blade Profile

Contouring on Endwall of a Wave Energy Harvesting Impulse Turbine,” ,” The 13th European Wave

and Tidal Energy Conference, September 1-6, 2019, Napoli, Italy.

3. Rishav Raj, Gautam Maurya, Arvind George, R. Anandanarayanan, Abdus Samad, “Damping

Analysis of an Axial Flow Impulse Turbine for OWC Wave Energy Converters,” The 13th European

Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, September 1-6, 2019, Napoli, Italy.

4. F. A. Varghese and A. Samad, “Optimization of Gap to Chord Ratio of Wells Turbine With Guide

Vanes for Wave Energy Conversion,” Proceedings of 5th International Conference in Ocean

Engineering (ICOE 2019), 28th July to 1st August 2019, Mauritius.

5. Kumud Kumar, Tapas K. Das, Srikanth R., Abdus Samad, Experimental Study of an Axial Turbine

for Wave Energy Conversion,” International Conference on Mechanical Engineering Design

(ICMED 2019), April 25-26, 2019, Chennai, India.

6. Vishnu Vijayasankar and Abdus Samad “Analysing Different Methods to Increase the Natural

Period of a Compact Wave Energy Converter,” International Conference on Mechanical Engineering

Design (ICMED 2019), April 25-26, 2019, Chennai, India.

7. P. Madhan Kumar, Paresh Halder and Abdus Samad, "Combined Casing Groove and Blade Tip

Treatment for Wave Energy Harvesting Turbine," International Conference on Mechanical

Engineering Design (ICMED 2019), April 25-26, 2019, Chennai, India.

8. Tapas Kumar Das and Abdus Samad, “Effect of Stall Fence on the Performance of an Axial Turbine

for Wave Energy Conversion,” The 13th European Turbomachinery Conference (ETC), April 8-12,

2019, Lausanne, Switzerland.

9. Abdul H. Faruqi, Mohd H. Siddique, Abdus Samad and Syed F. Anwer, “On the Recommendations

for Reducing CPU Time of Multi-Grid Preconditioned Guass-Sidel Method,” The VII National

Seminar on Optimization, Inference, Sampling Techniques and Related Areas, March 9-10, 2019,

Aligarh, India.

10. Vishnu Vijayasankar and Abdus Samad, Numerical Analysis on a Direct Mechanical Drive Wave

Energy Converter to Improve Performance on Higher Wave Periods, InDA & IEEE-(OES)

Conference on Technologies for Renewable Energy and Water- INDACON 2019, Chennai, March

7-9, 2019, Chennai, India. (Best paper award.)

11. P. Madhan Kumar, Paresh Halder, Abdus Samad, "A Tip Leakage Alteration Technique to Get High

Performing Wells turbine'" InDA & IEEE-(OES) Conference on Technologies for Renewable

Energy and Water- INDACON 2019, March 7-9, 2019, Chennai, India.

12. EJ Avital, N. Venkatesan, Abdus Samad and T Korakianitis (2018), Hydrodynamic assessment of a

dual-rotor horizontal axis marine current turbine“, World Summit on Advances in Science,

Engineering and Technology, Cambridge Summit 2018, January 04 – 06, 2018, UK.

13. P Vyshnavi, N. Venkatesan, E J Avital and A.Samad (2018), “Tidal Current Energy for Indian

Coastal Lines – A State Art of Review,” World Summit on Advances in Science, Engineering and

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Technology, Cambridge Summit 2018, January 04 – 06, 2018, UK.

14. T.K. Das, A. Samad, “Surrogate-Based Optimization of a Biplane Wells Turbine,” The 4th

International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE 2018), February 18-21, 2018, Chennai, India.

15. R Suchithra and A. Samad, “Control Oriented Wave to Wire Model of Oscillating Water Column,”

The 4th International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE 2018), February 18-21, 2018,

Chennai, India.

16. L. K. Mishra, T. Karthikeyan and A. Samad, “Marine Current Turbine: Structural Analysis,” The 4th

International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE 2018), February 18-21, 2018, Chennai, India.

17. Paresh Halder, T.K. Das, Abdus Samad, Mohamed H. Mohamed and Tapas K. Das, “Hysteresis

Behavior for Wave Energy Conversion Device under Alternative Axial Flow Conditions,” The 4th

International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE 2018), February 18-21, 2018, Chennai, India.

18. Francis Amal Varghese, Murshid Shams, Paresh Halder, Abdus Samad, “Automated Design

Optimization of Turbine Blades,” National Conference on Multidisciplinary Design, Analysis, and

Optimization (NCMDAO 2018), Bangalore, March 23-24, 2018.

19. M.H. Siddique, Murshid Shams, Abdus Samad, “Surrogate Assisted Multi-objective Optimization of

a Centrifugal Pump Impeller,” National Conference on Multidisciplinary Design, Analysis, and

Optimization (NCMDAO 2018), Bangalore, March 23-24, 2018.

20. P. Madhan Kumar and Abdus Samad, “Numerical Investigation of New Blade Profiles for

Bidirectional Wave Energy Turbine,” 3rd International Conference on Design, Analysis,

Manufacturing & Simulation (ICDAMS 2018), April 6–7, 2018, Chennai, India.

21. P. Madhan Kumar, Paresh Halder, Abdus Samad, ”Performance Analysis of Wells Turbine With

Radiused Blade Tip,” OMAE2018-78668, Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on

Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2018) June 17-22, 2018, Madrid, Spain.

22. Afzal Husain, Farhan A Khan, Nabeel Z Al-Rawahi, Abdus Samad, “Blood Flow and Mixing

Analysis in Split-and-Recombine Micromixer With Offset Fluid Inlets,” ASME 5th Joint US-

European Fluids Engineering Summer Conference (FEDSM2018). July 15 - 20, 2018. Montreal,

Canada,

23. Tapas K. Das, Abdus Samad, “Effect of Tip Groove on Biplane Wells Turbine,” The 11th

International Conference on Marine Technology (MARTEC 2018), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

KL, August 13-14, 2018, Malaysia.

24. P. Madhan Kumar and Abdus Samad, “Effect of Turbulence Intensity on the Performance of Wells

Turbine,” 4th Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (AWTEC 2018), September 9-13, 2018.

Taipae, Taiwan.

25. Vishnu Vijayasankar, Abdus Samad, “A Novel Design for Mechanical Based Direct Drive Wave

Energy Converter,” 4th Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (AWTEC 2018), September 9-13,

2018, Taipae, Taiwan.

26. T. Karthikeyan, Abdus Samad, “Design and Optimization of a Marine Current Turbine: Effects of

Pitch Angle and Twist Distribution,” 3rd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore

October 8 – 10, 2018, Lisbon, Portugal.

27. P. Madhan Kumar and Abdus Samad, “Effect of Static Extended Trailing Edge on Wells Turbine

Performance,” Proceedings of the 7th International and 45th National Conference on Fluid

Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), December 10-12, 2018, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.

28. K. Omkar, K. B. Karthikeyan, Srimathi R., Nithya Venkatesan, E. J. Avital, A. Samad, S.H.Rhee,

“Performance Analysis of a Tidal Energy Conversion System Based on Control Strategies,” 2nd

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International Conference on Energy and Power, ICEP2018, December 13–15, 2018, Sydney,

Australia.

29. P. Halder, F.A. Varghese, A. Husain and A. Samad, “A Numerical Analysis of Casing Groove

Parameters on the Performance of Wave Energy Conversion Device,” 10th International Conference

on Thermal Engineering: Theory and Applications, February 26-28, 2017, Muscat, Oman.

30. Madhan Kumar, Gwon Woo Nam, Seung Jin Oh, Jeonghwa Seo, Abdus Samad, Shin Hyung Rhee,

“Optimization of a Horizontal Axis Tidal Stream Turbine Using an Opensource Code,” 5th

International Symposium on Marine Propulsors, June 12-15, 2017, Helsinki, Finland.

31. A. George, B. Ranjith, D. Nagasamy, P. Dudhgaonkar and A. Samad, “Marine Energy Harvesting

Turbine: Design Based on Analytical and Numerical Modelling,” 12th European Wave and Tidal

Energy Conference (EWTEC) 2017, August 27-September 02, 2017, Cork, Ireland.

32. B. Ranjith, A. George and A. Samad, “Blade Leaning of Impulse Turbine Harvesting Marine

Energy,” 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC) 2017, August 27-September

02, 2017, Cork, Ireland.

33. Tapas K. Das and Abdus Samad, “Effect of Solidity and Gap-to-Chord ratio of a Biplane Wells

Turbine,” 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC) 2017, August 27-September

02, 2017, Cork, Ireland.

34. Dhairyasheel Deshmukh, Md Hamid Siddique, Frank Kenyery, Abdus Samad, “Critical Surface

Roughness for Wall Bounded Flow of Viscous Fluids in an Electric Submersible Pump,” APS-

Division of Fluid Dynamics 2017 Conference, November 19-21, 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA.

35. A. George, B. Ranjith, A. Samad, and P.V. Dudhgaonkar, “An Impulse Turbine for a Wave Energy

Converter,” ASME GTINDIA Conference 2017, December 7-8, 2017, Bangalore, India.

36. D. Deshmukh, M.H. Siddique, A. Samad, “Surface Roughness Effect on Electric Submersible

Pump,” ASME GTINDIA Conference 2017, December 7-8, 2017, Bangalore, India.

37. T. Karthikeyan, E. Avital, N. Venkatesan and A. Samad, “Optimal Design and analysis of a Marine

Current Turbine,” ASME GTINDIA Conference 2017, December 7-8, 2017, Bangalore, India.

38. T.K. Das and A. Samad, “Biplane Wells Turbine: Effect of Solidity,” International Conference on

Ship and Offshore technology-India 2017, December 7-8, 2017, IIT Kharagpur, India.

39. M. Tariq, B. Karunanithi, I. Ahmad, A. Hussain, A. Samad and M. Shamsuzzoha, “Biodiesel

Production From Various Oil Sources And Their Performance and Emission Analysis in a

Compression Ignition Engine,” 9th International Conference on Thermal Engineering: Theory and

Applications March 24-26 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

40. K.G. Nithesh and A. Samad, “Integrated CFD-Surrogate Optimization to Enhance Efficiency of

Turbine Designed for OTEC,” 5th European Seminar on Computing-2016 (ESCO 2016), June 5-10,

2016, Pilsen, Czech Republic.

41. Md. Hamid Siddique, K.R. Mrinal and Abdus Samad, “Optimization of a Centrifugal Pump Impeller

by Controlling Blade Profile Parameters” ASME Turboexpo 2016, June 13-17, 2016, Seoul,

Republic of Korea.

42. K.R. Mrinal, Md. Hamid Siddique and Abdus Samad, “A Transient 3D CFD Model of a Progressive

Cavity Pump,” ASME Turboexpo 2016, June 13-17, 2016, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

43. R Suchithra, Sumit Sadaphale, Nithya Venkatesan and Abdus Samad, “Output Power Control of

Oscillating Water Column based Wave Energy Conversion Device,” Large scale multi-disciplinary

systems of national significance" LAMSYS 2016, June 24-25, 2016, Satish Dhawan Space Centre,

Sriharikota, India.

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44. Tapas Das, Paresh Halder and Abdus Samad, “Wave Energy Conversion Device: Influence of Blade

Profile Shape,” Large scale multi-disciplinary systems of national significance" LAMSYS 2016,

June 24-25, 2016, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, India.

45. K. Ai, E.J. Avital, T. Alexander, A. Samad and N.Venkatesan, “Surface Wave Effect on Marine

Current Turbine, Modelling and Analysis,” International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace

Engineering (ICMAE) 2016, 18-22 July, 2016, London, United Kingdom.

46. O. Singha, P. Vyshnavi, N. Venkatesan, T. Karthikeyan, A.Samad and E.J. Avital, “Control

Modeling of Tidal Turbine Performance for Indian Remote Islands,” International Conference on

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (ICMAE) 2016, 18-22 July, 2016, London, United

Kingdom.

47. Paresh Halder, Abdus Samad and Shin Hyung Rhee, “Unsteady Flow and Hysteresis Behavior of a

Turbine Used in a Wave Energy Harvesting Plant,” Workshop on Brain Pool Program, July 13-14,

2016, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

48. M.H. Siddique, Sanoop Manayilthodiyil, Abdus Samad, Afzal Husain and Frank

Kenyery, “Numerical analysis of Fluid Flow through an Electrical Submersible Pump Handling

Viscous Liquid,” ASME 2016 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting FEDSM2016, July 10-

14, 2016, Washington, USA.

49. R. Suchithra, S.Sadaphale, P. Halder, N.Venkatesan, A. Samad, “Comparative Performance of

Doubly-Fed Induction Generator with Wells and Impulse Turbine,” Asian Wave & Tidal Energy

Conference, October 24-28, 2016, Singapore.

50. K. Ezhilsabareesh and Abdus Samad, “Parametric Study of Blade Shape to Enhance Performance of

a Turbine Used in OWC,” 2nd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, October

24-28, 2016, Lisbon, Portugal.

51. T. Karthikeyan, K. Ezhilsabareesh, Abdus Samad, N. Venkatesan, E.J. Avital, “Parametric Analysis

of a Tidal Current Turbine Using CFD Techniques,” 2nd International Conference on Renewable

Energies Offshore, October 24-28, 2016, Lisbon, Portugal.

52. Paresh Halder, Abdus Samad, Shin Hyung Rhee, Kwang Yong Kim and Hyeon-Seok Shim, “Wave

Energy Harvesting Turbine: Effect of Solidity,” 7th International Symposium on Fluid Machinery

and Fluids Engineering, ISFMFE 2016, October 18 - 22, 2016, Jeju, Republic of Korea.

53. P. Madhan Kumar, Paresh Halder, Abdus Samad and Shin Hyung Rhee, “Wave Energy Harvesting

Turbine: Effect of Hub-to-Tip Profile Modification,” 7th International Symposium on Fluid

Machinery and Fluids Engineering, ISFMFE 2016, October 18 - 22, 2016, Jeju, Republic of Korea.

54. P. Halder, F.A. Varghese, B.S.G.K. Thampi, A. Husain and A. Samad, “Effect of Casing Groove

Width on the Performance of Wells Turbine, International Conference on Applied Mechanics and

Industrial Systems (ICAMIS-Oman-2016), December 6 - 8, 2016, Muscat, Oman.

55. Jeonghwa Seo, Abdus Samad and Shin Hyung Rhee, “Free-Surface Turbulent Wake of a Surface-

Piercing Slender Body at Various Froude Numbers,” 68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of

Fluid Dynamics, November 20-22, 2016, Portland, OR, USA.

56. Abdus Samad, Jeong-Hwa Seo, Shin Hyung Rhee, Hyeon-Seok Shim, Kwang Yong Kim,

“Performance Prediction of a Turbomachinery Blade Though Numerical Modelling,” Annual

Conference of the Korean Society of Fluid Machinery, November 30 to December 02, 2016, Yeosu,

South Korea.

57. Rohit Adhav, Abdus Samad and Frank Kenyery, “Design optimization of an electric centrifugal

pump by multiple surrogate models,” SPE 19th Middle East Oil & Gas Show and Conference, 8 -11

March, 2015, Bahrain.

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58. Paresh Halder and Abdus Samad, “Casing Treatment of a Wave Energy Extracting Turbine,”

International Conference on Water Resources, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 12th–14th March,

2015, Surathkal, India.

59. Afzal Husain, Nasser A. Al-Azri, Nabeel Z. H. Al-Rawahi, Abdus Samad, “Spent Flow Effects of

Multiple Micro-Jet Impingement Cooling Models,” ASME-JSME-KSME Joint Fluids Engineering

Conference, 2015, July 26-31, 2015, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

60. Paresh Halder and Abdus Samad, “Wave Energy Harvesting Turbine: Performance Enhancement,”

International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts, 2015, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.

61. Paresh Halder, Ezhil Sabarish and Abdus Samad, “Wells Turbine Stall,” 42nd National Conference

on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), December 14-16, 2015, NIT Suratkal, India.

62. Paresh Halder and Abdus Samad, “The Unsteady Flow Analysis of a Wave Energy Extracting

Turbine,” Computer Aided Engineering (CAE-2015), December 10-12, 2015, Hyderabad, India.

63. Md. Hamid Siddique, Sayed Ahmed Imran Bellary and Abdus Samad, "Surrogate Assisted Multi-

Objective Design Optimization of a Centrifugal Pump," Computer Aided Engineering (CAE-2015),

December 10-12, 2015, Hyderabad, India.

64. Paresh Halder and Abdus Samad, “Marine Energy Turbine Performance: Effect of Blade Sweep,”

The 5th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research, Dec 15-17, 2015, Mumbai, India.

65. R. Karthikeyan, A. Samad, P.Vyshnavi, O. Singha, N.Venkatesan, E.J Avital, "Energy From the

Indian Ocean," National Symposium on the Indian Ocean, Nov. 30 to Dec. 04, 2015, Goa, India.

66. S.D. Madappurakkal, A. Goharzadeh, A. A. Razack and A. Samad, “Study of water alternating gas

(WAG) injection in micro-porous media,” 13th International Conference on Fluid Control,

Measurements and Visualization, 15-18 November 2015, Doha, Qatar.

67. Rameez Badhurshah, Abdus Samad and Jitendra S. Sangwai, “Analysis of Flow Through Ocean

Energy Harvesting Bidirectional Impulse Turbine,” Fifth Indian National Conference on Harbour

and Ocean Engineering, February 5-7, 2014, Goa, India.

68. S. K. A. Ahmed, A. Samad and D. Kumar, “Breakwater Wave Energy Converters - A Review” Fifth

Indian National Conference on Harbour and Ocean Engineering, February 5-7, 2014, Goa, India.

69. Sayed Ahmed Imran Bellary and Abdus Samad, “Improvement of Efficiency by Design

Optimization of a Centrifugal Pump Impeller,” ASME Turbo Expo, June 16-20, 2014, Dusseldorf,

Germany.

70. Ponmani Swaminathan, Jay K. M. William, Jitendra Sangwai, R. Nagarajan and Abdus Samad,

“High Pressure Rheological Studies of Nanofluid Treated Water Based Drilling Fluids,” Petrotech-

2014, 11th International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition, January 12-15, 2014, NOIDA,

India.

71. Arihant Sonawat and Abdus Samad, “Numerical Analysis of Flare Gas Recovery Using Ejector,”

ASME Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting (FEDSM2014), August 3-7, 2014 Chicago, USA.

72. Rameez Badhurshah, T. Karthikeyan, Abdus Samad, “Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy

System – A Prospective,” 1st International Conference on Automation, Control, Energy and

Systems, February 1 - 2, 2014, Hoogly, West Bengal, India.

73. Rameez Badhurshah, Abdus Samad, “Efficiency Enhancement of a Bidirectional Impulse Turbine

Using Artificial Neural Network,” 12th ASME Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design

and Analysis, June 25-27, 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark.

74. Arihant Sonawat, Abdus Samad, “Flare Gas Recovery Using Ejector,” International Symposium on

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Fusion Technology in Oil and Gas development, January 9, 2014, Inha University, Inchon, South

Korea.

75. Rameez Badhurshah, Abdus Samad, “Optimal Design of Wave Energy Conversion System,”

Humboldt Kolleg Interdisciplinary Science: Catalyst for Sustainable Progress, September 4-6, 2014,

Bangalore, India.

76. K. R. Mrinal and Abdus Samad, “CFD Simulation of Flow Through Progressive Cavity Pump,” 5th

International and 41st National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, December 12-14,

2014, IIT Kanpur, India.

77. Paresh Halder and Abdus Samad, “Effect of Guide Vane Angle on Wells Turbine Performance,”

ASME Gas Turbine India Conference 2014, December 15-17, 2014, New Delhi, India,

GTINDIA2014-8183.

78. Rohit Adhav, Abdus Samad and Frank Kenyery, “Performance Enhancement of Electric

Submersible Pump,” ASME Gas Turbine India Conference 2014, December 15-17, 2014, New

Delhi, India, GTINDIA2014-8133.

79. A. Samad, A. Sonawat, S.A.I. Bellary, R. Adhav, K.R. Mrinal, A. Goharzadeh, A. Hussain,

“Multiphase Flow Challenges in Artificial Lifts,” SPE Middle East Artificial Lift Conference and

Exhibition, November 26-27, 2014, Manama, Bahrain.

80. Afshin Goharzadeh, Ajay Sasikumar and Abdus Samad, “Experimental Characterization of a Step

Airlift Pump,” 3rd International Conference on Petroleum Science and technology, November 3-5,

2014, Chennai, India.

81. M. Sanoop and Abdus Samad, “Surface Roughness Effect on ESP Performance,” 3rd International

Conference on Petroleum Science and technology, November 3-5, 2014, Chennai, India.

82. T. Karthikeyan, A. Samad and R. Badhurshah, “Performance Enhancement of an Impulse Turbine

Used for Ocean Energy Extraction,” 5th International Congress on Computational Mechanics and

Simulation, 10-13 December 2014, Chennai, India.

83. Paresh Halder and Abdus Samad, “Tip Leakage Effect on Wells Turbine” 1st International

Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, 24-26 November, 2014, Lisbon, Portugal. 84. Aswin Vuddagiri and Abdus Samad, “Aerodynamic Analysis on Wind Turbine Airfoil With

Cavity,” International Conference on Energy Resources & Technologies for Sustainable

Development, February 7-9, 2013. Bengal Engineering and Science University, Howrah, WB, India.

85. Abdul Salam, Prasad Dudhgaonkar, Abdus Samad, “Impulse Turbines for OWC Based Energy

Device - A Review,” International Conference on Energy Resources and Technologies for

Sustainable Development, February 7-9, 2013. Bengal Engineering and Science University, Howrah,

WB, India.

86. Paresh Halder and Abdus Samad, “CFD analysis of Flow Through Wells Turbine,” National

Conference on Mechanical Engineering: Retrospect and Prospect, Feb 2-3, 2013, Suri, West Bengal,

India.

87. Paresh Halder and Abdus Samad, “Numerical Simulation of Film Cooling Turbine Blade,” ANSYS

Conference, May 17, 2013, Pune, India. Best poster award.

88. Sayed Ahmed Imran Bellary and Abdus Samad, “Surface Roughness Effect on Centrifugal Pump

Performance,” International Conference on Developing Unconventional resources of Oil and Gas,

March 1-3, 2013, IIT Madras, Chennai, India. Best paper award.

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89. Sayed Ahmed Imran Bellary and Abdus Samad, “Exit Blade Angle and Roughness Effect on

Centrifugal Pump Performance,” Proceedings of ASME Gas Turbine India Conference 2013,

December 5-6, 2013, Bangalore, India.

90. Rohit Adhav and Abdus Samad, Sayed Ahmed Imran Bellary, “Multiphase Flow Pumps - A

Review”, Proceedings of the Fortieth National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power,

December 12-14, 2013, NIT Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India.

91. T. Karthikeyan, R. Badhurshah and A. Samad, “Review of air turbines for wave energy conversion,”

IEEE International Conference on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Energy, December 5-6, 2013,

Coimbatore, India.

92. Mohammad Nizamuddin and Abdus Samad, “Jet Pumps for Pumping Oil Wells – A Review,”

International Conference on Mechanical Engineering Technology (ICOMET '12), January 21, 2012,

Palai, Kerala, India.

93. Abdus Samad, Rajab Omar, Buddhika Hewakandamby, Ian Lowndes and Garry Short, “Swirl

Induced Flow Through a Venturi-Ejector,” ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Summer

Meeting (FEDSM2012), July 08-12, 2012, Puerto Rico, USA.

94. Aswin Vuddagiri and Abdus Samad, “Delayed flow separation in aerofoil”, 5th International

Symposium on Fluid Machinery and Fluids Engineering (ISFMFE 2012), October 24-27, 2012, Jeju,

S. Korea.

95. Paresh Halder and Abdus Samad, “Enhancement of Film Cooling Effectiveness Using Upstream

Ramp,” Proceedings of ASME Gas Turbine India Conference 2012, December 1, 2012, IIT Bombay,

India, GTIndia2012-9672.

96. Rameez Badhurshah and Abdus Samad, “Bi-directional Flow Turbines for Wave Energy

Extraction,” Proceedings of the Thirty Ninth National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid

Power, December 13-15, 2012, SVNIT - Surat, Gujarat, India, FMFP201271.

97. Arihant Sonawat and Abdus Samad, “Flare Gas Recovery Using Ejector- A Review,” Proceedings of

the Thirty Ninth National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, December 13-15, 2012,

SVNIT - Surat, Gujarat, India, FMFP201282.

98. Sayed Ahmed Imran and Abdus Samad, “Performance Analysis of a Centrifugal Impeller Used for

Crude Oil Pumping,” Second International Conference on Drilling Technology, December 6-8, 2012,

IIT Madras, Chennai, India. Best paper award.

99. K. R. Mrinal and Abdus Samad, “Numerical Modeling of Flow Through Progressive Cavity Pump -

A Review,” Second International Conference on Drilling Technology, December 6-8, 2012, IIT

Madras, Chennai, India.

100. Ramasamy Karthikeshwaran and Abdus Samad, “Leakage Analysis of Progressive Cavity Pump,”

The 11th Asian International Conference on Fluid Machinery and the 3rd Fluid Power Technology

Exhibition, November 21-23, 2011, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.

101. Abdus Samad, Yakun Guo and M. A. Hussain, “Test Method Development of a Multiphase Pump,”

23rd Scottish Fluid Mechanics Meeting, May 19, 2010, Dundee, UK.

102. Abdus Samad, “Gas Interference in Sucker Rod Pump,” International Conference on Modelling,

Optimisation and Computing (ICMOC 2010), October 28-30, 2010, National Institute of Technology

Durgapur, India.

103. Abdus Samad, “Downhole Pump Selection Methods,” International Conference on Drilling

Technology, November 18-20, 2010, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.

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104. Ramasamy Karthikeshwaran and Abdus Samad, “Elastomeric and Metallic Stator Progressive

Cavity Pump: A Comparative Study,” International Conference on Drilling Technology, November

18-20, 2010, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.

105. Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Stacking and Thickness Optimization of a Compressor Blade

Using Weighted Average Surrogate Model,” Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2008, June 9-13,

2008, Berlin, Germany, GT2008-50262.

106. Abdus Samad, Ki-Don Lee and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Optimization of a Channel Roughened by

Dimples on Opposite Surfaces for Heat Transfer Enhancement,” Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo

2008, June 9-13, 2008, Berlin, Germany, GT2008-50264.

107. Abdus Samad, Ki-Don Lee, Kwang-Yong Kim and Jin-Hyuk Kim, “Optimum Design of a Channel

Roughened By Dimples to Improve Cooling Performance” The 2nd International Symposium on Jet

Propulsion and Power Engineering, September 22-26, 2008, Guilin, China. 2008-ISJPPE-2011.

108. Ki-Sang Lee, Kwang-Yong Kim, Abdus Samad and Sang-Ho Jung, “Optimization of an Axial Flow

Fan Blade for Efficiency Enhancement Using Neural Network Techniques” The 2nd International

Symposium on Jet Propulsion and Power Engineering, September 22-26, 2008, Guilin, China. 2008-

ISJPPE-4011.

109. Abdus Samad, Ki-Sang Lee and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Optimization of Stacking Line and Blade

Profile for Design of Axial Fan Blade,” 2008 ASME Fluids Engineering Conference, FL, USA,

August 10-14, 2008, FEDSM2008-55317.

110. Ki-Don Lee, Abdus Samad, and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Multi-Objective Optimization of Dimpled

Channel using NSGA II,” The 5th National Conference on Fluids Engineering, March 26-28, 2008,

Jeju, Korea.

111. Abdus Samad, Ki-Sang Lee, Sang-Ho Jung and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Optimization of Stacking Line

and Blade Profile for Design of Axial Flow Fan Blade,” The 5th National Conference on Fluids

Engineering, March 26-28, 2008, Jeju, Korea.

112. Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, "Effects of Surface Roughness on Performance of Axial

Compressor Blade with Sweep and Lean," The 9th Asian International Conference on Fluid

Machinery, AICFM-9, Jeju, Korea, October 16-19, 2007, AICFM9-021.

113. Abdus Samad, Dong-Yoon Shin, Kwang-Yong Kim and Raphael T. Haftka, “Application of

Multiple-Surrogate Model to Optimization of a Dimpled Channel,” 7th World Congress on

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, WCSMO7, May 21~ 25, 2007, Seoul, Korea, A0069.

(Nominated for ISSMO/Springer Prize and included in best 5 finalists:

http://www.issmo.net/about/prize.asp).

114. Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, "Multi-objective Optimization of Turbomachinery Blade,"

The 9th Asian International Conference on Fluid Machinery, AICFM-9, Jeju, Korea, October 16-19,

2007, AICFM9-294.

115. Abdus Samad, Kwang-Yong Kim and Ki-Sang Lee, "Multi-objective Optimization of a

Turbomachinery Blade Using NSGA-II," 5th Joint ASME/JSME Fluids Engineering Conference,

July 30 - August 2, 2007, CA, USA, FEDSM2007-37434.

116. Abdus Samad, Dong-Yoon Shin and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Optimization of Cooling channel

Roughened by Dimples,” The 9th Asian International Conference on Fluid Machinery, AICFM-9,

Jeju Island, Korea, October 16-19, 2007, AICFM9-025.

117. Ki-Sang Lee, Kwang-Yong Kim and Abdus Samad, “Design Optimization of Low Speed Axial

Flow Fan Blade with Three Dimensional RANS Analysis” The 9th Asian International Conference on

Fluid Machinery, AICFM9-026, Jeju, Korea, October 16-19, 2007.

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118. Abdus Samad, Kwang-Yong Kim and Ki-Sang Lee, “Multi-Objective Optimization of a Fan Blade

Using NSGA-II,” KSME conference May 2007, Korea.

119. Abdus Samad, Dong-Yoon Shin, and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Surrogate Modeling for Optimization of a

Dimpled Channel to Enhance Heat Transfer Performance,” KSME conference May 2007, Korea.

120. Ki-Sang Lee, Kwang-Yong Kim and Abdus Samad, “Design Optimization of an Axial Flow Fan

Blade Considering Airfoil Shape and Stacking Line,” KSME Conference, October 2007, Korea.

121. Ki-Don Lee, Abdus Samad, and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Numerical Optimization of Staggered Dimpled

Channel Using Weighted-Average Surrogate Model,” KSME Conference, October 2007, Korea.

122. Ki-Sang Lee, Kwang-Yong Kim and Abdus Samad, “Optimum Design of an Axial Flow Fan Using

Neural Network,” KFMA Conference, November 29-30, 2007, Daejeon, Korea.

123. Abdus Samad, Nazrul Islam and Saleem Anwar Khan, "Mixed Convection Heat Transfer in the

Entrance Region of Annuli with Peripherally Varying Heat Flux,” 18th National & 7th ISHMT-ASME

Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, January 2006, IIT- Guwahati, India, HMT-2006-C068.

124. Choon-Man Jang, Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Optimal Design of Swept, Leaned and

Skewed Blades in a Transonic Axial Compressor,” Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2006: Power

for Land, Sea and Air, May 2006, Barcelona, Spain, GT2006-90384.

125. Abdus Samad, Kwang-Yong Kim, Tushar Goel, R.T. Haftka and Wei Shyy, "Shape Optimization of

Turbomachinery Blade Using Multiple Surrogate Models", ASME Joint-U.S.-European Fluids

Engineering Summer Meeting, July 2006, Miami, FL, USA, FEDSM2006-98368.

126. Choon-Man Jang, Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, "Evaluation of Efficiency by Applying

Different Optimization Method for Axial Compressor", The 4th National Congress on Fluids

Engineering, August 23-25, 2006, Kyungju, Korea, pp. 1097-1100.

127. Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Performance of Surrogate Models in Optimizing Heat

Transfer Augmentation Devices”, 4th National Congress of Fluids Engineering, August 23-25, 2006,

Kyungju, Republic of Korea, pp. 1113-1116.

128. Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, "Evaluation of Surrogate Models for Shape Optimization of

Compressor Blades”, 4th National Congress of Fluids Engineering, August 23-25, 2006, Kyungju,

Republic of Korea, pp. 367-370.

129. Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, "Heat Transfer Enhancement by Shape Optimization of

Dimpled Channel", KSME fall conference, November 1-3, 2006, Muju, Korea. pp. 2168~2173

130. Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, "Shape Optimization of Compressor Blade Using Surrogate

Models", KSME fall conference, November 2006, Muju, Korea. pp. 2120~2125.

131. Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, "Effects of Surface Roughness on Turbomachinery Blade

Performance," KFMA Annual Conference, November 2006, Kwangju, Korea.

132. Choon-Man Jang, Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, "Enhancement of Efficiency by Blade

Optimization in a Single-Stage Transonic Axial Compressor", Proceedings of the Asian Congress on

Gas Turbines, November 2005, Seoul, Korea, ACGT 2005-005.

133. Choon-Man Jang, Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, "Optimization of Stacking Line in Rotor

and Stator Blades of Single-Stage Transonic Axial Compressor", Korean Society of Mechanical

Engineers, 2005, Yonpyong, Korea, pp.525-532.

134. Choon-Man Jang, Abdus Samad and Kwang-Yong Kim, “Shape Optimization of Swept Leaned and

Skewed Blades in a Transonic Axial Compressor for Enhancing Rotor Efficiency,” Korean Fluid

Machinery Association Conference, December 2005, Changwon, Korea, pp.525-532.

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135. Nazrul Islam, A. Samad, A. M. Jairajpuri and Saleem A. Khan, “Heat Transfer Analysis of

Insulation-Jacketed Pressure Cooker,” BSME-ASME International conference on Thermal

Engineering, January 2004, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Book/ Book Chapter/ Monograph

1. Kwang-Yong Kim, Abdus Samad, Ernesto Benini, “Design Optimization of Fluid Machinery:

Applying Computational Fluid Dynamics and Numerical Optimization,” John Wiley and Sons,

Singapore, 2019.

2. Murali, K., Sriram, V., Samad, A., Saha, N., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in

Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018)-Volume 1, Springer, Singapore, 2018.

3. Murali, K., Sriram, V., Samad, A., Saha, N., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in

Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018)-Volume 2, Springer, Singapore, 2018.

4. R Sharma, R. Sundaravadivelu, P. Shanmugam, J.S. Sangwai, A. Samad, “Advances in Petroleum

Science and Technology- Proceedings of the International Conference of Petroleum Science and

Technology, 2014 (Edited volume).

5. Saket Kansara, Sumeet Parashar, Abdus Samad, Surrogate Assisted Evolutionary Computing

Methods, Book chapter (Book: Evolutionary Computation Techniques and Applications, Editors:

Editors: Ashish M. Gujarathi and B. V. Babu).

Non-technical book

1. Sopno Torir Majhi (A sailor of a dream boat). Publisher: Aponzone Prokashon, Kolkata. Bengali

Novel (Momoir), 2019, to be published.

Patents

1. Abdus Samad and Ramasamy Karthikeshwaran, “Progressive Cavity Pump Including a Bearing

Between the Rotor and Stator,” (Patent application no: 2237/CHE/2012,

US20140369875, WO2013182922A1, Patent number: 9404493).

2. Abdus Samad, “Mechanical Energy Harvesting Devices and Methods” (Patent application no.

4621/CHE/2012, PCT/IB2013/059705, US Patent number: 9,989,076).

3. Abdus Samad, “A point absorber apparatus for wave energy extraction” (Patent application no.

2835/CHE/2012).

4. Abdus Samad, “An apparatus to convert bidirectional linear motion to unidirectional rotary motion”

(Patent application no. 3634/CHE/2012).

5. Abdus Samad, “Bi-directional flow turbine” (Patent application no. 3918/CHE/2012).

News/popular magazine articles related to the works

1. IIT Madras turbine may generate power from ocean waves, August 22, 2017

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/iit-madras-turbine-may-generate-power-from-ocean-

waves/articleshow/60165819.cms

2. http://www.hydroworld.com/articles/2017/08/meygen-phase-1a-project-sets-new-world-record-as-

tidal-energy-research-continues-worldwide.html

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3. India presses ahead with wave turbine development, August 31, 2017,

http://tidalenergytoday.com/2017/08/31/india-presses-ahead-with-wave-turbine-development/

4. Energy from ocean waves in a Bengali newspaper, Sept 08, 2017

http://epaper.puberkalom.com/m/25330/59b1a6e8686df

5. T.V. Venkateswaran, Tarang Urja (Wave Energy) in Hindi Magazine “Awiskar”, Sept 2017 issue,

Published by NRDC India, Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India.

6. T.V. Venkateswaran, One Step towards Harnessing Wave Energy, Invention Intelligence (English

magazine), Jul-Aug 2017. Published by NRDC India, Department of Science and Technology, Govt

of India.