Akram Joda Marie Curie PhD Research Fellow Centre for Computational Fluid Dynamics Address: Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (iMBE) School of Mechanical Engineering University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT United Kingdom Room 345 Office phone: +44 (0) 113 343 2200 Fax: +44(0)113 2424611

Education:      Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (DEA), Universitat Rovira I Virgili,      Tarragona - Spain, 2005-2007.       Master of Science (M.Sc), in Experimental and Computational Turbulence,      Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg - Sweden, 2002-2004.      M.Sc. thesis examiner: Prof. Lars Davidson      Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), Mechanical Engineering. University of Khartoum,      Khartoum-Sudan, 1996-2001.  Research interest:      Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).      Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS).      Flow and heat transfer behind bluff bodies.      Mass transfer in biological tissues. Awards:      Marie Curie Research Fellowship, Centre for Computational Fluid Dynamics,      University of Leeds,  Leeds, UK, May 2007-April 2010.      URV studentship at Mechanical Engineering Department, Universitat Rovira I Virgili,      Tarragona, Spain, Oct. 2004-April 2007.      SIEMENS internship at Siemens Industrial Turbomechinary, Finspong, Sweden,      Aug. 2003-Jan. 2004. Conference proceedings:      A. Joda, I. Cuesta, A. Vernet (2007), Numerical Study of Forced Convection Flow around      Rectangular Cylinders with Different Aspect Ratios, Proceeding of Thermal Issues in Emerging      Technologies, ThETA1, Cairo, Egypt, Jan 3-6th 2007.      A. Joda, I. Cuesta, A. Vernet (2007), Forced and Mixed Convection around two-dimensional      Rectangular Cylinders, Proceeding of CMNE/CILAMCE 2007, Porto, 13-15 June, 2007,      APMTAC, Portugal 2007.