Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME)

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Mechanical)

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 1983

Master of Science in Engineering (Mechanical)

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 1985

Doctor of Philosophy, DIC

Imperial College, London,1990

PG Cert in Higher Education

Northumbria University, 2012

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics for industrial applcations

• Experimental and Numerical Heat Transfer including nano-fluids

• Life cycle assessment of energy systems

 

 

MEMBERSHIPS

• Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh

Fellow

• Higher Education Academy, UK

Fellow 

• Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)

Member, CEng.

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Member 

 

COURSES CONDUCTED

• ME403: Power Plant Engineering
• ME307: Heat Transfer Equipment Design
• ME305 & ME 205: Heat and Mass Transfer
• ME6145: Advanced Convection Heat Transfer
• ME6155: Enhancement of Heat Transfer

Experience of academic supervision

• Supervised 6 PhD, 30 MSc and 100+ undergraduate final year individual thesis

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Heat transfer: Experimental and numerical
• Life cycle assessment of renewable energy system
• Pedagogy: Quality assurance in higher education; Engineering Ethics

 

PUBLICATIONS

Journals

• Iyi, D., Hasan R. and Penlington R. (2018) Experimental and Numerical Study of Buoyancy-driven Low Turbulence flow in Rectangular Enclosure Partially Filled with Isolated Solid Blockages. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 127, pp. 534-545.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2018.07.031
• Ramadan, Ahmed, Hasan, Reaz and Penlington, Roger (2018) Zero-dimensional transient model of large-scale cooling ponds using well-mixed approach. Annals of Nuclear Energy, 114. pp. 342-353. ISSN 0306-4549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2017.12.043
• Etaig, S., Hasan, R. and Perera, N. (2018) A new effective viscosity model for nano-fluids. Int. J of Numerical Methods on Heat and Fluid Flow, (3), pp.571-583, https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-11-2016-0462
• Haitem, Fargani., Cheung, Wai Ming and Hasan, R. (2018) Ranking of factors that underlay the drivers of Sustainable Manufacturing based on their variation in a sample population. Int. J. Manufacturing Technology and Management, 32(3), pp. 297. DOI: 10.1504/IJMTM.2018.091762
• Ozoemena, M., Cheung, W. M. and Hasan, R. (2018) Improving the uncertainty analysis of embodied energy and embodied carbon in wind turbine design. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. 94 (5-8), doi: 10.1007/s00170-016-9972-7pp. 1565-1577. ISSN 0268-3768, ISSN 0268-3768
• Etaig, Saleh, Hasan, Reaz, Perera, Noel (2017)Investigationofthe flowcharacteristicsof titanium‐oxide‐waternanofluidin microchannelwithcircularcrosssection,AmericanJournalof Nano ResearchandApplications,5 (6),pp.102‐107. doi: 10.11648/j.nano.20170506.14
• Ozoemena M., Hasan R., Cheung W. M. (2016) Analysis of Technology Improvement Opportunities for a 1.5 MW Wind Turbine using a Hybrid Stochastic Approach in Life Cycle Assessment, Renewable Energy, Vol. 93  pp. 369-382. DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2016.03.012.
• Fargani, Haitem, Cheung, Wai Ming and Hasan, Reaz (2016) An Empirical Analysis of the Factors That Support the Drivers of Sustainable Manufacturing. Procedia CIRP, 56. pp. 491-495. ISSN 2212-8271
• Ozoemena, Matthew, Cheung, Wai Ming, Hasan, Reaz and Fargani, Haitem (2016) A hybrid Stochastic Approach for Improving Uncertainty Analysis in the Design and Development of a Wind Turbine. Procedia CIRP, 56. pp. 19-24. ISSN 2212-8271
• Iyi, D., Hasan R. and Penlington R. (2015) Effect of emissivity on heat and mass transfer of humid air in a cavity filled with solid obstacles, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Application, Vol. 67(5), pp. 531-546. DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2014.937261.
• Iyi, Draco and Hasan, Reaz (2015) Natural convection flow and heat transfer in an enclosure containing staggered arrangement of blockages. Procedia Engineering, 105. pp. 176-183. ISSN 1877-7058
• Iyi, D., Hasan R., Penlington R. and Underwood, C. (2014) Double skin façade: modelling technique and influence of venetian blinds on the airflow and heat transfer, Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 71, pp. 219-229. DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2014.06.024
• Hasan R. and Puthukkudi A. (2013) Numerical study of effusion cooling on an adiabatic flat plate, J. Propulsion and Power Research, Vol. 2(4), pp. 269-275. DOI: 10.1016/j.jppr.2013.11.002.
• Danaher S., Dudziak T., Datta P., Hasan R. and Leung P. (2013) Long-term oxidation of newly developed HIPIMS and PVD coatings with neural network prediction modelling, Corrosion Science, Vol. 69, pp.322-337. DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2012.12.016

Conferences

• Etaig, S., Hasan, R. and Perera, N. (2017) Flow Characteristics and Heat Transfer Performance of Magnesium Oxide-Water Nanofluid in the Entrance Region in Circular Cross Section Microchannel, ICHMT Int. Symp. on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer, May, 28-31, Napoli, Italy
• Perera, Noel, Hasan, Reaz and Etaig, Saleh (2017) The Investigation of Heat Transfer Performance and Fluid Flow Characteristics of Titanium Oxide-Water Nanofluid in a Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger with Inclined Baffles. In: International Research Conference on Sustainable Energy, Engineering, Materials and Environment (SEEME), 26-28 July 2017, Newcastle upon Tyne.
• Fargani, Haitem, Cheung, Wai Ming and Hasan, R. (2017) A Proposed Implementation Process for a Sustainable Manufacturing Framework. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR). Greenwich University
• Etaig, S., Hasan, R. and Perera, N. (2016) Investigation of a new effective viscosity model for nano-fluids, Int. Conf. on Heat & Mass Transfer, 23-26 May, Cracow, Poland.
• Ramadan, Ahmed, Hasan, Reaz and Penlington, Roger (2016) Analytical and Numerical Modelling of Spent Fuel Cooling Ponds.In: 2nd International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 10-13 May 2016, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Ramadan, A., Hasan, R. & Penlington, R. (2016) Modelling of heat transfer from water Surface undergoing free evaporation, IX nt. Conf. on Heat & Mass Transfer, 23-26 May, Cracow, Poland.
• Ozoemena, M., Cheung, W. M., Hasan, R. and Fargani, H. (2016) A hybrid stochastic approach for improving LCA uncertainty analysis in the design and development of a wind turbine, 9^th Int. Conf. on Digital Enterprise Technology – DET 2016, 29-31 March, Nanjing, China.
• Fargani, H., Cheung, W. M. and Hasan, R. (2016) An empirical analysis of the factors that support the drivers of sustainable manufacturing, 9^th Int. Conf. on Digital Enterprise Technology – DET 2016, 29-31 March, Nanjing, China.
• Fargani, Haitem, Cheung, Wai Ming and Hasan, R. (2015) An approach to achieve operational effectiveness and sustainability requirements in manufacturing. In: International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR2015), Bath, 8 - 10 September, 2015
• Etaig S., Hasan R. and Perera N. (2015) Numerical study of the effect of inclination angle on heat transfer performance in backward facing step utilizing nanofluid, UK Heat Transfer Conference, Edinburgh, 7-8 September, 2015
• Ramadan, R., Hasan R. and Penlington R. (2015) Numerical simulation of flow and heat transfer around vertical cylinder submerged in water. UK Heat Transfer Conference, Edinburgh, 7-8 September, 2015.
• Bowes A. and Hasan R. (2015) A computational analysis of flow and acoustics around a car wing mirror: Proceedings of The World Congress on Engineering 2015, WCE 2015, 1-3 July, 2015, London, U.K., pp 1052-1057.
• Hasan R. and Ramadan A. (2015) Modelling of flow and heat transfer in spent nuclear fuel cooling ponds, Paper ID: 612, 11^th Int. Conf. on Mechanical Engineering, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 18-20 December, 2015
• Hasan R. Tudor J. and Ramadan A. (2015) Modelling of flow and heat transfer in spent fuel cooling ponds, Proceedings of International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, ICAPP, May 3-5, 2015, Nice, France.
• Iyi, D., Hasan R. (2014) Natural convection flow and heat transfer in an enclosure containing staggered arrangement of blockages. Proceedings of 6^th BSME Conference (ICTE 2014), Dec. 20-22, Islamic University of Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Iyi, Draco, Hasan, Reaz and Penlington, Roger (2014) Effect of Blockages on Natural Convection Turbulent Airflow and Heat Transfer in a Cavity. In: CONV-14: International Symposium on Convective Heat and Mass Transfer, June 8 - 13, 2014, Kusadasi, Turkey
• Ibude, I., Hasan, R., Faregani, H., Ozoemena, M., Cheung, W M. (2014) Sustainability analysis of Palm oil vs. Jatropha. Proc. of the 12^th International Conference on Manufacturing Research, 9-11 September, 2014, Southampton Solent University, U.K.
• Ozoemena, Matthew, Cheung, Wai Ming, Hasan, Reaz and Hackney, Philip (2014)A hybrid Data Quality Indicator and statistical method for improving uncertainty analysis in LCA of a small off-grid wind turbine.In: ARCOM Doctoral Workshop on Sustainable Urban Retrofit and Technologies, 19 June 2014, London South Bank University
• Etaig, Saleh, Hasan, Reaz and Perera, Noel (2014) Investigation of enhancement of heat transfer in natural convection utilizing of nanofluids.In: XIII International Conference on Heat Transfer Applications, 19-20 January, 2015, London.
• Fargani, H., Cheung, W. M., Hasan, R. & Birkett, M. (2014) An integrated approach incorporating lean six sigma and life cycle assessment to support sustainable manufacturing. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR).Southampton Solent University.
• Cheung, Wai Ming, Pachisia, Vedant and Hasan, Reaz (2014) Facilitating Waste Paper Recycling and Remanufacturing via a Cost Modelling Approach. In: International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing, 28-30 April 2014, Cardiff University
• Hasan R., Baddage S., Perera N. and Persson M. (2013) A novel methodology to ascertain the heating mechanism of steel wire during annealing in a tube furnace. Proc. of the 11^th International Conference on Manufacturing Research, 19-20 September, Cranfiled University, U.K.
• Ozoemena M., Cheung, W M., Hasan R. and Hackney P. (2013) A review of Life cycle assessment of renewable energy systems. Proc. of the 11^th International Conference on Manufacturing Research, 19-20 September, Cranfiled University, U.K
• Robinson P., Hasan R. and Tudor J. (2013) Numerical simulation of flow and heat transfer in spent fuel cooling ponds. Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science: Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering, 3-5 July, 2013, London, pp. 1861-1864.
• Iyi, D., Hasan, R and Penlington, R. (2012) Interaction effects between surface radiation and double diffusive turbulent natural convection in an enclosed cavity filled with solid obstacles. Proc. International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer, CHT-12, July 1-6, University of Bath, England
• Hasan, R., Perera, N., Baddage, S. and Persson, M. (2012) Numerical modelling of heat transfer in a tube furnace for steel wire annealing. Proc. International Manufacturing Conference, IMC29, August 29-30, University of Ulster, Ireland. 
• Hasan, R. (2012) Identification of generic errors for effective formative feedback in energy studies thematic area of Mechanical Engineering. Proc. EE2012, Innovation, Practice and research in Engineering Education, Sept. 18-20, University of Coventry, UK. 
• Hasan, R. (2012) Teaching ethics to engineering undergraduates – lessons learned and a guide for lecturers: perspective from an English University. Proc. EE2012, Innovation, Practice and research in Engineering Education, September 18-20, University of Coventry, UK.
• Iyi, D., Hasan, R and Penlington, R. (2011) Numerical analysis of the influence of thermal boundary condition and surface emissivity on the flow and heat transfer in turbulent buoyancy driven flow. The Asian Symposium on Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, Septemeber 2011, Kyoto, Japan.
• Hasan R. G. M., Penlington R., (2010) Addressing diversity at module level, Presented at the 3^rd Regional Learning & Teaching conference, March, Sunderland University, UK

 

AFFILIATION WITH INDUSTRIES

• Sellafield Ltd.: Heat and mass transfer in spent nuclear fuel cooling pond
• SNA Europe: Heat transfer in annealing rig
• AVID Technologies: Design optimization of pumps for zero-emission vehicles