Pr. Hassan NAJI

Artois University, France.

Integrating high thermal conductive porous media and high latent heat phase change materials (PCMs) is an effective method for heat transfer in passive cooling applications. In this study, the enhanced heat transfer performance of porous medium saturated with paraffin as PCM is numerically studied using a thermal lattice Boltzmann method to cope with the unsteady convective flow using the Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer model under the local thermal non-equilibrium (LTNE). During the charging and discharging processes, the porosity effect on melting / solidifying is investigated and discussed, comprehensively.

Pr. Hassan NAJI : Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Artois University (France). He received his undergraduate and graduate education in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Lille University (France). He joined Polytech'lille School Mechanical Engineering-Lille University as an Associate Professor until 2010, and then moved to the Artois University. Professor Naji holds a Ph.D. in Physical Sciences from the University of Lille (France) and an M.Sc. in Thermal-Fluid Sciences from the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL), Nancy, France. His research and teaching focus on Thermal-Fluid Sciences and Engineering, Advanced Heat Transfer, Numerical Methods for multi-scale simulations, and Applied Thermodynamics for Engineering.

Pr. Naji is a fellow of learned societies (e.g. the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers, the French Association of Mechanics, the Thermal French Society) and is regularly invited as keynote speaker at local and international conferences. In terms of research, he is the author of several referred articles (more than 70) and lectures (more than 120) in international journals and conferences. Also, he is a referee for many scientific journals as Int. Journal of Thermal Sciences, Int. Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Computers & Fluids, Heat and Mass Transfer, Int.J. of Modern Physics C, Heat Transfer Engineering, Thermal Science, etc.