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Moustafa Al-Damook (Lecturer)

PhD in Thermofluids
Lecturer
Renewable Energy Research Center - Research Centers
mustafa.adil@uoanbar.edu.iq


Biography

Moustafa Al-damook received B.Sc. (5nd Class Hons.) in the Mechanical Engineering from the University of Anbar - Iraq in 2004 and M.Sc. degree in Thermofluids from the University of Baghdad- Iraq in 2011. He received a PhD degree in thermofluids engineering from the School of Mechanical Engineering-the University of Leeds - UK in 2019.
 

Publication

M Al Qubeissi, A Mahmoud, Moustafa Al-Damook, Z Khatir, HS Soyhan.

Comparative Analysis of Battery Thermal Management System using Biodiesel Fuels.

Moustafa Al-Damook, et al. "Photovoltaic module efficiency evaluation: The case of Iraq." Alexandria Engineering Journal (2021).

Moustafa Al-Damook, et al. "Energy efficient double-pass photovoltaic/thermal air systems using a computational fluid dynamics multi-objective optimisation framework." Applied Thermal Engineering (2021): 117010.

Mushtaq T. K. Al-Asadi, Moustafa Al-Damook, Mansour Al Qubeissi. ''Heat Transfer Enhancement and Nanofluids Flow in Micro-Channels Having Vortex Generators.``International Conference on Fossil & Renewable Energy.'', Houston, TX, 17-19 Feb, 2020. (Website link)

Moustafa Al-Damook, Zain Alabdeen Hussein Obaid, Mansour Al Qubeissi, Darron Dixon-Hardy, Joshua Cottom, Peter J Heggs. "CFD modeling and performance evaluation of multipass solar air heaters Numerical Heat Transfer." Part A: Applications 76 (6), 438-464, 18 Jul 2019. (Website Link)

Moustafa Al-Damook, Mansour Al Qubeissi, Darron Dixon-Hardy, Zinedine Khatir, Peter J Heggs. "Thermal and electrical performance evaluation and design optimisation of hybrid PV/T systems." 16th UK Heat Transfer Conference.'', 08-10 Sep, 2019. (Website Link)

Moustafa Adil Abdulrahem Al-Damook, ''Performance analysis of air-cooled photovoltaic/thermal systems.`` PhD thesis, School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds, 2019. (Website Link)

Muadh Al Hamdani, Mansour Al Qubeissi, Moustafa Al-Damook, Darron Dixon-Hardy, Peter J Heggs . "Thermal Optimisation of Fin Clusters for Heat Sink Purposes." International Conference on Thermal Engineering Volume 2018.'', 03 Nov, 2018. (Website Link)

Moustafa Al-Damook, Mansour Al Qubeissi, Darron Dixon-Hardy, Peter J Heggs, Khaled Al-Ghaithi. "Comparative investigation of multi-pass flow for air photovoltaic/thermal collectors." International Conference on Thermal Engineering Volume 2018.'', 04-06 Sep, 2018. (Website Link)

Moustafa Al-Damook, Darron Dixon-Hardy, Peter J Heggs, Mansour Al Qubeissi, Khaled Al-Ghaithi, Patrick E. Mason, Joshua Cottom. ''CFD Analysis of a one-pass photovoltaic/thermal air system with and without offset strip fins`` MATEC Web Conf. 240 (2018) 03002. (Website link)

Moustafa Al-Damook, Osama Ibrahim, Zain Alabdeen Hussein Obaid,  Kaleid Waleed. "Experimental investigation of SAHs solar dryers with zigzag aluminum cans." Int J Energy Power Eng 4, no. 5 (2015): 240-247.(Website Link)

Amori, Karima E., and Mustafa Adil Abd-AlRaheem. "Field study of various air based photovoltaic/thermal hybrid solar collectors." Renewable Energy 63 (2014): 402-414.(Website Link)

Khalaf, Younis, Osama Ibraheem, Mustafa Adil, Mohammed Salih, Mohammed Qasim, and Khaled Waleed. "Maximum power point evaluation of photovoltaic modules under shading effect." European Scientific Journal 10, no. 9 (2014). (Website link)

Amori, Karima Esmail, and Mustafa Adil Al-Damook. "Performance Analysis of Four Conceptual Designs for the Air Based Photovoltaic/Thermal Collectors." Journal of Engineering 20, no. 6 (2014): 28-45. (Website Link)

Moustafa Adil Abdulrahem Al-Damook. ''Performance analysis of various conceptual design for the air based Photovoltaic/Thermal collectors.`` Msc thesis, University of Baghdad, Mechanical Department, 2011. 

 

Lectures

1- Chapter 1-Differentiation-(Lectures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9)

2-Chapter 2-Integration-(Lectures 1, 2 ,3 and 4)

 

 

 


Other

1- Supervision:

1- CFD Approach to Analysing Heat Transfer within Solar Air Heaters

Student Name: Andrew Maughan

Location: The University of Leeds, School of Chemical and Process Engineering

Date: September 2017,

Degree: MSc. Energy and Environment

Supervisors: Dr Darron Dixon-Hardy, Professor Peter J. Heggs, Moustafa Al-Damook. (Website Link)

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2- Performance Analysis of Single Pass PV/T Air System

Student Name: Susan Wanjiku Mugo

Location: The University of Leeds, School of Chemical and Process Engineering

Date: September 2018,

Degree: MSc. Energy and Environment

Supervisors: Dr Darron Dixon-Hardy, Professor Peter J. Heggs, Moustafa Al-Damook. (Website Link)

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3- CFD Analysis of RAM Air Flow in an Aircraft Air Conditioning System

Student Name: Albert Landis

Location: The University of Leeds, School of Chemical and Process Engineering

Date: September 2018,

Degree: MSc. Energy and Environment

Supervisors: Dr Darron Dixon-Hardy, Professor Peter J. Heggs, Moustafa Al-Damook. (Website Link)

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4- Improving the Efficiency of Flat-Plate Photovoltaic Thermal (PV/T) Air Collector Systems

Student Name: Nana K. Gyan Sekyi

Location: The University of Leeds, School of Chemical and Process Engineering

Date: September 2018,

Degree: MSc. Energy and Environment

Supervisors: Dr Darron Dixon-Hardy, Professor Peter J. Heggs, Moustafa Al-Damook. (Website Link)

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5- Simulation of a Solar Air Heater with Comsol Multiphysics

Student Name: David Pedrero San Roman

Location: The University of Leeds, School of Chemical and Process Engineering

Date: September 2019,

Degree: MSc. Energy and Environment

Supervisors: Dr Darron Dixon-Hardy, Professor Peter J. Heggs, Moustafa Al-Damook. (Website Link)

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6- CFD Modelling of Solar Air Heater

Student Name: Abdulaziz Doukhi

Location: The University of Leeds, School of Chemical and Process Engineering

Date: September 2019,

Degree: MSc. Energy and Environment

Supervisors: Dr Darron Dixon-Hardy, Professor Peter J. Heggs, Moustafa Al-Damook. (Website Link)

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Conducting five MSc vivas, 27th July 2020, (Website Link):

Dr Mansour confirms that Dr Moustafa Al-Damook has taken part in the viva voce and examination of the
following MSc projects at Coventry University on 27th July 2020 (online, via MS Teams):
A new approach for eco-friendly dishwasher: CFD modelling  (Website Link) 
A new concept for EV battery thermal management: an application to Hybrid Vehicles (Website Link) 
• Thermal management of a distribution electric transformer 
(Website Link) 
• Hydro-powered water delivery and filtration system 
(Website Link) 
• Developing a sustainability impact carbon footprint evaluation system in Automotive 
Supply Chain in VUCA times of pandemic 
(Website Link) 

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MSc Supervision, 13th August 2020, (Website Link) 
Re: Dr. Moustafa Adil Al-Damook, MSc Supervision
Dr Mansour is writing in reference to the abovementioned Dr. Al-Damook, in the capacity of a joint MSc
project supervisor and Course Director for Master of Engineering Programmes in the fields of
Mechanical, Automotive and Motorsport Engineering.
I confirm that Dr Al-Damook has co-supervised two of my MSc projects to completion during this
academic year, 2019/2020. These dissertations were titled:
• A new approach for eco-friendly dishwasher: CFD modelling
• Thermal management of a distribution electric transformer

Dr Mansour hereby is happy to be contacted regarding this letter as needed.
Faithfully,
Dr Mansour Qubeissi MPhil, PhD, CEng MIMechE, FHEA, SM IAENG
Asst Prof, Thermofluids
Course Director, Master of Engineering (MEng) Programmes – Mech, Auto & MotorS Eng
Associate Editor, Alexandria Engineering Journal
Guest Editor, Sustainability special issue: Renewable fuels: theories and applications
Academic Editor, InTech Open project: Renwable Energy: Resources, Challenges and Applications

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2- Conference:

1-8th International Conference on Renewable Fuels, Combustion and Fire, Faculty of Technology, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey in 5-7 March, 2021.

2- Fossil & Renewable Energy-2020, Houston, TX, USA, Feb 17-19, 2020.

3- International Conference on Sustainable Materials and Energy Technologies, Coventry, UK, Sep 12 - 13, 2019.

4- 16th UK Heat Transfer Conference, Sep 08 - 10, 2019.

5- ICTEA 11th International Conference on Thermal Engineering: Theory and Applications, Doha, Qatar, Feb 25-28, 2018.

6- ICCHMT 2018, Cracow, Poland, May 21-24, 2018

7- UK Fluids Conference 2018, Manchester, UK, Sep 04-06, 2018, University of Manchester.