• Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • Sallie and Don Davis '61 Faculty Fellow
Iman Borazjani

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota — 2008
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology — 2005
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology — 2002

Research Interests

    • Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
    • Fluid-structure interaction (FSI)
    • High-performance computing
    • Biofluids and cardiovascular flows
    • bio-inspired propulsion
    • Image analysis and geometry reconstruction for CFD

Awards & Honors

  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Associate Fellow - 2021
  • ASME Fellow - 2020
  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) senior member - 2020
  • Fulbright Scholar - 2017-2018
  • UB Exceptional Scholars Young Investigator Award, University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York - 2015
  • NSF CAREER Award - 2015
  • Doctoral New Investigator award, American Chemical Society - 2013
  • Scientific Development award, American Heart Association - 2013

Selected Publications

  • Doranehgard, M.H., Karimi, N., Borazjani, I., et.al. (2024). Breaking the symmetry of a wavy channel alters the route to chaotic flow. Physical Review E, 109, 045103
  • Asadi, H., and Borazjani, I. (2023). A contact model based on coefficient of restitution for simulations of bio-prosthetic heart valves. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering. e3754. DOI: 10.1002/cnm.3754
  • Simmons, T., Daghooghi, M. and Borazjani, I. (2023). Dynamics of non-spherical particles resting on a flat surface in a viscous fluid. Physics of Fluids, 35. 043334, DOI: 10.1063/5.0145221
  • Ogunka, U., Akbarzadeh, A.M., and Borazjani, I. (2023) Mechanisms of Morphing Wall Flow Control by Traveling Waves over a Thick Airfoil. AIAA Journal, 61(4), 1687-1707. DOI: 10.2514/1.J062449
  • Hedayat, M., Akbarazadeh, A., and Borazjani, I. (2022). A parallel dynamic overset grid framework for immersed boundary methods. Computers and Fluids, 239(15), 105378. DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2022.105378