Publications in Scientific Journals (2008-present)

Papers accepted under print

A. Abbasi, M.Z. Saghir and M. Kawaji, Evaluation of the ratio of the evaporation energy to the activation energy for estimating the thermodiffusion coefficient ,accepted, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2010

M. Eslamian and M.Z. Saghir, Estimation of Thermodiffusion Coefficients in Ternary Associating Mixtures, accepted, Canadian Journal of Chemical engineering, DOI: 10.1002/cjce.20581

A. Parsa and M.Z. Saghir, Fluid flow behavior of a binary mixture under the influence of external disturbances using different density models, accepted, Journal of Fluid Dynamics and Material Processing,2010

D. Labrie, J. Woodacre, M.Z. Saghir, Macrosegregation in vertical Bridgman grown Ge1-xSix alloy with large melt volume: limit of complete mixing, accepted, Journal of Crystal Growth

M. Eslamian and M.Z. Saghir, Thermophoresis Modeling of DNA Segregation in Dilute Solutions using the Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics Approach, accepted, Journal of Non equilibrium thermodynamics, DOI: 10.1515/JNETDY.2011.026, 2011

M. Eslamian, M.Z. Saghir, Thermodiffusion Applications in MEMS, NEMS and Solar Cell Fabrication by Thermal Metal Doping of Semiconductors, Accepted, Fluid Dynamics and material processing journal, 2011

S. Srinivasan and M. Z. Saghir, Thermodiffusion in ternary hydrocarbon mixtures: Part II
- n-dodecane/isobutylbenzene/tetralin, Accepted, Journal of Non equilibrium thermodynamics.

Papers under review

A. Ahadi and M.Z. Saghir, Quasi steady state effect of micro vibration from two space vehicles on mixture during thermodiffusion experiment, submitted , Journal of Fluid Dynamics and Material Processing

S. Srnivasan and M.Z. Saghir, Modeling of Thermotransport Phenomenon in Metal Alloys Using Artificial Neural Networks Applied Mathematical Modelling, Submitted Applied Mathematical Modeling journal

Refereed Journals (2008 - present)

121- F. Croccolo, F. Plantier, G. Galliero, G. Pijaudier-Cabot, M. Z. Saghir, F. Dubois, S. Van Vaerenbergh, F. Montel and H. Bataller, Temperature derivative of the refractive of index of binary mixtures measured by using a new thermodiffusion cell, Review of scientific instruments, 82, 126105 (2011)

120- M. Eslamian, C. G. Jiang, M. Z. Saghir, On the Role of the Velocity Frame of Reference and Alternative Definitions of the Soret Coefficients in Thermodiffusion, Accepted, philosophical magazine,Vol , p1-22,  2011.

119 S. Srinivasan and M.Z. Saghir, Impact of the vibrations on Soret separation in binary and ternary mixtures, Journal of Fluid Dynamics and Material Processing, Vol 7, No 2, pp201-216, 2010.

118 S. Srinivasan, D. Alonso de Mezquia, M. M. BouAli, and M.Z. Saghir, Thermodiffusion and Molecular Diffusion in Binary n-alkane Mixtures: Experiments & Numerical Analysis, accepted, Philosophical Magazine, Vol 91, Issue 34, 2011.

117 A. Abbasi, M.Z. Saghir and M. Kawaji, An Improved Thermodiffusion Model for Ternary Mixtures using Fujita’s Free Volume Theory, Journal of Non equilibrium thermodynamics, Vol 36, Issue 3, pp 259-272, Sept  2011.

116 S. Srinivasan and M. Z. Saghir, Thermodiffusion in ternary hydrocarbon mixtures: Part I:- n-dodecane/isobutylbenzene/tetralin, Journal of Non equilibrium thermodynamics, Vol 36, Issue 3, pp243-258, Sept 2011.

115 A. Abbasi , M.Z. Saghir and M. Kawaji, Evaluation of the Activation Energy of Viscous Flow for a Binary Mixture in Order to Estimate the Thermodiffusion Coefficient, accepted, Journal of Non equilibrium thermodynamics, Vol 36, Issue 1, pp23-40, May 2011

114 Md. Abdur Rahman and M.Z. Saghir, Marangoni Convection in Water Isopropanol Mixtures in the Presence of Soret effect, International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research, vol.38, no.4, 2011.

113 Mathieu Touzet, Guillaume Galliero, Veronique Lazzeri, M. Ziad Saghir, François Montel and Jean-Claude Legros, Thermodiffusion: From microgravity experiments to the initial state of petroleum reservoirs, Comptes Rendus Mecanique, Vol 339, pp 318-323, 2011.

112 T.J. Jaber and M.Z. Saghir, Three-dimensional Study of Permeability effect on Convection in Heterogenous Porous Medium Filled with A Ternary Hydrocarbon Mixture, J. of Porous Media, Volume 44, Issue 4, pp 305-315, 2011

111 M. Eslamian and M.Z. Saghir, Thermodiffusion (Thermomigration) and Convection in Semiconductor-Metal layers, International journal of thermal Sciences, Volume 50, Issue 7, pp 1232-1242, 2011

110 S. Srinivasan and M.Z. Saghir, Experimental Approaches to Study Thermodifusion-A Review, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Volume 50, Issue 7, pp 1125-1137,2011

109 V. Shevtsova, A. Mialdun, D. Melnikov, I. Ryzhkov,Y. Gaponenko, M.Z Saghir, T. Lyubimova, J. C. Legros, The IVIDIL experiment onboard the ISS: Thermodiffusion in the presence of controlled vibrations, Comptes Rendus Mecanique, m3G; v 1.51; Prn:31/03/2011; 8:08 P.1 (1-8), 2011.

108 M. Eslamian and M.Z. Saghir, Nonequilibrium Thermodynamic Model for Soret Effect in Dilute Polymer Solutions, International Journal of thermophysics, DOI:10.1007/s10765-010-0898-2

107 S. Mazzoni, V. Shevtsova, A. Mialdun, D. Melnikov, Yu. Gaponenko, T. Lyubimova and M. Z. Saghir, Vibrating liquids in space, Europhysics news, Vol 41, No 5, pp 14-17, 2010

106 S. R. Van Vaerenbergh, M. Z. Saghir, J. L. Daridon,M. Luhmer, Q. Galand, G. Gall iero,F. Montel, J. Bickert and J. C. Legros, Experimental microgravity Soret Coefficients in multicomponent systems: towards mixing rules?, High Temperatures-High Pressures, Vol. 39, pp. 53–63, 2010

105 A. Abbasi, M.Z. Saghir, M. Kawagi, Study of Thermodiffusion of Carbon dioxide in Binary Mixtures of n-Butane & Carbon Dioxide and n-Dodecane & Carbon Dioxide in Porous Media, International Journal of Thermal Science, Vol 50, pp. 124-132 , 2011

104 M. Eslamian, F. Sabzi and M.Z. Saghir, Modeling of Thermodiffusion in Liquid Metal Alloys, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol 12, pp13835–13848, 2010.

103 M. Eslamian, M.Z. Saghir, M. Bouali, Investigation of the Soret Effect in Binary, Ternary and Quaternary Hydrocarbon Mixtures, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol 49, issue 11, pp 2128-2137, 2010.

102 S. Srinivasan and M.Z Saghir, Significance of the Evaporation Energy and Viscous Energy in Accurately Estimating the Thermodiffusion Coefficients for Hydrocarbon Mixtures, High Pressure-High temperatures Journal, Vol 39, pp65-81, 2010.

101 S. Srinivasan, M. Dejmek, and M.Z. Saghir, Thermo-Solutal-Diffusion In High Pressure Liquid Mixtures In the Presence of Micro-Vibrations, International Journal of Thermal Science, Vol 49, pp 1613-1624, 2010

100. Md. Abdur Rahman and M.Z. Saghir, Thermo-solutal Convection in water-Isopropanol Mixtures in the Presence of Soret Effect, International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research, Vol 37. issue3, pp 237-250, 2010.

99 Henri Bataller, Christelle Miqueu, Frédéric Plantier, Jean-Luc Daridon, Tawfiq J. Jaber, Alireza Abbasi, M. Ziad Saghir, M. Mounir Bou-Ali, Comparison between Experimental and Theoretical Estimation of the Thermal expansion, Concentration expansion Coefficients and Viscosity for binary mixtures under pressure up to 20 MPa, J. of Chemical and Engineering Data, Vol 44, No.6, pp 1710–1715, 2009.

98. A. Abbasi , M.Z. Saghir and M. Kawaji,  Theoretical and Experimental Comparison of the Soret Effect for Binary Mixtures of Toluene & n-Hexane and Benzene & n-Heptane Vol 35, Journal of Non equilibrium thermodynamics, pp 1-14, 2009.

97. M. Eslamian and M.Z. Saghir, Dynamic Thermodiffusion Theory for Ternary Liquid Mixtures, Vol 35, Journal of Non equilibrium thermodynamics, pp 51-73, 2010.

96 S. VanVaerenbergh, S. Srinivasan and  M. Z. Saghir, Thermodiffusion in Multi-Component Hydrocarbon Mixtures: Experimental Investigations and Computational Analysis, Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol 131, 1, 2009

95 G. Galliero, S. Srinivasan and M.Z Saghir, Estimation of Thermodiffusion in Ternary Normal Alkane Mixtures Using the Molecular Dynamics and the Irreversible Thermodynamic Theory, High Pressure-High temperatures Journal,Vol 38, pp 315-328, 2010.

94 M. Eslamian and M.Z. Saghir, Microscopic Study and Modeling of Thermodiffusion in Binary Associating Mixtures, Physical review letter E, Vol 80, 1, 2009.

93 M. Eslamian and M. Z. Saghir, A Dynamic Thermodiffusion Theory for Ternary Liquid Mixtures, Physical review letter E, Vol 80, 1, 2009.

92 S. Srinivasan and  M. Z. Saghir, Measurements on Thermodiffusion in Ternary Hydrocarbon Mixtures at High Pressure, Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol 131, 124508, 2009

91 R. Jaralla, J. Cao and M. Z. Saghir, Numerical investigation of thermodiffusion Effects on PEM Fuel Cells Performance, Modern Physics Letter B, Vol 14, Issue 13,pp 1329-1332, 2010.

90 T. Jaber, Y. Yan , Shu Pan and M.Z Saghir, Theoretical Prediction of Thermal Diffusion Coefficients for Ternary Hydrocarbon Mixtures Based on the Irreversible Thermodynamics Theory, Journal of Acta Astronautica, Vol 65, Issue7-8, pp 1158-1161, Oct-Nov 2009.

89 M. Eslamian and M.Z. Saghir, A Dynamic Thermodiffusion Model for Binary Mixtures, Physical Review letter E, Vol 80, Issue 1, 2009

88 Alireza Abbasi, M. Ziad Saghir and Masahiro Kawaji, A New Proposed Approach to Estimate the Thermodiffusion Coefficients for Linear Chain Hydrocarbon Binary Mixtures, Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol 131, No 1, 2009.

87 A. Abbasi, M.Z. Saghir and M. Kawaji, A New Approach to the Estimation of the Thermodiffusion Factor for Associating Mixtures, Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol 130, 064506, 2009.

86. Yu Yan, M. Z. Saghir, The Soret coefficients in binary aqueous alkanol solutions: comparison between a theoretical model and experimental data, International Review of Chemical Engineering, Vol 1, No2, March 2009.

85 M. Eslamian and M.Z Saghir, A Critical Review of Thermodiffusion Models: Role and Significance of the Heat of Transport and the Activation Energy of Viscous Flow
Journal of Non Equilibrium Thermodynamics, Issue 34 (2), pp 97-132, 2009.

84 M. M. Shemirani and M.Z Saghir, Three Dimensional Modeling of Ge0.98 Si0.02  Crystal Growth Conducted on board FOTON-M2 in the Presence of Rotating Magnetic Field ,  Journal of Fluid Dynamics and Material Processing, Vol 5, no.3, pp 211-230, 2009.

83 T. Jaber, M.Z. Saghir and A. Viviani, Three-Dimensional Modeling of SiGe Growth in the Presence of Axial and Rotating Magnetic Field, European Journal Mechanics, B/Fluids, Vol. 28 No. 2, pp. 214-223 (2009).

82 Y. Yan, P. Blanco, M. Z Saghir, M. Mounir Bou-Ali, An improved theoretical model for thermodiffusion coefficient in liquid hydrocarbon mixtures: Comparison between experimental and numerical results, Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol 129, 194507, 2008

81 Y. Yan, M.Z. Saghir and A. Viviani, Double Diffusion Convection under Sinusoidal Modulations of Low Frequency Vibrations, Journal Acta Astronautica, Vol 63, pp 665-672, 2008.

80. S. Towfighian, K. Behdinan, M. Papini, M. Z. Saghir, P. Zalzal, and J. deBeer, Finite element modeling of low speed femur reaming using reamers with irregular tooth spacing, Journal of Sound and Vibration, accepted, April 2008.

79. T. J. Jaber, D. Labrie and M. Z. Saghir, “Ge0.98Si0.02 Crystal Grown by the Travelling Solvent Method Using Axial Magnetic Field and Rotating Crucible”, Journal of Material Processing and Technology, Vol 32, No 1, 2008.

78. R. Henda, W. Quesnel and M.Z. Saghir , “Analytical Solution of the Thermal Behavior of Circulating Porous Heat Exchanger”, Fluid Dynamics and Material Processing Journal, Vol 4, No 4, pp 237-244, 2008.

77 C. Jiang, T.J. Jaber, H. Bataller and M.Z. Saghir, Simulation of Ludwig-Soret Effect of Water-Ethanol in a Cavity Filled with Aluminium Oxide Powder Under High Pressure, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol 47, pp 126-135, 2008.

76 T. Jaber, Yu Yan and M.Z. Saghir, Soret Effect for a Ternary Mixture in Porous Cavity: Modeling with Variable Diffusion Coefficients and Viscosity, ASME Journal of Fluid Engineering, Vol 130, No:8, 2008.