Majid Soleimani

     E-mail: majid.soleimani [at] mail.mcgill.ca
     Google Scholar page: http://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=G7h9LLgAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Interest

• Elasto-capillarity in various applications using experimental, analytical, and numerical approaches
• Green products innovations to produce new paper-based products
• Fluid-solid interaction in porous media
• Mechanics of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids

Current Research Projects

• Elasto-capillary deformations of wood fibres during papermaking processes including lumen collapse and longitudinal deflections

Education

2010 - present       Ph.D., Chemical Engineering. McGill University
2008 - 2010           M.S. Mechanical Engineering. University of Tehran, Iran
2004 - 2008           B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering. University of Tehran, Iran

List of Publication

Scientific Journals:

1. M. Soleimani, R.J. Hill, and T. G. M. van de Ven, Elasto-capillary collapse of circular tubes: a simple model for wood fibres. Under preparation.
2. M. Soleimani, R.J. Hill, and T. G. M. van de Ven, 2013 Bubbles and drops on curved surfaces. Langmuir, 29 (46), 14168-14177.
3. H. Shokouhmand and M. Soleimani, 2011 The effect of viscous dissipation on temperature profile of a power-law fluid flow over a moving surface with arbitrary injection/suction. Energ. Convers. Manage., 52 (1), 171-179.
4. M. Soleimani and K. Sadeghy, 2011 Instability of Bingham fluids in Taylor–Dean flow between two concentric cylinders at arbitrary gap spacings. Int. J.Non-Linear Mech., 46 (7), 931-937.
5. M. Soleimani and K. Sadeghy, 2011 Taylor–Dean instability of yield-stress fluids at large gaps. J.Non-Newton Fluid, 166 (12), 607-613.
6. M. Soleimani and K. Sadeghy, 2010 Dean Instability of Bingham Fluids in Tangential Flow Between Two Fixed Concentric Cylinders. Nihon Reoroji Gakk., 38 (3), 125-132

Conference papers

1. M. Soleimani, R.J. Hill, and T. G. M. van de Ven, “A ‘simple’ physical model of wood-fibre collapse upon drying”, 2nd Fibre Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 2014.
2. M. Soleimani, R.J. Hill, and T. G. M. van de Ven, “Drops and bubbles on curved surfaces”, 87th ACS 2013 Colloid & Surface Science Symposium, Riverside, California, June 2013.
3. M. Soleimani, R.J. Hill, and T. G. M. van de Ven, “Elasto-capillary dynamics of wood fibres during drying”, 1st Fibre Conference, Cornwall, Canada, March 2013.
4. M. Soleimani, R.J. Hill, and T. G. M. van de Ven, “Elastocaillary collapse of wood fibres”, Semi-annual meeting, Innovative Green Wood Fiber Network (GWFN), Vancouver, Canada, November 2012.
5. M. Soleimani, R.J. Hill, and T. G. M. van de Ven, “On the control of wood fiber collapse during drying”, Semi-annual meeting, Innovative Green Wood Fiber Network (GWFN), Montreal, Canada, September 2011.

Awards and Honours

• Awarded McGill Engineering Doctoral Award (MEDA) for 3 years because of superior academic achievements
• Awarded the best presenter prize among more than 20 graduate-student and postdoc presentations at Chemical Engineering research day (2013, McGill University) for professional and articulate presentation skills.
• Awarded the Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel (GREAT) award to attend international conferences (2013).
• Ranked 3rd in Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran, among more than 80 Undergraduate Students (2007).
• Accepted without entrance exam in Graduate school of Mechanical Engineering at University of Tehran, because of exceptional performance in B.Sc.
• Ranked 81th in Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program Entrance Exam among more than 12000 participants (2008).
• Ranked 396th in University Entrance Exam among more than 300000 participants (2004).
• Accepted in preliminary exams of Iranian Physics Olympiad (2002)