Mechanical Engineering
Renewable Energy & Sustainable
Engineering Research

Renewable Energy and Sustainable Engineering Faculty

Navid Goudarzi

Title: Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D. (2014), University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Email: n.goudarzi@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Multi-fidelity surrogate modeling (MFSM) integrating CFD  and physics-informed machine learning for thermo-fluid transport across applications in wind engineering, hazard mitigation, integrated energy systems, advanced air mobility (AAM), and air quality and dispersion, supported by VVUQ and enabling digital twin frameworks for system-of-systems analysis in built and natural environments.
Research Labs: Director of M³TFluiD Lab (Multiscale Multiphysics Modeling and Data-Driven  Thermofluids),
Co-Director of Center for Integrated Modeling for Energy, Resiliency, and Sustainability (IERS)

Maryam Younessi Sinaki

Title: Associate Professor of Practice
Education: Ph.D. (2014), University of Waterloo
Email: m.younessisinaki@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Energy Conversion Systems, Numerical
modeling, Combustion, Thermo-fluid Systems, Hydrogen Production

Mustafa Usta

Title: Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D. (2018), Lehigh University
Email: m.usta@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Computational fluid dynamics, large-eddy
simulation, particle-resolved simulation, scientific machine learning, high-performance
computing, multiphysics and multiscale modeling, transport phenomena, turbulent
mixing, compressible flows, membrane separation, biological flows, hemodynamics
Research Lab: Director of Complex Flows and advanced Transport Lab (CFTLAB)