Dr Zeyad Alwahabi

Senior Lecturer

B.Sc. (Al Mustansiriyah), Ph.D., Sussex

Location: Room N113b Engineering North
Email: zalwahab@chemeng.adelaide.edu.au
Phone: + 61 8 8303 3768
FAX: + 61 8 8303 4373

Interests

• Energy transfer and molecular reaction dynamics using advanced laser techniques
• Laser diagnostics in fluid mechanics and combustion
• Laser techniques for plasma diagnostics
• Simple predictive models for collision-induced behaviour of small molecules.
• Non-intrusive temperature measurements in combustion and flame

Recent Publications

• Li, Z.S., Rupinski, M., Zetterberg, J., Alwahabi, Z.T., Ald鮬 M., "Mid-infrared polarization spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules: Detection of nascent CO2 and H2O in atmospheric pressure flames" Chemical Physics Letters, 407 (2005) 243-248.
• N. H. Qamar, G. J. Nathan, Z. T. Alwahabi, and K. D. King, "The Effect of Global Mixing on Soot Volume Fraction: Measurements in Simple Jet, Precessing Jet and Bluff Body Flames", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 30, 1493-1500, (2005)
• van Eyk P.J., C.Y. Wong, N. Syred, E.P. Ung, Z.T. Alwahabi, P.J. Ashman, G.J. Nathan, "Study on atomic sodium release from pulverised coal particles in a pre-mixed natural gas flame", Fourth Australian Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Fluid Mechanics and Combustion, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, 7-9 December 2005
• Henriksen, Tara, J., Gus Nathan, Zeyad Alwahabi, Jennifer Printi, Eric Eddings, Phillip J. Smith, "Soot Volume fraction from extrinction in JP-8 and Heptane pool fires"., Fourth Australian Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Fluid Mechanics and Combustion, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, 7-9 December 2005
• Qamar, N.H., Nathan, G.J., Alwahabi, Z.T., King, K.D., "Effects of turbulent mixing on soot sheet dimensions" in 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Combustion 2005, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 17-20 July 2005.