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Introduction to Elcogen elcoStack® E3000 Generation 2 Solid Oxide Technology
Published in Proceedings of Electrochemical Society Meeting Abstracts sofc2025, 2021
Overview of Elcogen’s E3000 Generation 2 solid oxide stack technology for reversible fuel cell/electrolysis operation, featuring 119 cells and world-class performance metrics.
Citation: Rehman, S. U., Zaheer, M. A., Shahanaghi, A., Alfano, A., Hüls, S., & Noponen, M. (2025). Introduction to Elcogen elcoStack® E3000 Generation 2 Solid Oxide Technology. Electrochemical Society Meeting Abstracts sofc2025, (1), 182-182.
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Effects of blending 2, 5-dimethylfuran and dimethyl ether to toluene primary reference fuels: A chemical kinetic study
Published in Fuel, 2021
Studies the effect of DME and DMF addition to TPRF gasoline surrogate within SI engine application. Proposes two skeletal kinetic mechanism for the new blend.
Citation: Bhattacharya, A., Shahanaghi, A., Kaario, O., Vuorinen, V., Tripathi, R. and Sarjovaara, T. (2021). Effects of blending 2,5-dimethylfuran and dimethyl ether to toluene primary reference fuels: A chemical kinetic study. Fuel, 304, p.121401.
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Fast reactive flow simulations using analytical Jacobian and dynamic load balancing in OpenFOAM
Published in Physics of Fluids, 2022
Detailed CFD simulation tutorials for DLBFoam library.
Citation: Morev, I., Tekgül, B., Gadalla, M., Shahanaghi, A., Kannan, J., Karimkashi, S., Kaario, O. and Vuorinen, V. (2022). Fast reactive flow simulations using analytical Jacobian and dynamic load balancing in OpenFOAM. Physics of Fluids, 34(2).
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Efficient two-dimensional simulation of primary reference fuel ignition under engine-relevant thermal stratification
Published in Physics of Fluids, 2023
ARCFoam framework combining dynamic mesh balancing, chemistry balancing, and adaptive mesh refinement for simulating engine knock and combustion modes in OpenFOAM
Citation: Shahanaghi, A., Karimkashi, S., Kaario, O., & Vuorinen, V. (2023). Efficient two-dimensional simulation of primary reference fuel ignition under engine-relevant thermal stratification. Physics of Fluids, 35(12).
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A diagnostic approach to assess the effect of temperature stratification on the combustion modes of gasoline surrogates
Published in Combustion Science and Technology, 2023
Development of an a-priori diagnostics tool to separate deflagration and auto-ignition combustion modes in spark-ignition engines, considering diffusion effects in NTC chemistry of gasoline surrogates.
Citation: Shahanaghi, A., Karimkashi, S., Kaario, O., Vuorinen, V., Tripathi, R., & Sarjovaara, T. (2023). A diagnostic approach to assess the effect of temperature stratification on the combustion modes of gasoline surrogates. Combustion Science and Technology, 195(16), 4112-4143.
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Numerical modeling of thermal stratification driven combustion regimes
Published in Aalto University, 2024
My Ph.D thesis on CFD about various combustion modes in spark ignition engines
Citation: Shahanaghi, A., 2024. Numerical modeling of thermal stratification driven combustion regimes.
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Temperature stratification induced ignition regimes for gasoline surrogates at engine-relevant conditions
Published in Combustion Science and Technology, 2024
Investigation of NTC chemistry effects on ignition modes for gasoline surrogates using 1D simulations, analyzing coolspots, secondary ignition kernels, and off-centered ignition.
Citation: Shahanaghi, A., Karimkashi, S., Kaario, O., Vuorinen, V., Sarjovaara, T., & Tripathi, R. (2024). Temperature stratification induced ignition regimes for gasoline surrogates at engine-relevant conditions. Combustion Science and Technology, 196(11), 1702-1742.
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CFD Simulation of Multistack Solid Oxide Cell Module Systems
Published in Electrochemical Society Meeting Abstracts sofc2025, 2025
CFD modeling of multistack SOC systems for MW-class applications.
Citation: Shahanaghi, A., & Noponen, M. (2025). CFD Simulation of Multistack Solid Oxide Cell Module Systems. Electrochemical Society Meeting Abstracts sofc2025, (1), 63-63.
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Graduate course, Tarbiat Modares University, Mechanical Engineering Department, 2017
Computational Multi-Phase Fluid Dynamics: Spring 2018
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Graduate course, Aalto University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2020
Thermochemical Energy Conversion: 2020-2022, instructor: Prof. Marti Larmi