Yassin A. Hassan

Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Associate Department Head

Date of Appointment: 1986
Office: 129 Zachry Engineering Center
Phone: 979/845-7090
Fax: 979/845-6443
E-mail: y-hassan@tamu.edu

Mailing Address: Texas A&M University
Department of Nuclear Engineering
3133 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3133

Education
Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, University of Illinois, 1979
M.S., Nuclear Engineering, University of Illinois, 1975
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Virginia, 1985
B.S., Engineering, University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1968

Courses
NUEN 609, Nuclear Reactor Safety
NUEN 610
NUEN 624, Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics and Stress Analysis

Areas of Interest
Computational and experimental thermal hydraulics
Reactor Safety
Fluid Mechanics
Two-phase flow
Turbulence and laser velocimetry
Imaging techniques

Curriculum Vita

EXPERIENCE

Principal Engineer, Nuclear Power Division, Babcock & Wilcox Company, 1984-1986
Senior Engineer, Nuclear Power Division, Babcock & Wilcox Company, 1982-1984
Engineer, Nuclear Power Division, Babcock & Wilcox Company, 1980-1982

AWARDS/RECOMMENDATIONS

Fellow of the American Nuclear Society
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Glenn Murphy Award of the American Society of Association for Engineering Education
1992 TEES Senior Fellow
1990-1991 TEES Fellow
1991-1992 TEES Fellow
Who's Who in Science and Engineering

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Nuclear Society
American Society for Engineering Education
American Institute for Chemical Engineers
American Institute for Physics
The International Society for Optical Engieering

PUBLICATIONS

Hari, S. and Hassan, Y. A., “Improvement of the Subcooled Boiling Model for Low-Pressure Conditions in Thermal-Hydraulic Codes,” Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 216/1-3, pp. 139-152, 2002.

Troshko, A. A. and Hassan, Y. A., “Law of the Wall for Two-Phase Turbulent Boundary Layers,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.44, Issue 4, pp. 871-875, Feb 2001.

Hassan, Y. A.; Ortiz-Villafuerte, J. and Todd, D. R., “Velocity Measurements in Bubbly Flows with Particle Tracking Velocimetry,” Journal of Flow Visualization & Image Processing, Vol. 8, pp. 243-252, 2001.

Hassan, Y.A.; Ortiz-Villafuerte, J and Schmidl, W.D., “Three-Dimensional Measurements of Single Bubble Dynamics in a Small Diameter Pipe Using Stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry,” International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 817-842, May 2001.

Troshko, A. A. and Hassan, Y. A., “Two-Equation Turbulence Model of Turbulent Bubbly Flow,” International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 27, pp. 1965-2000, 2001.

Hassan, Y. A; Schmidl, W. D. and Ortiz-Villafuerte, J., "Investigation of Three-Dimensional Two-Phase Flow Structure in a Bubbly Pipe," Flow Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 309-326, 1998.

Hassan, Y. A. and Philip, O. G., "A New Artificial Neural Network Tracking Technique for Particle Image Velocimetry", Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 22, pp. 145-154, 1997.

Barsamian, H. R. and Hassan, Y. A., "Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Crossflow in Tube Bundles," Nuclear Engineering and Design Journal, Vo. 172, pp. 103-122, 1997.

Hassan, Y. A. and Ibrahim, W. A., "Turbulence Prediction in Two-Dimensional Bundle Flows Using Large Eddy Simulation," Nuclear Technology Journal, Vol. 119, No. 1, pp. 11-28, July 1997.

Hassan, Y. A. and Troshko, A. A.; "Simulation of the Loss of Residual Heat Removal System of BETHSY Integral Test Facility Using CATHARE Thermal Hydraulic Code," Nuclear Technology Journal, Vol. 119, No. 1, pp. 29-37, July 1997.