Prof. Alexander Gelfgat

Full Professor with tenure, School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University. 

RESEARCH INTERESTS: −

• Thermal, mechanical and electromagnetic control of stability of flows driven by convection and rotation in crystal growth processes and devices.
• Electrohydrodynamic control of thermocapillary drift of drops and bubbles.
• Numerical tracking of moving phase-change fronts and capillary boundaries.
• Heat and mass transfer enhancement by vortical flows induced by hydrodynamic instabilities.
• Modeling of three-dimensional instabilities of convective and rotating flows.
• Flows in helical pipes
• MHD applications in materials processing.
• Generalized stability theory, non-modal perturbation growth, bypass transition.
• Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of 3D flows.
• Spatially developing instabilities in shear flows.
• Spectral methods for numerical fluid dynamics and heat/mass transfer.
• Finite volume method in computational fluid dynamics and heat/mass transfer.
• Pressure-velocity coupled CFD
• Experimental studies on flow instabilities.
• Numerical application of stability analysis in computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer.
• Parallelization of CFD codes on parallel computers
• Benchmarking and experimental validation of numerical codes