Rate My Professor Shakil Ahmed

Dr. Shakil Ahmed serves as a Senior Research Fellow in the WASM: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. He also holds positions as a course developer, unit coordinator, and unit lecturer at the Engineering Institute of Technology. Ahmed earned his PhD in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from Swinburne University of Technology between 2001 and 2005. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology from December 1998 to August 2001. Prior to joining Curtin University, he spent 17 years as a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO. He developed the course 'Numerical Reservoir Simulation' for the petroleum engineering departments at Curtin University of Technology and Edith Cowan University. His expertise encompasses complex fluid flow, structural analysis, thermodynamics, heat transfer, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, multi-component multi-phase flow, digital rock technology, fluid-structure interaction, biomedical engineering, and combustion. Current research interests include long- and short-term energy storage such as hydrogen and compressed air, carbon capture utilization and storage, and hydrogen production and transportation.

Ahmed has made significant contributions to teaching and research, supervising numerous PhD, master's, and undergraduate students, examining PhD theses, and reviewing over 75 papers for renowned journals in the past five years. He has led and participated in multiple strategic and externally funded projects, serves as an assessor for Australian Research Council grant applications, and is affiliated with MIEAus. Key publications include 'CO2-Saturated Brine Injection Into Unconsolidated Sandstone: Implications for Carbon Geosequestration' (Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2019), 'The effect of jet velocity ratio on aerodynamics of a rectangular slot-burner in the presence of cross-flow' (Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 2007), 'Numerical investigation to assess the possibility of utilizing a new type of mechanically thermally dewatered (MTE) coal in existing tangentially-fired furnaces' (Heat and Mass Transfer, 2011), 'Drained pore modulus and Biot coefficient from pore-scale digital rock simulations' (2019), and 'Investigating the Influence of Wettability and Direction on Supercritical CO2 Trapping' (2018). Throughout his career, he has published many fully refereed articles, conference papers, non-refereed articles, extended abstracts, and client reports.