Zak Mansouri

Role

Dr Zak Mansouri is a Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering, Course Director for Aerospace Engineering, and leading the Development and Diagnostic of Alternative Fules (DDAF) Laboratory.

Zak is a member of the Imaging, Materials and Engineering Research Centre (IMEC).

Teaching duties include:

• Solid Mechanics & Dynamics - Year 1 (Module Leader)
• Advanced Dynamics & Vibration - Year 2 (Module Leader)
• Individual Engineering Project - Year 3 (Module Co-Leader)
• Individual Industrial/Research Engineering Project - Year 4 (Module Co-Leader)
• Industrial Design & Product Case Studies - Year 2 (Contributor)

Career overview

Zak was a research and teaching fellow in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham. His teaching duties were lecturing "Advanced Propulsion" Year 3 MEng Aerospace Engineering and "Introduction to Aerospace Technology" Year 3 MEng Mechanical Engineering. He was a member of the Mechanical and Aerospace Systems Research Group - MAS (formerly known as Gas Turbine and Transmissions Research Centre - G2TRC) hosting Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre.

From 2019 to 2021, he was a senior consultant in Mechanical & Energy Engineering for industrial R&D projects at Abylsen Group, at the Science and Technology business unit in Lyon, France. During this role, he accomplished a one-year consulting mission at GE Renewable Energy as a CFD and turbomachinery expert working on €2.5 million research projects. His consultancy has contributed to the modernisation of Limmern pumped storage plant turbines in Switzerland and designing the turbines of Kundah hydropower plant in India.

Prior to his consultancy career, Zak was a post-doctoral researcher for one year at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission and member of the Department of Thermal Science, Biomass and Hydrogen. He worked on the thermal management of processes. In 2017, Zak was awarded an independent research fellowship of €50,000 funded by the French National Agency for Research (ANR) to work on low-carbon combustion technology.

Zak received his PhD from the University of Laghouat in Algeria in 2016. He was awarded a doctoral scholarship to spend 3 years at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) working on the modelling of swirl-stabilised flames and hydrogen combustion.

External activity

Learned Society:

• Member of the Institute of Physics (MInstP).
• Member of the Combustion Institute (MemCI) British section.

Reviewing Service:

Reviewer for different renowned journals such as (the list is not exhaustive):

• International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
• Combustion Science and Technology
• Combustion and Flame
• International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow

Reviewer for different researcher funders:

Sponsors and collaborators

Funders

Industrial and non-profit collaborators:

• Lanemark Combustion Engineering Ltd (UK)
• Materials Processing Institute (UK)
• TSI Incorporated (USA)
• ArcelorMittal (France)
• Fenix Energy (France)

Academic partners :

• University of Strasbourg (France)
• University of Orleans (France)
• National Institutes of Science and Technology (France)
• National Higher School of Technology and Engineering (Algeria)