Engr. Dr. M. Yamin Younis (PhD, PostDoc)

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, HEC Recognized PhD Supervisor Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur, AJK, Pakistan. Cell # 03108551682, Email: myyounis.me@must.edu.pk DoB: 26-02-1986 Nationality: Pakistani (Azad Kashmir)

Research Directions: Low speed Aerodynamics Experimental Fluid Mechanics Flow Visualization Bluff Body Aerodynamics Flow Separation/Control Particle Image Velocimetry Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Triboelectric Energy Harvesting Nano-Fluids

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (Total Impact Factor > 70) 1. Investigation of Heat Transfer in Wavy and Dual Wavy Micro-Channel Heat Sink using Alumina Nanoparticles. Mu-

hammad Zia Ullah Khan, M. Yamin Younis, Naveed Akram, Bilal Akbar, Umair Ahmad Rajput, Rumeel Ahmad Bhutta, Emad Uddin. Muhammad Ahsan Jamil, Fausto Pedro García Márquez, Fahad Bin Zahid. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering 2021, Vol. 28 (December), 101515. (IF 4.724)

2. Investigation of Heat transfer in dimple-protrusion Micro Channel Heat Sinks using Copper oxide Nano-additives. Muhammad Zia Ullah Khan, Bilal Akbar, Ramisha Sajjad, Umair Ahmed Rajput, Sanaullah Mastoi, Emad Uddin, Azhar Hussain, Md Yamin Younis, Fausto Pedro García Marquez, Naveed Akram Case Studies in Thermal Engi-neering 2021, Vol. 28 (December), 101374. (IF 4.724)

3. Numerical dynamic response and heat transfer analysis of flow around a freely oscillating circular cylinder at low Reynolds numbers. Asad Ijaz, S. Manzoor, Md. Yamin Younis, M. Ebrahem, Muzaffar Ali. Ocean Engineering, 2021, Vol. 238, 109708( (IF. 3.795)

4. Hydrodynamic energy harvesting analysis of two piezoelectric tandem flags under the influence of wakes of up-stream body. Ahmad Mujtaba, Usman Latif, Emad Uddin, Muhammad Yamin Younis, Jawad Aslam, Zaib Ali, M. Sajid and A. Abdelkefi. Applied Energy, 2021, Vol. 282 (A), 166173. (IF. 9.746)

5. Experimental electro-hydrodynamic investigation of flag-based energy harvesting in the wake of inverted C-shape cylinder. U. Latif, E. Uddin, M. Y. Younis, J. Aslam, Z. Ali, M. Sajid and A. Abdelkefi, Energy, 2021, Vol. 215 (B),

Education: BSc (Mechanical Engineering) 2003-07 UET Taxila, Pakistan MSc (Fluid Mechanics) 2009-11 National Key laboratory of Fluid Mechanics, BUAA, China PhD (Fluid Mechanics) 2011-14 National Key laboratory of Fluid Mechanics, BUAA, China

Teaching and Research Experience: Lecturer, (UCET Mirpur) 2007-09 Mechanical Engineering Department, UAJK, Pakistan Postdoctoral fellowship 2014-17 Center for Turbulence Control, HIT Shenzhen,China Assistant Professor 2017-date Mechanical Engineering Department, MUST, Mirpur.

Funded Projects

Sr. No Project Title Position Funding Agency Duration Amount

1. Waste heat recovery baffle for domestic gas/wood/coal fired water geysers.

Principle Investi-gator

MUST, Mirpur Pakistan

2020-2021 2,000.00

USD

2. Green Ceramics: Impact of Organic Waste on Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Ceramic Materials

Principle Investi-gator

MUST, Mirpur Pakistan

2018 2,000.00

USD

3. Design, Development and Community Adoption of Energy Efficient, Environment Friendly & Cost Effective Smokeless Fuel wood Stove for Hilly Areas of AJK-Pakistan. (Project No: 7056)

Co-Investigator HEC, Pakistan 2019-2021 20,000.00

USD

4. Experimental Investigation on vibration response of a cylinder in the wake of another cylinder (Grant No: 11672096)

Team Member National Science Foundation China

01-2017 to 12-2020

~140,000.00 USD

5. Flow induced vibration mechanism of a marine riser in the wake of another. (Grant Number:JCYJ20160531191442288)

Team Member Shenzhen Govern-ment, P.R.China

2016-2018 ~35,000.00

USD

6. Study on Mechanism of attachment saddle and flow control in 3D separated juncture flows (Grant No: 11372027)

Team Member National Science Foundation China

01-2014 to 12-2017

~135,000.00 USD

6. Experimental Investigation of Energy Harvesting Eel in the Wake of Bluff Body under Ocean Waves. Usman Latif,

Ehtisham Ali, Emad Uddin*, Zaib Ali, Mushtaq Khan, Samiur Rehman Shah and Md. Yamin Younis, Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment, 2021, 235(01), pp 81-92. (IF. 1.531)

7. Development of a linear acoustic array for aero-acoustic quantification of camber-bladed vertical axis wind turbine. Abdul Hadi Butt, Bilal Akbar, Jawad Aslam, Naveed Akram, Manzoore Elahi M Soudagar, Fausto Pedro García Márquez, Md. Yamin Younis and Emad Uddin. Sensors 2020, 20(20), 5954; doi:10.3390/s20205954 (IF. 3.576)

8. Investigation of Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in Microchannel Heat Sink Using Al2O3 and ZrO2 Nanofluids. Nanofluids. Muhammad Zia Ullah Khan, Emad Uddin, Bilal Akbar, Naveed Akram, Ali Ammar Naqvi, Muhammad Sajid, Zaib Ali, Md. Yamin Younis and Fausto Pedro García Márquez, Nanomaterals 10(9), 1796 (2020) (IF. 5.076)

9. Dynamic connection between inward foreign direct investment, renewable energy, economic growth and carbon emission in China: evidence from partial and multiple wavelet coherence. Hira Arain, Arshian Sharif, Bilal Akbar, Md. Yamin Younis, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08836-8

(2020) (IF 4.223)

10. Effect of vortices on power output of vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT), Ammar Naseem, Emad Uddin, Zaib Ali, Samiur Rehman Shah, Jawad Aslam, Muhammad Sajid, Ali Abbas Zaidi, Adeel Javed, Yamin Younis, Sustaina-

ble Energy Technologies and Assessments, Vol. 37, No. 2, (2020) (IF 5.353)

11. Suction controlled topological transition in laminar juncture flow, Bo Hu, Hua Zhang, Muhammad Yamin Younis,

Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 377–390 (2020) (IF 0.688)

12. Modeling global geometric spatial information for rotation invariant classification of satellite images, Nouman Ali, Bushra Zafar, Muhammad Kashif Iqbal, Muhammad Sajid, Muhammad Yamin Younis, Saadat Hanif Dar, Muham-

mad Tariq Mahmood, Ik Hyun Lee*, PLOS ONE, 14(7): e0219833. (2019) IF 2.776)

13. Saddle point of separation/attachment and topology transition in laminar juncture flows, Bo Hu, Hua Zhang, Mu-

hammad Yamin Younis, Journal of Visualization, Volume 22, Issue 4 (2019), pp 713–727 (IF 0.926)

14. Horseshoe vortex control using low-drag vortex generators, Muhammad Y. Younis*, Hua Zhang, Bo Hu, Emad Ud-din and Jawad Aslam, Wind and Structures an International Journal, Vol. 28, No. 6 (2019), 355-367 (IF 1.922)

15. Numerical Investigation of Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) interacting with a droplet for Point-of-Care Devices, Im-ran Shah, Emad Uddin, Aamir Mubashar, Muhammad Sajid, Muhammad Yamin Younis, Hudair Samad, Kyung Hyun choi, International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration, Vol. 24, No. 4, (2019) pp: 632-637 (IF 0.375)

16. Experimental and numerical investigation of the energy harvesting flexible flag in the wake of a bluff body. Usman Latif, Chaudary Abdullah, Emad Uddin, M. Yamin Younis, Muhamad Sajid, Samiur Rehman Shah and Aamir Mu-

basha, Wind and Structures an International Journal 26(5), 279-292 (2018). (IF 1.922)

17. Energy consumption forecasting of university sector buildings. Khuram Pervez Amber, Muhammad Waqar Aslam, Anzar Mahmood, Anila Kousar, Muhammad Yamin Younis Bilal Akbar, Ghulam Qadir Chaudhery, Syed Kashif Hussain, Energies 10, 1579 (2017). (IF. 2.707)

18. Flow around two non-parallel tandem cylinders. M. Y. Younis, M. M. Alam, and Y. Zhou, Physics of fluids, Vol. 28, 125106 (2016) (IF. 2.627)

19. Horseshoe vortex control using streamwise vortices Md. Yamin Younis, Hua Zhang, Reiwei Zhu, Zaka Muhammad, Procedia Engineering 126 ( 2015 ) 139 – 144

20. Experimental investigation on the transition of separation/attachment in steady laminar juncture flows, Bo Hu, Hua Zhang, Muhammad Yamin Younis, Yan Li, Malik Shaheryar Raza, Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 56, No. 4 (April 2015, 56:74) (IF. 2.443).

21. Topological evolution of laminar juncture flows under various critical parameters, YOUNIS Muhammad Yamin, ZHANG Hua, HU Bo & MEHMOOD Saqib, Science China Technological Sciences, Vol. 57, No. 7, pp. 1342–1351 (2014). (IF. 2.180)

22. Investigation of different aspects of laminar horseshoe vortex system using PIV, Muhammad Yamin Younis, Hua Zhang, Bo Hu, Zaka Muhammad and Saqib Mehmood, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 527~537,(2014). (IF. 1.221)

23. Attachment saddle point topology and transformation of 3-D separation in Juncture flows, Hua Zhang • Bo Hu • Muhammad Yamin Younis • Hong Wang • Xuee Wang , Journal of Beijing Universi-ty of Aeronautics and Astro-nautics, July 2012.

24. Investigation of attachment saddle point structure of 3-D steady separation in laminar juncture flow using PIV, Hua Zhang • Muhammad Yamin Younis • Bo Hu • Hong Wang • Xuee Wang, Journal of Visualization (2012) 15:241–252. (IF. 0.879)

25. Vortical Flow Topology on Windward and Leeward side of Delta Wing at Supersonic Speed, Y. Younis, A. Bibi, A.U. Haque & S. Khushnood Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics (JAFM) Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 13-21, 2009. (IF. 0.918)

Conference Articles: 1. Effect of corner modification on flow characteristics of a 3D square cylinder. Ahmad Hammad, Emad Uddin, Zaib

Ali, Syed Atif Iqrar and Muhammad Yamin Younis, (ASEM19) Jeju Island, Korea, September 17 - 21, 2019.

2. Horseshoe vortex control using low-drag vortex generators, M. Y. Younis, Hua Zhang, Bo Hu, Emad Uddin and Ja-wad Aslam, ACEM18, Korea.

3. Flow around nonparallel cylinders. Md. Yamin Younis, Md. Mahbub Alam, Zhou Yu, tenth international symposi-um on turbulence and shear flow phenomenon (TSPF-10), July 6-9, 2017. Chicago-IL, USA.

4. Flow topology around two non-parallel cylinders in tandem, Md Mahbub A, Younis MY, Zhou Y, FSSIC-04, 21 – 24 August 2017, Tokyo, Japan

5. Experimental and numerical investigation of the energy harvesting flexible flag in the wake of a bluff body . Chaudary Abdullah, Emad Uddin, Aamir Mubashar, Muhammad Sajid, Samiur Rehman Shah and M. Yamin Younis, Advances in structural engineer ing and mechanics, 28 aug-01sept 2017, Seoul, Korea.

6. Evolution of Topology caused by Aspect ratio (H/D) and boundary layer thickness Reynolds num-ber (Reδ*) in juncture flows. M. Y. Younis, Zhang Hua, Zaka Muhammad and Hu Bo, ExHFT-8, June 16-20, 2013, Lisbon, Por-tugal.

7. The transition and mechanism of 3-D separation topologies of juncture flows, Hua ZHANG, Bo HU, Yaolong Liu, Md. Yamin YOUNIS, Proceedings of 12th Asian Symposium on Visualization, May 19-22, 2013, Taiwan.

8. Control of Juncture Flows” Md.Yamin Younis, Zhang Hua, Zaw Zaw Oo, Zaka Muhammad, Hu Bo, 2010 APISAT, Xian China. September, 2010.

Book Chapters: 1. Laminar Horse Shoe Vortex for a Triangular Cylinder Flat Plate Juncture, Muhammad Yamin Younis, H. Zhang, B.

Hu, Muhammad Amjad Sohail, Zaka Muhammad, RECENT PROGRESSES IN FLUID DYNAMICS RESEARCH, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Fluid Mechanics, AIP Conference Proceedings, ISBN: 978-0-7354-0936-1, pp: 131-133 (2011)

2. Effects of Mach Numbers on Side Force, Yawing Moment and Surface Pressure, Muhammad Amjad Sohail∗, Zaka Muhammad, Mukkarum Husain, Muhammad Yamin Younis, RECENT PROGRESSES IN FLUID DYNAMICS RESEARCH, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Fluid Mechanics, AIP Conference Proceed-ings, ISBN: 978-0-7354-0936-1, pp: 169-171 (2011)

3. Investigation on Existence and Evolution of Attachment Saddle Point Structure of 3-D Separation in Juncture Flow Hua Zhang, H. Bo, M. Y. Younis, H. Wang and Y. L. Liu, Proceedings of 9th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences & Technology (IBCAST), IEEE Publication, ISBN: 978-1-4577-1929-5, pp: 247-253 (2012)

4. Topological Investigation of Unsteady Laminar Juncture Vortex System, M. Y. Younis, H. Zhang, S. Mehmood and J. Aslam, Proceedings of 9th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences & Technology (IBCAST), IEEE Publication, ISBN: 978-1-4799-2319-9, pp: 257-262.

Articles Under Review/Submitted: 1. Comparison of solid and hollow bluff bodies on performance and dynamics of flag-based energy harvesters. Emad Uddin,

Usman Latif, Yamin Younis, Zaib Ali, Muhammad Sajid, Aamir Mubashar, Jawad Aslam, Abdessattar Abdelkefi, Renew-able Energy (Under Review)

2. Analysis of Tribocorrosion in Titanium Alloyed Prosthetic Hip Joint Using Active Corrosion Protection Technique. Awais Jalali, Mariyam Sattar, M Latif, M Yamin Younis, Ahmad Adnan Shoukat, Saira Bibi, Journal of Tribology (Under Re-view)

3. Flow Behavior around a Wall-Mounted Square Cylinder with Corner Chamfer. A. Hammad, M. Y. Younis, E. Uddin, Z. Ali, M. Sattar, A. Javed, Ocean Engineering (Under Review)

4. Experimental aeroacoustics analysis of blade formation on vertical axis wind turbine, Muhammad Ahsan Jamil, Emad Ud-din, Muhammad Zia Ullah Khan, Jawad Aslam, Adeel Javed, Salim Uddin Zahir, Naveed Akram, M. Yamin Younis, Re-newable Energy (Submitted)

Awards/ Honors/Grants

1. Travel grant to attend ACEM18, InCheon Korea. 28-31 August, 2018 (Funded by HEC Pakistan)

2. 1st Prize Beijing Government Scholarship for Excellent Study in (PhD) (Beihang University, 2013)

3. 1st Prize Beijing Government Scholarship for Excellent Study in (MS) (Beihang University, 2010)

4. 1st Prize Beijing Government Scholarship for Outstanding Behavior (PhD) (Beihang University, 2010)

5. MS leading to PhD scholarship (2009-2014), by UAJK + HEC Pakistan.

Reviewer of Journals

1. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessment.

2. Journal of Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering

3. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science

4. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

5. Mathematical Problems in Engineering

6. Ocean Engineering

Research Partnership/Technical Collaborations

1. Area of Research: Energy Harvesting from Piezoelectr ic Membrane.

Collaborator: Dr . Emad Uddin, SMME NUST, Islamabad Pakistan.

2. Area of Research: Flow around bluff bodies.

Collaborator: Prof. Md. Mahbub Alam, CTC, HIT Shenzhen, China.

3. Area of Research: Juncture flows and its Control.

Collaborator: Prof. Hua Zhang, Beihang University (BUAA), China

4. Area of Research: Particle Image Velocimetry

Collaborator: MicroVec PIV Systems, Beijing China

Courses Taught

Undergraduate level

1. Fluid Mechanics-I (2017-Onwards)

2. Fluid Mechanics-II (2017-Onwards)

3. Entrepreneurship (2018)

4. Engineering Materials (2019)

Graduate level

1. Advanced Fluid Mechanics

2. Advanced Aerodynamics