Mr. Mahmood Rahmani Firozjaei | University of Tehran | Iran
Mr. Mahmood Rahmani Firozjaei is a civil engineer and researcher specializing in hydraulic and marine engineering, with a Ph.D. from the University of Tehran, where he conducted experimental and numerical investigations on seawater intake structures for desalination plants. He holds an M.Sc. in Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics from Tarbiat Modares University, focusing on numerical studies of lateral pipe intake, and a B.Sc. and A.S. in Civil Engineering from Tabari University. His research interests span machine learning applications in hydraulics, PIV systems, hydrodynamic modeling, sediment transport, coastal engineering, scouring, and hydraulic structures. He has served as a peer reviewer for conferences, contributed to numerical methods research, and worked as a laboratory assistant at the University of Tehran, teaching PIV and WaveMaker systems and participating in open-channel facility development. As a teaching assistant, he supported water and wastewater engineering courses, and as a lecturer, he taught civil engineering subjects at Maziar University. His engineering experience includes designing and modeling surface water collection networks in Tehran and completing advanced modeling projects involving CE-QUAL-W2, MIKE 21, and FLOW-3D for water quality analysis, wave prediction, and breakwater simulations. He has received notable academic honors, including ranking first among civil engineering bachelor students and winning the Professor Hessabi Prize for best thesis. His research output includes 8 published documents, with 60 citations across 42 sources and an h-index of 4, reflecting his growing contributions to hydraulic and marine engineering.
Featured Publications
Rahmani Firozjaei, M., Salehi Neyshabouri, S. A. A., Amini Sola, S., & … (2019). Numerical simulation on the performance improvement of a lateral intake using submerged vanes. Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Civil Engineering, 34.
Naeeni, S. T. O., Rahmani Firozjaei, M., Hajebi, Z., & Akbari, H. (2023). Investigation of the performance of the response surface method to optimize the simulations of hydraulic phenomena. Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, 8(1), 10.
Rahmani Firozjaei, M., Behnamtalab, E., & Salehi Neyshabouri, S. A. A. (2020). Numerical simulation of the lateral pipe intake: Flow and sediment field. Water and Environment Journal, 34(2), 291–304.
Firozjaei, M. R., Naeeni, S. T. O., & Akbari, H. (2024). Evaluation of seawater intake discharge coefficient using laboratory experiments and machine learning techniques. Ships and Offshore Structures, 19(9), 1394–1407.
Firozjaei, M. R., Hajebi, Z., Naeeni, S. T. O., & Akbari, H. (2024). Discharge performance of a submerged seawater intake in unsteady flows: Combination of physical models and decision tree algorithms. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 60, 105198.
Hajebi, Z., Firozjaei, M. R., Naeeni, S. T. O., & Akbari, H. (2024). Hydraulic performance of bottom intake velocity caps using PIV and OpenFOAM methods. Applied Water Science, 14(3), 38.
Firozjaiy, M. R., Talab, E. B., & Neyshabouri, S. (2019). Numerical simulation of lateral pipe intake from open channel. Iranian Journal of Soil and Water Research, 50(1), 135–147.