selected publications academic article Gencturk, M., Ozturk, A., & Ahmed, K. (2023). Effect of Production Bias on Radiation-Induced Segregation in Ni-Cr Alloys. Materials. 16(23), 7475-7475. Badry, F., Singh, M., Ortega, L. H., Mcdeavitt, S. M., & Ahmed, K. (2022). An experimentally validated mesoscale model for the effective thermal conductivity of U-Zr fuels. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 574, 154203-154203. McClenny, L. D., Butt, M. I., Abdoelatef, M. G., Pate, M. J., Yee, K. L., Harikrishnan, R., ... Ahmed, K. (2022). Experimentally validated multiphysics modeling of fracture induced by thermal shocks in sintered UO2 pellets. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 565, 153719-153719. Weiss, A. G., Zaidan, L. J., Bani Ahmad, M., Abdoelatef, M. G., Peterson, J. W., Lindsay, A. D., ... Kimber, M. L. (2022). Characterization of the Finite Element Computational Fluid Dynamics Capabilities in the Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment. Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science. 9(2), Ozturk, A., Gencturk, M., & Ahmed, K. (2021). Surface and Size Effects on the Behaviors of Point Defects in Irradiated Crystalline Solids. Frontiers in Materials. 8, 684862-684862. Badry, F., & Ahmed, K. (2020). A new model for the effective thermal conductivity of polycrystalline solids. AIP Advances. 10(10), 105021. Badry, F., Brito, R., Abdoelatef, M. G., McDeavitt, S., & Ahmed, K. (2019). An Experimentally Validated Mesoscale Model of Thermal Conductivity of a UO2 and BeO Composite Nuclear Fuel. JOM. 71(12), 4829-4838. Abdoelatef, M. G., Badry, F., Schwen, D., Permann, C., Zhang, Y., & Ahmed, K. (2019). Mesoscale Modeling of High Burn-Up Structure Formation and Evolution in UO2. JOM. 71(12), 4817-4828. Ahmed, K., & El-Azab, A. (2018). An analysis of two classes of phase field models for void growth and coarsening in irradiated crystalline solids. Materials Theory. 2(1), 1. Aagesen, L. K., Gao, Y., Schwen, D., & Ahmed, K. (2018). Grand-potential-based phase-field model for multiple phases, grains, and chemical components. Physical Review E. 98(2-1), 023309. Aagesen, L. K., Schwen, D., Ahmed, K., & Tonks, M. R. (2017). Quantifying elastic energy effects on interfacial energy in the Kim-Kim-Suzuki phase-field model with different interpolation schemes. COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE. 140, 10-21. Ahmed, K., Tonks, M., Zhang, Y., Biner, B., & El-Azab, A. (2017). Particle-grain boundary interactions: A phase field study. COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE. 134, 25-37. Ahmed, K., Allen, T., & El-Azab, A. (2016). Phase field modeling for grain growth in porous solids. Journal of Materials Science. 51(3), 1261-1277. El-Azab, A., Ahmed, K., Rokkam, S., & Hochrainer, T. (2014). Diffuse interface modeling of void growth in irradiated materials. Mathematical, thermodynamic and atomistic perspectives. Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science. 18(2), 90-98. Ahmed, K., Pakarinen, J., Allen, T., & El-Azab, A. (2014). Phase field simulation of grain growth in porous uranium dioxide. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 446(1-3), 90-99. Ahmed, K., Yablinsky, C. A., Schulte, A., Allen, T., & El-Azab, A. (2013). Phase field modeling of the effect of porosity on grain growth kinetics in polycrystalline ceramics. MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. 21(6), 065005-065005. chapter Ahmed, K., & El-Azab, A. (2018). Phase-Field Modeling of Microstructure Evolution in Nuclear Materials. Andreoni, W., & Yip, S. (Eds.), Handbook of Materials Modeling: Applications: Current and Emerging Materials. (pp. 1-21). Springer International Publishing. conference paper Weiss, A. G., Abdoelatef, M. G., Ahmad, M., Ahmed, K., & Kimber, M. L. (2021). A PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF THE COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS CAPABILITIES IN MOOSE Ahmed, K., Deng, J., & El-Azab, A. (2010). Computational Modeling of Microstructure Evolution in Thermal Barrier Coating Systems Ahmed, K., Deng, J., & El-Azab, A. (2010). Computational modeling of the sintering process in thermal barrier coating systems Deng, J., Ahmed, K., & El-Azab, A. (2009). Phase Field Simulation of Sintering of Thermal Barrier Coatings report Ahmed, K., Zhang, Y., Schwen, D., Permann, C., & Bai, X. (2017). Model Development in MARMOT for High-Burnup-Structure (HBS) Formation Aagesen, L. K., Ahmed, K., Beeler, B., Schwen, D., Zhang, Y., & Andersson, D. (2017). Multi-Scale Modeling of Swelling in Accident-Tolerant U3Si2 Fuel Zhang, Y., Schwen, D., Aagesen, L. K., & Ahmed, K. (2016). Overview of lower length scale model development for accident tolerant fuels regarding U3Si2 fuel and FeCrAl cladding Ahmed, K., Bai, X., Zhang, Y., & Biner, B. (2016). High-Burnup-Structure (HBS): Model Development in MARMOT for HBS Formation and Stability Under Radiation and High Temperature Zhang, Y., Schwen, D., Chakraborty, P., Jiang, C., Aagesen, L. K., & Ahmed, K. (2016). MARMOT update for oxide fuel modeling Ahmed, K., Tonks, M., Zhang, Y., & Biner, B. (2016). UO2 Grain Growth: Developing Phase Field Models for Pore Dragging, Solute Dragging and Anisotropic Grain Boundary Energies
co-principal investigator on Demonstration of a Methodology for Direct Validation of MARMOT Irradiation-Induced Microstructural Evolution and Physical Property Models Using U-10ZR NEUP 18-14741 awarded by United States Department of Energy - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2018 - 2022
teaching activities MSEN619 Matl Model Phase Trans Instructor MSEN684 Professional Internship Instructor MSEN684 Professional Internship: In-ab Instructor MSEN691 Research Instructor NUEN265 Matl Sci Nuclear Energy Instructor NUEN485 Directed Studies Instructor NUEN491 Hnr-research Instructor NUEN660 Matl Model Phase Trans Instructor NUEN684 Professional Internship: In-ab Instructor NUEN685 Directed Studies Instructor NUEN685 Directed Studies Instructor NUEN689 Sptp: Mod Sim Nucl Mater Instructor NUEN689 Sptp: Multi Scal Model Matl Instructor NUEN689 Sptp:materials Modeling Of Ph Instructor NUEN691 Research Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations Abdoelatef, Mohammed G. (2019-11). MESOSCALE MODELING OF GRAIN REFINEMENT IN SOLIDS.
education and training Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University - (West Lafayette, Indiana, United States) 2015 M.S. in Materials Science, Florida State University - (Tallahassee, Florida, United States) 2011 B.S. in Nuclear Engineering, Alexandria University - (Alexandria, Egypt) 2008
mailing address Texas A&M University Nuclear Engineering 3133 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-3133 USA