Mahsa Ebrahim

Dr. Mahsa Ebrahim, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, trains her students to be creative and reliable designers through collaborative classroom learning and opportunities for undergraduate research.

Ebrahim, who joined the top-ranked LMU Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering in 2018, teaches undergraduate courses in Thermal-Fluid Science, among others, and performs experimental and numerical research in electronic cooling, spray cooling, droplet impingement, multi-phase flows, interfacial flows, and phase interactions.

Ebrahim leads the MultiPhase Thermal Fluid Science Laboratory. Along with the help of five undergraduate research assistants, she is currently working on designing an effective cooling system for a brachytherapy needle prototype that is actuated with three spare memory alloy wires (SMA).

Outside of the classroom and lab, Ebrahim is also the advisor for the Loyola Marymount Aerospace Research Society (LoyolaMARS), which provides a safe and engaging experience for undergraduate students to apply their engineering skills towards the development of rockets and rocket propulsion technology. Moreover, the LoyolaMARS team emphasizes professional development, preparing students to pursue successful careers in the aerospace industry.

Dr. Ebrahim received her B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the K.N.Toosi University of Technology in 2009. She earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University in 2017.

ARTICLES

“Simulation of the spreading of a gas-propelled micro-droplet upon impact on a dry surface using a lattice-Boltzmann approach” Physics of Fluids Ebrahim, M. , Delbosc, N., Ortega, A., Wilson, M. C.T and Summers, J. July 2017

“An Experimental Technique for Accelerating a Single Liquid Droplet to High Impact Velocities against a Solid Target Surface using a Propellant Gas”, Journal of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science Ebrahim, M. and Ortega, A. 2017.81: p. 202-208

“Identification of the Impact Regimes of a Liquid Droplet Propelled by a Gas Stream Impinging onto a Dry Surface at Moderate to High Weber Number” Journal of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science Ebrahim, M. and Ortega, A. 2017. 80: p. 168-180

"Experiment and Simulation of Impinging Synthetic Jet Designed to Eliminate Actuator Artifacts" ASME Silva, L., Ebrahim, M., and Ortega, A. Proc. of the ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference HT2012

"Heat Transfer due to the Impingement of an Axisymmetric Synthetic Jet Emanating from a Circular Orifice: A Numerical Investigation of a Canonical Geometry" InterPACK Ebrahim, M., Silva, L., and Ortega, A. Proc. of the 2013 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (InterPACK2013)

“ Development of an Algebraic Grid Generation for CFD applications” ISME Ebrahim, M., Ashrafizadeh, A. and Ghasemi, M. 2009