Biography
Dr Shahsavari is a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Thermofluids Institute, where he works on numerical simulations of icing in hydrogen heat exchangers for zero-carbon aviation. He received his Master’s and PhD in Aerospace Engineering (Propulsion) from Sharif University of Technology, focusing on experimental and numerical investigations of thermoacoustic instabilities in dry low-NOx combustion.
After completing his PhD, he joined the School of Aerospace Engineering at Tsinghua University (2018–2021) as a postdoctoral researcher, developing advanced CFD tools for turbulent supercritical fluid flows. In 2021, he was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship hosted at the University of Birmingham, where he developed a technique grounded in the plasma-assisted combustion concept to improve the burning of ammonia and hydrogen–ammonia fuels.
He moved to the University of Oxford in 2023, working with the Impact Engineering, Solid Mechanics, and Materials Engineering group. As part of the MHz-TOMOSCOPY project, he developed high-fidelity CFD codes for multiphase flows and helped design experimental setups to study hydrodynamic and laser-induced cavitation.
Research Interests
- Multiphase Flows
- Plasma-assisted Combustion
- Combustion Instabilities
- Supercritical Fluid Flows
