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Faculty of Mathematics

 

My research interests lie at the overlap of cardiovascular engineering, fluid mechanics, numerical methods for computational fluid dynamics and high-performance computing. I am particularly interested in investigating and control of adverse blood flow events in the left heart, past the aortic valve and in the thoracic aorta, mainly those linked to turbulence.

Publications

Sensitivity and downstream influence of the impinging leading-edge vortex instability in a bileaflet mechanical heart valve
H Zolfaghari, RR Kerswell, D Obrist, PJ Schmid
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2022)
936,
a41
A high-throughput hybrid task and data parallel Poisson solver for large-scale simulations of incompressible turbulent flows on distributed GPUs
H Zolfaghari, D Obrist
– Journal of Computational Physics
(2021)
437,
110329
Absolute instability of impinging leading edge vortices in a submodel of a bileaflet mechanical heart valve
H Zolfaghari, D Obrist
– Physical Review Fluids
(2019)
4,
123901
An immersed boundary method for fluid-structure interaction based on variational transfer
MGC Nestola, B Becsek, H Zolfaghari, P Zulian, D De Marinis, R Krause, D Obrist
– Journal of Computational Physics
(2019)
398,
108884
High-order accurate simulation of incompressible turbulent flows on many parallel GPUs of a hybrid-node supercomputer
H Zolfaghari, B Becsek, MGC Nestola, WB Sawyer, R Krause, D Obrist
– Computer Physics Communications
(2019)
244,
132
Simulations of viscoelastic two-phase flows in complex geometries
H Zolfaghari, D Izbassarov, M Muradoglu
– Computers & Fluids
(2017)
156,
548
8th World Congress of Biomechanics O1707: Transition to Turbulent Flow in Heart Valve Prostheses
H Zolfaghari, D Obrist

Research Groups

Fluid Mechanics
High-Reynolds-Number Fluid Flow

Room

H1.17