Dr. Hosseini's responsibilities include the investigation of fire cause and origin, smoldering combustion, dermal injury hazards from consumer appliances, and assisting in the investigation of explosions in commercial refrigeration plants. Specializing in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), his background also includes numerical analysis, aircraft propulsion, rocket propulsion, aircraft design, combustion, thermodynamics, heat transfer, parallel computing, and business administration.
Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Hosseini was a Research Assistant in Stanford University’s Aerospace Computing Laboratory, where his research focused on developing advanced algorithms for the Department of Energy’s Advanced Simulation and Computing project enabling massively parallel fluid dynamics simulations. As part of his graduate work he was a Teaching Assistant for graduate-level classes in numerical analysis for CFD, aircraft propulsion, and rocket propulsion. He was also involved in a hybrid rocket project where he designed a controller for an experimental engine. Before joining Stanford, he worked on various internal combustion rotary engine projects in Toulouse, France. His responsibilities included writing engine simulation programs, designing laboratory model combustion chambers, conducting laser-Doppler velocimetry and interferometric photography of flame fronts.
Hosseini K. Practical implementation of robust preconditioners for optimized multistage flow solvers. Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University, June 2005.
Kim S, Hosseini K, Jameson A. Enhancement of adjoint design methods via optimization of adjoint parameters. Proceedings, 43rd Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2005.
Hosseini K, Alonso JJ. Practical implementation and improvement of preconditioning methods for explicit multistage flow solvers. Proceedings, 42nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2004.
Hosseini K, Alonso JJ. Optimization of multistage coefficients for explicit multigrid flow solvers. Proceedings, 16th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Orlando, FL, June 2003.