Nima Atabaki

Associate Professor of Teaching

P.Eng.; B.Sc. (Sharif U. Tech.); M.A.Sc. (École Poly. Montréal); Ph.D. (McGill)

Selected Awards

• Killam Teaching Award, The University of British Columbia, 2016.

Research Interests

Experimental and theoretical research in the field of heat and mass transfer, with applications to the conversion, storage, and use of energy resources.

Current Research Work

• Loop heat pipes
• Two-phase fluid flow and heat transfer
• Effective thermal conductivity of fluid saturated sintered powder metal plates
• HVAC systems

Teaching Activities

• MECH 473 HVAC
• MECH 375 Heat Transfer

Publications

• A. Keefe, N. Atabaki, P. Jenkins, and K. Rideout, “Evidence Review: Filtration in institutional settings during wildfire smoke events,” 2014.
• N. Atabaki, N. Jesuthasan, and B. R. Baliga, “Steady-State Network Thermofluid Models of Loop Heat Pipes,” in ASME/JSME 2007 Thermal Engineering Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2007 InterPACK Conference, 2007, pp. 327–337.
• N. Atabaki, Experimental and computational studies of loop heat pipes, vol. 68. 2006.
• N. Atabaki and M. Bernier, “A Semi-Empirical Model for Residential Electric Hot Water Tanks.,” ASHRAE Transactions, vol. 111, no. 1, 2005.
• N. Atabaki and B. R. Baliga, “Steady-state operation of a loop heat pipe: network thermofluid model and results,” in ASME 2003 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2003, pp. 73–85.
• N. Atabaki, Études expérimentales et numériques sur le comportement thermique des chauffe-eau électriques. 2002.
• N. ATABAKI and M. BERNIER, “Détermination expérimentale des caractéristiques de la zone de mélange au bas d’un chauffe-eau électrique,” in Thermique des systèmes. Colloque universitaire franco-québécois, 2001, pp. 455–462.

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