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Dr Ruth Mossad

Name :	Dr Ruth Mossad
Position :	Senior Lecturer (Mechanical Engineering)
Section :	Faculty of Engineering and Surveying Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering
Office :	Z428
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	61 7 4631 2615
Extension :	2615
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BEng, MEng Cairo PhD New Mexico SU

Home Page : http://www.usq.edu.au/faculty/engsurv/staff/StaffDetails.asp?Username=mossad
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Languages

Language	Accredited Translator	Proficiency Levels *N/A = not available
		Speaking	Reading	Writing
LEB	No

Professional Memberships

Member of the Institute of Engineers Australia (IEAust).
Member of the Egyptian Syndicate of Engineers.

Research Interests

Air Ventilation in Animal Housing

Designing Silos for Quality Grain

Finite Element Solution of a Simplified Model of Overland Flooding Through Strip Cropped Fields.

Numerical Investigation of the thermal efficiency of different designs of display refrigeration doors

Prediction of Performance of Flat Plate Solar Collectors based on the Thermosiphon Phenomena

Multiphase flow

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Craig I, Aravinthan V, Baillie C, Beswick A, Barnes G, Bradbury R, Connell L, Coop P, Fellows C, Fitzmaurice L, Foley J, Hancock N, Lamb D, Morrison P, Misra R, Mossad R, Pittaway P, Prime E, Rees S, Schmidt E, Solomon D, Symes T and Turnbull D (2007), Evaporation, seepage and water quality management in storage dams: a review of research methods. Environ Health 7:3 pp84-97.

Ruth Mossad , Cooling Towers an invited contribution to the Encyclopaedia of Energy Engineering and Technology; September 2007; Volume 1 No. 1 Page 246, Taylor & Francis Books.

Mossad, R.R, Numerical Simulation to Optimize the Design of Double Glazed Doors for Closed Refrigerated Vertical Display Cabinets, published in the IHTC-13: The International Heat Transfer Conference which held in Sydney 13-18 August, 2006.

Most notable :

Ruth Mossad , Cooling Towers an invited contribution to the Encyclopaedia of Energy Engineering and Technology; September 2007; Volume 1 No. 1 Page 246, Taylor & Francis Books.

Mossad, R.R, Numerical Simulation to Optimize the Design of Double Glazed Doors for Closed Refrigerated Vertical Display Cabinets, published in the IHTC-13: The International Heat Transfer Conference which held in Sydney 13-18 August, 2006.

Mossad, R.R., Finite Element Solution of non-steady Incompressible Viscous Flow Between Two Rotating Concentric Spheres, Computers and Fluids, Vol. 22 No. 6, pp 697-711, 1993.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

MEC3102 Fluid Mechnaics
MEC4103 Heat Transfer
ENG3103 Problem solving 3
MEC3904 Mechanical Practice 4.

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 17 years
Other : 5 years