Rashad Moarref 1/5 Rashad Moarref Postdoctoral Scholar in Aerospace Graduate Aerospace Laboratories Phone: (626) 395 4459 California Institute of Technology E-mail: rashad@caltech.edu 1200 E California Blvd., M.C. 301-46, Pasadena, CA 91125 URL: www.its.caltech.edu/~rashad Permanent Resident of the United States Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering September 2005 - January 2012 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN Dissertation: Model-based control of transitional and turbulent wall-bounded shear flows Advisor: Professor Mihailo R. Jovanović GPA: 3.98 (50 units) B.S. in Electrical Engineering September 2000 - July 2005 Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Thesis: Analysis of the stability proof in EDMC (Extended Dynamic Matrix Control) controller B.S. in Petroleum Engineering (Dual degree) September 2002 - July 2005 Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Petroleum University of Technology, Ahwaz, Iran Thesis: Simulating homogeneous 2-phase petroleum reservoirs using streamline method ACADEMIC AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS Finalist, Best Student Paper Award, American Control Conference, 2007. Best Presentation in Session Award, American Control Conference, 2010. 3M Science and Technology Fellowship Award, 2007. Graduate Fellowship Award, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2007. Finalist, Best Poster Presentation Award, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, 2010. Student Participation Grant Award, NSF-CMMI Research and Innovation Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2010. Ranked top 0.01 %, Nationwide University Entrance Exam (60th among 500,000 participants), Iran, 2000. Semifinalist, National Informatics, Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry Olympiads, Iran, 1999. Ranked top 5 %, Electrical Engineering, Controls major, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2004. OBJECTIVES Life-long career in transformative theoretical and applied research Educating and mentoring future scientists and engineers RESEARCH INTERESTS Distributed control systems theory and applications Decentralized sensing and actuation Flow modeling, control, and optimization
Rashad Moarref 2/5 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Postdoctoral Scholar, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories California Institute of Technology January 2012 - Present Research Assistant, Control and Dynamical Systems University of Minnesota September 2005 - December 2011 Research Participant, Center for Turbulence Research Summer Program Stanford University August 2006, July 2010 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Invited Lecturer, Department of Aerospace, California Institute of Technology (Ae 104) Experimental Methods (Graduate) Fall 2013 (Ae/CDS/ME 251) Flow Control (Graduate) Spring 2013 Student Instructor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota (EE 4233) State Space Control System Design (Undergraduate) Spring 2010 (EE 3015) Signals and Systems (Undergraduate - Recitation Sessions) Fall 2009, Fall 2010 Teaching Assistant, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota (EE 4233) State Space Control System Design (Undergraduate) Spring 2007 (EE 4231/ AEM 5495) Linear Control Systems (Undergraduate/Graduate) Fall 2006 (EE 3005) Introduction to Electrical Engineering (Undergraduate) Fall 2005, Spring 2006 (EE 2002) Circuits and Electronics Lab (Undergraduate) Spring 2006 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES Referee IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; Automatica; Journal of Fluid Mechanics; Physics of Fluids; IEEE Conference on Decision and Control; American Control Conference; World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control. Membership Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Control Systems Society. American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics. Session Chair September 2005 - present September 2010 - present American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fluid Sciences Event June 2013 Session Volunteer 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics. November 2009 MULTIMEDIA ENTRY Gallery of Fluid Motion, D. Barella, S. Churng, C. Egan, R. Moarref, M. Luhar, H. Mushkin, S. Davidoff, M. Hendrie, and B. J. McKeon, Deconstructing wall turbulence visualization of resolvent modes, 66th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2013, http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2883
Rashad Moarref 3/5 TALKS INVITED TALKS 1. Model-based scaling of the velocity spectra in high-reynolds number turbulent channels, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, London, UK, September 2013. 2., Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, September 2013. 3., Laboratoire d Hydrodynamique de l Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, September 2013. 4. A control-oriented model for turbulent channel flow at high Reynolds numbers, The Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Fluids, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, January 2013. 5. Model-based design of wall oscillations for turbulent drag reduction, Southern California Control Workshop, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, November 2012. 6. Controlling the onset of turbulence by streamwise traveling waves, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, February 2011. CONFERENCE TALKS 7. Representation of the velocity spectra and Reynolds stress co-spectrum in turbulent channel flow using resolvent modes, 66th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2013. 8. Geometrically self-similar modes in turbulent channels, Fluid Mechanics Research Conference, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, October 2013. 9. On geometrically self-similar modes in wall-bounded turbulent flows, 8th Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, Poitiers, France, August 2013. 10. On effectiveness of a rank-1 model of turbulent channels for representing the velocity spectra, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fluid Sciences Event, San Diego, CA, June 2013. 11. Model-based analysis of the self-similar scales in high-reynolds number turbulent channels, Southern California Fluids Conference, Pasacena, CA, April 2013. 12. Model-based scaling and prediction of streamwise energy spectrum at high Reynolds numbers, 65th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Diego, CA, November 2012. 13. Model-based scaling and prediction of streamwise energy spectrum at high Reynolds numbers, Fluid Mechanics Research Conference, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, November 2012. 14. On the Reynolds number scaling of the low-rank approximation to turbulent channel flows, 9th European Fluid Mechanics Conference, Rome, Italy, September 2012. 15. Turbulent drag reduction by transverse wall oscillations, 2012 American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2012. 16. On the Reynolds number scaling of the low-rank approximation to turbulent channel flow, Southern California Fluids Conference, San Diego, CA, April 2012. 17. Model-based design of transverse wall oscillations for turbulent drag reduction, Fluid Mechanics Research Conference, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, January 2012. 18. Turbulent drag reduction by transverse wall oscillations, 64th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, Baltimore, MD, November 2011. 19. Spatially-localized optimal control of transition to turbulence, 2011 American Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, July 2011. 20. Optimal localized control of the onset of turbulence in a channel flow, 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, Long Beach, CA, November 2010. 21. Preventing transition to turbulence using streamwise traveling waves: theoretical analysis, 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, July 2010.
Rashad Moarref 4/5 22. Control of transition in Poiseuille flow using streamwise traveling waves. Part 1: Receptivity analysis, 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, Minneapolis, MN, November 2009. 23. Perturbation analysis of eigenvalues of a class of self-adjoint operators, 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, June 2008, (Invited session). 24. Remarks on computing the H 2 norm of incompressible fluids using descriptor state-space formulation, 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, June 2008. 25. On using the streamwise traveling waves for variance suppression in channel flows, 2007 American Control Conference, New York City, NY, July 2007, (Invited session). 26. Transition control using an array of streamwise vortices, 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, December 2006, (Invited session). PUBLICATIONS JOURNAL PAPERS 1. R. Moarref, A. S. Sharma, J. A. Tropp, and B. J. McKeon, A framework for analytical developments in the logarithmic region of turbulent channels, submitted, 2014. 2. F. Gomez, H. M. Blackburn, M. Rudman, B. J. McKeon, M. Luhar, R. Moarref, and A. S. Sharma, On the origin of frequency sparsity in direct numerical simulations of turbulent pipe flow, Phys. Fluids, 26: 101703, 2014. 3. R. Moarref, M. R. Jovanović, J. A. Tropp, A. S. Sharma, and B. J. McKeon, A low-order decomposition of turbulent channel flow via resolvent analysis and convex optimization, Phys. Fluids, 26: 051701, 2014. 4. R. Moarref, A. S. Sharma, J. A. Tropp, and B. J. McKeon, Model-based scaling of the streamwise energy density in high-reynolds number turbulent channels, J. Fluid Mech., 734:275-316, 2013. 5. R. Moarref and M. R. Jovanović, Model-based design of transverse wall oscillations for turbulent drag reduction, J. Fluid Mech., 707:205-240, 2012. 6. R. Moarref and M. R. Jovanović, Controlling the onset of turbulence by streamwise traveling waves. Part 1: Receptivity analysis, J. Fluid Mech., 663:70-99, 2010. 7. B. K. Lieu, R. Moarref, and M. R. Jovanović, Controlling the onset of turbulence by streamwise traveling waves. Part 2: Direct numerical simulations, J. Fluid Mech., 663:100-119, 2010. REFEREED PROCEEDINGS 1. R. Moarref and M. R. Jovanović. Turbulent drag reduction by transverse wall oscillations, In Proceedings of the 2012 American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2012, pp. 3359-3364. 2. R. Moarref, B. K. Lieu, and M. R. Jovanović, Spatially-localized optimal control of transition to turbulence, in Proceedings of the 2011 American Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2011, pp. 3577-3582. 3. R. Moarref, B. K. Lieu, and M. R. Jovanović, Optimal localized control of transitional channel flow, in Proceedings of the 2010 Summer Program, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University/NASA, 2010, pp. 107-118. 4. R. Moarref and M. R. Jovanović, Preventing transition to turbulence using streamwise traveling waves: theoretical analysis, in Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2010, pp. 3329-3334. 5. B. K. Lieu, R. Moarref, and M. R. Jovanović, Preventing transition to turbulence using streamwise traveling waves: direct numerical simulations, in Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2010, pp. 3335-3340. 6. R. Moarref and M. R. Jovanović, Remarks on computing the H 2 norm of incompressible fluids using descriptor state-space formulation, in Proceedings of the 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, 2008, pp. 3064-3069.
Rashad Moarref 5/5 7. R. Moarref, M. Fardad, and M. R. Jovanović, Perturbation analysis of eigenvalues of a class of self-adjoint operators, in Proceedings of the 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, 2008, pp. 955-960, (Invited paper). 8. R. Moarref and M. R. Jovanović, On using the streamwise traveling waves for variance suppression in channel flows, in Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, New York City, NY, 2007, pp. 2060-2065, (Invited paper; Finalist, Best Student Paper Award). 9. R. Moarref and M. R. Jovanović, Transition control using an array of streamwise vortices, in Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, 2006, pp. 107-112, (Invited paper). 10. M. R. Jovanović, R. Moarref, and D. You, Turbulence suppression in channel flows by means of a streamwise traveling wave, in Proceedings of the 2006 Summer Program, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University/NASA, 2006, pp. 481-494. ABSTRACTS 1. R. Moarref, A. S. Sharma, J. A. Tropp, and B. J. McKeon, Representation of the velocity spectra and Reynolds stress co-spectrum in turbulent channel flow using resolvent modes, in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2013. 2. A. Zare, R. Moarref, and M. R. Jovanović, Model-based analysis of the effect of spanwise wall oscillations on drag reduction at high Reynolds numbers, in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2013. 3. A. Sharma, R. Moarref, M. Luhar, D. B. Goldstein, and B. J. McKeon, An investigation of the flow modification in a turbulent channel with gain-based optimal forcing, in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2013. 4. R. Moarref, A. S. Sharma, J. A. Tropp, and B. J. McKeon, On geometrically self-similar modes in wallbounded turbulent flows, in Bulletin of the 8th Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, Poitiers, France, August 2013. 5. R. Moarref, A. S. Sharma, J. A. Tropp, and B. J. McKeon, On effectiveness of a rank-1 model of turbulent channels for representing the velocity spectra, in Bulletin of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fluid Sciences Event, San Diego, CA, June 2013. 6. R. Moarref, A. S. Sharma, J. A. Tropp, and B. J. McKeon, Model-based scaling and prediction of streamwise energy spectrum at high Reynolds numbers, in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, San Diego, CA, November 2012. 7. R. Moarref, B. J. McKeon, A. S. Sharma, and J. A. Tropp, On the Reynolds number scaling of the low-rank approximation to turbulent channel flows, in Bulletin of the 9th European Fluid Mechanics Conference, Rome, Italy, September 2012. 8. R. Moarref and M. R. Jovanović, Turbulent drag reduction by transverse wall oscillation, in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Baltimore, MD, November 2011. 9. R. Moarref, B. K. Lieu, and M. R. Jovanović, Optimal localized control of the onset of turbulence in a channel flow, in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Long Beach, CA, November 2010. 10. B. K. Lieu, R. Moarref, and M. R. Jovanović, Control of transition in Poiseuille flow using streamwise traveling waves. Part 2: Direct numerical simulations, in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Minneapolis, MN, November 2009. 11. R. Moarref and M. R. Jovanović, Control of transition in Poiseuille flow using streamwise traveling waves. Part 1: Receptivity analysis, in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Minneapolis, MN, November 2009. 12. M. R. Jovanović and R. Moarref, Control of transition in channel flows by a streamwise traveling wave, in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Tampa, FL, November 2006.