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Ontario Tech acknowledges the lands and people of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation.

We are thankful to be welcome on these lands in friendship. The lands we are situated on are covered by the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to many Indigenous nations and peoples.

We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.

This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.

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Seama Koohi
BASc, MASc, PhD (Ontario Tech), PEng

Assistant Teaching Professor

Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

Contact information

2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, Ontario L1G 0C5
Office: ERC 3084

905.721.8668 ext. 5518
905.721.3370 (fax)

Seama.Koohi@ontariotechu.ca

Research topics

  • Building energy modeling and simulation
  • Cogeneration
  • District Energy
  • Entropy generation minimization analysis
  • Energy performance improvement
  • Energy system modelling and simulation
  • Heat transfer
  • Renewable energy
  • Sustainable energy

Education

  • PhD (Mechanical Engineering), Ontario Tech University, Canada, 2013
  • MASc (Mechanical Engineering, specialized in Energy Conversion), Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, 2008
  • BASc (Mechanical Engineering, specialized in Thermofluids), Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, 2006

Courses

  • Heat Transfer
  • Fluid Power Systems
  • Life Cycle Engineering
  • Quality Control
  • Sustainable and Alternative Energy Technologies.

Research and expertise

Publications and presentations

  • Selected publications and presentations

    Books

    • Rosen MA, S Koohi-Fayegh. Geothermal energy: sustainable heating and cooling using the ground. Wiley & Sons, 2017.
    • Rosen MA, S Koohi-Fayegh. Cogeneration-based district energy systems: modelling, analysis and optimization using second-law analysis. The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2016.

    BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS

    Koohi-Fayegh S, MA Rosen. Thermal Interactions of Vertical Ground Heat Exchangers for Varying Seasonal Heat Flux. Progress in Sustainable Energy Technologies: Generating Renewable Energy. Springer, 2014.
    Koohi-Fayegh S, MA Rosen. Thermal interaction of multiple geothermal storages for ground source heat pump systems. Energy Storage. Nova Science Publishers, 2011, 393-420.
    Leong WH, VR Tarnawski, S Koohi-Fayegh, MA Rosen. Ground thermal energy storage for building heating and cooling. Energy Storage. Nova Science Publishers, 2011, 421-40.

    JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

    • Koohi-Fayegh, S, MA Rosen. Long-term study of vertical ground heat exchangers with varying seasonal heat fluxes. Geothermics 2018, 75, 15-25.
    • Jalali, R, S Koohi-Fayegh, K El-Khatib, D Hoornweg, H Li. Investigating the potential of ridesharing to reduce vehicle emissions. Urban Planning 2017, 2(2), 26.
    • Koohi-Fayegh, S, MA Rosen. Optimization of Seasonal Storage for Community-level Energy Systems: Status and Needs. Energy, Ecology and Environment 2017, 2(3), 169-181.
    • Garmsiri S, S Koohi-Fayegh, MA Rosen, GR Smith. Integration of transportation energy processes with a net zero energy community using captured waste hydrogen from electrochemical plants. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2016, 41(19), 8337-46.
    • Rosen MA, S Koohi-Fayegh. The Prospects for Hydrogen as an Energy Carrier: An Overview of Hydrogen Energy and Hydrogen Energy Systems. Energy, Ecology and Environment 2016, 1(1), 10-29.
    • Koohi-Fayegh, S, MA Rosen. Three dimensional analysis of thermal interaction of multiple vertical ground heat exchangers. Int. J. Green Energy 2015, 12(11), 1144-50.
    • Koohi-Fayegh, S, MA Rosen. An Analytical Approach to Evaluating the Effect of Thermal Interaction of Geothermal Heat Exchangers on Ground Heat Pump Efficiency. Energy Conversion and Management 2014, 78, 184–12.
    • Koohi-Fayegh, S, MA Rosen. A Review of the Modelling of Thermally Interacting Multiple Boreholes, Sustainability 2013, 5, 2519-36.
    • Esfahani, JA, S Koohi-Fayegh. Laminar film condensation on a nano-sphere, ASME J. Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine 2012, 3(1), 011005-1.
    • Koohi-Fayegh, S, MA Rosen. On thermally interacting multiple boreholes with variable heating strength: Comparison between analytical and numerical approaches. Sustainability 2012, 4, 1848-66.
    • Koohi-Fayegh, S, MA Rosen. Examination of thermal interaction of multiple geothermal storage and heat pump systems. Applied Energy 2012, 97, 962–9.
    • Esfahani, JA, S Koohi. Film condensation on a flat plate with assisted interfacial shear stress, International Review of Chemical Engineering (IRECHE) May 2009, 1(3), 263-71.
    • Esfahani, JA, S Koohi. Entropy generation analysis in error estimation of approximate solution methods: A constant surface temperature semi-infinite conductive problem, J. Thermal Science 2009, 13(2), 133-40.