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Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Jahrul Alam

Associate Professor of Mathematics
PhD, McMaster
Computational Fluid Dynamics

Office: HH-3035
Phone: (709) 737-8071
Fax: (709) 737-3010

Manuscripts:

  1. The onset of stratification on the buoyancy driven plume migration in a saline aquifer.
  2. Wavelets for multiscale modelling of flow and transport in a porous media.
  3. Lagrangian dynamics of CO2 migration in subsurface aquifers
    4. Alam, J M

    Selected recent publications in refereed journals:



      2020

    1. Assessment of a symmetry preserving JFNK method for atmospheric convection, M Alamgir Hossain and Jahrul M Alam, arXive e-prints 2020

    2. Subgrid-scale energy transfer and associated coherent structures in turbulent flow over a forest-like canopy, Md Abdus Samad Bhuiyan and Jahrul M Alam, arXive e-print 2020

    3. Scale-adaptive turbulence modelling for LES over complex terrain, Md Abdus Samad Bhuiyan and Jahrul M Alam, Engineering with computers, xxxx 2020



      4. 2019

    4. A computational fluid dynamics investigation of the flow behavior near a wellbore using 3D Navier-Stokes equations, M. Jalal Ahammad and M. Aziz Rahman and Jahrul M Alam and Stephen D. Butt, Advances in Mechanical Engineering 1-12, 11(9), 2019

    5. Travelling Waves: Interplay of Low to High Reynolds Number and Tan-Cot Function Method to Solve Burger's Equations, Md. Kamrujjaman1, Asif Ahmed, Jahrul Alam, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 07(04):861-873, 2019.

    6. Characterizing impacts of atmospheric turbulence on wind farms through Large Eddy Simulation (LES), Anton Afanassiev and Jahrul Alam, Proceedings of the ASME 2019: 38th International Conferences on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2019

    7. An experimental development to characterise the flow phenomena at the near-wellbore region, M. Jalal Ahammad, Aziz Rahman, Stephen D Butt, and Jahrul M Alam>, Proceedings of the ASME 2019: 38th International Conferences on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2019


      8. 2018

    8. Numerical Investigation of Two-Phase Fluid Flow in a Perforation Tunnel. Ahammad, M. J., Rahmam, M. A., Zhang, L.,Alam J. M, and Butt, S. D., Journal of Natural Gas Science & Engineering (accepted) 2018

    9. Large Eddy Simulation of flow through a periodic array of urban-like obstacles using a canopy stress method. Alam, J. M and Fitzpatrick, L. Computers & Fluids 2018

    10. Large eddy simulation of turbulent flow over a hill using a Canopy stress model. Bhuiyan, Md Abdus Samad and Alam, Jahrul M. Recent Advances in Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Scientific and Engineering Applications. 2018



      11. 2017

    11. Numerical simulation of two-phase flow in porous media using a wavelet based phase-field method. Ahammad, M J, Alam, J M, Rahman, A and Butt S D, Chemical Engineering Science (146) 143-153 2017

    12. Penetrative turbulence associated with mesoscale surface heat flux
      13. Alam, J M and Hossain, M A. Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, 12(8), 2017.
    13. A wavelet based numerical simulation technique for two-phase flow using phase-field method. Alam J M Computers and Fluids (146)143-153-2017

    14. A numerical study of two-phase miscible flow through porous media with a Lagrangian model Ahammad, J and Alam J M Journal of Computational Multiphase Flow (9) 127-143 2017


      15. 2016


      Published
    15. Mixedconvection flow along a horizontal circular cylinder with small amplitude oscillation in surface temperature and free stream. Md. Kamrujjaman, Md. A Hossainand J M Alam, Mechanical Engineering Research, pg 34, 6(2) 20016.

    16. Experimental and Numerical Investigation of a Novel Technique for Perforation in Petroleum Reservoir, L Zheng, M A Rahman, M J Ahammad, S D Butt, J M Alam, SPE International Conference and Exhibition on Formation Damage Control, (2016)

    17. Fujiwhara interaction of tropical cyclone scale vortices using a weighted residual collocation method, Walsh, R P and Alam, J M International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids 82(2)91-110,2016.

    18. A Computational Model of Thermal Monitoring at a Leakage in Pipelines
      19. Bhuiyan, A. S. and Hossain, M. A. and Alam, J M International Journal of heat and mass transfer (92) 330-338, 2016.

      2015

    19. Flow regimes of mesoscale circulations forced by inhomogeneous surface heating
      20. Hossain, M A and Alam, J M in Proceedings of the Computational Fluid Dynamics Society of Canada, 2015.
    20. Experimental and numerical investigations of bubble dynamics in porous and non-porous media
      21. Rahman, A and Butt, S and Alam, J M and Imtiaz, S and Hunt, M and Shahwan, M, ASME 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore, and Arctic Engineering (2015).
    21. A computational model of temperature monitoring at a leakage in a leak detection system of a pipeline
      22. Bhuiyan, A S and Hossain, M A and Alam, J M, Proceedings of the 25th Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics (2015).
    22. A multiscale modeling study for the natural convection mass transfer in a subsurface aquifer
      23. Alam, J M Heat and Mass Transfer, volxxxx. (2015)
    23. A multiscale eddy simulation methodology for the atmospheric boundary layer
      24. Alam, J M and Islam, R Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 109(1) 1-20(2015)

      2014

    24. A simple and efficient computational methodology for two-dimensional flows using a dyadic refinement approach
      25. Alam, J M and Walsh, R P and Hossain, M A and Rose, A M; International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 75(12)835-859. (2014)

      2013


    25. Effects of pressure stress work and viscous dissipation in mixed convection flow along a vertical flat plate,
      26. Bhuiyan, A S, Alam, J M, Biswas, M R, Journal of Mathematics and System Science, (2013)

      2012

    26. A Lagrangian approach for modelling electro-kinetic mass transfer in micro-channels
      27. Alam, J M and Penney, J: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 55 (25), pages:7847-7857, (2012).
    27. A multiresolution model for the simulation of transient heat and mass transfer
      28. Alam, J M, Kevlahan, N K-R, Vasilyev, O V, Hossain, Z: Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B (61) 1-24 (2012).

      2011

    28. Toward a Multiscale Approach for Computational Atmospheric Modeling
      29. Alam, J M: Monthly Weather Review (139) 12 December (2011).
    29. Passive Scalar Advection in Micro Fluidic Device
      30. Shahjalal, M, Talukder, G M, Alam, G M, Alam, M K, Alam J M: Asian Journal of Mathematics and Statistics (4)1, 45-55 (2011).

      2008

    30. Towards a fully Lagrangian atmospheric modelling system,
      31. Alam, J. M. and Lin, J.: Monthly Weather Reviews (136)12, 4653-4667 (2008).

      2007

    31. Scaling of space-time modes with Reynolds number in two-dimensional turbulence,
      32. Kevlahan, N. K.-R., Alam, J. M. and Vesilyev, O.: J. Fluid Mech. (570) 217-226 (2007).

      2006

    32. Simultaneous space-time adaptive wavelet solution of nonlinear parabolic differential equation,
      33. Alam, J. M., Kevlahan, N. K.-R. and Vesilyev, O.: Journal of Computational Physics(214)829-857 (2006).

      2002

    33. Energy-Conserving Simulation of Incompressible Electro-Osmotic and Pressure-Driven Flow,
      34. Alam J. M. and Bowman J. C., Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics 52,133-150(2002).Online Journal
    34. Accuracy of the Quadratic Quadrilateral Finite Elements of Straight Sides.
      35. Md. S. Islam and J. Alam, Ganit:Journal of Bangladesh Mathematical Society (2002).Download from MathSciNet

      2000

    35. Statistical Design of an Experimental Problem in Harmonics,
      36. R. Aggarwala, J. Alam, Md. S. Islam, M. Lamoureux, M. paulhus, M. Powojowski, L. Rasekh, Proceedings of the fourth PIMS Industrial and problem solving workshop, 2000. Download from PIMS as Postscript Click here for pdf

    Thesis or report:

    1. A space-time adaptive wavelet method for turbulence,
      2. J. Alam, Ph.D. thesis, McMaster University, Fall 2006.
    2. Multiresolution approximation: An alternative approach to the solution of partial differential equation,
      3. J. Alam, A report submitted to fulfil the requirment of MATH745 at the Dept. of Mathematics, McMaster University, Winter 2003.
    3. A Fully Lagrangian Advection Scheme for Electro-Osmotic Flow
      4. J. Alam, M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alberta, Canada, Fall 2000. 

    Invited talks:

      1. Adaptive wavelet collocation method,
        2. Alam, J. M.: in the Department of Mathematics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, 24 December 2009.
      2. A wavelet-based direct numerical simulation method for turbulence,
        3. Alam, J. M.: in the 16th Mathematics conference, Department of Mathematics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), 17-19 December 2009.
      3. Multi-scale space-time adaptive wavelet method for atmospheric flows,
        4. Alam, J. M.: in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 11 December 2007.
      4. Fully-Lagrangian atmospheric modeling,
        5. Alam, J. M.: in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 29 November 2007.
      5. Adaptive modeling of turbulence in the atmosphere,
        6. Alam, J. M.: in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, 11 September 2006, Canada.

      Contributed talks:

      1. A multi-level adaptive wavelet collocation method in the space-time domain,
        2. Alam, J. M.: in Fields workshop on numerical, mathematical, and modeling analysis related to the hydrogen fuel cells, 10-12 May 2006, Ottawa, Canada.
      2. Simultaneous space-time adaptive simulation of turbulence using second-generation wavelets,
        3. Alam, J. M.: in Fields-Carleton Workshop on Numerical and anlytical methods in Fluid Dynamics, 5-7 May 2005, Ottawa, Canada.
      3. Simultaneous space-time adaptive wavelet solution of turbulece,
        4. Alam, J. M., Kevlahan, N. K.-R., Vesilyev, O. and Goldstein, D: Presented in the 57th anual meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 21-23, 2004.
      4. Wavelets in scientific computing,
        5. Alam, J. M.: Presented in the Graduate Students' Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics, McMaster University, Oct. 1, 2004.
      5. Simultaneous space-time adaptive wavelet collocation method for intermittent problems in Fluid Dynamics,
        6. Alam, J. M. and Kevlahan, N. K.-R.: Presented in SHARCNET seminar series on HPC, McMaster University, July 21, 2004.
      6. Simultaneous space-time solution of partial differential equation,
        7. Alam, J. M. and Kevlahan, N. K.-R.: Presented in PIMS wavelet workshop, 3-5 June, 2004.
      7. Multigrid technique: The art of scientific computing,
        8. Alam, J. M., in Seminar series on Nonlinear waves/Fluid Mechanics, Dept of Mathematical sciences, University of Alberta, 1999.
Abstract in conference proceedings:
  1. Finite-element Simulation of Two-Dimensional Fluid Flow.
    2. J. Alam and Md. A. Meah, International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, 6-9 January, 2003.
  2. On the spectrum of a scalar field advected by high Reynolds number flows,
    3. Alam, J. M., International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, 6-9 January, 2003.
  3. A Splitting Based Technique for the Passive Scalar Simulation,
    4. Alam, J. M. and Shahjalal, Md, International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, 6-9 January, 2003.