Mohammad Reza Daneshvar Garmroodi

I am a postdoctoral researcher at McMaster University, working with Dr. Robin Zhao in the Zhao Lab. I did my PhD at Concordia University under the supervision of Dr. Ida Karimfazli, where I studied mixing in yield-stress fluids.

My research combines curiosity-driven science with nature-inspired engineering, and it draws on complex fluid mechanics, subsurface science, and soft materials. I am a fluid mechanician by training, with a background in computational fluid dynamics and applied mathematics. I build simplified model problems that keep the essential physics of real-world and industrial systems, especially flows with non-Newtonian, multiphase, turbulent, or heat transfer effects. I also work with data-driven methods and reinforcement learning.

At McMaster I work on radionuclide release from TRISO fuel particles, using a coupled particle–matrix model built in PorePy. Before that, as a postdoctoral fellow at Concordia, I worked with SINTEF on conditioning oil-based drilling fluids and on another project on melting in phase-change materials. You can read more about each project by clicking on the pictures below.