Akbar Safarzadeh
Faculty of Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Phone: +989122092599
Email: safarzadeh@uma.ac.ir
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4515-2078
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Akbar Safarzadeh earned his PhD in Civil Engineering-Water and is currently a full professor in the Civil Engineering Department at University of Mohaghegh Ardabili. He completed his high school education at Sheikh Mofid School from 1994 to 1997 and was admitted to the undergraduate Civil Engineering program at Sharif University of Technology in 1998. He received his master's and doctoral degrees in Civil Engineering-Water from Tarbiat Modares University in 2004 and 2010, respectively, achieving recognition as the top student in both programs. His master's thesis was honored as the best national thesis by the Iranian Hydraulic Association in 2004. In 2009, he undertook a one-year sabbatical at the Environmental Hydromechanics group of the Institute for Hydromechanics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany, where he focused on the hydrodynamics of shallow separating flows. Since 2010, he has been part of the faculty in the Civil Engineering Department at University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, beginning his career as an assistant professor. In 2011, he initiated the master's program in Water Engineering and Hydraulic Structures within the department. He was promoted to associate professor in 2015 and recognized as the leading researcher in the Technical and Engineering Group of Ardabil Province in 2016. In 2019, he became the first faculty member from the Civil Engineering Department to achieve the rank of full professor. In 2019, he founded the Water Engineering and Mineral Waters Research Center and has been serving as its director since. In 2020, he established the doctoral program in Civil Engineering-Water Engineering and Hydraulic Structures. His other contributions include establishing the Water Engineering Research Laboratory in 2015 and launching the scientific journal 'Advances in Hydromechanics' in 2022. He has also held 4 years as the head of the Civil Engineering Department, directed the Technology Incubator Center, and led the secretariats for the Executive Committee for Recruitment, the Board of Trustees, and the Promotion Committee. Additionally, he has served four years on the University Promotion Committee and chaired the Technical and Engineering Committee of the Promotion Committee.
Education
• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering Sharif University of Technology, 1998 - 2002 • Master of Science in Civil Engineering – Water Engineering Tarbiat Modares University, 2002 - 2004 • Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering – Water Engineering Tarbiat Modares University, 2005 - 2010Awards
Memberships
Iranian Association of Hydraulics
Fields of Interest
Hydromechanics, Turbulent Flows, River Engineering, Hydraulic Structures, Porous Media, Soft Computing
23 - Nezami Khiavi, K., Safarzadeh, A., Masoumi, F., 2025. Developing a simulation-optimization model for eutrophication management using system dynamics approach: a case study of Karkheh Dam reservoir. ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1080/09715010.2025.2467687.
22 - Safarzadeh, A., Safarzadeh, Z., 2025. Numerical Study on Swirling Sloshing Waves in Rectangular Tanks under Harmonic Excitation Using GMO Method. ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering.
21 - Safarzadeh, A., Ghasempor, R., 2025. Assessing the Flow Field around Single Groynes with Rectangular Head Shapes via Experimental Data and Intelligence Methods. Soft Computing.
20 - Safarzadeh, A., Shafieefar, M., 2025. Numerical Modeling of 3D Flow Field in a Seawater Intake System Study Case: Bandar Abbas Seawater Desalination Plant. Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering, https://doi.org/ 10.61186/NMCE.2410.1078.
19 - Ebadi, H., Karami, H., Farzin, S. and Safarzadeh, A., 2024. Numerical modeling of the two-dimensional free and impinging jets with solid and erosion bed using FLOW-3D. ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1080/09715010.2024.2304623.
18 - Safarzadeh, A., Masoumi, F., Safarzadeh, Z. and Abdoli, M., 2024. Comparative Assessment of the Computational Fluid Dynamics and Artificial Intelligence Methods for the Prediction of 3D Flow Field around a Single Straight Groyne. Journal of Hydraulic Structures, https://doi.org. 10.22055/JHS.2024.46764.1295.
17 - Ebadi, H., Karami, H., Farzin, S. and Safarzadeh, A., 2024. Numerical modeling of the two-dimensional free and impinging jets with solid and erosion bed using FLOW-3D. ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1080/09715010.2024.2304623.
16 - Safarzadeh, A., Alizadeh, S., 2023. Hydromechanics of the Asymmetric Trapezoidal Piano key and Labyrinth Weirs. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, ASCE, 149(11).
15 - Noroozi, B., Bazargan, J. and Safarzadeh, A., 2021. Introducing the T-shaped weir: a new nonlinear weir. Water Supply, 21(7), pp.3772-3789.
14 - Safarzadeh, A., Mohajeri, H., 2020. Closure of ‘Hydrodynamics of rectangular broad-crested porous weirs’ by Akbar Safarzadeh and Seyed Hossein Mohajeri. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, ASCE, 146(4).
13 - Safarzadeh, A., Talebi, M. and Mohajeri, S.H., 2020. Numerical study of the surface and subsurface vortices suppression in a rectangular pump basin using anti‐vortex devices. Water and Environment Journal, 34, pp.454-467.
12 - Masoumi, F., Najjar-Ghabel, S., Safarzadeh, A. and Sadaghat, B., 2020. Automatic calibration of the groundwater simulation model with high parameter dimensionality using sequential uncertainty fitting approach. Water Supply, 20(8), pp.3487-3501.
11 - Safarzadeh, A., Zaji, A.H. & Bonakdari, H., 2018. 3D flow simulation of straight groynes using hybrid DE-based artificial intelligence methods. Soft Computing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-018-3037-9.
10 - Mohajeri, S.H, Safarzadeh, A., & Neyshabouri SA. (2018). Importance of the bed roughness on transversal variability of the flow patterns and bed shear stress due to secondary currents. Scientia Iranica, 25(4).
9 - Safarzadeh, A., & Mohajeri, H., 2018. Hydrodynamics of the rectangular broad-crested porous weirs. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, ASCE, 144(10).
8 - Mohajeri, S.H, Safarzadeh, A., & Neyshabouri S.A., 2017. An innovative Preston tube for determination of shear stress on smooth and rough beds. Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Civil Engineering. 41(2):187-95.
7 - Higham, J.E, Brevis, W., Keylock C.J. & Safarzadeh, A., 2017. Using modal decompositions to explain the sudden expansion of the mixing layer in the wake of a groyne in a shallow flow. Advances in Water Resources. 107:451-9.
6 - Safarzadeh, A., Zaji, A.H. & Bonakdari, H., 2017. Comparative assessment of the hybrid genetic algorithm–artificial neural network and genetic programming methods for the prediction of longitudinal velocity field around a single straight groyne. Applied Soft Computing. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2017.06.048.
5 - Safarzadeh, A., & Khaiatrostami, B., 2017. Mean flow characteristics, vortical structures and bed shear stress at open channel bifurcation. Journal of Applied Research in Water and Wastewater, 4(7).
4 - Safarzadeh, A., & Mohajeri, S., 2016. On the fine sediment deposition patterns in a gravel bed open-channel flow. Journal of Applied Research in Water and Wastewater, 3(5).
3 - Safarzadeh, A., Salehi Neyshabouri S.A.A., & Zarrati, A.R., 2016. An experimental Investigation on 3D turbulent flow around straight and T-shape groynes in a flatbed channel. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, 142(8).
2 - Safarzadeh, A. & Brevis W., 2016. Assessment of 3D-RANS models for the simulation of topographically forced shallow flows. Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 64(1).
1 - Safarzadeh, A., & Noroozi, B., 2015. 3D hydrodynamics of trapezoidal piano key spillways. International Journal of Civil Engineering, 13(6).
Head of Department of Civil Engineering of university of Mohaghegh Ardabili 2019-2021
Head of Department of Civil Engineering of university of Mohaghegh Ardabili 2012-2014
برنامه هفتگی استاد در ترم جاری
| نام درس | مقطع | زمان و مکان ارائه |
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4 - Field Investigation of Desilting Dam Reservoirs Using Pumping and Water Jet Techniques , Ali Ebadi, 2024
3 - Experimental Study on the Effect of Heterogeneous Neighboring Vegetation patches on Flow structure in Rectangular Channels, Shabnam Mirheidarian, 2023
2 - Analyzing Hydraulics of T-shaped Weirs through Experimental and Numerical Investigations, Behzad Norouzi, 2022
1 - Investigation on Coherent Structures of Three-Dimensional Turbulent Flow around Isolated Groynes with Different Head Shapes, Mahsa Sobat, 2019
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