About

Yassin Hassan’s research interests are hydrogen production, nuclear energy conversion technologies, nuclear safety and security, separation technologies for energy applications (e.g., co2 capture, utilization, storage), modeling, simulation and optimization of energy systems, and energy security. Other interests are computational and experimental thermal hydraulics, reactor safety, fluid mechanics, two-phase flow, turbulence and laser velocimetry and imaging techniques. He runs the Thermal-Hydraulic Research Laboratory at Texas A&M, which investigates the complex, multiphase flow of multiscale, multi-physics flow phenomena using non-intrusive global field measurement techniques. The laboratory provides the ability to use state-of-the art particle image velocimetry techniques to study these flows. The laboratory is equipped with fast-pulsed, high-energy lasers and fast high-resolution cameras. Data are analyzed using in-house developed tracking, imaging and pattern recognition routines. The combination of instantaneous measurements of full-fields of velocity and laser-induced temperature measurements enables a multitude of interesting studies of single and multiphase flows. He is the Royce E. Wisenbaker '39 II Chair in Engineering and professor of nuclear engineering and mechanical engineering. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas. He earned a BS in engineering from the University of Alexandria, Egypt, an MS in nuclear engineering from the University of Illinois and a PhD in in nuclear engineering from the University of Illinois.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Computational & Experimental Thermal Hydraulics Reactor Safety Fluid Mechanics Two-Phase Flow Turbulence & Laser Velocimetry Imaging Techniques

Major Achievements:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow of the American Nuclear Society Fellow of the the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Design Associate editor of the Journal of Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification TEES Research Impact Award 2018 - 2019 Association of Former Students Distinguished Research Award 2018 - 2019 American Nuclear Society Seaborg Medal (2008) James N. Landis Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017 Fluid Engineering Division of American Society of Mechanical Engineers Inaugural Flow Visualization Competition and Prize at FEDSM 2017 Akiyama Medal for the best paper at the International Nuclear Engineering Conference (ICONE 24), 2016 George Westinghouse Gold Medal Award (2003) Arthur Holly Compton Award of the American Nuclear Society, 2003 Thermal Hydraulics Technical Achievement Award (2004) Glenn Murphy Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2001) Honorary professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Bangor University in the United Kingdom