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Siavash Sohrab

Associate Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech B121
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

847-491-3572Email Siavash Sohrab

Departments

Mechanical Engineering

Education

Ph.D. Engineering Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 1981

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, 1975

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, 1973



Significant Recognition

  • The Best Paper Award 1998, Central States Section Meeting of The Combustion Institute. For the paper entitled: "Laminar Flame Theory Revisited-Stationary Coordinates for Systems Under Rigid-Body Versus Brownian Motions"

Significant Professional Service

  • Past editor, WSEAS Transactions on Fluid Mechanics
  • Past editor, WSEAS Transactions on Heat and Mass Transfer

Selected Publications

  • Siavash H. Sohrab, “Invariant Model of Boltzmann Statistical Mechanics and Its Implications to Hydrodynamic Model of Electromagnetism, Physical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Quantum Gravity and Quantum Cosmology,” Journal of Problems of the Evolution of Open Systems, Vol. 25 No. 3-4, p. 3- 40, 2023
  • Siavash H. Sohrab, Universality of Quantum Mechanics and Boltzmann Statistical Mechanics, Nov. Res. Sci. 13(2), NRS.000808. 2023.
  • Siavash H. Sohrab, Examples of Applications of an Invariant Statistical Theory of Field to Cosmology, Astrophysics, Hydrodynamics, Electrodynamics, and Photonics, 15th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference, C.H. Skiadas and Y. Dimotikalis (eds.), Springer Proceedings in Complexity, 2023.
  • Siavash H. Sohrab, Universality of Boltzmann Statistical Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, and Shannon Information Theory, 14th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference, C.H. Skiadas and Y. Dimotikalis (eds.), Springer Proceedings in Complexity, 2022.
  • Siavash H. Sohrab, Connecting Bernoulli and Schrödinger Equations and its Impact on Quantum-Mechanic Wave Function and Entanglement Problems, 13th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference, C.H. Skiadas and Y. Dimotikalis (eds.), Springer Proceedings in Complexity, 2021.
  • Siavash H. Sohrab, Some Implications of Invariant Model of Boltzmann Statistical Mechanics to the Gap Between Physics and Mathematics, 12th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference, C.H. Skiadas and Y. Dimotikalis (eds.), Springer Proceedings in Complexity, 2020.
  • Siavash H. Sohrab, “Solution of Ancient Greek Problem of Trisection of Arbitrary Angle”, Chaotic Modeling and Simulation (CMSIM) (2019)
  • Siavash H. Sohrab, “An Invariant Model of Boltzmann Statistical Mechanics and Some of its Implications to Thermodynamics and Quantum Nature of Space and Time”, WSEAS Transactions on Applied and Theoretical Mechanics (TATM) (1918)
  • Siavash H. Sohrab, “Scale Invariant Model of Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Nature of Space, Time, and Dimension”, Chaotic Modeling and Simulation (CMSIM) (2016)
  • Kevin A. Krout, and Siavash H. Sohrab, “On the Speed of Sound”, International Journal of Thermodynamics (2016)
  • Siavash H. Sohrab, “On a Scale Invariant Model of Statistical Mechanics, Kinetic Theory of Ideal Gas, and Riemann Hypothesis”, International Journal of Modern Communication Technologies & Research (IJMCTR) (2015)
  • Siavash H. Sohrab, “Invariant Forms of Conservation Equations for Reactive Fields and Hydro-Thermo-Diffusive Theory of Laminar Flames”, Journal Energy Resources and Technology (2015)
  • Siavash H. Sohrab, “Some Implications of a Scale Invariant Model of Statistical Mechanics to Classical and Relativistic Thermodynamics”, International Journal Thermodynamics (2014)
  • Siavash H. Sohrab, “Boltzmann Entropy of Thermodynamics Versus Shannon Entropy of Information Theory”, International Journal Mechanics (2014)
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In the Classroom

Professor Sohrab has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses on combustion as well as courses on thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics. His teaching philosophy places great emphasis on deep intuitive understanding of physical concepts from their most primitive and conceptually accessible roots from direct empirical human experience and perception. Also, care is taken to clearly reveal the connections between the observed concrete physical phenomena and abstract mathematical symbolism and description used to model such physical phenomena.  

In addition, historical facts and perspectives are provided for appreciation of the evolution of the subject matter from it inception thus allowing the students to recognize the broader human and social aspects of scientific discoveries and the important roles of both successes as well as failures in the ultimate development of scientific laws and the inter connections between various scientific disciplines such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics, heat and mass transfer, combustion, electrodynamics and radiation.