{"id":8780,"date":"2025-09-17T11:59:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.coeng.uobaghdad.edu.iq\/?p=8780"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:59:35","slug":"discussion-of-a-masters-thesis-in-the-department-of-mechanical-engineering-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.coeng.uobaghdad.edu.iq\/?p=8780","title":{"rendered":"Discussion of a master&#8217;s thesis in the Department of Mechanical Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was conducted on Tuesday, 2\/9\/2025, in the Dr. Ihsan Yahya Hall in the mechanical Engineering Department.\u00a0 the discussion of the master&#8217;s thesis of the student <strong>Ghadeer Qasim Fadhil<\/strong>, which is tagged:<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; The Impact of Perforated Absorption Plate on the Solar Air Dryer Performance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion committee consisted of names listed below:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Asst. Prof. Dr. Mohammed A. Nima (Chairman)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>2- Asst. Prof. Dr. Aseel Khaleel Shyaa \u00a0(Member)<\/p>\n<p>3- Asst. Prof. Dr. Osam Hassan Attia (Member)<\/p>\n<p>4- \u00a0Asst. Prof. Dr. Sarmad Aziz Abdul Hussein (Supervisor)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This study focused on improving the performance of an indirect solar air dryer system (SADS) under Iraqi climate conditions by employing perforated absorber plates with different hole diameters (6 mm and 3 mm). Both numerical simulations (CFD\/ANSYS Fluent) and experimental tests were conducted to evaluate the thermal performance compared to a conventional flat absorber plate. 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