Rate My Professor Fayez Aldawi

Dr. Fayez Aldawi is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Yanbu Industrial College, Yanbu Al-Sinaiyah City, Saudi Arabia. He has been affiliated with the institution since at least 2016. His research interests encompass heat transfer, thermodynamics, heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), renewable energy, fluid mechanics, building installation materials, and energy efficiency in buildings. Additional areas of expertise include computational fluid dynamics, fluid mechanics, numerical simulation, and numerical modeling. Aldawi has produced 34 publications, garnering 622 citations and 64,220 reads. He has served as Assistant Professor and Acting Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department. Aldawi contributes to the academic community as a member of the editorial board of the Yanbu Journal of Engineering and Science, with ORCID 0000-0002-2086-942X.

Aldawi's scholarly output focuses on innovative solutions for energy efficiency and heat transfer enhancement, particularly suited to arid climates. Key publications include: 'Development and testing of a portable on-desk-size Maisotsenko indirect evaporative cooler for Central Saudi Arabia's climate' (2025); 'Enhanced printed-circuit heat exchanger for supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle pre-coolers with innovative convergent-divergent mini-channel design' (2025); 'Enhanced thermoelectric waste heat recovery power generation through an innovative energy-free cooling strategy for the heatsink side' (2024); 'Full optimal geometric exploration of M-cycle indirect evaporative dewpoint cooler using a substantial experiment-oriented AI algorithm' (2024); 'Enhanced Peltier refrigerator using an innovative hot-side heat-rejection mechanism; Experimental study under both transient and steady-state conditions' (2024); 'Developing an experiment-based strong Machine Learning model for performance prediction and full analysis of Maisotsenko dewpoint evaporative air cooler' (2024); 'Economic, thermal analysis and optimizing of a novel hybrid fuel cell and two-stage thermoelectric device for waste heat-recovery applications' (2024); 'Effect of spring-wire turbulators with different shapes on heat transfer improvement of solar air heaters; A numerical simulation' (2024); 'Efficiency enhancement of flat coiled tube using spiral twisted tape insert with various configurations; thermal, hydraulic and exergetic analysis' (2024); 'A novel portable desalination system configured by a honeycomb-pad humidifier and thermoelectric dehumidifier; Experimental study' (2024); 'Thermal-frictional behavior of new special shape twisted tape and helical coiled wire turbulators in engine heat exchangers system' (2023); 'Novel validated numerical analysis of flat coil tube with spring inserts' (2022); and 'Economic cost and thermal efficiency analysis of porous-minichannel heat exchanger for thermoelectric generator' (2022). These works involve experimental studies, numerical analyses, and optimizations of heat exchangers, thermoelectric systems, solar technologies, and evaporative coolers to improve thermal performance, efficiency, and economic feasibility.