Nagy El-Kaddah Professor, (past)

• Mathematical and physical modeling of material processing operations including electromagnetic stirring in continuous casting of steel, electromagnetic casting of aluminum, inclusion removal in molten metals processing systems, TGA welding processes, thermal plasma spraying and synthesis of materials.
• Magnetohydrodynamics: electromagnetic field interactions with suspended particles in crossed electric and magnetic fields.
• Computational electromagnetics and fluid dynamics: development of efficient algorithms for solving coupled electromagnetic, fluid flow and heat transfer equations.

Electromagnetic processing of metals including induction heating of semi-solid Al billets, containerless Induction melting of Al-Li and Ni-based alloys, electromagnetic filtration of aluminum, solidification processing of Zn-Bi hyper-monotectic alloys in an applied EM force field. Dr. El-Kaddah’s research interests include:

• Electromagnetic processing of metals including induction heating of semi-solid Al billets, containerless Induction melting of Al-Li and Ni-based alloys, electromagnetic filtration of aluminum, solidification processing of Zn-Bi hyper-monotectic alloys in an applied EM force field.
• Mathematical and physical modeling of material processing operations including electromagnetic stirring in continuous casting of steel, electromagnetic casting of aluminum, inclusion removal in molten metals processing systems, TGA welding processes, thermal plasma spraying and synthesis of materials.
• Magnetohydrodynamics: electromagnetic field interactions with suspended particles in crossed electric and magnetic fields.
• Computational electromagnetics and fluid dynamics: development of efficient algorithms for solving coupled electromagnetic, fluid flow and heat transfer equations.