Iyad Fayssal is a lecturer in the Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Department. Dr. Fayssal earned his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Lebanese University in 2009. In 2010, he received a full-scholarship award from the American University of Beirut to pursue his graduate studies, and in 2012, he earned the Master’s degree in the field of Applied Energy. He immediately joined the PhD program at the American University of Beirut with a full-scholarship award and received his PhD degree in fall semester 2017-2018. Dr. Fayssal’s PhD research is relevant to the area of Biomedical Engineering where he has worked on developing a 3D non-invasive tool to predict disease functional significance in human diseased coronary arteries. He is the recipient of the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research PhD Award (18,000 USD), Abdul Hadi Debs Endowment Award for Academic Excellence, Professor Emeritus Fateh Sakkal Renewable Energy Research Award, Elsevier Reviewer Recognition Award in recognition for the review made for Energy Conversion and Management journal, and Best Graduate Paper Award at SFEA conference (out of PhD work). During his PhD, Dr. Fayssal has developed a detailed interdisciplinary research proposal (30,000 USD) that served in funding his PhD research. During his PhD candidacy, he was also invited by the International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine to chair the session of Computational Biology and Hemodynamics/Biophysics and Modeling at the IUPESM 2015 World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering that was held in Toronto.

• Ph.D. – Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 2018.
• ME – Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 2012.
• Diploma – Mechanical Engineering, Lebanese University, Hadath, Lebanon, 2009.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (Theory, Numerical Development, Implementation, Applications), Numerical Analysis, Finite Volume Method, Finite Difference Method, Development of Non-Invasive Diagnostic Tools for medical and clinical applications, Computational Modeling of Physiological systems, Multi-scale Modeling (numerical implementation and application), Computational Models of Tumor Induced Angiogenesis, Computational Modeling of Magnetic-Targeted Drug Delivery in Diseased Arteries, Drug Pharmacodynamics, Mathematical Modeling of drug delivery in cancer therapy, Model-based analysis and diagnostic tools for biomedical engineering applications, Food Engineering Applications, Multi-Phase Flow, Macro and Micro flows, Modeling of Heat and Mass Transfer Processes, Mathematical Modeling of Engineering Applications (Bioengineering Systems, Energy Systems, Two-Phase Flows of refrigerants inside evaporators and condensers).

• Best Graduate Paper (Out of my PhD work), 15th FEA Student Conference, April 27 and 28, 2016, American University of Beirut.
• Farouk Jabre grant award for Interdisciplinary Research, 2015.
• CNRS-L/AUB Doctoral Scholarship award, 2013 (A three year Prestigious Award supported by the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research, LNCSR. (The award is granted according to the candidate academic profile and quality of doctoral research).
• PhD Full Scholarship Award, AUB (2012-2017)
• Professor Emeritus Fateh Sakkal Renewable Energy Research Award (2012)
• Abdul Hadi Debs Endowment Award for Academic Excellence (2012)
• Awarded Full Graduate Research Assistantship, Applied Energy Program, AUB (2010-1012)
• Elsevier Reviewer Recognition Award in recognition for the review made for Energy Conversion and Management journal (2015).
• Certificate of Merit from the Lebanese University (Faculty of Engineering) for Distinctive Efforts-2004.

• Fayssal, I. A., Moukalled, F., Alam, S., & Isma'eel, H. (2018). An Outflow Boundary Condition Model for Noninvasive Prediction of Fractional Flow Reserve in Diseased Coronary Arteries. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, ASME, 140(4), 041004.
• Hijazi, L., Fayssal, I. A., Darwish, M., & Moukalled, F. (2017). Numerical simulation of solar wind energy towers. Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, 72(10), 780-805.
• I. Fayssal & F. Moukalled (2012): A New Numerical Approach for Predicting the Two Phase Flow of Refrigerants during Evaporation and Condensation, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals: An International Journal of Computation and Methodology, 62:5, 341-369.

• Iyad Fayssal, Ahmad Ziadeh, Bader Makki, Hadi Farah, Mohammad Alameh, and Fadl Moukalled, “The Numerical Design of a Micro Heat Exchanger Thermoelectrically Cooled and Operating in the Continuum Regime”, The Second International ASHRAE Conference on Efficient Building Design – Materials and HVAC Equipment Technologies. Beirut Lebanon, September 22-23, 2016. Paper No.: ICEBD-MET: 2016-19896.
• Lina Hijazi, Iyad Fayssal, Marwan Darwish, and Fadl Moukalled, “The Performance of Solar-Wind Energy Towers Using Lagrangian-Eulerian and Eulerian-Eulerian Multiphase Models”, The Second International ASHRAE Conference on Efficient Building Design – Materials and HVAC Equipment Technologies. Beirut Lebanon, September 22-23, 2016. Paper No.: ICEBD-MET: 2016-19922.
• Jad Hawi, Iyad Fayssal, Marwan Darwish and Fadl Moukalled, “Comparative Study Using Openfoam© and Fluent Solver of Smoke Propagation inside Occupied Spaces”, The Second International ASHRAE Conference on Efficient Building Design – Materials and HVAC Equipment Technologies. Beirut Lebanon, September 22-23, 2016. Paper No.: ICEBD-MET: 2016-19925.
• Iyad Fayssal, Fadl Moukalled, Samir Alam, Robert Habib, and Hussain Ismaeel, “The Development of a Robust Low Computational Cost Diagnostic Tool to Evaluate Stenosis Functional Significance in Human Coronary Arteries”, ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015.
• Fayssal I., Moukalled F. “Towards “Numerical Experimentation”: The Development of a Full Scale CFD Model of a Roof-Top Air Conditioning Evaporator to Predict the Two Phase Conjugate Heat and Mass Transfer”, International Conference on Refrigeration, ICR 2015, August 16-22, Yokohama, Japan, Paper ID: 247.
• Fayssal I., Moukalled F. “From Lumped to Full Scale Modeling Approach: On the Use of Computational Fluid Dynamics to Model Heat and Mass Transfer Processes in Water Cooled Evaporator”, International Conference on Refrigeration, ICR 2015, August 16-22, Yokohama, Japan, Paper ID: 264.
• I. Fayssal, F. Moukalled, S. Alam, R. Habib and H. Ismaeel, “A Full 3D CFD Model Coupled with an Outflow Lumped Boundary and Inflow Total Pressure Formulation to Estimate Human Cardiac Perfusion”, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, June 7-12, Toronto, Canada, Volume 51 of the series IFMBE Proceedings pp 1695-1698.
• I. Fayssal, F. Moukalled, S. Alam, R. Habib and H. Ismaeel, “The Art of Engineering Medicine: A New Fast Non-Invasive Method to Directly Assess Ischemia in Human Diseased Coronary Arteries”, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, June 7-12, Toronto, Canada, Volume 51 of the series IFMBE Proceedings pp 1735-1738.
• I. Fayssal, F. Moukalled, “The Development of SIM to Characterize Blood Volumetric Flow Rate and Hemodynamics in Human Coronary Arteries”, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, June 7-12, Toronto, Canada, Volume 51 of the series IFMBE Proceedings pp 1704-1707.
• Iyad Fayssal, Fadl Moukalled., “A New Full Scale Multi-Physics Model to Predict Hydrodynamics and Heat and Mass Transfer Performance of a Water Cooled Evaporator”, The First International ASHRAE Conference on Efficient Building Design – Materials and HVAC Equipment Technologies. Beirut Lebanon, October 2-3, 2014. Paper No.: ICEBD-MET: 2014-16041.
• I. Fayssal and F. Moukalled, “Novel Modeling Approach Based on Flow Quality Prediction of a Two Phase Flow of Refrigerant During Evaporation and Condensation,” International Conference on Refrigeration, ICR 2011, August 21-26, Prague, Czech Republic, Paper ID: 177.