Mohamad Aslani
About Mohamad Aslani
Mohamad Aslani is a Staff Engineer specializing in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) at Nikola Motor Company, with extensive experience in both academia and industry.
Current Role at Nikola Motor Company
Mohamad Aslani currently serves as a Staff Engineer, CFD at Nikola Motor Company. He has been in this role since 2022 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. His responsibilities include handling computational fluid dynamics related projects and initiatives.
Previous Positions at Nikola Motor Company
Before his current position, Mohamad Aslani held two other roles at Nikola Motor Company. From 2021 to 2022, he was a Lead Engineer, CFD. Prior to that, he worked as a Senior CFD Engineer from 2020 to 2021, also in Phoenix, Arizona. In these capacities, he contributed to various CFD projects, applying his expertise in fluid dynamics to optimize performance and efficiency.
Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Experience
Mohamad Aslani has extensive experience in academia. From 2019 to 2020, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering in Tallahassee, Florida. Before that, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Florida State University - College of Arts and Sciences from 2017 to 2019. His academic roles involved conducting research in computational fluid dynamics and mentoring students.
Education in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Mohamad Aslani holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University, a degree he earned between 2013 and 2017. Additionally, he achieved a Master of Science (M.S.) in Mechanical Engineering from the same institution. He also graduated with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tehran in 2011.
Skills in Computational Fluid Dynamics
With over a decade of experience in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Mohamad Aslani has developed numerical schemes for complex fluid flow problems including multiphase flows, combustion, fluid-structure interaction, and adjoint optimization. He is skilled in writing scalable and parallel codes in Fortran, C, and C++ specifically for CFD and optimization tasks.