Mohammad Mahdi Jalali, PhD

Mohammad Mahdi Jalili, PhD, Lecturer of Applied Sciences, is a lecturer of Civil Engineering. He teaches Geotechnics and Soil Mechanics, Principles of Structural Design, Construction Technology, Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics, Mathematics, Sciences and Materials as well as Civil Engineering Technology.

Upon completing his PhD thesis at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Professor Alistair Borthwick, he was appointed as a post-doc researcher in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews under the supervision of Professor David Dritschel.

His research encompasses broad aspects of geophysical fluid dynamics and environmental fluid mechanics. In all those areas, he has developed innovative numerical methods and used them to gain a deeper understanding of complex non-linear fluid flows. He developed a curvilinear systems model of environmental flows based on the shallow water equations for his PhD studies, and he studied the first comprehensive analysis of doubly-connected vortex patch equilibria in the 'quasi-geostrophic shallow-water' model for his post-doc research. Additionally, he is interested in the generation of zonal jets on the planetary atmosphere of Jupiter.