Navid Niknafs

Ph.D. Student

Email: nniknafs@udel.edu

Department: Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware

Research Area

• Advanced manufacturing of composite structures
• Porosity Modeling during the Co-cure process of Sandwich Structure Composites

Selected Publications (All)

• Niknafs Kermani, N., Simacek, P. & Advani, S. G., “Porosity Predictions during Co-cure of Honeycomb Core Prepreg Sandwich Structures.” Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing p. 105824 (2020).
• Niknafs Kermani, N., SIMACEK, P. & ADVANI, S. G., “A Model for the Equilibrated Co-Cure of Honeycomb Core Sandwich Structures in Autoclave Processing,” Proceedings of the American Society for Composites—Thirty-fourth Technical Conference, (2019).
• Navid Niknafs Kermani, Pavel Simacek, S. G. A., “A Simple Tool to Simulate Honeycomb Sandwich Structure Composites During Co-Cure Manufacturing Process.” Proceedings of the SAMPE 2019 Conference, Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (2019).
• Timotei Centea, Pavel Simacek, Mark Anders, Navid Niknafs Kermani, Daniel Zebrine, Suresh Advani,  and S. N., “Understanding and Modeling the Co-Cure of Honeycomb Core Sandwich Structures,” in Proceedings of the SAMPE 2019 Conference, Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering, (2019).
• N Niknafs Kermani, P Simacek, SG Advani, “A Numerical Model to Simulate Void Dynamics During Processing of Honeycomb Core Sandwich Structures with Prepreg Face-Sheets“. Proceedings of the American Society for Composites—Thirty-third Technical Conference, (2018).

Education

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology (2016)

Positions

• 2017: Present: Graduate Student Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware.
• 2015-2016: Research and Development engineer at MAPNA Boiler company