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Dr Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi

Dr Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi

Associate Professor/Head of Department

Area of Interest: Fluid Mechanics

Email: [email protected]

HEC Approved PhD Supervisor

Academics / Degrees

  • PhD HITEC Taxila
  • MS, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan

Profile / Bio

PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

April 2022 to continued

Associate Professor, COMSATS University Islamabad
(Abbottabad Campus), Pakistan

Mar.
2007 to April 2022       

Assistant Professor, COMSATS University Islamabad
(Abbottabad Campus), Pakistan.

Aug.
2005 to Mar. 2007

Lecturer, COMSATS University Islamabad (Abbottabad Campus).

Mar.
2002 to July 2005

Visiting Lecturer with
(IBMS), Abbottabad.

Jan.
2003 to Dec. 2004

Visiting Lecturer with Abbottabad College of
Accountancy, Abbottabad.

Aug
2000 to July 2005

Lecturer, Emerson Group of Colleges, Abbottabad

Mar.
1994 to July. 2000

Lecturer, Army Public College, PMA, Kakul, Abbottabad.

 

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
 

Sep.
2017 to June 2019

Provost, COMSATS University Islamabad (Abbottabad Campus), Pakistan.

Mar. 2014 to
Aug. 2016

Head, Department
of Mathematics, COMSATS
University Islamabad (Abbottabad Campus), Pakistan.

Mar. 2014 to
date

Member,
Departmental Advisory Committee for
graduate studies, COMSATS University Islamabad (Abbottabad Campus), Pakistan.

May 2012 to
Sep. 2013

Manager Administration, COMSATS
University Islamabad (Abbottabad Campus), Pakistan.

May 2012 to
Sep. 2013

Member, Spot Purchasing
Committee, COMSATS
University Islamabad (Abbottabad Campus), Pakistan.

May 2012 to
Sep. 2013

Member, Campus Service
Committee, COMSATS
University Islamabad (Abbottabad Campus), Pakistan.

July 2011 to
May 2012

Departmental Operating
Officer, COMSATS
University Islamabad (Abbottabad Campus), Pakistan.

Aug.
2007 to date

Member,
Campus Academic Regulatory Committee, COMSATS University Islamabad (Abbottabad Campus), Pakistan.

Aug.
2007 to date

Member,
Departmental Academic Regulatory
Committee,
COMSATS University Islamabad (Abbottabad Campus), Pakistan.

Mar. 2007 to
till date

Convener, Convocation
Venue Committee, COMSATS
University Islamabad (Abbottabad Campus), Pakistan.

Apr. 2007 to
Mar. 2012

Convener, Techno-Moot Accommodation
Committee, COMSATS
University Islamabad (Abbottabad Campus), Pakistan.

Mar. 2007 to
2016

Member, Symposium Organizing Committee, COMSATS
University Islamabad (Abbottabad Campus), Pakistan.

Mar. 2007 to
Aug. 2008

Departmental Operating
Officer, COMSATS
University Islamabad (Abbottabad Campus), Pakistan.

Mar. 1997 to
July 2000

Admin officer, Army Public
College, PMA, Kakul, Pakistan.

Mar. 1995 to
July 2000

Discipline Incharge, Army Public
College, PMA, Kakul, Pakistan.

 

Research Interests

  • Bio Fluid Mechanics
  • Numerical Study of Differential Equations
  • Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Awards

  • Best
    Researcher
    Award 2018.
  • Research
    Productivity
    Award 2014.
  • Appreciation
    letter
    for smooth conduction of Convocation every semester.
  • Appreciation
    letter
    for organizing Looking Ahead Forum 2013.
  • Performance
    base     Appreciation
    letter     for
    the year 2009-2010.
  • Performance
    base     Appreciation
    letter     for
    the year 2011-2012.
  • Performance
    base     Appreciation
    letter     for
    the year 2012-2013.
  • Performance
    base     Appreciation
    letter     for
    the year 2013-2014.
  • Performance
    base     Appreciation
    letter     for
    the year 2014-2015.
  • Performance
    base     Appreciation
    letter     for
    the year 2015-2016.
  • Awarded Incentives
    for Faculty desirous of Advanced Education     by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan.
  • Awarded Merit Scholarship in M.Sc by Fauji Foundation, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
  • Remained
    Vice-President Science
    Society    ,
    Govt. Post Graduate College, Abbottabad, Pakistan

Journal Publications

1. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,Umar Khan,Faisal Ur Rehman,Zafar Mahmood,Abhinav Kumar,Osama Oqilat Investigation of nanofluid through converging-diverging stretching Riga surface, The Journal of Nanomaterials, Nanoengineering and Nanosystems, 2026
2. Ammara Islam,Umar Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,Zafar Mahmood, Abhinav Kumar, Mushtaq Ahmad Ansari Analysis of variable electrical conductivity with viscosity and thermal conductivity on triple diffusive flow over surface with stratification phenomena via Lie group scaling, Modern Physics Letters B , 2026
3. Adnan, Refka Ghodhbani, Khaleeq ur Rahman,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,Dana Mohammad Khidhir,Muhammad Asad Iqbal, Iskander Tlili Thermomechanics of radiated hybrid nanofluid interacting with MHD and heating source: Significance of nanoparticles shapes, Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences, 2025
4. Adnan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,Umer khan,Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din ,Ilyas Khan Heat transfer enhancement in H2O suspended by aluminium alloy nanoparticles over a convective stretching surface, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2020
5. Adnan ,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,Umar Khan ,Thabet Abdeljawad ,Naveed Ahmed , Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din,Ilyas Khan ,Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisa Investigation of Thermal Transport in Multi-Shaped Cu Nanomaterial-Based Nanofluids, Materials, 2020
6. Adnan ,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,Umer khan,Naveed khan,Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din,Yu-Ming Chu, Ilyas Khan ,Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar Impacts of Freezing Temperature Based Thermal Conductivity on the Heat Transfer Gradient in Nanofluids: Applications for a Curved Riga Surface, material, 2020
7. Naveed Ahmed,Adnan,Umar Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,Imran Faisal,Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din Heat transfer intensification in hydromagnetic and radiative 3D, Journal of Central South University, 2019
8. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,S.T. Mohyud-Din,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=686" title="Dr. Umar Khan">U.Khan</a>,N. Ahmed Eyring-Powell fluid flow through a wall jet in the presence of viscous dissipation, The European Physical Journal Plus, 2018
9. Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a> Soret and MHD effects on bioconvection wall jet flow of nanofluid containing gyrotactic microorganisms, Neural Comput & Applic, 2017
10. Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,Bandar Bin-Mohsen Effects of nonlinear Rosseland thermal radiation on MHD steady wall jet flow, Neural Comput & Applic, 2017
11. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din,Bandar Bin-Mohsen A comparative study of wall jet flow containing carbon nanotubes with convective heat transfer and MHD, Engineering Computations, 2017
12. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,Syed Tauseef Mohyud-din Effects of Joule heating and MHD upper convected Maxwell fluid through wall Jet , Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2017
13. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din Analysis of wall jet flow for Soret, Dufour and chemical reaction effects in the presence of MHD with uniform suction/injection, Applied Thermal Engineering, 2016
14. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din Convective heat transfer and MHD effects on two dimensional wall jet flow of a nano fluid with passive control model, Aerospace Science and Technology, 2016
15. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,N. Ahmed,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=686" title="Dr. Umar Khan">U.Khan</a>,S.T. Mohyud-Din On heat and mass transfer analysis for the flow of a nanofluid between rotating parallel plates, Aerospace Science and Technology, 2015
16. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=686" title="Dr. Umar Khan">U.Khan</a>,Asif Waheed,S.T. Mohyud-Din,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=511" title="Dr. Saeed Ullah Jan">S.U.Jan</a>,N. Ahmed MHD flow of an Incompressible Fluid through porous medium between Dilating and Squeezing Permeable walls, Journal of Porous Media, 2014
17. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=686" title="Dr. Umar Khan">U.Khan</a>,Yang Xiao-Jun,N. Ahmed,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=510" title="Dr.Sheikh Irfanullah Khan">S.I Khan</a>,S.T. Mohyud-Din On unsteady two-dimensional and axisymmetric squeezing flow between parallel plates, Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2014
18. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=686" title="Dr. Umar Khan">U.Khan</a>,N. Ahmed,M. Asadullah,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,S.T. Mohyud-Din MHD Squeezing Flow between Two Infinite Plates, Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2014
19. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=622" title="Dr. Aamir Shahzad">A.Shahzad</a> Application of the Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic Method for Fins with Variable temperature Surface Heat Flux, World Applied Sciences Journal, 2013
20. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=686" title="Dr. Umar Khan">U.Khan</a>,S.T. Mohyud-Din,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,N. Ahmed A novel approach in Homotopy Perturbation Method for the expansion of non-linear terms, Italian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2013
21. T. Haroon,A. M. Siddiqui,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,B. S. Babcock Study of axisymmetric flow of Maxwell fluid through arterial stenosis, MATHEMATICS IN ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND AEROSPACE, 2013
22. A Naveed,K Umar,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=510" title="Dr.Sheikh Irfanullah Khan">S.I Khan</a>,XJ Yang,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,TMD Syed Magneto hydrodynamic (MHD) squeezing flow of a Casson fluid between parallel disks, International Journal of Physical Sciences , 2013
23. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=511" title="Dr. Saeed Ullah Jan">S.U.Jan</a>,Naveed Ahmed,Umar Khan,Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din VARIATION OF PARAMETERS METHOD FOR THIN FILM FLOW OF A THIRD GRADE FLUID DOWN AN INCLINED PLANE, italian journal of pure and applied mathematics, 2013
24. Umar Khan,Naveed Ahmed,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=511" title="Dr. Saeed Ullah Jan">S.U.Jan</a>,Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din On Jeffery-Hamel Flows, International Journal of Modern Mathematical Sciences, 2013
25. MUHAMMAD ALI,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,QAMAR ZIA,M. ZAKARIA,S.M.AHSAN,M.RAMEEZ Smart Grid Intelligent Load Management Modeling and Analysis for Residential Colony Using FEDRP, International Review of Electrical Engineering (I.R.E.E.), 2013
26. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=686" title="Dr. Umar Khan">U.Khan</a>,S.T. Mohyud-Din,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=510" title="Dr.Sheikh Irfanullah Khan">S.I Khan</a>,N. Ahmed Heat transfer analysis in diverging and converging channels , Nonlinear Science Letters A: Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, 2012
27. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=251" title="Dr. Sahibzada Muhammad Ali">S. M. Ali</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=363" title="Dr.Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi">Z. A. Zaidi</a>,Qamar Zia,Kamal Haider,Amjad Ullah,Muhammad Asif Intelligent Load Management Scheme for residential Community in Smart Grids Network Using FEDRP, Energy and Power Engineering, 2012
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