Novel concept of hybrid wavestar-floating offshore wind turbine system with rectilinear arrays of WECs

HR Ghafari, H Ghassemi, A Abbasi, KA Vakilabadi… - Ocean …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper deals with the novel composition of the Wavestar (WS) wave energy converter (WEC)
and a floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) as a hybrid wave-wind energy concept. …

Targeted delivery of therapeutic agents in a healthy and stenosed patient-specific carotid artery using an external magnetic field

K Teimouri, A Ghafari, M Kim, MR Tavakoli… - Journal of Magnetism …, 2023 - Elsevier
In Magnetic Drug Targeting (MDT), an alternative and highly efficient technique to traditional
drug delivery methods, therapeutic agents labeled with magnetic particles are transported …

Investigation of interaction between solitary wave and two submerged rectangular obstacles

A Ghafari, MR Tavakoli, M Nili-Ahmadabadi… - Ocean …, 2021 - Elsevier
The performance of coastal breakwaters in reducing wave height and energy is an important
problem. This paper presents an experimental and numerical investigation of solitary wave …

Numerical study of the Wavestar wave energy converter with multi-point-absorber around DeepCwind semisubmersible floating platform

HR Ghafari, H Ghassemi, G He - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The presented paper numerically studies on the Wavestar wave energy converter (WEC)
with multi-point-absorber around the DeepCwind semisubmersible floating platform. The …

Prevalence of Cryptosporidium species isolated from HIV/AIDS patients in southwest of Iran

R Ghafari, A Rafiei, M Tavalla… - … and infectious diseases, 2018 - Elsevier
This study aimed to determine the prevalence and species of Cryptosporidium among HIV/AIDS
patients in southwest of Iran. Two hundred fifty faecal samples from HIV patients were …

Numerical study on the hydrodynamic interaction between two floating platforms in Caspian Sea environmental conditions

HR Ghafari, MJ Ketabdari, H Ghassemi, E Homayoun - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, the hydrodynamic interaction between Amirkabir semi-submersible and a
Mono column FPSO floating platforms in Caspian Sea Conditions was studied. Dynamic …

Power matrix and dynamic response of the hybrid Wavestar-DeepCwind platform under different diameters and regular wave conditions

HR Ghafari, H Ghassemi, A Neisi - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Power production assessment usually carried out as a power matrix, is essential for the
appraisal of wave energy converter (WEC) technologies. This article proposes the hybrid …

Power production of the hybrid Wavestar point absorber mounted around the Hywind spar platform and its dynamic response

HR Ghafari, A Neisi, H Ghassemi… - Journal of Renewable …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This article presents the novel hybrid Wavestar–Hywind concept that combines a floating wind
turbine with a number of Wavestar point-absorbers on a shared OC3-Hywind spar platform…

Crack propagation characterization of crumb rubber modified asphalt concrete using JR curves

S Ghafari, FM Nejad - Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 2022 - Elsevier
J-Resistance curves serve as a robust tool in characterizing the entire crack propagation
trend of materials. Nevertheless, thus far, investigations on JR curves of hot mix asphalt (HMA) …

Thermo optical switching and sensing applications of an infrared metamaterial

S Ghafari, MR Forouzeshfard… - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… The quality factor in our structure for the situation of s = 70nm in Fig.3 is obtained about …
Sana Ghafari received the BS degree in physics from the Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, …