Publications and communications of Hatim Machrafi

Dongo, P. D., Machrafi, H., Minetti, C., Amato, A., Queeckers, P., & Iorio, C. S. (2021). A heat-pulse method for detecting ice formation on surfaces. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 22. doi:10.1016/j.tsep.2020.100813

Machrafi, H., Bobinac, I., Dongo, P., Gallo, V., Iermano, F., & Iorio, C. S. (2021). Chemical stability and reversibility of PEDOT:PSS electrodes in view of low-cost biocompatible cellulose-assisted biosensors. Materials Today Communications, 27. doi:10.1016/j.mtcomm.2021.102437

Rabani, R., Sadafi, H., Machrafi, H., Abbasi, M., Haut, B., & Dauby, P. (07 December 2020). Influence of evaporation on the morphology of a thin film of a partially miscible binary mixture. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 612. doi:10.1016/j.colsurfa.2020.126001

Sadafi, H., Rabani, R., Dehaeck, S., Machrafi, H., Haut, B., Dauby, P., & Colinet, P. (2020). Evaporation induced demixing in binary sessile drops. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. doi:10.1016/j.colsurfa.2020.125052

Machrafi, H. (2020). Universal relation between the density and the viscosity of dispersions of nanoparticles and stabilized emulsions. Nanoscale, 12 (28), 15081-15101. doi:10.1039/d0nr03130e

Machrafi, H. (2020). On the chemical potential of nanoparticle dispersion. Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics, 384 (19). doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2020.126485

Sobac, B., Maquet, L., Duchesne, A., Machrafi, H., Rednikov, A., Dauby, P., Colinet, P., & Dorbolo, S. (2020). Self-induced flows enhance the levitation of Leidenfrost drops on liquid baths. Physical Review Fluids, 5, 062701. doi:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.062701

Rabani, R., Machrafi, H., & Dauby, P. (2019). Influence of Composition Dependent Diffusion Coefficient,Viscosity and Relaxation Time on EvaporativeRayleigh-Bénard-Marangoni Instabilities Induced by SolventEvaporation in a Polymer Solution. Microgravity Science and Technology. doi:10.1007/s12217-019-09732-8

CAPELLE, X., Schaaps, J.-P., BAVI DIDO, J.-V., DAUBY, M., Desaive, T., VAN LINTHOUT, C., SEIDEL, L., Kridelka, F., Dauby, P., & Machrafi, H. (2019). Variation of the maximum velocity along the umbilical vein supports the Reynolds pulsometer modela. Journal of Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction. doi:10.1016/j.jogoh.2019.07.012

Lebon, G., & Machrafi, H. (2019). Effective thermal conductivity of nanostructures: A review. AAPP Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti, Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali, 97. doi:10.1478/AAPP.97S1A14

Machrafi, H. (2019). Temperature distribution through a nanofilm by means of a ballistic-diffusive approach. Inventions, 4 (1). doi:10.3390/inventions4010002

Machrafi, H. (2019). Nanomedicine by extended non-equilibrium thermodynamics: Cell membrane diffusion and scaffold medication release. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 16 (4), 1949-1965. doi:10.3934/mbe.2019095

Minetti, C., Iorio, C. S., & Machrafi, H. (2019). High-frequency temperature pulse-response behavior through a porous nanocomposite scaffold for measuring the uptake of biological fluids. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 16 (5), 4873-4884. doi:10.3934/mbe.2019245

Lebon, G., & Machrafi, H. (2018). A thermodynamic model of nanofluid viscosity based on a generalized Maxwell-type constitutive equation. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 253, 1-6. doi:10.1016/j.jnnfm.2018.01.005

Machrafi, H., & Lebon, G. (2018). Fluid flow through porous and nanoporous media within the prisme of Extended Thermodynamics: emphasis on the notion of permeability. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. doi:10.1007/s10404-018-2086-9

Machrafi, H., Lyulin, Y., Iorio, C., Kabov, O., & Dauby, P. (2018). Numerical parametric study of the evaporation rate of a liquid under a shear gas flow: experimental validation and the importance of confinement on the convection cells and the evaporation rate. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. doi:10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2018.05.003

Machrafi, H., Minetti, C., Miskovic, V., Dauby, P., Dubois, F., & Iorio, C. (2018). Self-assembly of carbon nanotube-based composites by means of evaporation-assisted depositions: importance of drop-by-drop self-assembly on material properties. Materials Chemistry and Physics. doi:10.1016/j.matchemphys.2018.06.083

Miskovic, V., Traettino, S., Minetti, C., Machrafi, H., Amirfazli, A., Dubois, F., & Iorio, C. (2018). Fabrication and Characterization of Polystyrene Colloidal Photonic Crystals on Soft Sodium Alginate Film. Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics. doi:10.1166/jno.2018.2285

Rabani, R., Machrafi, H., & Dauby, P. (17 October 2017). Effect of including a gas layer on the gel formation process during the drying of a polymer solution. European Physical Journal E. Soft Matter, 40 (89), 11579-3. doi:10.1140/epje/i2017-11579-3

Machrafi, H., Minetti, C., & Iorio, C. S. (2017). Microbial Lipids as Diesel Replacement: Current Challenges and Recent Advances. In F. D. Harzevili & S. Hiligsmann, Microbial Fuels Technologies and Applications (pp. 393-424). CRC Press. doi:10.1201/9781351246101-12

Rabani, R., Machrafi, H., & Dauby, P. (19 June 2017). Influence of the gas layer on skin formation during 1-D drying of polymer solutions [Poster presentation]. 7th international Colloids Conference, Sitges, Spain.

Glushchuk, A., Minetti, C., Machrafi, H., & Iorio, C. S. (2017). Experimental investigation of force balance at vapour condensation on a cylindrical fin. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 108, 2130-2142. doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2017.01.067

Machrafi, H. (2017). Enhancement of a photovoltaic cell performance by a coupled cooled nanocomposite thermoelectric hybrid system, using extended thermodynamics. Current Applied Physics, 17 (6), 890-911. doi:10.1016/j.cap.2017.03.001

Machrafi, H., Minetti, C., Dauby, P., & Iorio, C. S. (2017). Self-assembly by multi-drop evaporation of carbon-nanotube droplets on a polycarbonate substrate. Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 85, 206-213. doi:10.1016/j.physe.2016.09.001

Machrafi, H. (2016). Heat transfer at nanometric scales described by extended irreversible thermodynamics. Communications in Applied and Industrial Mathematics, 7 (2), 177-195. doi:10.1515/caim-2016-0013

Machrafi, H. (2016). An extended thermodynamic model for size-dependent thermoelectric properties at nanometric scales: Application to nanofilms, nanocomposites and thin nanocomposite films. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 40 (3), 2143-2160. doi:10.1016/j.apm.2015.09.044

Machrafi, H., & Lebon, G. (2016). The role of several heat transfer mechanisms on the enhancement of thermal conductivity in nanofluids. Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 28 (5), 1461-1475. doi:10.1007/s00161-015-0488-4

Machrafi, H., & Lebon, G. (2016). General constitutive equations of heat transport at small length scales and high frequencies with extension to mass and electrical charge transport. Applied Mathematics Letters, 52, 30-37. doi:10.1016/j.aml.2015.08.004

Machrafi, H., Lebon, G., & Iorio, C. S. (2016). Effect of volume-fraction dependent agglomeration of nanoparticles on the thermal conductivity of nanocomposites: Applications to epoxy resins, filled by SiO2, AlN and MgO nanoparticles. Composites Science and Technology, 130, 78-87. doi:10.1016/j.compscitech.2016.05.003

Machrafi, H., Lebon, G., & Jou, D. (2016). Thermal rectifier efficiency of various bulk-nanoporous silicon devices. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 97, 603-610. doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2016.02.048

Lebon, G., & Machrafi, H. (2015). Thermal conductivity of tubular nanowire composites based on a thermodynamical model. Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 71, 117-122. doi:10.1016/j.physe.2015.04.008

Lebon, G., Machrafi, H., & Grmela, M. (2015). An extended irreversible thermodynamic modelling of size-dependent thermal conductivity of spherical nanoparticles dispersed in homogeneous media. Proceedings of the Royal Society. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 471 (2182). doi:10.1098/rspa.2015.0144

Machrafi, H., & Lebon, G. (2015). Size and porosity effects on thermal conductivity of nanoporous material with an extension to nanoporous particles embedded in a host matrix. Physics Letters A, 379, 968-973. doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2015.01.027

Machrafi, H., Rednikov, A., Colinet, P., & Dauby, P. (2015). Importance of wavenumber dependence of Biot numbers in one-sided models of evaporative Marangoni instability: horizontal layer and spherical droplet. Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 91, 053018. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.91.053018

Machrafi, H., Iorio, C., & Dauby, P. (2014). Relation between convective thermal patterns and heat flux through an evaporating surface via 2D and 3D numerical simulations. Interfacial Phenomena and Heat Transfer, 2 (3), 199-209.

Machrafi, H., & Lebon, G. (2014). Effective thermal conductivity of spherical particulate nanocomposites: comparison with theoretical models, Monte Carlo simulations and experiments. International Journal of Nanoscience, 13, 1450022. doi:10.1142/S0219581X14500227

Machrafi, H., Rednikov, A., Colinet, P., & Dauby, P. (2013). Time-dependent Marangoni-Bénard instability of an evaporating binary-liquid layer including gas transients. Physics of Fluids, 25, 084106. doi:10.1063/1.4817329

Machrafi, H., Sadoun, N., Rednikov, A., Dehaeck, S., Dauby, P., & Colinet, P. (2013). Evaporation Rates and Bénard-Marangoni Supercriticality Levels for Liquid Layers Under an Inert Gas Flow. Microgravity Science and Technology. doi:10.1007/s12217-013-9355-8

Machrafi, H. (2012). Philosophy for controlling auto-ignition in an HCCI engine. In H. Machrafi (Ed.), Green Energy and Technology (pp. 323-366). Sharjah, United Arab Emirates: Bentham Science Publishers. doi:10.2174/978160805285111201010323

Machrafi, H. (Ed.). (2012). Green Energy and Technology. Sharjah, United Arab Emirates: Bentham Science Publishers. doi:10.2174/97816080528511120101

Machrafi, H., Rednikov, A., Colinet, P., & Dauby, P. (2012). Solutal Marangoni instability of binary mixtures evaporating into air: an analytical model describing highly unstable cases. In Book of abstracts of the Seventh International Symposium on TWO-PHASE SYSTEMS FOR GROUND AND SPACE APPLICATIONS.

Machrafi, H., Rednikov, A., Colinet, P., & Dauby, P. (2012). Solutal Marangoni instability of binary mixtures evaporating into air: an analytical model describing highly unstable cases [Poster presentation]. Seventh International Symposium on TWO-PHASE SYSTEMS FOR GROUND AND SPACE APPLICATIONS, Beijing, China.

Machrafi, H., Rednikov, A., Colinet, P., & Dauby, P. (2012). Solutal Marangoni instability in a binary liquid layer evaporating into air: the importance of transients in the gas for highly unstable cases. In Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 57, n°17 (2012).

Machrafi, H., Rednikov, A., Colinet, P., & Dauby, P. (2012). Evaporation in motion. Gallery of Fluid Motion.

Rednikov, A., Machrafi, H., Dauby, P., & Colinet, P. (2012). Extremely Unstable Evaporative Bénard-Marangoni Systems: the Role of Transients in the Gas. In Book of Conference Abstracts of the International Marangoni Association, 6.

Machrafi, H., Rednikov, A., Colinet, P., & Dauby, P. (February 2011). Bénard instabilities in a binary-liquid layer evaporating into an inert gas: stability of quasi-stationary and time-dependent reference profiles. European Physical Journal. Special Topics, 192 (1), 71-81. doi:10.1140/epjst/e2011-01361-y

Lebon, G., Machrafi, H., Grmela, M., & Ddubois, C. (2011). An extended thermodynamic model of transient heat conduction at sub-continuum scales. Proceedings of the Royal Society. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 467, 3241-3256. doi:10.1098/rspa.2011.0087

Machrafi, H. (2011). CO2 valorization by means of dielectric barrier discharge. Journal of Physics. Conference Series, 275 (1, art_number=012016). doi:10.1088/1742-6596/275/1/012016

Machrafi, H., Alexey, R., Colinet, P., & Dauby, P. (2011). Instability analysis of a horizontal evaporating binary liquid layer with transient reference profiles [Paper presentation]. European Low Gravity Research Association, Biennial Symposium and General Assembly, Antwerp, Belgium.

Machrafi, H., Cavadias, S., & Amouroux, J. (2011). CO2 reforming of methane: valorizing CO2 by means of Dielectric Barrier Discharge. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 19 (1), 012006. doi:10.1088/1757-899X/19/1/012006

Machrafi, H. (2010). The Chemistry in HCCI Combustion and the Use of Reduced Kinetic Mechanisms for Controlling Strategies. In M. Lackner, F. Winter, ... A. K. Agarwal (Eds.), Handbook of Combustion. Wiley.

Machrafi, H. (2010). Experimental validation of concentration profiles in an HCCI engine, modelled by a multi-component kinetic mechanism: Outline for auto-ignition and emission control. Energy Conversion and Management, 51 (10), 2025-2031. doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2010.02.036

Machrafi, H. (2010). Diesel and Gasoline for HCCI Combustion. In M. J. Acosta (Ed.), Advances in Energy Research. Nova Science Publishers.

Machrafi, H., Cavadias, S., & Amouroux, J. (2010). Simulation of the formation of methanol from CO2 and H2, in electrocatalytic plasma chemical reactor [Paper presentation]. The Fall-meeting EMRS 2010, Symposium A; III 5, Warsaw, Poland.

Machrafi, H., Cavadias, S., & Amouroux, J. (2010). Influence of fuel type, dilution and equivalence ratio on the emission reduction from the auto-ignition in an Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition engine. Energy, 35 (4), 1829-1838. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2010.01.002

Machrafi, H., Cavadias, S., & Amouroux, J. (2010). CO2 valorization by means of dielectric barrier discharge [Paper presentation]. The International Conference on High Technology Plasma Processes HTPP11, Brussels, Belgium.

Machrafi, H., Rednikov, A., Colinet, P., & Dauby, P. (2010). Using time-dependent reference profiles for an instability analysis of an evaporating binary liquid layer. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multiscale Comples Fluid Flows and Interfacial Phenomena, 16.

Machrafi, H., Rednikov, A., Colinet, P., & Dauby, P. (2010). Using time-dependent reference profiles for an instability analysis of an evaporating binary liquid layer [Poster presentation]. The International Conference on Multiscale Complex Fluid Flows and Interfacial Phenomena, Brussels, Belgium.

Machrafi, H., Rednikov, A., Colinet, P., & Dauby, P. (2010). Linear stability analysis of an evaporating binary liquid layer with fully transient reference profiles. In Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 55, n°16 (pp. 2216).

Machrafi, H., Rednikov, A., Colinet, P., & Dauby, P. (2010). Bénard instabilities of a binary liquid layer evaporating into an inert gas: stability of quasi-stationary and time-dependent reference profiles. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the International Marangoni Association “Interfacial Fluid Dynamics and Processes”.

Machrafi, H., Rednikov, A., Colinet, P., & Dauby, P. (2010). Bénard instabilities in a binary-liquid layer evaporating into an inert gas. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 349, 331-353. doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2010.04.043

Machrafi, H., Cavadias, S., & Amouroux, J. (2009). The development and experimental validation of a reduced ternary kinetic mechanism for the auto-ignition at HCCI conditions, proposing a global reaction path for ternary gasoline surrogates. Fuel Processing Technology, 90 (2), 247-263. doi:10.1016/j.fuproc.2008.08.015

Machrafi, H., Rednikov, A., Colinet, P., & Dauby, P. (2009). Stability analysis of the evaporation of a binary liquid into an inert gas, considering solute/thermal and gravity/surface tension effects. In Proceedings (CD) of the EUROTHERM Seminar Nr. 84 “Thermodynamics of phase changes”, Namur (Belgium), May 24-27, 2009.

Machrafi, H., Rednikov, A., Colinet, P., & Dauby, P. (2008). Stability analysis of an evaporating binary mixture. In Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 53, n°15 (pp. 184).

Machrafi, H. (2008). Experimental validation of a kinetic multi-component mechanism in a wide HCCI engine operating range for mixtures of n-heptane, iso-octane and toluene: Influence of EGR parameters. Energy Conversion and Management, 49 (11), 2956-2965. doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2008.06.016

Machrafi, H., & Cavadias. (2008). An experimental and numerical analysis of the influence of the inlet temperature, equivalence ratio and compression ratio on the HCCI auto-ignition process of Primary Reference Fuels in an engine. Fuel Processing Technology, 89 (11), 1218-1226. doi:10.1016/j.fuproc.2008.05.019

Machrafi, H., & Cavadias, S. (2008). Three-stage autoignition of gasoline in an HCCI engine: An experimental and chemical kinetic modeling investigation. Combustion and Flame, 155 (4), 557-570. doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2008.04.022

Machrafi, H., Cavadias, S., & Amouroux, J. (2008). A parametric study on the emissions from an HCCI alternative combustion engine resulting from the auto-ignition of primary reference fuels. Applied Energy, 85 (8), 755-764. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2008.02.005

Machrafi, H., Cavadias, S., & Gilbert, P. (2008). An experimental and numerical analysis of the HCCI auto-ignition process of primary reference fuels, toluene reference fuels and diesel fuel in an engine, varying the engine parameters. Fuel Processing Technology, 89 (11), 1007-1016. doi:10.1016/j.fuproc.2008.03.007

Machrafi, H., Cavadias, S., & Guibert, P. (2008). An experimental and numerical investigation on the influence of external gas recirculation on the HCCI autoignition process in an engine: Thermal, diluting, and chemical effects. Combustion and Flame, 155 (3), 476-489. doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2008.05.001

Machrafi, H., Guibert, P., & Cavadias, S. (2008). HCCI engine modeling and experimental investigations - Part 2: The composition of a NO-PRF interaction mechanism and the influence of NO in EGR on auto-ignition. Combustion Science and Technology, 180 (7), 1245-1262. doi:10.1080/00102200802049380

Machrafi, H. (2007). Development and experimental validation of kinetic schemes for hydrocarbon mixtures for HCCI applications. Investigation of the auto-ignition process and the application to internal combustion engines [Doctoral thesis, Université Paris Descartes]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/95040

Machrafi, H., Guibert, P., & Cavadias, S. (2007). The effect of EGR on HCCI combustion – impact of diluting, thermal and chemical aspects: experimental and numerical approaches [Paper presentation]. Proceedings of the 3th European Combustion Meeting 2007, Chania, Crete, Greece.

Machrafi, H., Guibert, P., & Cavadias, S. (2007). The effect of EGR on HCCI combustion – impact of diluting, thermal and chemical aspects: experimental and numerical approaches [Poster presentation]. 3th European Combustion Meeting, Chania, Crete, Greece.

Machrafi, H., Guibert, P., Cavadias, S., & Morin, C. (2007). HCCI engine modeling and experimental investigations - Part 1: The reduction, composition and validation of a n-heptane/iso-octane mechanism. Combustion Science and Technology, 179 (12), 2561-2580. doi:10.1080/00102200701486931

Machrafi, H., Lombaert, K., Cavadias, S., & Guibert, P. (2005). Reduced Chemical Reaction Mechanisms: Experimental and HCCI Modelling Investigations of Autoignition Processes of n-Heptane in Internal Combustion Engines. Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers. doi:10.4271/2005-24-035

Machrafi, H., Lombaert, K., Cavadias, S., Guibert, P., & Amouroux, J. (2005). Reduced chemical reaction mechanisms: experimental and HCCI modelling investigations of autoignition processes of iso-octane in internal combustion engines. Fuel, 84 (18), 2330-2340. doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2005.01.001

Machrafi, H., Lombaert, K., Guibert, P., & Cavadias, S. (2005). Numerical and experimental engine study of HCCI combustion. Validation of a reduced n-heptane/iso-octane chemical kinetic mechanism [Paper presentation]. 7th International Conference on Engines for Automobile, Capri, Italy.