Muhammad Irfan Zafar

Assistant Professor
School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
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Dr. Muhammad Irfan Zafar is working as Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering. Dr. Muhammad Irfan Zafar has a PhD in Fluid Dynamics . Dr. Muhammad Irfan Zafar has published 8 research articles & conference papers having a citation count of 83 , carried out 1 projects and filed 0 intellectual property.

Research Tags

Data-Driven Fluid Mechanics Aerodynamics Aeroelasticity Computational Fluid Dynamics Fluid Dynamics; Laminar-Turbulent-Transition Physics-Informed Neural Networks Scientific Machine Learning Turbulent Flows Deep Learning

Research Projects

1

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Amount Granted

0.1 M

Publications

8

Citations

83

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Education

PhD Fluid Dynamics 2019- 2023
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) , United States
MS Aeroelasticity 2011- 2014
Politecnico di Milano , Italy
Post Grad Diploma NA 2007- 2011
Institute of Space Technology , Pakistan

Experience

Assistant Professor 2023- Present
School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering , NUST
Lecturer 2017- 2019
Institute of Space Technology , 1 Islamabad Expy, Islamabad ,
Lecturer 2015- 2017
Superior University, Lahore , 17km Raiwind Rd, Kot Araian, Lahore ,

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Total Funding (PKR)
Design and Manufacturing of a VTOL QuadPlane with Foldable Arms 2025
Muhammad Irfan Zafar
Project Status: Completed Rs: 0.1 M Approval Date: 2025-01-30 Completion Date: 2025-08-12
Funding Agency: N/A
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Editorial Activities
Data-Driven Turbulence Modeling Approach for Cold-Wall Hypersonic Boundary Layers 2025
Muhammad Irfan Zafar
XU
Xuhui Zhou (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
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Christopher J. Roy (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
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David Stelter (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
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Heng Xiao (University of Stuttgart)
Journal: Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Pages 1-17
Impact Factor: 1.700 Citations: 0 Quartile: 3
SDG 9
Neural operator-based super-fidelity: A warm-start approach for accelerating steady-state simulations 2025
XU
Xu-Hui Zhou (Virginia Tech)
JI
Jiequn Han (Flatiron Institute)
Muhammad Irfan Zafar
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Eric M. Wolf (Ohio Aerospace Institute)
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Christopher R. Schrock (Air Force Research Laboratory)
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Christopher J. Roy (Virginia Tech)
HE
Heng Xiao (University of Stuttgart)
Journal: Journal of Computational Physics, Volume:529, Article Number 113871
Impact Factor: 3.800 Citations: 0 Quartile: 1
SDG 9
Analysis of Non-Classical Aileron Buzz 2016
Muhammad Irfan Zafar
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F. Fusi (Politecnico di Milano)
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G. Quaranta (Politecnico di Milano)
Journal: Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio, Volume 95, Pages 191-200
Impact Factor: 0 Citations: 0 Quartile: N/A
SDG 4
Recurrent neural network for end-to-end modeling of laminar-turbulent transition 2021
ME
Meelan M. Choudhari (NASA Langley Research Center)
Muhammad Irfan Zafar
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Pedro Paredes (National Institute of Aerospace)
HE
Heng Xiao (Virginia Tech)
Journal: Data-Centric Engineering, Volume 2, Issue 11, Article Number e17
Impact Factor: N/A Citations: 21 Quartile: N/A
SDG 4
Frame Invariance and Scalability of Neural Operators for Partial Differential Equations 2022
Muhammad Irfan Zafar
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Jiequn Han (Center for Computational Mathematics)
XU
Xu-Hui Zhou (Virginia Tech)
HE
Heng Xiao (Virginia Tech)
Journal: Communications in Computational Physics, Volume 32, Issue 2, Pages 336-363
Impact Factor: 3.700 Citations: 4 Quartile: 1
SDG 4
Multiple input describing function analysis of non-classical aileron buzz 2017
Muhammad Irfan Zafar
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Francesca Fus (Politecnico di Milano)
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Giuseppe Quaranta (Politecnico di Milano)
Journal: Advances in Aircraft and Spacecraft Science, Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages 203-218
Impact Factor: N/A Citations: 2 Quartile: N/A
SDG 4
Convolutional neural network for transition modeling based on linear stability theory 2020
Muhammad Irfan Zafar
HE
Heng Xiao (Virginia Tech)
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Meelan M. Choudhari (NASA Langley Research Center)
CH
Chau-Lyan Chang (NASA Langley Research Center)
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Pedro Paredes (National Institute of Aerospace)
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Balaji Venkatachari (National Institute of Aerospace)
Journal: Physical Review Fluids, Volume 5, Issue 11, Article Number 113903
Impact Factor: 2.537 Citations: 30 Quartile: 2
SDG 4
Toward a practical method for hypersonic transition prediction based on stability correlations 2020
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Pedro Paredes (National Institute of Aerospace)
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Balaji Venkatachari (National Institute of Aerospace)
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Meelan M. Choudhari (NASA Langley Research Center)
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Fei Li (NASA Langley Research Center)
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Chau-Lyan Chang (NASA Langley Research Center)
Muhammad Irfan Zafar
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Heng Xiao (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Journal: AIAA Journal, Volume 58, Issue 10, Pages 4475-4484
Impact Factor: 2.127 Citations: 26 Quartile: 1
SDG 4
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FLOW 2024
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Communications in Computational Physics 2024
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Impact Factor: 2.6
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