Dr. Yasser Safa

Projects

• Novel approaches for investigating local corrosion and mechanical degradation of multiphasic alloys / Project leader / ongoing
• Designing smart wave guides and phononic cloaks using metamaterials / Project leader / completed
• Innovative rotor design of a new airborne wind power system / Project leader / completed
• Nonlinear Thermo-Mechanics of Surface Growth for Additive Manufacturing Applications / Project leader / completed
• Developing a Rotor Model of a Novel Lighter-Than-Air System of a Wind Power Turbine / Project leader / completed
• Testing a new method for characterization and optimization of the adhesion strength of ceramic and metallic coatings / Project leader / completed

Publications

• Mehreganian, N.; Safa, Yasser; Boiger, Gernot Kurt; Bonmarin, Mathias; Fallah, A. S.,

  2025.

  Dynamic response of armour steel hollow cylindrical shells to blast loading : a comparative study.

  Results in Engineering.

  28(107258).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2025.107258

• Yavari, Arash; Safa, Yasser; Soleiman Fallah, Arash,

  2023.

  Finite extension of accreting nonlinear elastic solid circular cylinders.

  Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics.

  36(5), pp. 1053-1069.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00161-023-01208-w

• Soleiman Fallah, Arash; Giannakeas, Ilias N.; Mella, Rizgar; Wenman, Mark R.; Safa, Yasser; Bahai, Hamid,

  2020.

  On the computational derivation of bond-based peridynamic stress tensor.

  Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42102-020-00036-9

• Safa, Yasser; Flueck, M.; Rappaz, J.,

  2009.

  Numerical simulation of thermal problems coupled with magnetohydrodynamic effects in aluminium cell.

  Applied Mathematical Modelling.

  33(3), pp. 1479-1492.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2008.02.011

• Safa, Yasser; Pfenniger, Daniel,

  2008.

  Equation of state and stability of the helium-hydrogen mixture at cryogenic temperature.

  The European Physical Journal B.

  66(3), pp. 337-352.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2008-00438-8

• Alaboz, Hakan; Kovacs, Andras; Safa, Yasser; Mescheder, Ulrich,

  2022.

  Development of cost-effective automated test system for determining lifetime of gold contacts under mechanical load[paper].

  In:

  MikroSystemTechnik Kongress 2021 : Mikroelektronik / Mikrosystemtechnik und ihre Anwendungen Innovative Produkte für zukunftsfähige Märkte.

  MikroSystemTechnik Kongress, Ludwigsburg, Deutschland, 8.-10. November 2021.

  Berlin:

  VDE.

  pp. 738-741.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27639

• Rappaz, J.; Flueck, M.; Safa, Yasser,

  2006.

  Influence of thermo-hydraulic fields on structural mechanics of aluminum reduction cells[paper].

  In:

  Light Metals 2006 : proceedings of the technical sessions presented by the TMS Aluminum Committee at the 135th TMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, USA, March 12-16, 2006.

  135th TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition, San Antonio, USA, 12-16 March 2006.

  TMS - The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.

  pp. 433-438.

• Safa, Yasser,

  2005.

  Determination and influence of the ledge shape on electrical potential and fluid motion in a smelter[paper].

  In:

  Light metals 2005 : proceedings of the technical sessions presend by the TMS Aluminum Committee at the 134th TMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, February 13-17, 2005.

  134th Annual Meeting & Exhibition (TMS 2005), San Francisco, USA, 13-17 February 2005.

  TMS - The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.

  pp. 461-468.

• Evans, Anna; Prestat, Michel; Tölke, René; Gauckler, Ludwig J.; Hocker, Thomas; Safa, Yasser; Briand, Danick; Courbat, Jérôme; De Rooij, Nico,

  2012.

  Residual stress and buckling patterns of yttria-stabilised-zirconia thin films for micro-solid oxide fuel cell membranes[paper].

  In:

  Mogensen, M. B.; Armstrong, T.; Gür, T. M.; Yokokawa, H.; Zhou, X.-D., eds.,

  Ionic and mixed conducting ceramics.

  221st ECS Meeting, Seattle, Washington, 6-10 May 2012.

  Pennington:

  The Electrochemical Society.

  pp. 475-479.

  ECS Transactions ; 45, 1.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1149/1.3701338

• Safa, Yasser,

  2005.

  Numerical simulations of thermo-magneto-hydrodynamic phenomena[paper].

  In:

  Numerical Swiss Colloquium, Zürich, 24 March 2005.

• Prestat, Michel; Marmet, Philip; Safa, Yasser; Holzer, Lorenz; Banait, Shruti; Perrin, Laura; Logé, Roland; Dumouchel, Maxime; Vucko, Flavien,

  2024.

  H2O2-driven corrosion of Ti6Al4V investigated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and quantitative microstructure analysis.

  In:

  EUROCORR Book of Abstracts.

  European Corrosion Congress (EUROCORR), Paris, France, 1-5 September 2024.

• Safa, Yasser; Hocker, Thomas,

  2012.

  A validated model of membrane mechanics for micro SOFC.

  In:

  9th Symposium on Fuel Cell and Battery Modeling and Experimental Validation (ModVal 9), Sursee, 2.-4. April 2012.

• Hocker, Thomas; Niffenegger, M.; Safa, Yasser; Chahine, E.,

  2011.

  Buckling-driven crack growth in elastic plate devices.

  In:

  21. Symposium Simulationstechnik (ASIM 2011), Winterthur, Schweiz, 7.–9. September 2011.

• Safa, Yasser; Schumacher, Jürgen O.,

  2009.

  Numerical modeling of the two-phase transport in a PEM fuel cell.

  In:

  Proceedings of the Third European Fuel Cell Technology & Applications Conference : presented at 3rd European Fuel Cell Technology and Applications Conference, December 15 - 18, 2009, Rome, Italy.

  European Fuel Cell Technology & Applications Piero Lunghi Conference (EFC2009), Rome, Italy, 15-18 December 2009.

Patents and patent applications

• Safa, Yasser,

  2019.

  Appareil aéroporté pour la production d'énergie éolienne.

  Patent number CH715129 A2

  (2019-12-30)

  .

  Available from: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search?q=pn%3DCH715129A2

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