Dr Navid Freidoonimehr
Lecturer
School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering
+61 7 344 38913
Researcher biography
Dr Navid Freidoonimehr is a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering within the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering at The University of Queensland and an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow. He completed his PhD at the University of Adelaide in 2021. His research spans biofluid mechanics, cardiovascular haemodynamics, and unsteady/pulsatile flow, with an emphasis on translating engineering insight into clinically meaningful cardiovascular diagnostics.
Navid Freidoonimehr's research sits at the interface of engineering and clinical practice, with a strong focus on coronary artery physiology. His work integrates computational modelling (e.g., CFD and haemodynamic/diagnostic indices) with experimental fluid mechanics (benchtop flow loops, pressure–flow measurements, and flow visualisation) to quantify how lesions and microvascular resistance shape coronary physiology and how these effects can be captured with improved diagnostic approaches.
Alongside his cardiovascular program, Dr Freidoonimehr leads a DECRA project inspired by human heart pulsation that investigates how controlled flow pulsation can reduce energy consumption in pipelines, aiming to develop practical strategies for more efficient fluid transport in engineered systems. Before joining The University of Queensland, he held research and fellowship positions at the University of Adelaide, as a postdoctoral researcher (2021-2024), and Queensland University of Technology, as a Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-2025).
Journal Articles
Atkins, Tam, Freidoonimehr, Navid, Beltrame, John and Arjomandi, Maziar (2026). Effectiveness of fractional flow reserve and resting full-cycle ratio in arteries with tandem stenosis. Journal of Biomechanics, 195 113062, 113062. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2025.113062
Faizan, Muhammad, Freidoonimehr, Navid, Tucker, Matthew and Arjomandi, Maziar (2025). Drag measurement of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) heads with varying morphology. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, 211 (4) e70106, 4. doi: 10.1111/jac.70106
Freidoonimehr, Navid, Atkins, Tam, Marathe, Jessica A., Psaltis, Peter J. and Arjomandi, Maziar (2025). Evaluating the severity of tandem coronary stenoses: Insights from simulated FFR and iFR techniques. Journal of Biomechanics, 185 112707, 112707-185. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2025.112707
Yang, Bo, Jafarian, Mehdi, Freidoonimehr, Navid and Arjomandi, Maziar (2024). Alkaline membrane-free water electrolyser for liquid hydrogen production. Renewable Energy, 233 121172, 121172. doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2024.121172
Yang, Bo, Jafarian, Mehdi, Freidoonimehr, Navid and Arjomandi, Maziar (2024). Flow control for bubble management in a membrane-free electrolyser. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 174 104770, 104770-174. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2024.104770
Freidoonimehr, Navid, Jafari, Azadeh and Arjomandi, Maziar (2024). Characteristics of turbulent boundary layers generated by different tripping devices. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 105 109244, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2023.109244
Yang, Bo, Jafarian, Mehdi, Freidoonimehr, Navid and Arjomandi, Maziar (2023). Controlled Bubble Formation From a Microelectrode Single Bubble Generator. Journal of Fluids Engineering, 145 (11) 111401, 11. doi: 10.1115/1.4062962
Freidoonimehr, Navid, Chin, Rey, Zander, Anthony and Arjomandi, Maziar (2022). A Review on the Effect of Temporal Geometric Variations of the Coronary Arteries on the Wall Shear Stress and Pressure Drop. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 144 (1) 010801, 1. doi: 10.1115/1.4051923
Freidoonimehr, Navid, Chin, Rey, Zander, Anthony and Arjomandi, Maziar (2021). Effect of shape of the stenosis on the hemodynamics of a stenosed coronary artery. Physics of Fluids, 33 (8) 081914, 8. doi: 10.1063/5.0058765
Freidoonimehr, Navid, Arjomandi, Maziar, Zander, Anthony and Chin, Rey (2021). A novel technique towards investigating wall shear stress within the stent struts using particle image velocimetry. Experiments in Fluids, 62 (6) 133, 6. doi: 10.1007/s00348-021-03230-7
Freidoonimehr, Navid, Arjomandi, Maziar, Zander, Anthony and Chin, Rey (2021). Effect of artery curvature on the coronary fractional flow reserve. Physics of Fluids, 33 (3) 031906, 1-11. doi: 10.1063/5.0042601
Freidoonimehr, Navid, Arjomandi, Maziar, Sedaghatizadeh, Nima, Chin, Rey and Zander, Anthony (2020). Transitional turbulent flow in a stenosed coronary artery with a physiological pulsatile flow. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 36 (7) e3347, 7. doi: 10.1002/cnm.3347
Rashidi, M. M., Bagheri, S., Momoniat, E. and Freidoonimehr, N. (2017). Entropy analysis of convective MHD flow of third grade non-Newtonian fluid over a stretching sheet. Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 8 (1), 77-85. doi: 10.1016/j.asej.2015.08.012
Freidoonimehr, Navid and Rahimi, Asghar B. (2016). Comment on "effects of thermophoresis and Brownian motion on nanofluid heat transfer and entropy generation" by M. Mahmoodi, Sh. Kandelousi, Journal of Molecular Liquids, 211 (2015) 15-24. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 216, 99-102. doi: 10.1016/j.molliq.2016.01.007
Mabood, F., Shateyi, S., Rashidi, M. M., Momoniat, E. and Freidoonimehr, N. (2016). MHD stagnation point flow heat and mass transfer of nanofluids in porous medium with radiation, viscous dissipation and chemical reaction. Advanced Powder Technology, 27 (2), 742-749. doi: 10.1016/j.apt.2016.02.033
Mousapour, Ashkan, Hajipour, Alireza, Rashidi, Mohammad Mehdi and Freidoonimehr, Navid (2016). Performance evaluation of an irreversible Miller cycle comparing FTT (finite-time thermodynamics) analysis and ANN (artificial neural network) prediction. Energy, 94, 100-109. doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.10.073
Freidoonimehr, Navid, Rashidi, Mohammad Mehdi, Abelman, Shirley and Lorenzini, Giulio (2016). Analytical modeling of MHD flow over a permeable rotating disk in the presence of soret and dufour effects: Entropy analysis. Entropy, 18 (5) 131, 131. doi: 10.3390/e18050131
Rashidi, Mohammad Mehdi, Freidoonimehr, Navid, Momoniat, Ebrahim and Rostami, Behnam (2015). Study of nonlinear MHD tribological squeeze film at generalized magnetic reynolds numbers using DTM. PLoS ONE, 10 (8) e0135004. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135004
Jafari, Seyed Sajad and Freidoonimehr, Navid (2015). Second law of thermodynamics analysis of hydro-magnetic nano-fluid slip flow over a stretching permeable surface. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 37 (4), 1245-1256. doi: 10.1007/s40430-014-0250-z
Abolbashari, Mohammad Hossein, Freidoonimehr, Navid, Nazari, Foad and Rashidi, Mohammad Mehdi (2015). Analytical modeling of entropy generation for Casson nano-fluid flow induced by a stretching surface. Advanced Powder Technology, 26 (2), 542-552. doi: 10.1016/j.apt.2015.01.003
Freidoonimehr, N. and Rashidi, M. M. (2015). Dual solutions for MHD Jeffery-Hamel nano-fluid flow in non-parallel walls using Predictor Homotopy Analysis Method. Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, 8 (4), 911-919. doi: 10.18869/acadpub.jafm.67.223.23941
Rashidi, M. M., Ali, M., Freidoonimehr, N., Rostami, B. and Hossain, M. Anwar (2014). Mixed convective heat transfer for MHD viscoelastic fluid flow over a porous wedge with thermal radiation. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2014 735939. doi: 10.1155/2014/735939
Abolbashari, Mohammad Hossein, Freidoonimehr, Navid, Nazari, Foad and Rashidi, Mohammad Mehdi (2014). Entropy analysis for an unsteady MHD flow past a stretching permeable surface in nano-fluid. Powder Technology, 267, 256-267. doi: 10.1016/j.powtec.2014.07.028
Rostami, B., Rashidi, M. M., Rostami, P., Momoniat, E. and Freidoonimehr, N. (2014). Analytical investigation of laminar viscoelastic fluid flow over a wedge in the presence of buoyancy force effects. Abstract and Applied Analysis, 2014 496254. doi: 10.1155/2014/496254
Freidoonimehr, Navid, Rostami, Behnam, Rashidi, Mohammad Mehdi and Momoniat, Ebrahim (2014). Analytical modelling of three-dimensional squeezing nanofluid flow in a rotating channel on a lower stretching porous wall. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2014 (1) 692728. doi: 10.1155/2014/692728
Rashidi, M. M., Hajipour, A., Mousapour, A., Ali, M., Xie, Gongnan and Freidoonimehr, N. (2014). First and second-law efficiency analysis and ANN prediction of a diesel cycle with internal irreversibility, variable specific heats, heat loss, and friction considerations. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2014 359872. doi: 10.1155/2014/359872
Rashidi, M. M., Ali, M., Freidoonimehr, N. and Nazari, F. (2013). Parametric analysis and optimization of entropy generation in unsteady MHD flow over a stretching rotating disk using artificial neural network and particle swarm optimization algorithm. Energy, 55, 497-510. doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.01.036
Rashidi, M. M., Abelman, S. and Mehr, N. Freidooni (2013). Entropy generation in steady MHD flow due to a rotating porous disk in a nanofluid. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 62 (1), 515-525. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.03.004
Conference Papers
Jafari, Azadeh, Freidoonimehr, Navid, Hoang, Van Thuan and Arjomandi, Maziar (2024). Attenuation of wall-normal velocity statistics in a turbulent boundary layer by a passive perforated surface. 24th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Canberra, ACT Australia, 1-5 December 2024. Perth, WA, Australia: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14213596
Freidoonimehr, Navid, Arjomandi, Maziar, Zander, Anthony and Chin, Rey (2020). Hemodynamics of stented coronary arteries: Experimental and numerical investigations. 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC2020, Brisbane, Australia, 7-10 December 2020. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/b68207f