Research
My current research area is on stability of crevasses and mathematical modeling for iceberg calving in marine ice shelves.
Research Interests:
- Mathematical and Physical Modeling
- Fracture Mechanics
- Numerical Analysis
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
Teaching
Teaching Assistant:
University of British Columbia
- Global Climate Change (EOSC 340)
- Geophysical Continuum Dynamics (EOSC 352)
- Biological Oceanography (EOSC 470)
- Fields and Fluxes (EOSC 250)
- Marine Pollution (EOSC 474)
Simon Fraser University
- Partial Differential Equations (MATH 718)
- Fluid Dynamics (MATH 762)
- Applied Calculus Workshop (ACW)
Shiraz University
- Mechanical Vibrations
- Mechanical Design
Biography
May 2017 – Present: Doctor of philosophy in Geophysics and Applied Mathematics (https://www.iam.ubc.ca/people/graduate-students/), University of British Columbia (UBC)
Sept 2014 – June 2017: Master of Science in Applied Mathematics, Simon Fraser University (SFU)
Sept 2011 – June 2013: Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University
2007 – 2011: Bachelor of Engineering in Fluid Mechanics, Shiraz University
Publications
- Zarrinderakht, M., Schoof, C. and Peirce, A. A leading-order viscoelastic model for crevasse propagation and calving in ice shelves, The Cryosphere, Preprinted, 2024.
- Zarrinderakht, M., Schoof, C. and Zwinger, T. An analysis of the interaction between surface and basal crevasses in ice shelves, The Cryosphere, Preprinted, 2024.
- Zarrinderakht, M., Schoof, C. and Peirce, A.The effect of hydrology and crevasse wall contact on calving, The Cryosphere, 2022.
- Zarrinderakht, M, et al. Experimental and computational comparison of freeze-thaw induced pressure generation in red and sugar maple, Tree Physiology 2024.
- Zarrinderakht, M., & Schoof, C. (2020). A mathematical model for stability of crevasses. American Geophysical Union (AGU).
- Zarrinderakht, M., & Schoof, C. (2019). Mathematical modelling of iceberg calving(link is external). European Geosciences Union (EGU).
- Zarrinderakht, M., & Stockie, J. (2016). Numerical simulations of a multiscale model for maple sap exudation. 10th International Conference on Scientific Computing and Applications (ICSCA).
- Zarrinderakht, M., & Stockie, M. (2016). A multiscale model for maple sap exudation, Symposium on Mathematics and Computation (SMC).
- Ahmadi, M. B., Gutman, I., Furtula, B., Hosseini, S. A., Salehi, P., & Zarrinderakht, M. (2013). The abc index conundrum, FILOMAT, 27, 1075–1083.
- Ahmadi, M. B., Hosseini, S. A., & Zarrinderakht, M. (2013). On large trees with minimal atom bond connectivity index. MATCH Communications in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry, 69, 559–563.