Dr. Waqas Ashraf

Passionate Associate Professor with 10 years of experience administering education and classroom procedures both autonomously and in collaboration with department faculty and leaders. Building foundations for next generation of academics and workforce pioneers.

• I oversee a diverse group of graduate students consisting of five (05) PhD candidates, with three having successfully completed their degrees and currently employed in different national institutions, while the third is in progress toward thesis submission in the coming semester. Additionally, I have mentored ten MS students, of which eight have already completed their degrees, and the remaining two are currently in the process of pursuing their Master's degrees.
• Worked as team member for the establishment of “Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics” at Institute of Space Technology Islamabad
• Developed PhD, MS and BSCurriculums for Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics,Institute of Space Technology Islamabad
• Developed and designed lesson planes for undergraduate level courses according to Washington Accord which get helped for getting accreditation from Washington Accord
• Launch MS computational mathematics Program at IST in department of applied mathematics
• Published high quality research papers from IST platform which promoted research culture focused on quality in IST. Up to now, I have published 18 international research articles in Journals of very good repute.
• Win Research Productivity Award (2013) by COMSATS University, Islamabad.
• Curriculum development for BS-Mathematics program in AM&S at IST
• Worked as academic coordinator for graduate program.

· Curriculum development for MS/PhD mathematics.

Curriculum development for MS/PhD mathematics program in AM&S at IST

· Curriculum development for BS-Mathematics program in AM&S at IST

· Worked as academic coordinator for MS-Mathematics program.

· Worked as Coordinator for Departmental Board of Graduate studies.

· Received Science Without Borders (SWB) Scholarship for Postdoctoral Research from University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

· Research Productivity Award, 2014

· Received Higher Education (HEC) Scholarship MS Leading to PhD Mathematics

· Received COMSATS Scholarships for BS-Mathematics

· Best student award for the Consecutive three years 1997-1999, New Montina School, Rawalpindi.

1. Shamsul Qamar and Waqas Ashraf, "A Space-Time CE/SE Method for Solving Gas-Solid Reaction and Chemotaxis Models," Industrial Engineering and Chemistry Research, 51 (2012), 9173-9185. Impact factor: 4.32.

2. Shamsul Qamar and Waqas Ashraf, "Application of Central Schemes for Solving Radiation Hydrodynamics Problems," Computer Physics Communications, 84 (2012), 1349-1363. Impact factor: 4.7.

3. Shamsul Qamar and Waqas Ashraf, "A Space-Time CE/SE Method for Solving Hyperbolic Heat Conduction Model," International Journal of Computational Methods, 10 (2012), 1350048-1350069. Impact factor: 1.7.

4. Shumaila Javeed, Shamsul Qamar, Waqas Ashraf, Gerald Warnecke, and Andreas Siedel-Morgenstern, "Analysis and Numerical Investigation of Two Dynamic Models for Liquid Chromatography," Chemical Engineering Science, 90 (2012), 17-31. Impact factor: 4.88.

5. Shamsul Qamar, Saqib Zia, and Waqas Ashraf, "The Space-Time CE/SE Method for Solving Single and Two-Phase Shallow Flow Models," Computers and Fluids, 96 (2014), 136-151. Impact factor: 3.07.

6. Ubaid Ahmad, Waqas Ashraf, Shamsul Qamar, "A Splitting Scheme Based on Conservation Element and Solution Element for Hydrodynamical Equation in Semiconductor Device Simulation," Computer Physics Communications, 205 (2016), 69-86. Impact factor: 4.7.

7. Ubaid Ahmad, Waqas Ashraf, Shamsul Qamar, "Application of Kinetic Flux Vector Splitting Scheme for Solving Multi-dimensional Hydrodynamical Equations for Semiconductor Devices," Results in Physics, 2017. Impact factor: 4.5.

8. M. Rehan Saleem, Waqas Ashraf, Saqib Zia, Ishtiaq Ali, Shamsul Qamar, "A Kinetic Flux Vector Splitting Scheme for Shallow Water Equations Incorporating Variable Bottom Topography and Horizontal Temperature Gradients," PLOS ONE, May 31, 2018. Impact factor: 3.7.

9. M. Rehan Saleem, Saqib Zia, Waqas Ashraf, Ishtiaq Ali, Shamsul Qamar, "The Space-Time CESE Scheme for Shallow Water Equations with Variable Topography and Horizontal Temperature Gradients," Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 2017. Impact factor: 3.2.

10. Ubaid Ahmad, Waqas Ashraf, Shamsul Qamar, "Application of Kinetic Flux Vector Splitting Scheme for Solving Viscous Quantum Hydrodynamics Model for Semiconductor Devices," Results in Physics, 2017. Impact factor: 4.6.

11. Muhammad Saqib, Attia Rabbani, Ubaid Ahmad Nisar, Waqas Ashraf, Shamsul Qamar, "Kinetic Flux Vector Splitting Scheme for Solving Non-Reactive Multicomponent Flows," 2019. Impact factor: 2.87.

12. Attia Rabbani, Waqas Ashraf, "A Space-Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method for Solving Two-Species Chemotaxis Model," Mathematics and Computers with Simulation, 2020. Impact factor: 2.43.

13. Raja Mehmood Khan, Waqas Ashraf, Muhammad Sohail, Shao-Wen Yao, Wael Al-Kouz, "On Behavioral Response of Microstructural Slip on the Development of Magneto-Hydrodynamic Micropolar Boundary Layer Flow," Complexity, 2020, 01-12. Impact factor: 2.42.

14. Raja Mehmood Khan, Waqas Ashraf, Essam R. El-Zahar, Muhammad Sohail A.M. Algelany, Phatiphat Thounthong, "Effect of Rotational Slip on the Physical Parameter in a Micro-Polar Fluid Flow Past a Stretching Sheet," International Journal of Modern Physics B, 35(13). Impact factor: 1.21.

15. Adnan, W. Ashraf, "Analysis of Heat Transfer Performance for Ternary Nanofluid Flow in Radiated Channel under Different Physical Parameters using GFEM," Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, Accepted 19 April 2023. Impact factor: 5.477.

16. Adnan, W. Ashraf, "Joule Heating and Heat Generation/Absorption Effects on the Heat Transfer Mechanism in Ternary Nanofluid Containing Different Shape Factors in Stretchable Converging/Diverging Channel," Waves in Random and Complex Media, 2023. Impact factor: 4.051.

17. Adnan, W. Ashraf, "Heat Transfer Mechanism in Ternary Nanofluid between Parallel Plates Channel using Modified Hamilton-Crossers Model and Thermal Radiation Effects," Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2023. Impact factor: 5.16.

18. Adnan, W. Ashraf, "Heat Transfer in Tetra-Nanofluid between Converging/Diverging Channel under the Influence of Thermal Radiations by using Galerkin Finite Element Method," Waves in Random and Complex Media, 2023. Impact factor: 4.051.

19. Adnan, K. A. M. Alharbi, W. Ashraf, S. M. Eldin, M. F. Yassen, W. Jamshed, "Applied Heat Transfer Modeling in Conventional Hybrid (Al2O3-CuO)/C2H6O2 and Modified-Hybrid Nanofluids (Al2O3-CuO-Fe3O4)/C2H6O2 between Slippery Channel by using Least Square Method (LSM)," AIMS Mathematics, 8(2), 4321-4341, 2023. Impact factor: 2.739.

20. Adnan, W. Ashraf, "Thermal Efficiency in Hybrid (Al2O3-CuO/H2O) and Ternary Hybrid Nanofluids (Al2O3-CuO-Cu/H2O) by Considering the Novel Effects of Imposed Magnetic Field and Convective Heat Condition," Waves in Random and Complex Media, 2022. Impact factor: 4.853.

21. Adnan, W. Ashraf, "Numerical Thermal Featuring in γAl2O3-C2H6O2 Nanofluid Under the Influence of Thermal Radiation and Convective Heat Condition by Inducing Novel Effects of Effective Prandtl Number Model (EPNM)," Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 14(6), 1-14. Impact factor: 1.316.

22. Adnan, W. Ashraf, H. J. Anjum, I. Khan, M. Mousa, S. Mehrez, "Energy Transformation

and Entropy Investigation in the Nanofluid Composed by γ-Nanomaterial over a Permeable Convective Surface with Solar Thermal Radiation: Numerical Analysis," Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022. Impact factor: 4.008.

23. Adnan, W. Ashraf, I. Khan, M. A. Shemseldin, A. A. A. Mousa, "Numerical Energy Storage Efficiency of MWCNTs-Propylene Glycol (PG) by Inducing Thermal Radiations and Combined Convection Effects in the Constitutive Model," Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022. Impact factor: 5.221.

24. Adnan, W. Ashraf, I. Khan, M. Andualem, "Thermal Transport Investigation and Shear Drag at Solid-Liquid Interface of Modified Permeable Radiative-SRID Subject to Darcy-Forchheimer Fluid Flow Composed by γ-Nanomaterial," Scientific Reports, 2022. Impact factor: 4.379.

25. Adnan, W. Ashraf, U. Khan, A. S. Al-Johani, N. Ahmed, S. T. Mohyud-Din, I. Khan, M. Andualem, "Impact of Freezing Temperature (Tfr) of Al2O3 and Molecular Diameter (H2O)d on Thermal Enhancement in Magnetized and Radiative Nanofluid with Mixed Convection," Scientific Reports, 12, 2022. Impact factor: 4.379.

26. Adnan, W. Ashraf, A. H. Alghtani, I. Khan, M. Andualem, "Thermal Transport in Radiative Nanofluids by Considering the Influence of Convective Heat Condition," Journal of Nanomaterials, 2022. Impact factor: 2.986.

27. Shamsul Qamar, Tahira Haroon, Waqas Ashraf, "Modeling and Simulation of Multi-component Flow and Its Applications in Chemical Reactions," Computational Complexities and Innovation, Symposium 2009, CIIT Abbottabad (Conference Paper).

1. Shamsul Qamar and Waqas Ashraf, "A Space-Time CE/SE Method for Solving Gas-Solid Reaction and Chemotaxis Models," Industrial Engineering and Chemistry Research, 51 (2012), 9173-9185. Impact factor: 4.32.

2. Shamsul Qamar and Waqas Ashraf, "Application of Central Schemes for Solving Radiation Hydrodynamics Problems," Computer Physics Communications, 84 (2012), 1349-1363. Impact factor: 4.7.

3. Shamsul Qamar and Waqas Ashraf, "A Space-Time CE/SE Method for Solving Hyperbolic Heat Conduction Model," International Journal of Computational Methods, 10 (2012), 1350048-1350069. Impact factor: 1.7.

4. Shumaila Javeed, Shamsul Qamar, Waqas Ashraf, Gerald Warnecke, and Andreas Siedel-Morgenstern, "Analysis and Numerical Investigation of Two Dynamic Models for Liquid Chromatography," Chemical Engineering Science, 90 (2012), 17-31. Impact factor: 4.88.

5. Shamsul Qamar, Saqib Zia, and Waqas Ashraf, "The Space-Time CE/SE Method for Solving Single and Two-Phase Shallow Flow Models," Computers and Fluids, 96 (2014), 136-151. Impact factor: 3.07.

6. Ubaid Ahmad, Waqas Ashraf, Shamsul Qamar, "A Splitting Scheme Based on Conservation Element and Solution Element for Hydrodynamical Equation in Semiconductor Device Simulation," Computer Physics Communications, 205 (2016), 69-86. Impact factor: 4.7.

7. Ubaid Ahmad, Waqas Ashraf, Shamsul Qamar, "Application of Kinetic Flux Vector Splitting Scheme for Solving Multi-dimensional Hydrodynamical Equations for Semiconductor Devices," Results in Physics, 2017. Impact factor: 4.5.

8. M. Rehan Saleem, Waqas Ashraf, Saqib Zia, Ishtiaq Ali, Shamsul Qamar, "A Kinetic Flux Vector Splitting Scheme for Shallow Water Equations Incorporating Variable Bottom Topography and Horizontal Temperature Gradients," PLOS ONE, May 31, 2018. Impact factor: 3.7.

9. M. Rehan Saleem, Saqib Zia, Waqas Ashraf, Ishtiaq Ali, Shamsul Qamar, "The Space-Time CESE Scheme for Shallow Water Equations with Variable Topography and Horizontal Temperature Gradients," Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 2017. Impact factor: 3.2.

10. Ubaid Ahmad, Waqas Ashraf, Shamsul Qamar, "Application of Kinetic Flux Vector Splitting Scheme for Solving Viscous Quantum Hydrodynamics Model for Semiconductor Devices," Results in Physics, 2017. Impact factor: 4.6.

11. Muhammad Saqib, Attia Rabbani, Ubaid Ahmad Nisar, Waqas Ashraf, Shamsul Qamar, "Kinetic Flux Vector Splitting Scheme for Solving Non-Reactive Multicomponent Flows," 2019. Impact factor: 2.87.

12. Attia Rabbani, Waqas Ashraf, "A Space-Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method for Solving Two-Species Chemotaxis Model," Mathematics and Computers with Simulation, 2020. Impact factor: 2.43.

13. Raja Mehmood Khan, Waqas Ashraf, Muhammad Sohail, Shao-Wen Yao, Wael Al-Kouz, "On Behavioral Response of Microstructural Slip on the Development of Magneto-Hydrodynamic Micropolar Boundary Layer Flow," Complexity, 2020, 01-12. Impact factor: 2.42.

14. Raja Mehmood Khan, Waqas Ashraf, Essam R. El-Zahar, Muhammad Sohail A.M. Algelany, Phatiphat Thounthong, "Effect of Rotational Slip on the Physical Parameter in a Micro-Polar Fluid Flow Past a Stretching Sheet," International Journal of Modern Physics B, 35(13). Impact factor: 1.21.

15. Adnan, W. Ashraf, "Analysis of Heat Transfer Performance for Ternary Nanofluid Flow in Radiated Channel under Different Physical Parameters using GFEM," Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, Accepted 19 April 2023. Impact factor: 5.477.

16. Adnan, W. Ashraf, "Joule Heating and Heat Generation/Absorption Effects on the Heat Transfer Mechanism in Ternary Nanofluid Containing Different Shape Factors in Stretchable Converging/Diverging Channel," Waves in Random and Complex Media, 2023. Impact factor: 4.051.

17. Adnan, W. Ashraf, "Heat Transfer Mechanism in Ternary Nanofluid between Parallel Plates Channel using Modified Hamilton-Crossers Model and Thermal Radiation Effects," Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2023. Impact factor: 5.16.

18. Adnan, W. Ashraf, "Heat Transfer in Tetra-Nanofluid between Converging/Diverging Channel under the Influence of Thermal Radiations by using Galerkin Finite Element Method," Waves in Random and Complex Media, 2023. Impact factor: 4.051.

19. Adnan, K. A. M. Alharbi, W. Ashraf, S. M. Eldin, M. F. Yassen, W. Jamshed, "Applied Heat Transfer Modeling in Conventional Hybrid (Al2O3-CuO)/C2H6O2 and Modified-Hybrid Nanofluids (Al2O3-CuO-Fe3O4)/C2H6O2 between Slippery Channel by using Least Square Method (LSM)," AIMS Mathematics, 8(2), 4321-4341, 2023. Impact factor: 2.739.

20. Adnan, W. Ashraf, "Thermal Efficiency in Hybrid (Al2O3-CuO/H2O) and Ternary Hybrid Nanofluids (Al2O3-CuO-Cu/H2O) by Considering the Novel Effects of Imposed Magnetic Field and Convective Heat Condition," Waves in Random and Complex Media, 2022. Impact factor: 4.853.

21. Adnan, W. Ashraf, "Numerical Thermal Featuring in γAl2O3-C2H6O2 Nanofluid Under the Influence of Thermal Radiation and Convective Heat Condition by Inducing Novel Effects of Effective Prandtl Number Model (EPNM)," Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 14(6), 1-14. Impact factor: 1.316.

22. Adnan, W. Ashraf, H. J. Anjum, I. Khan, M. Mousa, S. Mehrez, "Energy Transformation

and Entropy Investigation in the Nanofluid Composed by γ-Nanomaterial over a Permeable Convective Surface with Solar Thermal Radiation: Numerical Analysis," Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022. Impact factor: 4.008.

23. Adnan, W. Ashraf, I. Khan, M. A. Shemseldin, A. A. A. Mousa, "Numerical Energy Storage Efficiency of MWCNTs-Propylene Glycol (PG) by Inducing Thermal Radiations and Combined Convection Effects in the Constitutive Model," Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022. Impact factor: 5.221.

24. Adnan, W. Ashraf, I. Khan, M. Andualem, "Thermal Transport Investigation and Shear Drag at Solid-Liquid Interface of Modified Permeable Radiative-SRID Subject to Darcy-Forchheimer Fluid Flow Composed by γ-Nanomaterial," Scientific Reports, 2022. Impact factor: 4.379.

25. Adnan, W. Ashraf, U. Khan, A. S. Al-Johani, N. Ahmed, S. T. Mohyud-Din, I. Khan, M. Andualem, "Impact of Freezing Temperature (Tfr) of Al2O3 and Molecular Diameter (H2O)d on Thermal Enhancement in Magnetized and Radiative Nanofluid with Mixed Convection," Scientific Reports, 12, 2022. Impact factor: 4.379.

26. Adnan, W. Ashraf, A. H. Alghtani, I. Khan, M. Andualem, "Thermal Transport in Radiative Nanofluids by Considering the Influence of Convective Heat Condition," Journal of Nanomaterials, 2022. Impact factor: 2.986.

27. Shamsul Qamar, Tahira Haroon, Waqas Ashraf, "Modeling and Simulation of Multi-component Flow and Its Applications in Chemical Reactions," Computational Complexities and Innovation, Symposium 2009, CIIT Abbottabad (Conference Paper).