Dr. Muhammed Elmnefi has been serving as a faculty member in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at OSTİM Technical University since September 2023. After moving to Turkey in 2015, he worked as a faculty member in the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at the Turkish Aeronautical Association University until the summer of August 2023. Following his doctorate, he served as a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Benghazi University (Libya) until the end of 2015, during which he also held the position of Department Chair for about two years. Since 1996, he has worked as a project engineer at an oil company, and from 1986 to 1994, he worked as a mechanical engineer for companies providing operation and maintenance services for gas turbines.
Dr. Muhammed Elmnefi's areas of interest include Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, the use of nanofluids as a significant method for enhancing the thermal efficiency of various heat transfer systems such as heat exchangers and parabolic solar collectors, Internal Combustion Engines, Propulsion Systems, and Renewable Energy (Wind Energy, Wind Turbines, and Solar Energy).
Dr. Muhammed Elmnefi earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) in 2010. He obtained his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on thermodynamics and fluid mechanics from the Energy Systems Department at the University of Strathclyde (Scotland) in 1996 and his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Bright Star University (Libya) in 1986.
