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Omar Hussein
- Postdoctoral Researcher
Contact Info
- Name
- Omar M. Hussein
- Preferred Pronouns
- he/him
- Job Title
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Phone Number
Affiliations
Departments
- Physics & Astronomy Department (Research Faculty)
Research Areas
- Applied Science
- Applied Mathematics
- Computational Methods
- Engineering
- Materials Science
- Modeling and Simulation
- Physics
Education
PhD, Clemson University, Mechanical Engineering
MS, Clemson University, Mechanical Engineering
BSc, University of Jordan, Mechanical Engineering
About
Omar Hussein joined the Physics and Astronomy Department in Fall 2023 as a Postdoctoral scholar in Yuri Mishin's group. He is also an external collaborator at MaCl Institute at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He received his BS from The Univerity of Jordan in 2019. He then joined Clemson University in January 2020 and received his MS and PhD. in Mechanical Engineering in 2022 and 2023, respectively. His research interest lies at the intersection of materials science, engineering, and applied mathematics. Using theoretical analysis and computational tools such as Atomistic Simulation and Phase Field modeling, Omar investigates different phenomena related to materials interfaces, thermodynamics and kinetics of materials, radiation damage, and mechanical behavior.
Current Research
Hussein is currently investigating metal–nonmetal interphase boundary diffusion using atomistic modeling.
Selected Publications
Dillon, Ma, Oyang, O. Hussein, Hattar, Abdeljawad, "Interface nucleation rate-limited densification during sintering" Acta Materialia 242 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2022.118448
O. Hussein et al., "Plateau–Rayleigh Instability with a Grain Boundary Twist" App. Phys. Lett. 121 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0103658
O. Hussein et al., "Unraveling the Role of Grain Boundary Anisotropy in Sintering: Implications for Nanoscale Manufacturing" ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 4 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.1c01322
Awards
Winner of the Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) Award at the Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) conference.
Award winner for presenting at the 10th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling (MMM10).
Outstanding Graduate Student Organization award for MEGSC from Graduate Student Government.
Four Graduate Travel Grants from Clemson University Graduate Student Government to attend 3DMS22, MS&T22, MRS22, and TMS23 conferences.
First in College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences at the 2022 Graduate Research and Discovery Symposium
Plateau–Rayleigh instability with a grain boundary twist
We demonstrate using theoretical, computational, and experimental studies a morphological instability, in which a polycrystalline nanorod breaks up at grain boundaries (GBs) into an array of isolated domains. Our theoretical model is used to establish a neutral stability surface demarcating stable and unstable perturbations. It is shown that GBs play a destabilizing role in which the critical wavelength for the instability decreases with the increase in the GB energy.
Contact Info
- Name
- Omar M. Hussein
- Preferred Pronouns
- he/him
- Job Title
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Phone Number