Staff Profiles

Zeleke has PhD in the area of Applied Mechanics, M. Tech. and BSc. in Mechanical engineering. 

Dr. Zeleke Migbar received his Ph.D, from Wuhan University of Technology (PRC), School of Engineering Structures and Mechanics. His PhD was about A Fully Coupled Thermo-Electro-Mechanics Using Peridynamic Theory. After his PhD he has joined Hawassa University (Ethiopia) as an assistant professor, where he has been teaching for more than 14 years as a Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer. Currently Dr. Zeleke is working as a Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical and Engineering, University of Botswana, since July 2019.

His research interests include the following:

Peridynamics, Finite Element Method, Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM), Meshfree Methods and Fracture Mechanics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Arbaminch Water Technology Institute (Ethiopia).
• Master of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (India)
• PhD, Wuhan University of Technology, School of Engineering Structures and Mechanics (PRC).

Mechanical Engineering

Specifically; Finite Element Method, Modeling and Simulation, Mechanisms of Machinery, Strength of Materials, Engineering Materials, Theory of Machines, Design of Machine Elements, Engineering Mechanics II (Dynamics), Engineering Drawing, Mechanics of Materials, Machine Design Project, and AutoCAD.

Fracture Mechanics, Peridynamics, Finite Element Method, Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM), Meshfree Methods

Applied and Computational Mechanics 

1.A Peridynamic Computational Scheme for Thermoelectric Fields. Materials.13, (2020) (SCI indexed).

2. The Effect of Insulated Cracks on Heat Transfer of Thermoelectric Plates Using Peridynamics, International Journal of Manufacturing, Materials, and Mechanical Engineering (IJMMME), 2020, (Accepted, indexed on Web of Science).

3. A Non-ordinary State-based Peridynamics Modeling of Fractures in Quasi-brittle Materials. International Journal of Impact Engineering, 111 (2018) 130-146. (SCI indexed).

4. Peridynamic simulation of transient heat conduction problems in functionally gradient materials (FGMs) with cracks, Journal of Thermal Stresses, 40:12, 1484-1501 (SCI indexed).

5. Peridynamic Formulation for Coupled Thermoelectric Phenomena, Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 2017, pp 1-10, (SCI indexed)  

6. Bond Based Peridynamic Formulation for Thermoelectric Materials, Materials Science Forum, Vol. 883, pp 51-59, 2017. Indexed in: SCOPUS www.scopus.com.