Rokhsar Talabazar Farzad
Research Assistant Professor
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Dr. Farzad Rokhsar Talabazar is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at SMU’s Lyle School of Engineering. His research program lies at the intersection of microscale heat and mass transfer, phase-change phenomena, and multiphase flow, with a particular focus on hydrodynamic cavitation in microfluidic devices and its applications to thermal management, energy-efficient cooling, and advanced water
treatment. He has authored more than 17 peer-reviewed publications in journals such as Chemical Engineering Journal, Physics of Fluids, Lab on a Chip, and Microsystems & Nanoengineering, and is a co-inventor on a U.S. patent.
Before joining the faculty, Dr. Talabazar was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Lyle under Dr. Ali Beskok, where he worked on microscale heat transfer and cooling. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechatronics Engineering from Sabancı University, Türkiye, under the supervision of Prof. Ali Koşar, supported by a full TÜBİTAK doctoral scholarship, and was previously a Visiting Ph.D. Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Throughout his doctoral and postdoctoral career, he has contributed to research projects funded by TÜBİTAK, the European Research Council (ERC), and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
His work has been recognized with the Dr. Gürsel Sönmez Research Award for outstanding Ph.D. thesis at Sabancı University, a journal cover feature in Lab on a Chip, and an Editor’s Choice designation in Fluids.
Education
Ph.D., Mechatronics Engineering, Sabancı University, Istanbul, Türkiye, 2023 M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering (Heat & Fluid), Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye, 2018Research
· Hydrodynamic Cavitation
· Multiphase flow and phase change
· Microscale/ microfluidic devices
· Chemical and thermal-fluid applications (thermal managements, water treatment)
Publications
· Farzad Rokhsar Talabazar, Christian Baresel, Reza Ghorbani, Iakovos Tzanakis, Ali Koşar, Dmitry Grishenkov, and Morteza Ghorbani. "Removal of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from wastewater using the hydrodynamic cavitation on a chip concept." Chemical Engineering Journal 495 (2024).
· Tebyani Seyedreza, Farzad Rokhsar Talabazar, Morteza Ghorbani, and Ali Koşar. "On the effect of fluid temperature in hydrodynamic cavitation on a chip reactors." International Journal of Thermofluids 27 (2025).
· Rokhsar Talabazar, Farzad, Mohammadamin Maleki, Araz Sheibani Aghdam, Dmitry Grishenkov, Morteza Ghorbani, and Ali Koşar. "Cavitation inception and evolution in cavitation on a chip devices at low upstream pressures." Physics of Fluids 35, no. 1 (2023).
· Rokhsar Talabazar, Farzad, Araz Sheibani Aghdam, Mohammad Jafarpour, Dmitry Grishenkov, Ali Koşar, and Morteza Ghorbani. "Chemical effects in “hydrodynamic cavitation on a chip”: The role of cavitating flow patterns." Chemical Engineering Journal 445 (2022): 136734.
· Rokhsar Talabazar, Farzad, Mohammad Jafarpour, Merve Zuvin, Hongjian Chen, Moein Talebian Gevari, Luis Guillermo Villanueva, Dmitry Grishenkov, Ali Koşar, and Morteza Ghorbani. "Design and fabrication of a vigorous “cavitation-on-a-chip” device with a multiple microchannel configuration." Microsystems & Nanoengineering 7, no. 1 (2021): 44.
