Faculty Profile


Tony Saad

Associate Professor

Research Interests


Combustion Simulation

Computational Fluid Dynamics

High Performance Computing

Low-mach Reacting Flows

Numerical Analysis

Numerical Modeling

Population Balances

Solid Propellant Rocket Engines

Turbulent Reacting Flow

low-Mach reacting flows

Awards & Honors

Publications

  • Tony Saad. (2026). uPDE: A Python library for solving systems of nonlinear partial differential equations. SoftwareX, 34.
  • Maher Eid, Mokbel Karam, Tony Saad. (2025). On the use of fast projection methods with unsteady velocity boundary conditions. Journal of Computational Physics, 521.
  • Mokbel Karam, Tony Saad. (2023). On the theory of fast projection methods for high-order Navier-Stokes solvers. Journal of Computational Physics, 495.
  • Mokbel Karam, Tony Saad. (2022). High-order pressure estimates for Navier-Stokes Runge-Kutta solvers using stage pseudo-pressures. Journal of Computational Physics, 471.
  • Hayden Hedworth, Jeffrey Page, John Sohl, Tony Saad. (2022). Investigating Errors Observed during UAV-Based Vertical Measurements Using Computational Fluid Dynamics. Drones, 6(9).
  • Mokbel Karam, Tony Saad. (2022). Improvements to a Fast Projection Method for the Navier–Stokes Equations. AIAA Journal, 60(8).
  • Tony Saad, Mokbel Karam. (2022). Stable timestep formulas for high-order advection–diffusion and Navier–Stokes solvers. Computers & Fluids, 244.
  • Mokbel Karam, Tony Saad. (2022). High-order pressure estimates for projection-based Navier-Stokes solvers. Journal of Computational Physics, 452.
  • Mokbel Karam, Tony Saad. (2021). BuckinghamPy: A Python software for dimensional analysis. SoftwareX, 16.
  • Tony Saad. (2021). Special Issue: CFD and Covid-19. International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, 35(9).
  • Mokbel Karam, James C Sutherland, Tony Saad. (2021). Low-cost Runge-Kutta integrators for incompressible flow simulations. Journal of Computational Physics, 443.
  • Hayden A Hedworth, Mokbel Karam, Josh McConnell, James C Sutherland, Tony Saad. (2021). Mitigation strategies for airborne disease transmission in orchestras using computational fluid dynamics. Science Advances, 7(26).
  • Hayden A Hedworth, Tofigh Sayahi, Kerry E Kelly, Tony Saad. (2021). The effectiveness of drones in measuring particulate matter. Journal of Aerosol Science, 152.
  • Mokbel Karam, James C Sutherland, Tony Saad. (2020). PyModPDE: A python software for modified equation analysis. SoftwareX, 12.
  • Brad Peterson, Alan Humphrey, Dan Sunderland, James Sutherland, Tony Saad, Harish Dasari, Martin Berzins. (2019). Automatic Halo Management for the Uintah GPU-Heterogeneous Asynchronous Many-Task Runtime. International Journal of Parallel Programming, 47(5-6).
  • Tony Saad, Giovanna Ruai. (2019). PyMaxEnt: A Python software for maximum entropy moment reconstruction. SoftwareX, 10.
  • Tony Saad, Joseph Majdalani. (2017). Viscous Mean Flow Approximations for Porous Tubes with Radially Regressing Walls. AIAA Journal, 55(11).
  • Tony Saad, Joseph Majdalani. (2017). Extension of Kelvin’s minimum energy theorem to incompressible fluid domains with open regions. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 825.
  • Tony Saad, Derek Cline, Rob Stoll, James C Sutherland. (2017). Scalable Tools for Generating Synthetic Isotropic Turbulence with Arbitrary Spectra. AIAA Journal, 55(1).
  • Tony Saad, James C Sutherland. (2016). Comment on “Diffusion by a random velocity field” [Phys. Fluids 13, 22 (1970)]. Physics of Fluids, 28(11).
  • Tony Saad, James C Sutherland. (2016). Wasatch: An architecture-proof multiphysics development environment using a Domain Specific Language and graph theory. Journal of Computational Science, 17.
  • Alex W Abboud, Ben B Schroeder, Tony Saad, Sean T Smith, Derek D Harris, David O Lignell. (2015). A numerical comparison of precipitating turbulent flows between large‐eddy simulation and one‐dimensional turbulence. AIChE Journal, 61(10).
  • Tony Saad, Alex W Abboud, Sean T Smith, Terry A Ring. (2015). A class of exact solutions for population balances with arbitrary internal coordinates. AIChE Journal, 61(5).
  • Douglas S Crawford, Tony Saad, Terry A Ring. (2013). Verification and validation of the maximum entropy method for reconstructing neutron flux, with MCNP5, Attila-7.1.0 and the GODIVA experiment. Annals of Nuclear Energy, 53.
  • JAMES SUTHERLAND, John Schmidt, Martin BERZINS, Jeremy Thornock, Tony SAAD. (2013). Large scale parallel solution of incompressible flow problems using uintah and hypre. 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid).
  • Tony Saad, Joseph Majdalani. (2012). Some thoughts on the pressure integration requirements of the Navier–Stokes equations. Fluid Dynamics Research, 44(6).