Publications

2022

46. Shima Hajimirza, “Precise Derivations of Radiative Properties of Porous Media Using Renewal Theory,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Under Review).

45. Sofia Lopes, Elmer Cari, and Shima Hajimirza, “A Comparative Analysis of Artificial Neural Networks for Photovoltaic Power Forecast Using Remotes and Local Measurements,” Journal of Solar Energy Engineering 144, no. 2 (2022).

44.Amirsaman Eghtesad, Farhin Tabassum, Sahar Isapour, Faranak Mankavi, and Shima Hajimirza, “A Techno-economic Analysis and Optimization of a Hybrid Solar-Driven Desalination System: Multi-Stage Flash (MSF) Distillation and Split-Feed Counterflow Reverse Osmosis (SF-CFRO),” Journal of Desalination (Under review).

43. Amirsaman Eghtesad, and Shima Hajimirza, “A State-of-the-art Review on Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) Technique with Application in Temperature Measurement,” International Journal of Thermal Science (Under review).

42. Hakan Erturk, Kyle Daun, Francis H.R. Franca, Shima Hajimirza, and John R. Howell, “Inverse Methods in Thermal Radiation Analysis and Experiment,” ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (Accepted).

41. Shima Hajimirza, and Amin Khajehnejad, “Broadband Near Perfect Organic Distorted Bragg Reflector Design Using Transfer Matrix Eigen-Vector Tuning,” Optics Letters (Under review).

40. Mine Kaya, and Shima Hajimirza, “A Predictive Data Pipeline for Modeling Radiative Scattering at Nanoscale,” Journal of Solar Energy Engineering (Accepted).

2021

39. Shima Hajimirza, and Hussein Sharadga, “Learning Thermal Radiative Properties of Porous Media from Engineering Geometric Features,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 179 (2021): 121668.

38. Hansol Kim, Mine Kaya, and Shima Hajimirza, “Broadband Solar Distributed Bragg Reflector Design Using Numerical Optimization,” Journal of Solar Energy 221 (2021): 384-392.

2020

37. Kaya, Mine*, and Shima Hajimirza, “Nonparametric Design of Nanoparticles with Maximum Scattering Using Evolutionary Topology Optimization,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 166 (2021): 120738.

36. Sharadga, Hussein*, Shima Hajimirza, and Robert S. Balog, “Time Series Forecasting of Solar Power Generation for Large-Scale Photovoltaic Plants,” Renewable Energy 150 (2020): 797-807.

35. Hussein Sharadga, Shima Hajimirza, and Elmer Cari, "A Fast and Accurate Single-Diode Model for Photovoltaic Design," IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics 9, no. 3 (2020): 3030-3043.

2019

34. Mine Kaya, and Shima Hajimirza, "Using a Novel Transfer Learning Method for Designing Thin Film Solar Cells with Enhances Quantum Efficiencies.", Nature, Scientific reports 9, no. 1 (2019): 5034.

33. Hyun Hee Kang, Mine Kaya, and Shima Hajimirza, "A Data Driven Artificial Neural Network Model for Predicting Properties of Metallic Packed Beds.",Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 226(2019):66-72

32.Mine Kaya, and Shima Hajimirza, “Limits of the Light Scattering by Small Metallic Particles Using Evolutionary Topology Optimization”, Proceeding of the 9th International Symposium on Radiative Transfer (Rad-19), The International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT), 2019.

31. Aliakbar Shafi, Hussein Sharadga, and Shima Hajimirza, “Design of Optimal Power Point Tracking Controller Using Forecasted Photovoltaic Power and Demand”, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (In press)

30. Mine Kaya, Bahareh Anvari, Shima Hajimirza, and Hamid A. Toliyat,” Surrogate-Based Optimization of Firing Angles for Switched Reluctance Motor”, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control (Under review)

2018

29. Mine Kaya and Shima Hajimirza, "Rapid optimization of the external quantum efficiency of thin film solar cells using surrogate modeling of absorptivity", Nature, Scientific reports 8, no. 1 (2018): 8170.

28. Mine Kaya and Shima Hajimirza. "Surrogate based modeling and optimization of plasmonic thin film organic solar cells." International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 118 (2018): 1128-1142.

27. Mine Kaya and Shima Hajimirza. "Application of artificial neural network for accelerated optimization of ultra thin organic solar cells." Solar Energy 165 (2018): 159-166

26. Bahareh Anvari, Mine Kaya, Steven Englebretson, Shima Hajimirza and Hamid Toliyat, "Surrogate-based optimization of firing angles for switched reluctance motor", In 2018 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC) (pp. 1023-1028).

2017

25. Mine Kaya and Shima Hajimirza, "Extremely efficient design of organic thin film solar cells via learning-based optimization", Energies 10, no. 12 (2017): 1981.

24. Jicheng Lu and Shima Hajimirza, "Optimizing sun-tracking angle for higher irradiance collection of PV panels using a particle-based dust accumulation model with gravity effect", Solar Energy 158 (2017): 71-82.

23. Mine Kaya and Shima Hajimirza, "Optimization of plasmonic and anti-Reflective surface textures in thin film solar cells via surrogate modeling,” Proc. of the ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conference & Computer and Information in Engineering Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, August 6-9, 2017.

22. Jicheng Lu and S. Hajimirza, "Enhancing solar cell efficiency in the presence of surface dust by optimizing tilt angle,” Proc. Of ASME 2017 Summer Heat Transfer Conference (SHTC), Bellevue, WA, July9-12, 2017.

21. Shima Hajimirza, "Surrogate-based optimization of a folded solar cell structure with enhanced optical efficiency,” Proc. ICHMT International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer, Napoli, Italy, May28-June1, 2017.

2016

20. Shima Hajimirza, "A Novel Machine-Learning Aided Optimization Technique for Material Design: Application in Thin Film Solar Cells", Proceedings of the ASME 2016 2016HT/FEDSM/ICNMM Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Washington DC, July 10-14, 2016.

2015

19. Shima Hajimirza and John R. Howell, "Flexible nanotexture structures for thin film PV cells using wavelet functions," IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 14, no. 5 (2015): 904-910.

18. Shima Hajimirza, Shima. "Expedited quasi-updated gradient based optimization techniques for energy conversion nano-materials", Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics 10.1 (2015): 140-146.

17. Shima Hajimirza, "A dimensionality-reduced first order method for industrial optimization: A case study in renewable energy technologies", In ASME 2015 9th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2015 Power Conference, the ASME 2015 13th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, and the ASME 2015 Nuclear Forum, pp. V001T10A001-V001T10A001. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015..

2014

16. Shima Hajimirza and John R. Howell. "Computational and Experimental Study of a Multi-Layer Absorptivity Enhanced Thin Film Silicon Solar Cell " Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 143 (2014): 56-62.

2013

15. Shima Hajimirza and John R. Howell, "Design and analysis of spectrally selective patterned thin-film cells," International Journal of Thermophysics 34, no. 10 (2013): 1930-1952.

14. Shima Hajimirza and Johrn R. Howell, "Statistical analysis of surface nanopatterned thin film solar cells obtained by inverse optimization," ASME Journal of Heat Transfer 135, no. 9 (2013): 091501.

13. Shima Hajimirza and John R. Howell, "Computational and experimental study of a multi-layer absorptivity enhanced thin film silicon solar sell", Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer.

12. Shima Hajimirza, John R. Howell, Milo Holt, Sayan Saha, Deji Akinwande and Sanjay Banerjee, "Design and verification of a PECVD fabricated multi-layer nano-scale photovoltaic device," In ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2013 7th International Conference on Energy Sustainability and the ASME 2013 11th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, pp. V001T01A003-V001T01A003. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013.

11. Shima Hajimirza and John R. Howell, "Computational and experimental study of a multi-layer absorptivity enhanced thin film silicon solar cell", 7th international symposium on Radiative Transfer (RAD-13), Kusadasi, Turkey, 2013.

10. Shima Hajimirza and Johrn R. Howell, "Design of a nano-scale silicon PV device with optimized solar to carrier collection efficiency", Nanotech Conference and Exposition, Washington DC, 2013.

2012

9. Shima Hajimirza, Georges El Hitti, Alex Heltzel and John R. Howell, "Using inverse analysis to find optimum nano-scale radiative surface patterns to enhance solar cell performance," International Journal of Thermal Sciences 62 (2012): 93-102

8. Shima Hajimirzaand John R, Howell, "Inverse optimization of plasmonic and antireective grating in thin film PV cells", Eurotherm Conference on Computational Thermal Radiationin Participating Media, Computational Thermal Radiation in Participating Media IV, Nancy, France, 2012.

7. Shima Hajimirza and John R. Howell, "Inverse optimization of plasmonic and antireflective grating in thin film PV cells," In Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 369, no. 1, p. 012015. IOP Publishing, 2012.

6. Shima Hajimirza and John R. Howell, "Wavelet based nano-texture structures for thin film PV cells," In ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, pp. 527-535. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012.

5. Shima Hajimirza and John R. Howell, "Limits of light trapping in silicon thin film cells via metallic gratings," In ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting and the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, pp. 233-240. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012.

4. Shima Hajimirza and John R. Howell, "Inverse optimization of light trapping via wavelet transform", ASME Verification & Validation Symposium.

3. Shima Hajimirza, Georges El Hitti, Alex Heltzel and John R. Howell, "Specification of micro-nanoscale radiative patterns using inverse analysis for increasing solar panel efficiency," ASME Journal of Heat Transfer 134, no. 10 (2012): 102702.

2011

2. Shima Hajimirza, Georges El Hitti, Alex Heltzel, and John R. Howell, "Using inverse analysis to find optimum nano-scale radiative surface patterns to enhance solar cell performance”, International Symposium on Thermal and Materials Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Antalya, Turkey, 2011.

1. Shima Hajimirza and John R. Howell, "Robust nanoscale patterns for thin film solar cells using inverse optimization of nonuniformly sampled absorption spectrum," In ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, pp. 931-943. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2011.