Prof. Anter El-Azab

Purdue University, USA

Professor of Materials Engineering

Email: aelazab@purdue.edu

Qualifications

1994 Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

1989 M.S., Nuclear Engineering, University of Alexandria, Egypt

1986 B.S., Nuclear Engineering, University of Alexandria, Egypt

Publications (Selected)

1. Peng, J., Deskins, W. R., Braga, M. H., & El-Azab, A. (2025). Effect of electron–phonon coupling on thermal transport in metals: A Monte Carlo approach for solving the coupled electron–phonon Boltzmann transport equation. AIP Advances, 15(2).
2. Frankus, F., Pachaury, Y., El-Azab, A., Devincre, B., Poulsen, H. F., & Winther, G. (2025). Investigating the formation of a geometrically necessary boundary using discrete dislocation dynamics. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 199, 106069.
3. Anderson, J. P., & El-Azab, A. (2024). Dislocation correlations and the continuum dynamics of the weak line bundle ensemble. Physical Review B, 109(17), 174103.
4. Nasim, M., Zhang, X., El-Azab, A., & Xue, Y. (2024, March). End-to-end phase field model discovery combining experimentation, crowdsourcing, simulation and learning. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 38, No. 21, pp. 23005-23011).
5. Ahmad, A., Peng, J., SharafEldin, K., Lu, J., Wang, H., & El-Azab, A. (2024). A DFT-based kinetic Monte Carlo simulation of multiphase oxide-metal thin film growth. Journal of Applied Physics, 135(9).
6. Kumagai, T., Singh, M., & El-Azab, A. (2024). A first-principles investigation of internal energy and entropy of formation of charged defects in Th1− xUxO2 (x≤ 0.5). Journal of Applied Physics, 135(6).
7. Mazumder, S. K., Yao, T., & El-Azab, A. (2024). Evolution of dislocation loops in irradiated α-Uranium: An atomistically-informed cluster dynamics investigation. Acta Materialia, 270, 119728.
8. Mazumder, S. K., Bawane, K., Mann, J. M., French, A., Shao, L., He, L., & El-Azab, A. (2023). Evolution of dislocation loops and voids in post-irradiation annealed ThO2: A combined in-situ TEM and cluster dynamics investigation. Journal of Nuclear Materials, 586, 154686.
9. Rayaprolu, S., Ahmad, A., Starkey, K., Hu, Z., Lu, J., Wang, H., & El–Azab, A. (2023). Energetics of nanoscale films with self–assembled oxide/metal pillars in nitride matrix. Materialia, 30, 101845.
10. Pachaury, Y., Warren, G., Wharry, J. P., Po, G., & El-Azab, A. (2023). Plasticity in irradiated FeCrAl nanopillars investigated using discrete dislocation dynamics. International Journal of Plasticity, 167, 103676.
11. Lu, J., Zhang, D., Paldi, R. L., He, Z., Lu, P., Deitz, J., ... & Wang, H. (2023). Abnormal in-plane epitaxy and formation mechanism of vertically aligned Au nanopillars in self-assembled CeO 2–Au metamaterial systems. Materials Horizons, 10(8), 3101-3113.
12. Vivekanandan, V., Anglin, B., & El-Azab, A. (2023). A data driven approach for cross-slip modelling in continuum dislocation dynamics. International Journal of Plasticity, 164, 103597.
13. Rayaprolu, S., Ahmad, A., Starkey, K., Hu, Z., Lu, J., Wang, H., & El–Azab, A. (2023). Energetics of nanoscale films with self–assembled oxide/metal pillars in nitride matrix. Materialia, 30, 101845.
14. Nasim, M., Rayaprolu, S., Niu, T., Fan, C., Shang, Z., Li, J., ... & Zhang, X. (2023). Unraveling the size fluctuation and shrinkage of nanovoids during in situ radiation of Cu by automatic pattern recognition and phase field simulation. Journal of Nuclear Materials, 574, 154189.
15. Singh, M., Kumagai, T., & El-Azab, A. (2022). A first-principles investigation of point defect structure and energetics in ThO2. Journal of Applied Physics, 132(13).

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