Alain Kassab is a trustee chair professor at the UCF Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, where he directs the biomedical engineering program. His research interests in bioengineering are in the area of computational methods in cardiovascular hemodynamics with applications to surgical treatment planning in congenital heart disease and LVADs. Kassab has more than 30 years of experience in research and development in computational heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, inverse problems, boundary elements, and meshless methods. He Kassab is Fellow of ASME, Fellow of AIMBE, and editor of Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements.

• Ceballos, A., Prather, R., Divo, E., Kassab, A., and DeCampli, W., “A Patient-Specific Multi-Scale Model Analysis of the Hemodynamics Following the Hybrid Norwood Procedure for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome: effects of the reverse Blalock-Taussig Shunt”, BMES Journal of Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology, Published online Dec 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13239-018-00396-w.


• Prather, R., Seligson, J., Ni, M., Divo, E., Kassab, A.J., and DeCampli, W., “Patient-Specific Multiscale Computational Fluid Dynamics Assessment of Embolization Rates In the Hybrid Norwood: Effects of Size and Placement of the Reverse Blalock-Taussig Shunt,” Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, 2018, 96(7), pp. 690-700. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjpp-2018-0002.


• Ni, W.,  Prather, R., Rodriguez, G., Quinn, R., Divo, E., Fogel, M., Kassab, A.J, and DeCampli, W., ” Computational Investigation of a Self-Powered Fontan Circulation”, BMES Journal of Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology, 2018, Volume 9, Issue 2, pp 202–216 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13239-018-0342-5.


• Kuwazuru, O., Ode, K., Yamada, M.,  Divo, E., and Kassab, A., “Experimental and Boundary Element Method Study on the Effect of Stress on the Polarization Curve of Cast Aluminum Alloy in Sodium Chloride Solution,” Corrosion Science, 2018, Vol. 132, pp. 136-145.


• Jia, Y., Qiao, Y., Maung, A., Argueta-Morales, I.R., Norfleet, J., Bai, Y., Divo, E., Kassab, A., and DeCampli, M., “Experimental Study of Anisotropic Stress/Strain Relationships of  Aortic and Pulmonary Artery Homografts and Synthetic Vascular Grafts ,” ASME  Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, October 2017, Vol. 139, pp 101003:1-6.


• Prather, R., Ni, M., Kassab, A.J., Divo, E.A., Argueta, I.R., and DeCampli, W.M., “Multi-Scale Pulsatile CFD Modeling of Thrombus Transport in a Patient-Specific LVAD Implantation,  International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow,  2017, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 1022-1039.


• Zwawi,M., Moslehy, F., Rose, C., Huayamve, V., Jones, B., Divo, E., Kassab, A., and Price “Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip: A computational biomechanical model of the path of least energy for closed reduction,” Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 2017, Vol. 35, No. 8, pp. 1799-1805.


• Huayamave, V., Rose, C., Serra, S., Jones, B., Divo, E., Moslehy, F., Kassab, A.J., and Price, C.T., “A Patient-Specific Model of the Biomechanics of Hip Reduction for Neonatal Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip: investigation of strategies for low to severe grades of DDH,” Journal of Biomechanics, 2015, Vol. 48, pp. 2026-2033. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2015.03.031


• DeCampli, W.M., Secasanu, V., Argueta-Morales, I.R., Cox, K., Ionan, C., and Kassab, A.J., “External counterpulsation of a systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunt increases coronary blood flow in neonatal piglets, ” World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, 2015, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 75-82.


• Argueta-Morales, I.R., Tran, R., Ceballos, A., Osorio, R., Clark, W., Divo, E., Kassab, A.,  and DeCampli, W., Mathematical modeling of patient-specific ventricular assist device implantation to reduce particulate embolization rate to cerebral vessels, ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 2014, Vo. 136, No. 7, pp. 071008-1-8. DOI: 10.1115/1.4026498. [Pubmed ID] PMID: 24441718.


• Gerace, S., Erhart, K., Kassab, A., and Divo, E., “A Model-Integrated Localized Collocation Meshless Method for Large Scale Three Dimensional Heat Transfer Problems,” Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 2014, Vol. 45, pp. 2–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enganabound.2014.01.01


• Ceballos, A., Argueta-Morales, I.R., Divo, E., Osorio, R., Caldarone, C., Kassab, A., and DeCampli, W., “Computational Analysis of Hybrid Norwood Circulation with Distal Aortic Arch Obstruction and Reverse Blalock-Taussig Shunt,” Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2012, Vol. 94, No. 5, pp. 1540-1546. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.06.043 ).