Research interest

Personal Details

Name: Rohollah
Surname: Fatahi Nafchi
Nationality: Iranian
Date of Birth: 1964
Place of Birth: Iran
Email Addresses: Fatahi2@yahoo.com

                                  Fattahi@sku.agr.ac.ir

2002: P.HD. Hydraulic and Water Resources Eng., Department of civil Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary .

1992: M.Sc.Irrigation & Drainage Engineering , Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, (G.P.D 16.72, first rank student).

1988: B.Sc. Irrigation & Drainage Engineering , Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz, Iran. (G.P.D. 16.28).

Work Experiences

Teaching

• General Irrigation .
• Water supply .
• Hydraulic of Ground Water .
• Drainage Engineering
• Design of Irrigation systems.
• Meteorology & Climatology .
• Surface water Hydrology .
• Pump and pump station design .
•Advance drainage (M.Sc. students) .
• Open channel Hydraulics .

• Water resources Engineering ( M.Sc. students) .

Consultant

• Ben Water supply Project (Pump station), 1990-92, Ministry of Jahad Sazandegi, Shahrekord, Iran.

• Soil& water management studies in three watersheds (Ardal, Dopulan, and Marghmalek), 1993-94,Sharekord Iran.

• Sodejan Irrigation and Drainage network, 1993-95, Ministry of Agriculture, Shahrekord, Iran.

• Design of small pump stations(8 cases), 1994-98, Ministry of Jahad, Nomads affairs, Shahrekord, Iran.

• Design of sprinkler and trickle Irrigation systems for more than 1000 hectares in different locations 1995-98, Ministry of Agriculture, Shahrekord, Iran.

• Soil& water management studies in two watersheds (choghakhor, Solejan), 2003-2005,Shahrekord Iran.

• Study and design of landscape water supply networks for 18 cities of Iran 2004-2006.

Computer skills

Professional software like DrainMod, Cropwat, Myke11, Epanet, Water Cad, Nero dimension,      Surfer, Hammer7, ……

General, software: Word, Excel, Maple, Mathematica, PowerPoint, ………….

Computer languages,: FORTRAN 90, Pascal 7, Basic

Languages

Persian (mother language)

English (reading very well, listening very well, speaking well, and writing good)

Hungarian (reading elementary, speaking intermediate, listening good)

Publications in refreed journals

[1] Haszpra, O., S. N. Shmela and R. Fatahi, 2001: Calculation of Perforated Water-Collecting Pipe System for Homogeneous Influx Distribution, Journal Science Revuo 2, pp. 27-36. (in speranto)

[2] Kozak, M., R. Fatahi and I. Ratky, 2001: Computation of Circular Flow in Meandering Channels, Journal of Hungarian society of Hydrology ( in Hungarian)

[3] Fatahi, R. and O. Haszpra 2004: Analysis of perforated-pipe water collector systems. Journal of Hydraulic Research, Vol.42, No.1(2004),pp. 89-96.

[4] Mostafazadeh, B., R. Fatahi and F. Mousavi, 1996: Kinematic Wave Model in Evaluating Furrow Irrigation System, Iranian J. Agric. Sci., Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 45-54.

[5] Fatahi, R. 2000: Integrated Water Resources Management and Public Participation in Water and land protection, Proc. of 3rd International R&D Conference, Feb. 29 –March 3, Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh), India.

[6] Fatahi, R. 2000: Refining Discharge Factor for Perforation on Perforated pipes, Proc. of 4th International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering, Sep. 26-29, Seoul, Korea.

[7] Fatahi, R. 2000: Some Strategies to Improve Agriculture Water Use Efficiency in 21 Century, Proc. of EWRA-ICID Conference on water Resources Management in 21 Century, June 1-3 Budapest, Hungary.

[8] Fatahi, R. 2000: A Complex Discharge Factor for Perforation Covered with Gravel Envelope in Perforated pipe Systems, Proc. of 4th International Conference on Water Supply and Water quality, Krakow, Poland, September 2000, pp1117-1120

[9] Fatahi, R. 2000: An Analytical and Experimental Study of Flow Through Perforated Pipes, Proc. of 3rd Int. Ph.D. Symposium in Civil Engineering, October 5-7, 2000, Vienna, Austria, Vol. 1, pp.557-563.

[10] Fatahi, R. 2000: Experimental Study to Determine the Hydraulic Factors of Perforations on Perforated Pipes, Proc. of 4th International Conference on Water Supply and Water quality, Krakow, Poland, September 2000,pp 1111-1115.

[11] Fatahi, R. 2001: Uniform Flow Through Perforated-Pipe Water Collector Systems, Proc. of 3rd Int. Ph.D. Conference, August 13 - 19, 2001, Miskolc, Hungary, Eng. Sci. Vol. 1, pp.293-303.

[12] Kozak, M., R. Fatahi and I. Ratky, 2001: Computation of Circular Flow in Meandering Channels, Proc. of 29th IAHR Congress, 16-21 Sept, Beijing, China.

[13] Fatahi,R. and Shayannejad, M., 2003: Numerical Simulation of Water Table Variations in Subsurface Drains Within Polders, 9th International Drainage Workshop, 10-13 Sep. Wageningen, Un. Utrecht, The Netherlands.

[14] Fatahi, R. 2002: "Analytical and Experimental study of perforated Collector Pipes systems”. Ph.D. Tesis, Budapest university of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary.

[15] Fatahi, R. 1992: Design and Evaluation of Furrow Irrigation systems using Kinematics Wave model. M.Sc. Thesis, Isfahan university of Technology.

[16] Fatahi, R., and M. Shirani, 2004: Social and economical evaluation of rainfall catchments in Larestan region", The 4th international Iran and Russia conference Agriculture and natural resources, Sep. 8-10, Shahrekord, Iran

[17] Fatahi, R., and K ,Parvanak 2004: A study on the effect of manure and different rate of boron application on alfalfa crop region", The 4th international Iran and Russia conference Agriculture and natural resources, Sep. 8-10, Shahrekord, Iran.

[18] Fatahi, R. 2004: Dams and developments in Iran and the main concerens", The 4th international Iran and Russia conference Agriculture and natural resources, Sep. 8-10, Shahrekord, Iran.

[19] Nekooi Mehr. M, Fatahi R., 2004: A Case Study on Morphological Characteristics of Gully Erosion on the North Sub Basins of Karoon River ", The 4th international Iran and Russia conference Agriculture and natural resources, Sep. 8-10, Shahrekord, Iran

[20] Fatahi, R. 2004: Experimental study of soil and gravel interface head losses", The 4th international Iran and Russia conference Agriculture and natural resources, Sep. 8-10, Shahrekord, Iran.