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Dr Moutassem El Rafei

Dr Moutassem El Rafei

Research Associate

PhD, The University of Sydney, Australia 2021

Master of Science, Cranfield University, UK, 2017

Diplôme d'ingénieur, ISAE-ENSMA, France, 2017

Science
Climate Change Research Centre
  • Journal articles | 2026
    Ji F; El Rafei M; Virgilio GD; Evans JP; Kala J; White S; Andrys J; Choudhury D; Tam E; Li Y; Goyal R; Vieira Rocha C; Riley ML, 2026, 'Three generations of NARCliM: future projections of mean and extreme climate over the CORDEX Australasia domain', Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41612-025-01280-w
    Journal articles | 2025
    Di Virgilio G; Evans JP; Ji F; Tam E; Kala J; Andrys J; Thomas C; Choudhury D; Rocha C; White S; Li Y; El Rafei M; Goyal R; Riley ML; Lingala J, 2025, 'Design, evaluation, and future projections of the NARCliM2.0 CORDEX-CMIP6 Australasia regional climate ensemble', Geoscientific Model Development, 18, pp. 671 - 702, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-671-2025
    Journal articles | 2025
    El Rafei M; Isaza A; Sherwood SC; Evans J; Brown A; Ji F; Dowdy A, 2025, 'Downdrafts and Convective Gusts in High-Resolution Simulations: An Australian Case Study', Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025JD044151
    Journal articles | 2025
    Surendran G; Sherwood S; Evans J; El Rafei M; Dowdy A; Ji F; Brown A, 2025, 'Distinguishing environmental controls on strong vs. extreme wind gusts', Weather and Climate Extremes, 49, pp. 100788, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2025.100788
    Journal articles | 2024
    El Rafei M; Thornber B, 2024, 'Turbulence statistics and transport in compressible mixing driven by spherical implosions with narrowband and broadband initial perturbations', Physical Review Fluids, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.034501
    Journal articles | 2023
    El Rafei M; Sherwood S; Evans J; Dowdy A; Ji F, 2023, 'Biases in Estimating Long-Term Recurrence Intervals of Extreme Events Due To Regionalized Sampling', Geophysical Research Letters, 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105286
    Journal articles | 2023
    El Rafei M; Sherwood S; Evans J; Dowdy A, 2023, 'Analysis and characterisation of extreme wind gust hazards in New South Wales, Australia', Natural Hazards, 117, pp. 875 - 895, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-05887-1
    Journal articles | 2023
    El Rafei M; Sherwood S; Evans JP; Ji F, 2023, 'Analysis of extreme wind gusts using a high-resolution Australian Regional Reanalysis', Weather and Climate Extremes, 39, pp. 100537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2022.100537
    Journal articles | 2020
    El Rafei M; Thornber B, 2020, 'Numerical study and buoyancy-drag modeling of bubble and spike distances in three-dimensional spherical implosions', Physics of Fluids, 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0031114
    Journal articles | 2019
    El Rafei M; Flaig M; Youngs DL; Thornber B, 2019, 'Three-dimensional simulations of turbulent mixing in spherical implosions', Physics of Fluids, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5113640
    Journal articles | 2017
    El Rafei M; Könözsy L; Rana Z, 2017, 'Investigation of numerical dissipation in classical and Implicit Large Eddy Simulations', Aerospace, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/aerospace4040059
  • Other | 2025
    Surendran G; Isaza Uribe A; Sherwood S; Evans J; El Rafei M; Dowdy A; Ji F, 2025, Investigating the Future Evolution of Extreme Convective Wind Gusts Using Pseudo-Global Warming Experiments., Copernicus Publications, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-12076
    Reports | 2023
    Gillett Z; Shao Y; Parker T; Barnes M; Reid K; Arblaster J; Meyer A; Pitman A; Yang D; Raupach T; Brown AL; Hitchcock S; El Rafei M, 2023, The State of Weather and Climate Extremes 2022, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/b0az-0920
    Conference Papers | 2020
    El Rafei M; Thornber B, 2020, 'Numerical Study of Compressible Turbulent Mixing in Spherical Implosions Comparing Different Initial Perturbations', in 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference Afmc 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.14264/0e92b9c
    Conference Papers | 2019
    El Rafei M; Thornber B, 2019, 'Mix width, bubble and spike amplitudes in three-dimensional numerical simulations of turbulent mixing driven by spherical implosions', in ASME JSME KSME 2019 8th Joint Fluids Engineering Conference Ajkfluids 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/AJKFluids2019-4968
    Conference Papers | 2018
    El Rafei M; Heidt L; Thornber B, 2018, 'A comparison of a modified curvilinear approach for compressible problems in spherical geometry and a truly spherical high-order method', in Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference Afmc 2018
    Conference Papers | 2008
    Rafei ME; Alamir M; Marchand N; Porez M; Boyer F, 2008, 'Multi-variable Constrained Control Approach for a Three-Dimensional Eel-like Robot', Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 3152 - 3157, presented at 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iros.2008.4650695
    Conference Papers | 2006
    Komas NP; Gody J; Bere A; Ndalla S; Rafei ME; Le Faou A, 2006, 'P.448 Seroprevalence and age of acquirement of HBV infection during childhood in “Complexe pediartique de Bangui” (Central African Republic)', in Journal of Clinical Virology, Elsevier, pp. s199 - s200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1386-6532(06)80621-9
    Preprints |
    Di Virgilio G; Evans J; Ji F; Tam E; Kala J; Andrys J; Thomas C; Choudhury D; Rocha C; White S; Li Y; Rafei ME; Goyal R; Riley M; Lingala J, Design, evaluation and future projections of the NARCliM2.0 CORDEX-CMIP6 Australasia regional climate ensemble, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2024-87
    Preprints |
    Rafei ME; Sherwood S; Evans J; Dowdy A, Analysis and characterisation of extreme wind gust hazards in New South Wales, Australia, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1563734/v1