Education

Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 2019

M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, KFUPM, 2014

B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, KFUPM, 2011

Courses Taught

• ME 315: Heat transfer
• ME 316: ThermoFluid Lab.

Research Scholar

Research Areas

• Thermal management systems
• Electrochemical energy storages
• Calorimetry
• Transport phenomena
  
• Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics 

Representative Publications 

• O. Munteshari, A. Borenstein, R. H. DeBlock, J. Lau, G. Whang, Y. Zhou, A. Likitchatchawankun, R. B. Kaner, B. Dunn, L. Pilon, In operando calorimetric measurements for activated carbon electrodes in ionic liquid electrolytes under large potential windows, ChemSusChem 13(5), 2020, pp. 1013-1026.
• O. Munteshari, Y. Zhou, B.-A. Mei, L. Pilon, Theoretical validation of the step potential electrochemical spectroscopy (SPECS) and multiple potential step chronoamperometry (MUSCA) methods for pseudocapacitive electrodes, Electrochimica Acta 321, 2019, pp. 134648.
• O. Munteshari, J. Lau, A. Likitchatchawankun, B.-A. Mei, C. S. Choi, D. Butts, B. Dunn, L. Pilon, Thermal signature of ion intercalation and surface redox reactions mechanisms in model pseudocapacitive electrodes, Electrochimica Acta 307, 2019, pp. 512-524.
• A. Likitchatchawankun, A. Kundu, O. Munteshari, T. S. Fisher, L. Pilon, Heat generation in all-solid-state supercapacitors with graphene electrodes and gel electrolytes, Electrochimica Acta 303, 2019, pp. 341-353.
• B. -A. Mei, O. Munteshari, J. Lau, B. Dunn, and L. Pilon, 2017, Physical interpretations of Nyquist plots for EDLC electrodes and devices, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 122 (1), pp. 194-206.
• O. Munteshari, J. Lau, D. S. Ashby, B. Dunn, L. Pilon, Effects of constituent materials on heat generation in individual EDLC electrodes, Journal of The Electrochemical Society 165 (7), 2018, pp. A1547-A1557.
• O. Munteshari, J. Lau, A. Krishnan, B. Dunn, L. Pilon, Isothermal calorimeter for measurements of time-dependent heat generation rate in individual supercapacitor electrodes, Journal of Power Sources 374, 2018, pp. 257-268.
• F. A. Al-Sulaiman, H. M. Abd-ur-Rehman, M. A. Antar, O. Munteshari, Experimental investigation of a bubble column humidifier heated through solar energy, Disalination and Water Treatment 60, 2017, pp. 58-69.