People

Mazen Nakad

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

Office: Bassil 202
Extension: 2058
Email: mazen.nakad@lau.edu.lb

Office Hours:
T R  9:00-11:00

Research Interests

Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Plant Hydraulics, Ecosystem Modeling

Research Project

Reducing Uncertainty in Vegetation Stress Responses and Stress Tolerance on Ecosystem Carbon Cycling

Selected Publications

  1. Mrad, A., Sevanto, S., Domec, J. C., Liu, Y., Nakad, M., & Katul, G. (2019). A dynamic optimality principle for water use strategies explains isohydric to anisohydric plant responses to drought. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2, 49.

  2. Nakad, M., Witelski, T., Domec, J. C., Sevanto, S., & Katul, G. (2021). Taylor dispersion in osmotically driven laminar flows in phloem. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 913, A44.

  3. Nakad, M., Domec, J. C., Sevanto, S., & Katul, G. (2022). Radial–axial transport coordination enhances sugar translocation in the phloem vasculature of plants. Plant Physiology, 189(4), 2061-2071.

  4. Nakad, M., Domec, J. C., Sevanto, S., & Katul, G. (2023). Toward a realistic representation of sucrose transport in the phloem of plants. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128(3), e2022JG007361.

  5. Nakad, M., Domec, J. C., Sevanto, S., & Katul, G. (2023). Sucrose transport inside the phloem: Bridging hydrodynamics and geometric characteristics. Physics of Fluids, 35(6).

  6. Nakad, M., Sevanto, S., Domec, J. C., & Katul, G. (2023). Linking the Water and Carbon Economies of Plants in a Drying and Warming Climate. Current Forestry Reports, 9(6), 383-400.

Academic Degrees

PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, 2023
BE, Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, 2017