Alex Mahalov
Dean's Distinguished Professor, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Arizona State University
PO Box 871804
Tempe, AZ 85287-1804
Titles
- Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
- Dean's Distinguished Professor, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Biography
Alex Mahalov is a Dean's Distinguished Professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences in Arizona State University's College of Liberal Arts and Science, with a joint appointment in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy in the University's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. He works with Arizona State University's high-performance computing group on creating real-time, high-resolution environmental forecasts.
He is exploring next generation multi-scale earth system models with applications to food-energy-water systems and space physics. The mathematical tools involve Navier-Stokes and Maxwell’s equations which are the fundamental equations used to study fluid flow and electric/magnetic fields in science and engineering applications including remote sensing, imaging and communication. Particular emphasis is given to how these equations can be used to study processes that rapidly and randomly change with time and location. These more complex models can now be analyzed more accurately through advances in computing and data science. The scientific payoff of his research encompasses advances in fundamental mathematical knowledge as well as a deepening of our understanding of environmental, agricultural, atmospheric and space sciences.
Education
- PhD, Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, 1991
Expertise
- decision making
- renewable energy
- remote sensing
- optical devices
- microclimate
- modeling and simulation
- international relations
- informatics
- environmental policy
- nonlinear systems
- data mining
- climate change and adaptation
- atmospheric processes
- algorithm development
- air quality
- geophysical fluid dynamics
- scientific computing
- dynamical systems
Journal Articles
2019
Salamanca Palou, F. and A. Mahalov. 2019. Summer- and wintertime variations of the surface and near-surface urban heat island in a semiarid environment. Weather and Forecasting 34(5):. DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-19-0054.1. (link )
2018
Hunt, J. C., Y. D. Aktas, A. Mahalov, M. Moustaoui, F. Salamanca Palou and M. Georgescu. 2018. Climate change and growing megacities: Hazards and vulnerability. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability 171(6):314-326. DOI: 10.1680/jensu.16.00068. (link )
Salamanca Palou, F., Y. Zhang, M. Barlage, A. Mahalov and S. Miao. 2018. Evaluation of the WRF-urban modeling system coupled to Noah and Noah-MP land surface models over a semiarid urban environment. Journal of Geophsical Research: Atmospheres 123(5):2387-2408. DOI: 0.1002/2018JD028377. (link )
2017
Tewari, M., F. Salamanca Palou, A. Martilli, A. Treinish and A. Mahalov. 2017. Impacts of projected urban expansion and global warming on cooling energy demand over a semiarid region. Atmospheric Science Letters 18(11):419-426. DOI: 10.1002/asl.784. (link )
2016
Salamanca, F., M. Georgescu, A. Mahalov, M. Moustaoui and A. Martilli. 2016. Citywide impacts of cool roof and rooftop solar photovoltaic deployment on near-surface air temperature and cooling energy demand. Boundary Layer Meteorology DOI: 10.1007/s10546-016-0160-y.
Shaffer, S. R., M. Moustaoui, A. Mahalov and B. L. Ruddell. 2016. A method of aggregating heterogeneous subgrid land-cover input data for multiscale urban parameterization. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 55(9):1889=1905. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0027.1. (link )
Shaffer, S. R., M. Moustaoui, A. Mahalov and B. L. Ruddell. 2016. A method of aggregating heterogeneous subgrid land-cover input data for multiscale urban parameterization. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 55(9):1889-1905. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0027.1. (link )
2015
Salamanca, F., M. Georgescu, A. Mahalov and M. Moustaoui. 2015. Summertime response of temperature and cooling energy demand to urban expansion in a semiarid environment. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 54(8):1756–1772. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0313.1. (link )
Shaffer, S. R., W. T. Chow, M. Georgescu, P. Hyde, G. D. Jenerette, A. Mahalov, M. Moustaoui and B. L. Ruddell. 2015. Multiscale modeling and evaluation of urban surface energy balance in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 54:322-338. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0051.1. (link )
Shaffer, S. R., H. J. Fernando, N. C. Ovenden, M. Moustaoui and A. Mahalov. 2015. Simulating meteorological profiles to study noise propagation from freeways. Applied Acoustics 92(May):102-114. DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2014.12.010. (link )
2014
Chow, W. T., F. Salamanca, M. Georgescu, A. Mahalov, J. M. Milne and B. L. Ruddell. 2014. A multi-method and multi-scale approach for estimating city-wide anthropogenic heat fluxes. Atmospheric Environment 99(December):64-76. DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.09.053. (link )
Mahalov, A. and M. Moustaoui. 2014. Multiscale nested simulations of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in ionospheric flows. Journal of Fluids Engineering 136:060908-1-060908-8. DOI: 10.1115/1.4025657. (link )
Ruddell, B. L., F. Salamanca and A. Mahalov. 2014. Reducing a semiarid city's peak electrical demand using distributed cold thermal energy storage. Applied Energy 134(Dec):35-44. DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.07.096. (link )
Salamanca, F., M. Georgescu, A. Mahalov, M. Moustaoui and M. Wang. 2014. Anthropogenic heating of the urban environment due to air conditioning. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119(10):5949-5965. DOI: 10.1002/2013JD021225. (link )
2013
Cheng, B. and A. Mahalov. 2013. Euler equation on a fast rotating sphere—Time-averages and zonal flows. European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids 37(Jan-Feb):48-58. DOI: 10.1016/j.euromechflu.2012.06.001. (link )
Georgescu, M., D. B. Lobell, C. B. Field and A. Mahalov. 2013. Simulated hydro-climatic impacts of projected Brazilian sugarcane expansion. Geophysical Research Letters 40(5):972-977. DOI: 10.1002/grl.50206. (link )
Mahalov, A., E. Suazo and S. K. Suslov. 2013. Spiral laser beams in inhomogeneous media. Optics Letters 38(15):2763-2766. DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.002763. (link )
Salamanca, F., M. Georgescu, A. Mahalov, M. Moustaoui, M. Wang and B. M. Svoma. 2013. Assessing summertime urban air conditioning consumption in a semiarid environment. Environmental Research Letters 8(3):034022. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034022. (link )
2012
Flandoli, F. and A. Mahalov. 2012. Stochastic three-dimensional rotating Navier-Stokes equations: Averaging, convergence and regularity. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 205(1):195-237. DOI: 10.1007/s00205-012-0507-6. (link )
Tang, W., B. Knutson, A. Mahalov and R. Dimitrova. 2012. The geometry of inertial particle mixing in urban flows, from deterministic and random displacement models. Physics of Fluids 24:063302. DOI: 10.1063/1.4729453. (link )
2011
Georgescu, M., M. Moustaoui, A. Mahalov and J. Dudhia. 2011. An alternative explanation of the seim-arid urban area "oasis effect". Journal of Geophysical Research 116:D24113. DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016720. (link )
Posters
2015
Li, J., M. Georgescu, P. G. Hyde, A. Mahalov and M. Moustaoui. 2015. Phoenix ozone variation due to urbanization and regional transport. Poster presented at the Seventeenth Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 16 January 2015, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
Li, X., S. R. Shaffer, A. Mahalov, B. L. Turner II, M. Georgescu, I. Kamarianakis, E. Mack and M. Moustaoui. 2015. High-resolution fractional land-cover classification and infuence of multi-scale aggregation method for urban applications. Poster presented at the 16th Annual WRF Users Workshop, 17 June 2015, Boulder, CO. (link )
Shaffer, S. R., M. Moustaoui, A. Mahalov and B. L. Ruddell. 2015. A method of aggregating heterogeneous subgrid land cover input data for multi-scale parameterization. Poster presented at the 16th Annual WRF Users Workshop, 17 June 2015, Boulder, CO. (link )
2013
Shaffer, S. R., B. L. Ruddell, W. T. Chow, M. Moustaoui, A. Mahalov and M. Georgescu. 2013. Evaluation of WRF for fine scale surface energy balance modeling in Phoenix. Poster presented at the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting, 9-13 December 2013, San Francisco, CA. (link )
2012
Ruddell, B. L., D. Jenerette, M. Moustaoui, E. R. Vivoni, W. T. Chow, S. Shaffer, T. J. Volo, C. A. Martin, A. Mahalov and S. L. Harlan. 2012. Modeling the urban climate at the human scale in hot/dry regions. Poster presented at the 3-7 December 2012 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.