LAOS rheology, protein-pectin crosslinking, nonlinear viscoelasticity, biopolymer design, soft matter, food rheology

Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654, Banergee, Bandita, Baeghbali, Vahid ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5054-6747 and Acharya, Parag ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2521-9968 (2025) Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear (LAOS) for protein-pectin crosslinking. In: UK Fluids Conference 2025, 2nd - 4th September, 2025, School of Engineering, University of Liverpool.

LAOS, protein-pectin gels, nonlinear viscoelasticity, crosslinking, rheology, soft materials, Maillard reaction, harmonic decomposition

Maklad, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654, Banergee, B., Baeghbali, V. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5054-6747 and Acharya, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2521-9968 (2025) Probing nonlinear rheological behavior of protein–pectin crosslinked networks via Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear (LAOS). In: Proceedings of the 1st International Online Conference on Gels, 3rd –5th December 2025. MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. (doi:https://sciforum.net/paper/view/27357)

air puff pressure; intraocular pressure (IOP); ocular biomechanics; fluid-structure interaction (FSI); reduced order modelling; machine learning (ML); Gradient Boosting Regressor (GBR)

Desouky, Nada A., Saafan, Mahmoud M., Mansour, Mohamed H. and Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654 (2023) Patient-specific air puff-induced loading using machine learning. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 11:1277970. pp. 1-13. ISSN 2296-4185 (Online) (doi:10.3389/fbioe.2023.1277970)

air puff test, Intraocular Pressure (IOP), ocular biomechanics, Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI), reduced order modelling, Machine Learning (ML), Gradient Boosting Regressor (GBR)

Maklad, Osama M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654 and Hao, Muting (2026) Reduced order modelling of air puff test for corneal material characterisation. Journal of Microscopy. ISSN 0022-2720 (Print), 1365-2818 (Online) (doi:10.1111/jmi.70077)

Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654 and Hao, Muting (2025) Reduced order modelling of air puff test for corneal material characterisation (Preprint). Arxiv Physics.

characterization, cornea, hydrogel, ocular surface, poly-lysine

Lace, Rebecca, Duffy, Georgia L., Gallagher, Andrew G., Doherty, Kyle G., Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654, Wellings, Donald A. and Williams, Rachel L. (2021) Characterization of tunable poly-ε-lysine-based hydrogels for corneal tissue engineering. Macromolecular Bioscience, 21 (7):2100036. ISSN 1616-5187 (Print), 1616-5195 (Online) (doi:10.1002/mabi.202100036)

cornea; corneal material behavior; fluid–structure interaction (FSI); glaucoma; intraocular pressure (IOP); ocular biomechanics

Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654 (2023) Influence of fluid–structure interaction on human corneal biomechanics under air puff non-contact tonometry. In: Gunther, Paul and Doweidar, Mohamed Hamdy, (eds.) Digital Human Modeling and Medicine (The Digital Twin). Academic Press . Elsevier, London; San Diego; Cambridge; Oxford, pp. 465-490. ISBN 978-0128239131; 0128239131; (doi:10.1016/C2020-0-00626-2)

direct numerical simulation; turbulence; pulsatile flows

Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654, Taylor, Phil, Moulinec, Charles and Seddighi, Mehdi (2022) An investigation on transient flow behaviour in pulsating channel flows. In: UK Fluids Conference 2022, 6th to 8th September 2022, University of Sheffield.

food hydrocolloids, hydrogels, rheology, texture analysis, viscoelasticity, gelation, gelling agents, emulsifiers, protein–polysaccharide interactions, biopolymer networks

Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654 and Miller, Aline (2026) Editorial for the special issue “Food Hydrocolloids and Hydrogels: Rheology and Texture Analysis”. Gels, 12 (9):804. ISSN 2310-2861 (Online) (doi:10.3390/gels12090804)

high‑moisture extrusion, fava (faba) bean protein, potato protein, wheat gluten, protein-protein interaction, disulfide crosslinking, LAOS, meat analogues

Baeghbali, Vahid, Garlapati, Akash, Euston, Stephen R., Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654 and Acharya, Parag ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2521-9968 (2026) High moisture extrusion of fava bean protein blend: evaluating potato protein as gluten replacement for texture enhancement. Food Hydrocolloids, 181:113018. ISSN 0268-005X (Print), 1873-7137 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.foodhyd.2026.113018)

human eye; non-contact tonometry; ocular biomechanics; glaucoma; intra-ocular pressure (IOP); computational fluid dynamics (CFD); finite element analysis (FEA); fluid structure interaction (FSI); impinging jets; aeroelasticity

Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654, Theofilis, V. and Elsheikh, A. (2018) Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) simulation of the human eye under the air puff tonometry using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). In: Tenth International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD10), 9th - 13th July 2018, Barcelona, Spain.

hybrid plant-based meat analogue, High Moisture Extrusion (HME), sustainable protein blend, cultivated meat, hybrid alternative protein, plant protein texturization

Baeghbali, Vahid ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5054-6747, Euston, Stephen R., He, Xi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0624-763X, Donetti, Manuela, Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654 and Acharya, Parag ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2521-9968 (2025) High moisture extrusion based texturization and functional modulation of pea protein isolate through integration with cultivated beef. Food Hydrocolloids, 172 (Part 3):112154. ISSN 0268-005X (Print), 1873-7137 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.foodhyd.2025.112154)

impinging jets, PINNs, fluid-structure interaction (FSI), reduced order modelling, Corneal biomechanics

Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654, Hao, Muting and Maklad, Osama (2025) Corneal material characterisation via PINNs-based modelling of impinging jets. In: Joint event "Euromech Colloquium on Data-Driven Fluid Dynamics" & "2nd ERCOFTAC Workshop on Machine Learning for Fluid Dynamics", 02-04 Apr 2025, Mary Ward House, 5-7 Tavistock Place, London, UK.

impinging jets; aero elasticity; non-contact tonometry; ocular biomechanics; glaucoma; intraocular pressure (IOP); computational fluid dynamics (CFD); finite element analysis (FEA); fluid structure interaction (FSI)

Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654, Theofilis, Vassilios and Elsheikh, Ahmed (2018) Role of impinging jets in the biomechanical correction of the intraocular pressure ( IOP ) measurement. In: Thirteenth International Conference of Fluid Dynamics, 21st -22nd December 2018, Cairo, Egypt.

intraocular pressure; tonometry; corneal biomechanics

Eliasy, Ashkan, Chen, Kai-Jung, Vinciguerra, Riccardo, Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654, Vinciguerra, Paolo, Ambrósio, Renato Jr., Roberts, Cynthia J. and Elsheikh, Ahmed (2018) Ex-vivo experimental validation of biomechanically-corrected intraocular pressure measurements on human eyes using the CorVis ST. Experimental eye research, 175. pp. 98-102. ISSN 0014-4835 (doi:10.1016/j.exer.2018.06.013)

micellar fluids; dipeptide solutions; normal-stress differences; rheological characterisation

Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654, McAulay, Kate, Lerouge, Sandra, Adams, Dave J. and Poole, Robert J. (2022) A technical note on large normal-stress differences observed in a novel self-assembling functionalized dipeptide surfactant solution. Rheologica Acta, 2022. ISSN 0035-4511 (Print), 1435-1528 (Online) (doi:10.1007/s00397-022-01368-7)

micellar fuids, dipeptide solutions · Normal-stress diferences · Rheological characterisation

Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654, McAulay, K., Lerouge, S., Adams, D.J. and Poole, R.J. (2023) Large normal-stress differences observed in a novel self-assembling functionalized dipeptide surfactant solution. [Video]

micro-channel heat sink, thermal management, pin fins, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), electronic cooling, pressure drop, conjugate heat transfer, Nusselt number

Morsi, Ashraf, Razzaq, Mohammed Abdel, Khalid, Youssef, Naser, Mohamed, Elkholy, Mohamed, Elhagali, Ibrahim and Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654 (2026) Thermo-hydraulic performance of microchannel heat sinks with square pin-fin geometries: a numerical investigation. In: The 32nd THERMINIC International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems, 16th - 18th September 2026, Berlin.

normal-stresses; viscoelastic fluids; shear flow; secondary flow

Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654 and Poole, R.J. (2021) A review of the second normal-stress difference; its importance in various flows, measurement techniques, results for various complex fluids and theoretical predictions. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 292:104522. ISSN 0377-0257 (doi:10.1016/J.JNNFM.2021.104522)

ocular biomechanics; intraocular pressure (IOP); fluid–structure interaction (FSI); arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian mesh (ALE)

Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654, Eliasy, Ashkan, Chen, Kai-Jung, Theofilis, Vassilios and Elsheikh, Ahmed (2019) Simulation of air puff tonometry test using Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) deforming mesh for corneal material characterisation. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17 (1):54. ISSN 1661-7827 (Print), 1660-4601 (Online) (doi:10.3390/IJERPH17010054)

ocular biomechanics; intraocular pressure; fluid-structure interaction (FSI); corneal material behavior; cornea

Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654, Eliasy, Ashkan, Chen, Kai-Jung, Wang, Jun Jie, Abass, Ahmed, Teixeira Lopes, Bernardo, Theofilis, Vassilis and Elsheikh, Ahmed (2020) Fluid-structure interaction based algorithms for IOP and corneal material behavior. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 8:970. ISSN 2296-4185 (Online) (doi:10.3389/fbioe.2020.00970)

soft matter, rheology, food hydrocolloids, alternative proteins, complex fluids

Maklad, Osama ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-2654 (2025) Mechanical characterisation of soft matter and complex fluids. In: Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein: Scientific kick-off, 20th - 21st Jan 2025, Imperial College London. (Unpublished)