Dr. M. Shoaib Anwar

Assistant Professor

Introduction

Dr. Muhammad Shoaib Anwar is currently serving as Assistant Professor of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Jhang, where he held the HOD position from October 2019 to February 2025. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from LUMS Lahore, focusing on mathematical modeling and numerical solutions. He completed his M.Sc. and M.Phil. in Mathematics from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, receiving the President Gold Medal, and earlier a Gold Medal from the Governor of Sindh for academic excellence at the bachelor level.
Dr. Anwar has over 13 years of university-level teaching experience and previously served as a Lecturer (BPS-18) and Resident Tutor at UET Lahore on a regular basis. He has published over 75 research articles in Web of Science-indexed international journals, completed 350+ verified peer reviews, and recorded 27+ editorial contributions, all recognized by Web of Science™, Clarivate. He also received a Certificate of Excellence in Peer-Reviewing from Global Press Hub.
He was recognized among the world’s top 2% scientists for 2024 by Elsevier-Stanford and also awarded the USERN Laureate Prize 2023, being one of the top 5 selected globally from over 90,000 applicants. He served as Lead Editor of the special issue “Advances in Mathematical Modeling of Flow Problems with Fractional Derivatives” in Mathematical Problems in Engineering, and holds editorial board roles in multiple international journals.
He has organized and participated in several national and international conferences and attended university management and academic training programs. Dr. Anwar has supervised numerous MS students and one Ph.D. student, and served as an external examiner for MS/M.Phil. theses.
At the University of Jhang, he has been Convener of committees including Sports, Promotion, Purchase, and Discipline, and a member of various academic and administrative bodies. He also held the post of Additional Director of Purchase and Store on additional charge.
Earlier, during his training as a Nautical Cadet at the Pakistan Marine Academy, he earned certifications in safety, first aid, firefighting, swimming, survival techniques, and received a Certificate of Merit and First Prize in Navigation.

Qualifications
Degree Title Specialization Institute Name Year/Session
Ph.D Mathematical modeling and numerical solutions of flow problems LUMS, Lahore 2015-2019
M.Phil Heat and mass transfer in flow configurations QAU, Islamabad 2012-2014
M.Sc Applied Mathematics QAU, Islamabad 2010-2012

Research and Publications

  • M.S. Anwar, V. Puneeth, M. Hussain, Z. Hussain, M. Irfan, Heat convection in a viscoelastic nanofluid flow: A memory descriptive model, Journal of Applied Nonlinear Dynamics (2022) in Press.
  • U. Raza, M.S. Anwar, H. Ali, V. Puneeth, M. Irfan, Z. Hussain, Fixed points in n-gonal graphical b-metric spaces under contractive conditions, International Journal of Modern Physics B (2022) in Press.
  • V Puneeth, Farhan Ali, M Riaz Khan, M Shoaib Anwar, N A. Ahammad, Theoretical analysis of the thermal characteristics of Ree–Eyring nanofluid flowing past a stretching sheet due to bioconvection, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-022-02985-1.
  • Muhammad Irfan, Pongsakorn Sunthrayuth, Amjad Ali Pasha, Muhammad Shoaib Anwar, Waqar Azeem Khan, Phenomena of thermo-sloutal time’s relaxation in mixed convection Carreau fluid with heat sink/source, Waves Random Complex Media (2022) DOI: 10.1080/17455030.2022.2056658.
  • Muhammad Irfan, Muhammad Shoaib Anwar, Humara Sardar, Masood Khan, Waqar Azeem Khan, Energy transport and effectiveness of thermo-sloutal time’s relaxation theory in Carreau fluid with variable mass diffusivity, Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2022 (2022) Article ID 8208342 https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/8208342.
  • Z. Hussain, A. Hussain, M.S. Anwar, M. Farooq, Analysis of Cattaneo–Christov heat flux in Jeffery fluid flow with heat source over a stretching cylinder,Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry volume 147 (2022) 3391-3402 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-021-10573-0.
  • Zakir Hussain, Ali Saleh Alshomrani, Taseer Muhammad, Muhammad Shoaib Anwar, Entropy analysis in mixed convective flow of hybrid nanofluid subject to melting heat and chemical reactions, Case Studies in Thermal Engineering 34 (2022) 101972.
  • Venkatesh Puneeth, Manjunatha Sarpabhushana, Muhammad S. Anwar, Emad H. Aly, Bijjanal Jayanna Gireesha, Impact of bioconvection on the free stream flow of a pseudoplastic nanofluid past a rotating cone, Heat Transfer (2022) 1-18 doi:10.1002/htj.22512.
  • Muhammad Shoaib Anwar, Muhammad Irfan, Majid Hussain, Taseer Muhammad, Zakir Hussain, Heat Transfer in a Fractional Nanofluid Flow through a Permeable Medium, Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2022 (2022) Article ID 3390478 https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/3390478.
  • M. Irfan, K. Rafiq, M.S. Anwar, M. Khan, W.A. Khan, I. Kaleem, Evaluating the performance of new mass flux theory on Carreau nanofluid using the thermal aspects of convective heat transport, Pramana 95 (2021) 203 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-021-02217-7.
  • I. Ali, A. Rasheed, M.S. Anwar, M. Irfan, Z. Hussain, Fractional calculus approach for the phase dynamics of Josephson junction, Chaos, Solitons \& Fractals 143 (2021) 110572.
  • M. Khan, A. Rasheed, M.S. Anwar, Z. Hussain, T. Shahzad, Modelling charge carrier transport with anomalous diffusion and heat conduction in amorphous semiconductors using fractional calculus, Physica Scripta 96 (2021) 045204 https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/abde0f.
  • K. Rafiq, M. Irfan, M. Khan, M.S. Anwar, W.A. Khan, Arrhenius activation energy theory in radiative flow of Maxwell nanofluid, Physica Scripta 96 (2021) 045002 https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/abd903.
  • Z. Hussain, T. Hayat, A. Alsaedi, M.S. Anwar, Mixed convective flow of CNTs nanofluid subject to varying viscosity and reactions, Scientific Reports 11 (2021) 22838.
  • Z. Hussain, S. Muhammad, M.S. Anwar, Effects of first-order chemical reaction and melting heat on hybrid nanoliquid flow over a nonlinear stretched curved surface with shape factors, Advances in Mechanical Engineering (2021) DOI: 10.1177/1687814021999526.
  • A. Ali, M. Hussain, M.S. Anwar, M. Inc, Mathematical modeling and parametric investigation of blood flow through a stenosis artery, Applied Mathematics and Mechanics-English Edition 42 (2021) 1675-1684.
  • M. Irfan, K. Rafiq, M. Khan, M. Waqas, M.S. Anwar, Theoretical analysis of new mass flux theory and Arrhenius activation energy in Carreau nanofluid with magnetic influence, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 120 (2021) 105051.
  • Bilal Jamil, Muhammad Shoaib Anwar, Amer Rasheed, Muhammad Irfan, MHD Maxwell flow modeled by fractional derivatives with chemical reaction and thermal radiation, Chinese Journal of Physics 67 (2020) 512-533.
  • M. Irfan, M.S. Anwar, M. Rashid, M. Waqas, W.A. Khan, Arrhenius activation energy aspects in mixed convection Carreau nanofluid with nonlinear thermal radiation, Applied Nanoscience 10 (2020) 4403-4413 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-020-01498-5.
  • Muhammad Shoaib Anwar, Numerical study of transport phenomena in a nanofluid using fractional relaxation times in Buongiorno model, Physica Scripta 95 (2020) 035211.
  • M.S. Anwar, R.T.M. Ahmad, T. Shahzad, M. Irfan, M.Z. Ashraf, Electrified fractional nanofluid flow with suspended carbon nanotubes, Computers \& Mathematics with Applications 80 (2020) 1375-1386.
  • Amer Rasheed, Muhammad Shoaib Anwar, Interplay of chemical reacting species in a fractional viscoelastic fluid flow, Journal of Molecular Liquids 273 (2019) 576-588.
  • Amer Rasheed, Muhammad Shoaib Anwar, Numerical computations of fractional nonlinear Hartmann flow with revised heat flux model, Computers \& Mathematics with Applications 76 (2018) 2421-2433.
  • Amer Rasheed, Muhammad Shoaib Anwar, Simulations of variable concentration aspects in a fractional nonlinear viscoelastic fluid flow, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 65 (2018) 216-230.
  • Muhammad Shoaib Anwar, Amer Rasheed, Joule heating in magnetic resistive flow with fractional Cattaneo–Maxwell model, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering 44 (2018) 501.
  • Muhammad Shoaib Anwar, Amer Rasheed, Heat transfer at microscopic level in a MHD fractional inertial flow confined between non-isothermal boundaries, The European Physical Journal Plus 132 (2017) 305.
  • Muhammad Shoaib Anwar, Amer Rasheed, Simulations of a fractional rate type nanofluid flow with non-integer Caputo time derivatives, Computers & Mathematics with Applications 74 (2017) 2485-2502.
  • Muhammad Shoaib Anwar, Amer Rasheed, A microscopic study of MHD fractional inertial flow through Forchheimer medium, Chinese Journal of Physics 55 (2017) 1690-1703.
  • T. Hayat, M.S. Anwar, M. Farooq, A. Alsaedi, Mixed convection flow of viscoelastic fluid by a stretching cylinder with heat transfer, PLoS ONE 10(3): e0118815 (2015)\\ doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118815.
  • T. Hayat, M.S. Anwar, M. Farooq, A. Alsaedi, MHD stagnation point flow of second grade fluid over a stretching cylinder with heat and mass transfer, International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation 15 (2014) 365-376.

Field of Interest

  • Mathematical modeling of Newtonian and non-Newtonian flow problems
  • Numerical solutions of non-linear fractional partial differential equations
  • Finite element and finite difference methods
  • Boundary layer flows and structure interactions

Other

Dr. M. Shoaib Anwar is HEC PhD approved Supervisor.