Thermal and Fluid Sciences
Experimental and theoretical research in this area is conducted in boundary layer phenomena, chaos in fluid systems, computational fluid mechanics, detonation theory, droplet sprays, fire research, fluid-structure interaction, flow control, food processing technology, hydronics, hydrodynamic stability, industrial energy conservation, microfluid mechanics, molecular dynamics, multiphase and buoyant flows, reacting flows, turbulent flows, and solidification of liquid metals.
Ongoing research projects include:
Artificial Intelligence Applications
Design Optimization for High Mach Number Applications
Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) Atomization of Liquids
Enhanced Heat Transfer by Chaotic Mixing
Energy Saving Opportunities in Small and Medium Sized Manufacturing
Free-stream Turbulence Level Measurements by Leading-edge Stability Methods
Heat Exchangers and Thermal Networks
Heat Transfer During Solidification of Metals
Instabilities and Transition to Turbulence on Elliptic Cones at Mach 8
MEMS and Flow Control for Aircraft Engine
Microparticle Deposition onto Surfaces
Microparticle Resuspension and Transport from Surfaces
Natural Convection in Loops and Cavities
Numerical Study of Receptivity to Sound on a Parabolic Leading Edge
Reduced Kinematic Schemes Coupled with Wavelet Collocation Analysis for Combustion Modelling
Separation Control for Rotocraft using a Glow-Discharge Flat Array
Stability of Mixed Convection Flow
Transition and Chaos in Differentially Heated Vertical Cavities
Transition to Detonation in Energetic Material
Wavelet Collocation Methods for Solving Partial Differential Equations in Multiple Dimensions
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