| • Faculty Research Interests |
A.S. Arena
- Aerospace Vehicle Stability and Control
- Unsteady and High Angle of Attack Aerodynamics
- Aeroelasticity
- Nonlinear Flight Dynamics
- Aircraft Performance
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F.W. Chambers
- Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
- Turbulent Fluid Dynamics
- Flow Visualization, Flow Field Measurements and
Instrumentation
- Active Control of Attached and Separating Boundary
Layers
- Aerodynamic Noise and Flow-Acoustic Interactions
- Fluid Dynamics of Air Filtration
- Industrial Aerodynamics and Flow Control
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R.D. Delahoussaye
- Computer Aided Engineering, Design, and Manufacturing
- Interactive Computer Graphics
- Design Optimization
- Finite Element Analysis
- Mechanism Design and Analysis
- Robotics
- Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems
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D.E. Fisher
- Building energy analysis and load calculation
- Numerical heat transfer and fluid flow
- Thermal system simulation and design
- Displacement ventilation and chilled ceiling systems
- Simulation of Building Systems
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A.J. Ghajar
- Two-Phase Flow Heat Transfer
- Heat Transfer in Mini/Micro Channels
- Mixed Convection
Heat Transfer
- Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics
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J.K. Good
- Structural Mechanics
- Mechanical Design
- Experimental Analysis
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S. Harimkar
- Laser Processing of Materials: Machining, Forming, Rapid Prototyping, Micromachining
- Surface Engineering: Advanced Ceramic-, Composite-, and Amorphous-Coatings
- Biomaterials: Processing, Characterization and Mechanical/Bio-properties
- Nanotechnology: Nanocomposites and Nanocoatings
- Ceramic Processing: Surface Densification and Novel Sintering
- Thermal Modeling
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L.L. Hoberock
- Dynamics and Control of Mechanical and
Electromechanical Systems
- Robotic and Machine Vision Systems
- Machine Design
- Vibrating Screen Technology
- Drilling Mechanics
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J.D. Jacob
- Aerodynamics
- UAV Design & Flight Testing
- Vortex Dynamics
- Flow Control
- Bio-Fluid Flow
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R. Komanduri
- Materials Processing and Manufacturing
- Tribology
- Diamond Coatings and Multiple Nanocoatings on Cutting Tools
- Mechanics of Machining and Grinding
- Ultra-Precision Machining
- High-Speed Machining
- Machine Tool Sensors
- Diamond Coatings and Non-Traditional Processing
- Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Nanometric Cutting and Tribology
- Thermal Aspects of Various Manufacturing Processes and Tribology
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D.G. Lilley
- Combustion
- Heat Transfer
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
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H.B. Lu
- Experimental Mechanics
- Viscoelasticity
- Fracture Mechanics
- Mechanics in Web Handling
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D.A. Lucca
- Surface
mechanics/surface engineering
- Nanomechanical
behavior of materials
- Ion-solid
interactions
- Precision
engineering
- Ultraprecision
manufacturing and synthesis processes
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P.M. Moretti
- Web Flutter, Flow-Induced Vibrations
- Bi-Stable Flows, Stratified Flows,
and Alternative Energy
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P.R. Pagilla
- Nonlinear systems and control
- Adaptive control
- Mechatronics
- Large-scale systems
- Robotics
- Constrained mechanical systems
- Web handling processes
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C.E. Price
- Material Properties and Processing
- Mechanical Behavior
- Fatigue, Embrittlement and Stress Corrosion Cracking
- Corrosion
- Failure Analysis
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K.A. Sallam
- Fluid Dynamics
- Laser diagnostics
- Holography
- Atomization & Sprays
- Microfluidics
- Nanotechnology
- Bioengineering
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J.D. Spitler
- Building Energy Analysis and Load Calculations
- Thermal Systems Simulation and
Design
- Ground Source Heat Pumps
- Building and Thermal Systems
Research Group
- Heating, Ventilating, and Air
Conditioning Analysis and Design
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G.E. Young
- Dynamic Systems and Control
- Nonlinear Uncertain Systems
- Real-Time Distributed Systems
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