Research Interests

Fluid Mechanics and Turbulence:

• Non-Circular Air/Liquid Jets and Droplet Formation
• Real-time Fluid Dynamics Simulations for Computer Games and Application to Flight Simulators
• Turbulent flow simulations using vortex element based methods
• Effect of turbulence production on entropy generation
• Impinging Jet Flows

Gas Turbines:

• Gas Turbine Engine Dynamic Model Development and Simulations
• Tip Leakage/Vortex Control Using Tip Injection

Wind Turbines:

• Wind Turbine Aerodynamic Interactions
• Effect of Extreme Gusts and  Atmospheric Turbulence

Helicopters:

• Rotor-rotor interactions and wake modeling
• Quad-rotor aerodynamic interactions
• Tilt-rotor aerodynamic interactions
• Real-time rotor wake modeling

Experimental Techniques:

• Development of a Mini-PIV system

Unmanned Systems:

• Fluid Dynamics Based Trajectory Generation for Swarming Micro Air Vehicles

Civil Engineering:

• Investigation of Flows around High-Rise Buildings