Research Focus Areas
FLUIDS AND PLASMAS
Professor Blandino: Plasma dynamics; microfluidics
Professor Gatsonis: Computational fluid, gas and plasma dynamics; micro- and nano- fluidics; rarefied flows
Professor Olinger: Fluid-structure interaction; low speed aerodynamics
Professor Yagoobi: Electrohydrodynamics; liquid/vapor phase change; micro and nanofluidics, augmentation of heat transfer; impinging jets
PROPULSION AND ENERGY
Professor Blandino: Electric propulsion and micropropulsion
Professor Gatsonis: Micropropulsion; spacecraft-environment interactions
Professor Olinger: Wind energy
CONTROLS AND DYNAMICS
Professor Demetriou: Controls; flexible structures; spacecraft dynamics; mobile sensor and actuator networks; fluid-structure interaction systems
STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS
Professor Demetriou: Smart material structures, vibrations
Professor Richman: Mechanics of granular media, including compaction of powders, and constitutive modeling of rapid flows and their interactions with vibrating boundaries