Research Focus Areas
FLUIDS AND PLASMAS
Professor Blandino: Plasma dynamics; micro fluidics
Professor Gatsonis: Computational fluid, gas and plasma dynamics; micro- and nano- fluidics; rarefied flows
Professor Olinger: Fluid-structure interaction; low speed aerodynamics
Professor Jayachandran: Combustion, Flame Chemistry, Modeling of Reacting Flows, physical and chemical processes at extreme thermodynamic conditions.
PROPULSION AND ENERGY
Professor Blandino: Electric propulsion and micro propulsion
Professor Gatsonis: Micro propulsion; spacecraft-environment interactions
Professor Olinger: Wind energy
Professor Jayachandran: Air- breathing and rocket propulsion.
CONTROLS AND DYNAMICS
Professor Demetriou: Controls; flexible structures; spacecraft dynamics; mobile sensor and actuator networks; fluid-structure interaction systems.
Professor Cowlagi: Unmanned aerial vehicles, motion planning and optimal control with applications in aerospace engineering.
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.
Professor Olinger: Fluid dynamics, fluid-structure interaction.
Professor Karanjgaokar: Micro/nano-scale experimental and temperature mechanics, granular flows
Professor Yuan: Solid mechanics computational mechanics, composite materials and structures, structural stability
EDUCATIONAL, STEM, AND OUTREACH INITIATIVES
Professors Gatsonis, Blandino, Demetriou, Olinger, Taillefer.