Research

Propulsion

Electromagnetic propulsion, pulsed power, plasma physics, magnetoinertial fusion for propulsion and terrestrial power applications – Dr. Jason Cassibry
Solid, liquid and hybrid propulsion, combustion instability, missile design, multi-disciplinary design – Dr. Robert Frederick

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), and high temperature equations of state, with applications to collisional plasmas and high temperature gas dynamics – Dr. Jason Cassibry
Applied computational fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, chemically reacting flows, acoustics, fluid-structure-acoustic interactions, supersonic and hypersonic laminar, transitional and turbulent flows – Dr. Kader Frendi
Multiphase flows, turbulence, computational fluid dynamics, stochastic and probabilistic modeling of thermo-fluid flows, propulsion and high performance computing – Dr. Babak Shotorban

Mechanical behavior of materials, fatigue crack growth, fracture mechanics, high temperature materials, corrosion and oxidation behavior, reliability and component life prediction – Dr. Jeffrey Evans
Smart materials systems, development of smart actuators and sensors, health monitoring of composite material systems and large civil infrastructures, experimental characterization and micro-mechanics modeling of material – Dr. Mark Lin
Rotorcraft, adaptive structures, structural dynamics, vibration and shock control, structural health monitoring – Dr. Gang Wang
Design of apparatus for use in microgravity environment, heat transfer, rocketry and energy conservation – Dr. Francis Wessling
Computational solid and structural mechanics, advanced constitutive models for materials, modeling ductile and brittle failure modeling of materials (metals, ceramics, explosives, solid propellants), impact and penetration mechanics – Dr. Q.H. Ken Zuo

Aircraft and missile aerodynamics, aerospace vehicle design, computational fluid dynamics, viscous fluid mechanics, and propulsion – Dr. D. Brian Landrum
Emerging technologies to rotorcraft, fixed wing, and space vehicles, test and evaluation of prototype aerospace systems– Dr. Gang Wang

Modeling dynamic behavior and developing unique control mechanisms for mechanical and aeronautical devices and optimization of control methods with application to micro air vehicles and unmanned air vehicles – Dr. Nathan Slegers
Photovoltaic system design, solar energy systems, computer-aided engineering and design (CAE and CAD) – Dr. Donald Wallace