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Research Areas

Graduate instruction and research in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering are focused on four main areas: thermal/fluids, dynamics & solid mechanics, manufacturing, and indoor environment & energy. We offer a variety of courses that address the theoretical and practical aspects of these disciplines. M.S. and Ph.D. students work closely with their faculty advisors to engage in projects such as:

Thermal/Fluids:

  • Active Feedback Flow Control Methods.
  • Biofluid Mechanics.
  • Bluff-Body Aerodynamics.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics & Advanced Grid Generation Techniques.
  • Energy Systems.
  • High-Speed Flows.
  • Propulsion.
  • Turbomachine Design and Heat Transfer.
  • Turbulence.
  • Two-phase Flows.

Dynamics & Solid Mechanics:

  • Composite Materials.
  • Constitutive models for cellulosic materials for use in Finite Element Softwares.
  • Rolling Contact Fatigue, Nondestructive Fatigue Damage Characterization.
  • Fracture Mechanics.
  • Helicopter Dynamics.
  • Nonlinear problems of elasticity.

Manufacturing:

  • CAD/CAM System Integration Issues.
  • Design and Operation of Manufacturing Cells.
  • Geometric Tolerances.
  • Intelligent CAD.
  • Lean Manufacturing.
  • Machine Learning Applications.
  • Product Development.

Indoor Environment & Energy:

  • Air Filtration.
  • Integrated Computer Simulation Tools for Building Environmental and Energy System Analysis and Designs.
  • Integrated Sensing and Control Systems for Enhancing Indoor Environment Quality and Building Security.
  • Experimental & Computational Studies of Airflows and Pollutant Transports around Human's Micro Environment.
  • Fluid Dynamics Interaction between Fan and High Resistance Medium.
  • Material Emmissions and Indoor Quality.
  • Multi-zone Air and Air Contaminant Transports in Buildings.
  • Room Air and Contaminant Distributions.