Focus Areas

Dynamics and Control

• Eric Butcher – nonlinear dynamics, vibrations and control; astrodynamics, spacecraft attitude and relative motion dynamics, and GNC; stability, control and estimation in periodic, delayed and fractional systems
• Eniko T. Enikov – dynamics of charged particles and macro-ions, control of processes driven by electrostatic forces, use of neural-network-based self-learning methods for control of human-machine interfaces
• Samy Missoum – vibrations, crashworthiness and stochastic optimization of dynamical systems
• Hossein Rastgoftar – decision-making under uncertainty, human-robotic interaction, swarm robotics, system autonomy, UAS traffic management, intelligent transportation, formal specification and verification and finite-state abstraction of dynamical systems
• Jekan Thanga – space robotics, CubeSats and sensor networks; machine learning applied to dynamics and control of swarms; autonomous systems design; small-satellite propulsion, power and thermal systems.
• Vitaliy Yurkiv – model-based evaluation of battery management systems for improving battery performance and lifetime. Electric vehicle state-of-charge estimation using machine learning techniques.

Energy

• Qing Hao – thermal transport within power electronic devices anticipated to control >80% of the electricity by 2030; nanoporous materials to manipulate heat flow; enhanced boiling and condensation with nanostructured materials
• Peiwen "Perry" Li – renewable energy technologies; concentrated solar thermal power technologies; thermal energy storage; solar energy for clean water; fuel cells and electrolysis cells for electrochemical energy storage
• Farzad Mashayek – turbulent reacting flow; plasma flow; electrostatic atomization; solid ion batteries; computational methods; machine learning applications
• Vitaliy Yurkiv – multi-physics modeling and machine learning calculation of energy storage and conversion technologies; ab-initio density functional theory calculations; phase-field modeling; thermal measurements of rechargeable batteries; thermal runaway assessment in electric vehicles

Fluid Dynamics

• Stuart A. Craig – aerodynamics, experimental fluid mechanics, boundary-layer stability and transition, hydrodynamic stability
• Eniko T. Enikov – microsensors for slow-moving flows in smart implantable medical devices, development of in situ sensor calibration methods
• Hermann F. Fasel – computational fluid dynamics, hydrodynamic stability, laminar-turbulent transition, turbulent flows, flow control, nonlinear dynamics and aerodynamics
• Kyle Hanquist – hypersonics, nonequilibrium flows, molecular gas dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, low-temperature plasmas, optimization, aerothermodynamics
• Jeffrey W. Jacobs – experimental fluid mechanics; hydrodynamic instabilities, including Richtmyer-Meshkov and Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities; turbulent mixing
• Jesse Little – experimental fluid dynamics; aerodynamics; active and passive flow control of separation, mixing and noise; experimental fluid mechanics; plasma actuators; turbulent shear flows
• Farzad Mashayek – turbulent reacting flow; plasma flow; electrostatic atomization; solid ion batteries; computational methods; machine learning applications
• Bernard Parent – numerical simulations of turbulent hypersonic flows, plasmas, fuel reforming, combustion, lightning
• Sergey V. Shkarayev – aerodynamics, fluid-structure interactions and designing unmanned aerial vehicles
• Israel J. Wygnanski – aerodynamics (related to fixed-wing and rotary aircraft); control of separation, high-lift devices, and drag reduction; aeroacoustics (jet noise, cavity noise, screech)
• Yitshak Zohar – biomicrofluidics: microscale manipulation of bio-species such as proteins, cells and tissues in microfluidic systems

Solid Mechanics

• Kavan Hazeli – materials design, human-centered design, mechanical behavior of materials, multi-functional materials, failure analysis, fatigue, thermo-mechanical properties and biomaterials design and characterization
• Erdogan Madenci – prediction of deformation and failure modes in metallic and composite materials, characterization of mechanical properties of materials
• Samy Missoum – computational design, optimization, uncertainty quantification, parameter identification
• Sergey V. Shkarayev – aerodynamics, fluid-structure interactions, designing unmanned aerial vehicles
• Xiaoyi Wu – tissue engineering, biomechanics, biomaterials, computational biomaterials
• Olesya Zhupanska – mechanics of composite materials and structures; electromagnetic, thermal and mechanical multifield effects in composites; contact mechanics

Thermosciences

• Cho Lik Chan – heat transfer, materials processing, boundary element method
• Barry D. Ganapol – radiation and particle transport theory, fast reactor safety, applied mathematics, satellite remote sensing
• Kyle Hanquist – hypersonics, nonequilibrium flows, molecular gas dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, low-temperature plasmas, optimization, aerothermodynamics
• Qing Hao – nanoscale energy transport in advanced materials and nanoelectronics, materials synthesis and characterization
• Peiwen “Perry” Li – renewable energy, energy-water nexus, fuel cells, electrolyzers, hydrogen generation and storage, energy and power systems, heat mass transfer in gas turbines and HVACR systems
• Farzad Mashayek – turbulent reacting flow, plasma flow, electrostatic atomization, solid ion batteries, computational methods, machine learning applications
• Bernard Parent – numerical simulations of turbulent hypersonic flows, plasmas, fuel reforming, combustion, lightning
• Vitaliy Yurkiv – multi-physics modeling and machine learning calculation of energy storage and conversion technologies, Ab-initio density functional theory calculations, phase-field modeling, thermal measurements of rechargeable batteries, thermal runaway assessment in electric vehicles