Faculty Interests
| Faculty | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Austin, Joanna M. | Combustion, fluid mechanics, gas dynamics, hypersonics, detonation, experimental fluid mechanics |
| Bergman, Lawrence A. | Linear and nonlinear structural dynamics and control, stochastic dynamics, nonlinear system identification, smart structures, vibration-based energy harvesting |
| Bodony, Daniel J. | Aeroacoustics, computational fluid mechanics, fluid-structure interaction |
| Bragg, Michael B. | Aerodynamics, flight mechanics, aircraft icing, unsteady aerodynamics |
| Bretl, Timothy W. | Aerospace information technology, systems, and control with a focus on robotics and autonomous vehicles |
| Buckmaster, John D., Emeritus | Combustion, fluid mechanics, applied mathematics |
| Burton, Rodney L., Emeritus | Electric and advanced chemical rocket propulsion, hypersonic flows, hypervelocity accelerators |
| Chasiotis, Ioannis | Experimental mechanics at the nanoscale; mechanical reliability, fracture, and fatigue of MEMS and thin film materials. |
| Chew, Huck Beng | Multi-scale modeling and simulations; nano and micromechanics of materials; fracture mechanics |
| Christensen, Kenneth, MechSe | Experimental fluid mechanics, turbulence microfluidics, bio-fluid dynamics, multiphase flows |
| Chung, Soon-Jo | Aerospace systems, autonomous systems, robotics, and nonlinear control theory |
| Conway, Bruce A. | Celestial mechanics, optimal control |
| Coverstone, Victoria | Space mission design, optimal spacecraft trajectories, attitude control |
| Dutton, J. Craig | Experimental studies of high-speed separated and mixing flows including jets, shear layers, base flows and shock-wave/boundary layer in interactions; optical diagnostic methods |
| Elliott, Gregory L. | Thermal and fluid sciences; experimental fluid mechanics with an emphasis on laser-based diagnostic techniques |
| Freund, Jonathan B. | Aerodynamic sound, compressible turbulence, numerical methods, large-scale parallel computing, molecular dynamics simulation of nanometer scale flows and heat transfer in solids |
| Gao, Grace Xingxin | Systems, signals and control with a focus on satellite navigation and autonomous vehicles |
| Geubelle, Philippe | Theoretical and computational solid mechanics, (dynamic) fracture mechanics, computational aeroelasticity, massively parallel computing, computational design of novel materials |
| Hilton, Harry H., Emeritus | Solid mechanics, viscoelasticity, composites, structures, dynamics, numerical analysis, computer-aided engineering, aeroelasticity, structural control |
| Hovakimyan, Naira, MechSe | Nonlinear systems and adaptive control with particular emphasis on aerospace systems |
| Jackson, Thomas, CSE | Development of ROCFIRE |
| Lambros, John | Static and dynamic fracture mechanics |
| Langbort, Cedric | Aerospace information technology; control, optimization, and design of distributed systems |
| Lee, Ki D. | Computational fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, transonic flows, vortex flows, design optimization |
| Loth, Eric | Experimental and computational studies of supersonic flow and two-phase flow, propulsion fluid dynamics |
| Miley, George, NRPE/ECE | Fusion systems, plasma engineering, reactor kinetics, high voltage technology, nuclear pumped lasers, direct energy conversion, hydrogen energy production, low energy nuclear reactions in solids |
| Namachchivaya, N. Sri | Nonlinear and Random Dynamical Systems, stability and bifurcation theory, filtering and estimation, homogenization & multi-scale modeling |
| Panesi, Marco, | Hypersonics, Non-equilibrium Chemistry and Radiation, Weakly Ionized Plasmas, Plasma Assisted Combustion, Uncertainty Quantification, Computational Fluid Mechanics |
| Phillips, James W., MechSe | Biomechanics |
| Prussing, John E., Emeritus | Orbital mechanics, spacecraft trajectories, optimal control |
| Salapaka, Srinivasa, MechSe | Atomic force microscopy and combinatorial optimization |
| Selig, Michael S. | Computational and experimental aerodynamics; airfoil design and analysis; wind energy systems; aircraft design, performance, stability and control |
| Solomon, Wayne C., Emeritus | Gas-phase kinetics, air-breathing and rocket propulsion |
| Sottos, Nancy R., MatSe | Development of autonomic materials systems |
| Vakakis, Alexander F., MechSe | Linear and nonlinear vibrations of structures, diagnosis and prognosis of faults in mechanical systems, experimental dynamics, structural wave propogation, dynamical modeling of the human joint |
| Voulgaris, Petros G. | Hierarchical, distributed and multi-agent control, robust and multi-objective control and estimation, applications of control and estimation theory to communication systems, analysis and synthesis of time varying and adaptive systems, applications of advanced control methods to engineering systems |
| White, Scott R. | Adaptive, autonomic, and self-regulating materials and material systems |
