Research - Thermal Fluid Systems
Participating Members: R. Arimilli, A.J. Baker, K. Ekici, J. Frankel, D.K. Irick, M. Keyhani, K. Kihm, C. Lin, E. Lyne, K. Nguyen, Z. Zhang
Purpose: To address engineering issues in the area of heat transfer and fluid dynamics through a coordinated research effort that involves national laboratories, federal agencies and industry as well as the training and education of undergraduate and graduate students.
Capabilities:
Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics (points of contact as indicated below)
Deactivation of After-treatment Devices for Lean-Burn Engines (K. Nguyen)
- Deactivation of zeolite-based SCR catalysts
- Lube-oil poisoning of diesel oxidation catalysts (DOCs)
- Accelerating aging of lean NOx traps (LNTs)
- Accelerated ash loading protocol for diesel particulate filters (DPFs)
- Impact of biodiesel fuels on after-treatment devices
- Combustion and emission modeling of HCCI engines using surrogate fuels
Laser Diagnostics and Photonics (Z. Zhang)
- Laser-based plasma diagnostics: Radar REMPI
- Biomedical imaging
Micro/Nano-Scale Fluidics and Energy Transport (K. Kihm, C. Lin)
- Individual tracking of nanoparticles and vesicles
- Nanofluidic self-assembly and crystallization
- Near-field (100nm) characterization using TIRFM and SPRM
- Development of advanced optical diagnostic techniques
- Flow and heat transfer in microchannels and micronozzles (C. Lin)
- Nano particle transport (C. Lin)
Computational Fluid-Thermal Sytems
- Continuous Galerkin Methods (A. J. Baker)
- Finite Volume Methods (M. Keyhani, C. Lin)
- Spectral and pseudo-spectral methods (J. Frankel, K. Ekici)
- Turbulence Closure Issues (A. J. Baker)
- Nonlinear Frequency-domain Methods (K. Ekici)
- Parallel and High Performance Computation (K. Ekici)
- Secondary combusion in turbine (C. Lin)
Unsteady Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity (K. Ekici)
- Flutter and Forced Response in Turbomachinery
- Rotorcraft Aerodynamics
- Aerodynamic Design Optimization
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
Internal Cooling Concepts in Fusion Reactors (M. Madhukar)
- Cooling of long-stranded copper wire/polymer composite conductors
- Characterization of oven heat transfer behavior to optimize the heat cycle to cure the polymer
Sensor Development and Inverse Analysis (R. Arimilli, J. Frankel, M. Keyhani)
- Inverse heat conduction
- Parameter estimation
- Rate based sensors
Hypersonics and Reentry Studies
- Man-made bodies and meterors (E. Lyne)
- Heat flux calculations in arcjets (J. Frankel)
- Detecting transition in transient hypersonic flows (R. Arimilli, J. Frankel, M. Keyhani)
- Supersonic and hypersonic flow characterization (Z. Zhang, C. Lin)