Research Areas

• Combustion science: experimental and theoretical characterization of combustion processes; laser diagnostics of turbulent reacting flows; control of combustion processes using fluid dynamics; three-dimensional data visualization.
• Fluid mechanics of combustion processes; direct numerical simulations of turbulent combustion; combustion driven acoustic instabilities; reactive gas dynamic phenomena in explosions and detonations.
• Fluid mechanics: co-existing rotational and acoustic flow fields in internal shear flows; solidification phenomena; heat transfer; hydrodynamic stability; cardiopulmonary fluid dynamics.
• Photochemical air quality modeling: effects on urban air quality of alternative fuels for motor vehicles; effects on the upper troposphere of subsonic aircraft.
• Indoor air quality and exposure assessment:  experimental characterization of engineering controls for reducing pollutant concentrations; field measurements of air pollutants and exposure from combustion processes; multivariate statistical methods for apportioning sources of air pollutant exposure; dynamic bioaerosol experiments.