Area Of Interests

THERMAL SCIENCES

• Computer design of heat exchangers
• Computational fluid mechanics
• Indoor building flow simulation
• Computational techniques for thermodynamic property and cycle evaluation
• Solar heating and cooling systems
• Ground coupled heat pumps
• Computer simulation of thermal systems

MECHANICS & MATERIALS

•  Development of computer-based data acquisition systems for use with computer-vision measurements in solid and bio-mechanics
• Scattered waves in ultrasonic testing
• Fracture mechanic problems
• Boundary integral and finite-element analysis in solid mechanics
• Composite and polymer materials research
• High strain rate material and weld behavior
• Impact mechanics -- testing and modeling
• Computational welding mechanics
• Adaptive materials and smart structures

MANUFACTURING

• Robot dynamics and control
• Feedback control of nonlinear dynamic systems
• Plastics processing
• Metrology workcell control
• Concurrent engineering formula
• Design methodologies
• Welding and joining issues in manufacturing process