Areas of interest
- Experimental and computational fluid mechanics (compressible and incompressible flows, rotating flows, boundary layers, jets, wakes, flow turbulence)
- Mechanical, chemical and bio-inspired engineering (industrial processes, turbo-machines, engines)
- Heat and mass transfer (thermal and convective effects, vortex enhancement, radiation)
- Multiphase and reactive flows, combustion, liquid droplets breakup
- High-speed and transient phenomena (blast waves, shock waves, explosion and detonation)
- Aerothermodynamics, plasma dynamics, particle-laden plasma flows
- Environmental flows, pollutant emission and control, clean fuel technologies, meteorology, oceanography
- Food and agricultural technologies, metallurgy, porous media
- Micro and nano-fluidics, micro-gravity flows
- Medical/biological flows, musical acoustics, artistic visualization, art
Methods and Techniques
- Classical and advanced optical methods (schlieren, shadowgraph, interferometry, holography, holographic interferometry, speckle, background oriented schlieren, Talbot interferometry)
- Laser based methods (particle image velocimetry, laser induced fluorescence, molecular tagging velocimetry)
- Laser sheet imaging (smoke and particle visualization)
- Absorption/emission recording, spectroscopy
- Electronic sparks and discharges
- IR thermography, liquid crystals, pressure and temperature sensitive paints, acoustic microphone array
- Digital data acquisition and processing (image processing, Wavelet image analysis, image-assisted methods)
- Numerical flow visualization (computational fluid dynamics)
- Tomographic reconstruction, inverse problems in image analysis
