Chemical propulsion and design methodologies

Experimental fluid dynamics
Development of flow diagnostic techniques
Flow dynamics in stratified environment
Turbulent flow measurements and modeling

Sustainable energy and environment
Combustion and turbulent reacting flows
Combustion and heat transfer in materials
Biomedical flows and heat transfer
Global policy research

Aerothermal aspects of turbomachinery
Axial and radial compressor performance
Experimental methods in fluid mechanics

Laser diagnostics
Diode-laser-based sensors
Gas turbine and internal engine combustion
Materials processing and synthesis
Combustion science
Fluid mechanics and heat transfer

Laser spectroscopy and imaging for combustion, sprays, energetics, hypersonics, plasmas, and non-equilibrium flows
Applications to gas-turbine, rocket, internal combustion, and scramjet engine performance, efficiency, and emissions
Thermal-fluid behavior at the extremes, including turbulent, high-temperature, high-pressure, multiphase, and non-equilibrium reacting flows

Compact high speed turbomachinery: Design, analysis (experimental-numerical), cavity and tip flows, flow control
High speed propulsion: Novel cycle development, intakes, boundary layer transition, combustion
Development of measurement techniques and data processing

Aerospace propulsion systems
Rocket engine combustors
Liquid propellant injection systems
Hypergolic propellants
High pressure and hydrogen storage systems

Spray and spray measurements
Fluid mechanic instability

Multiphase combustion, particularly related to propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics
Nanoscale composite energetic materials
Advanced energetic materials
Microscale combustion