Expertise

Combustion; unsteady compressible gasdynamics; energy conversion; combustion engines; energy efficiency; computational fluid mechanics; heat transfer; thermodynamics; aircraft and space propulsion; biofluid mechanics; engineering education; graduate education, research administration.

Pollution control; innovative powerplants; wave rotors; combustion and turbulence modeling; ignition processes; design methodology and optimization; unsteady biofluid flow; biomedical engineering; aerospace education.

Communities
Natural Resources Conservation, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Degrees
PhD, Cornell University, Aerospace Engineering, 1994
MS, Cornell University, Mechanical Engineering, 1985
BTech, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Mechanical Engineering, 1983
Keywords
turbulence mechanical engineering fluid mechanics biomechanics aerospace engineering internal combustion engines pollution control power plants renewable energy