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.