Areas of Research
- Combustion
- Thermal Systems
As the Robert F. Barfield Endowed Chair, Agrawal works to advance his research in areas such as combustion and fluid flow in power generation, propulsion and space systems, and work in environmentally benign energy utilization.
Agrawal’s teaching and research center around energy efficiency and utilization. His current research and teaching interests are:
- Combustion and fluid flow in microgravity
- Combustion and fluid flow in gas turbine systems
- Lean premixed , hydrogen-enriched and alternate fuels
- Combustion inside porous materials, auto-ignition, and combustion control
- Quantitative Rainbow Schlieren Deflectometry for optical diagnostics
- Applied computational fluid dynamics
- Design of thermal fluid systems
Research:
- Basic and applied research in combustion, heat transfer, and fluid flows. Present focus is on advanced combustion concepts for power generation, propulsion, and industry to achieve
- high thermal efficiency,
- low-emissions, and
- fuel flexibility.
Research
- Experimental Investigation of Noise and Thermoacoustic Instabilities in Low-Emission, High-Efficiency Combustion Systems for Aviation
- Supercritical fuel-air mixing at the injector exit for diesel conditions
- Time-resolved measurements of the unsteady flow field in a rotating detonation engine (RDE)
- Combustion diagnostics to co-optimize Advanced Compression Ignition (ACI) engines
- Flow-blurring (FB) atomization for low-emission combustion of liquid biofuel
