Areas of Research
- Carbon Nanotubes
- Gas-Assysested Synthesis of Nanocomposites
- Laser
- Laser Ablation
- Selective Laser Melting
His research interests are related to problems that require multiscale and multi-physics computational approaches and high-performance computing, including laser-material interaction and laser processing; metal-based additive manufacturing and selective laser melting; mechanical and thermal properties of carbon nanotube-based materials and nanocomposites; rarefied and two-phase gas dynamics; and gas-assisted technologies of material fabrication.
Our current research interests include
- Gas-assisted synthesis of lightweight ceramic- and metal matrix nanocomposites.
- Mechanics, thermal transfer, and gas flows in carbon nanotube, nanofibrous, and nanoporous materials.
- Laser-material interaction, laser-induced phase transformations, laser ablation, laser plume expansion, and laser processing of materials.
- Planetary sciences: Dynamics of upper atmospheres, thermal escape, comets, Kuiper belt objects (KBOs), and exoplanets.
- Development of mesoscopic computational models for advanced nanostructured materials and microscale processes, which bridge the gap between macroscopic continuum models and atomistic simulations.
- Applications of the rarefied gas dynamics and direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method for simulations of various non-equilibrium gas flows.
- Multiphase gas-solid particle and gas-liquid flows, heat and mass transfer with applications in aerospace engineering and material processing.
- Computational fluid and gas dynamics including novel meshless computational methods for interfacial and multiphase flows.
- High-performance parallel computing.
Projects
- Entangled structures of bundles in the carbon nanotube films
- Matrix-assisted pulsed laser ablation of carbon nanotube films
- High-velocity impact interaction of a spherical projectile with the carbon nanotube film
- Transient burning of transversal jet of aluminium vapor flowing into the supersonic free stream
- Expansion of the laser plume into the supersonic free stream (laser-induced transversal jet)
- Continuous wave laser melting of metal films
- Aerodynamics interference of spheres in sub- and supersonic rarefied gas flows
- Spinning sphere in sub- and supersonic rarefied gas flows
- Laser plume expansion from a silicon wafer into an ambient gas
- Laser plume expansion from the bottom of a cylindrical cavity into an ambient gas
- Flow field around non-rotating and rotating comet nuclei
- Pulsed laser evaporation of an aerosol particle
- Effect of solid particles on the wake behind a cylinder in the dusty gas flow
- Flow of solid particles in the wake behind a cylinder at moderate Reynolds numbers
- Aerodynamic interference of cylinders at moderate Reynolds numbers
- Effect of solid particles on the shock layer structure in the supersonic dusty gas flow over a cylinder
- Effect of collisions between solid particles on the particle phase flow field in the subsonic dusty gas flow over a cylinder
