Research Interests:
Combustion and Fire Science, soot formation, spray and atomization phenomena, rocket propulsion, gas turbine and Diesel engine studies.

Research Centers: Propulsion Engineering Research Center

• Oxygen Rich Rocket Combustor Technology
• An Experimental Study of Characteristic Combustion-Driven Flow for CFD Validation
• High Pressure Combustion Studies Under Combustion-Driven Oscillatory Flow Conditions
• The Formation of Metal Oxide Particles in Reacting Flows
• Detailed Studies of Soot Formation in Laminar Diffusion Flames For Application To Modeling Studies
• Chemical Mechanistic Approaches For the Suppression of Soot Formation in The Combustion of High Energy Density Fuels
• Combustion Instability Studies For Application to Low Emissions, High Performance Land-Based Gas Turbine Research
• Fuel Composition Effects On Soot Particle Surface Reactivity
• Main Chamber and Preburner Injector Technology

• Synthesis of Composite Particles By Liquid Aerosol Thermolysis