Current Faculty Research and Professional Interest
- Techniques for expanding information obtained from thermal dilution measurement of cardiac output.
- Unsteady aerodynamics, internal and external flows
- Computational fluid dynamics, finite difference methods
- Biofluid dynamics, artificial heart valves and devices
- Multiple overset grids, complex geometries
- Large scale aerodynamic applications
- U. S. Editor-in-Chief, Technology and Health Care
- Experimental and theoretical mechanics of the major joints of the human body
- Biodynamic modeling of various parts of the human body
- Orthopaedic biomechanics
- Fabrication Techniques of Carbon Nanotube Bucky Paper and Nanocomposites
- Computational Nanotechnology Using Molecular Dynamics, Dissipative
- Particle Dynamics, and Finite Element Simulations
- Biofunctionalization and Biocomposites
- Polymer Composite Manufacturing
- Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing
- Manufacturing Processes for Polymer Composite Materials (RTM, VARTM).
- Hybrid Micro-fiber/Nano-particle Composites.
- Artificial Intelligence in Process Optimization, Monitoring, and Control.
- Smart Materials.
- Transport Phenomena in Fuel Cell.
- Heat/Mass Transfer and Flow of Viscous Materials.
- Transport Phenomena in Porous Media.
- Boundary contour and symmetric-Galerkin
boundary element methods;
- Modeling the solid-phase epitaxial growth of Si-based nanofilms;
- Boundary element analysis of high-strain rate fracture of heterogeneous materials with micro- and nano-fillers;
- Finite element modeling of viscoelastic behavior of the human supraspinatus tendon
Dr. Francis M. Donovan, Jr., Professor
Dr. F. Carroll Dougherty, Assistant Professor
Dr. Ali E. Engin, Professor
Dr. Jan Gou, Assistant Professor
Dr. Kuang-Ting Hsiao, Assistant Professor
Dr. Anh-Vu Phan, Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
University of South Alabama
Engineering Classroom Bldg 212
Mobile, AL 36688
Phone: (251) 460-6168
Fax: (251) 460-6549
