CURRENT FACULTY RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL INTEREST


 

    Dr. Francis M. Donovan, Jr., Professor

    • Techniques for expanding information obtained from thermal dilution measurement of cardiac output.

    Dr. F. Carroll Dougherty, Assistant Professor

    • 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

    Dr. Ali E. Engin, Professor

    • 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

    Dr. Jan Gou, Assistant Professor

    • 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

    Dr. Kuang-Ting Hsiao, Assistant Professor

    • 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.

    Dr. Anh-Vu Phan, Assistant Professor

    • 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
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