Topics

Areas of interest

• Experimental and computational fluid mechanics (compressible and incompressible flows, rotating flows, boundary layers, jets, wakes, flow turbulence)
• Mechanical, chemical and bio-inspired engineering (industrial processes, turbo-machines, engines)
• Heat and mass transfer (thermal and convective effects, vortex enhancement, radiation)
• Multiphase and reactive flows, combustion, liquid droplets breakup
• High-speed and transient phenomena (blast waves, shock waves, explosion and detonation)
• Aerothermodynamics, plasma dynamics, particle-laden plasma flows
• Environmental flows, pollutant emission and control, clean fuel technologies, meteorology, oceanography
• Food and agricultural technologies, metallurgy, porous media
• Micro and nano-fluidics, micro-gravity flows
• Information visualization
• Medical/biological flows, musical acoustics, artistic visualization, art

Methods and Techniques

• Classical and advanced optical methods (schlieren, shadowgraph, interferometry, holography, holographic interferometry, speckle, background oriented schlieren, Talbot interferometry)
• Laser based methods (particle image velocimetry, laser induced fluorescence, molecular tagging velocimetry)
• Laser sheet imaging (smoke and particle visualization)
• Absorption/emission recording, spectroscopy
• Electronic sparks and discharges
• IR thermography, liquid crystals, pressure- and temperature-sensitive paints (PSP / TSP), acoustic microphone array
• Digital data acquisition and processing (image processing, Wavelet image analysis, image-assisted methods)
• Numerical flow visualization (computational fluid dynamics)
• Tomographic reconstruction, inverse problems in image analysis
• Machine learning and related topics in flow visualization