Projects:

Current projects include:

Unsteady deflagrative and detonative combustion in wave rotor devices for highly efficient aircraft and commercial power turbine engines using pulsed press-gain combustion instead of pressure-depleting steady-flow combustion.

Enabling seal design and evaluation experiments for wave rotor devices.

Detailed and simplified computer simulations of unsteady gas dynamics and wave rotor flows with combustion.

Experimental demonstration of combustion-generated noise.

Past projects include:

Smart cooling systems for future diesel engines that require high levels of cooled exhaust gas recirculation for low NOx emissions.

Waste heat-to-power application for heavy duty truck diesel engines.

Effect of oxygen enhancement and gravity on laminar flames with a view to application in spacecraft and terrestrial fire safety.