The Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory was established in 1986 within the Department of Mechanical Engineering to conduct research and develop software in the areas of computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer.

  The laboratory is supported through a number of research grants. Current research projects include the finite element and finite volume solution of three-dimensional flow problems; high speed compressible flow calculations for internal and external flows; unsteady flow computations; moving body flows with unstructured meshes; parallel computing; load balancing for parallel computing on parallel processors and network of workstations; and high-performance grid computing.

  Other research projects include the design and simulation of pulse detonation engine and wave rotor non-steady flow cycle; transient flow and combustion calculations; solid-fluid interactions; CFD simulations of pharmaceutical processes; and multi-scale modeling of fuel cells.