Aerospace Engineering

  • High order method development, including spectral volume, spectral difference and discontinuous Galerkin methods
  • Computational hypersonic heating (Zoby's method, MEIT method, x-based method, fin heating)
  • Moving body simulations, including using overset grid methods
  • Adaptive Cartesian and prism grid generation
  • Parallel adaptive mesh refinement
  • Parallel programming for large systems
  • HPC, optimization techniques for multicore and many core architectures. 
  • Preconditioning techniques including implicit LU_SGS, multigrid methods etc
  • Fluid-structure interaction
  • Radiation modelling (mainly diffusion approximation)
  • Korteweg-de Vries equation modelling
  • Simplified explosion modelling (TNT, C4)

 

Computational Medicine and Biology

  • Developed Q3D, a fast, robust formulation to model the transport in biological cylindrical networks like the human vascular system, lymphatic network, neurons with a network of dendrites, and axons, microfluidic channels in biochips, and the lung airways. 
  • Optimized drug delivery using high fidelity  and Quasi-3D (Q3D) computational methods : for nasal and oral deliveries.
  • Spatially accurate drug absorption using Q3D computational methods (faster than traditional CFD methods, by a factor of 20000) for oral-inhalation and oral based drug deliveries. 
  • Pharmacokinetics
  • "Organ on Chip" modelling
  • Whole body anatomy modelling using compartmental modelling
  • Euler Lagrangian particle transport on unstructured "dirty" concave meshes, in quasi-3D wire meshes
  • Optimization techniques for physiology

 

Others/Interdisciplinary

  • Modelling the effects of directed energy (Laser, RF waves)
  • Elastohydrodynamics
  • Modelling of semiconductor devices