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