 | | Heat transfer, two-phase systems, mechanics of aerosols, adhesion of solids. |
 | | Fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer.
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 | | Control Systems, Nonlinear Control with applications to Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Inteligent Transportation Systems, Fault Diagnosis of Complex Engineering systems. |
 | | Conditioned Based Maintenance (CBM) and Health Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS), High order finite elements: the hp-version and Fracture mechanics. |
 | | Gas dynamics, fluid mechanics, shock wave phenomena, penetration hydrodynamic instabilities. |
 | | Mechanics of multi-scale composite materials, nano-mechanics, structural mechanics of hard biological tissues, mechanical elements in arthropod cuticle, shape morphing of plant tissues, bio-inspired materials |
 | | Solid mechanics: nonlinear composites in finite deformations, active polymers, mechanics of soft biological tissues. Vibration analysis and predictive maintenance. |
 | | Medical robotics, bioinspired robotics, millisystems and rapid prototyping, robot and flexible surface interactions, theoretical kinematics, and under-actuated mechanisms. |
 | | Thermal and mechanical properties of matter, shock wave physics. |
 | | Computational and experimental biomechanics, generalized fracture mechanics, high order finite element methods, nonlinear solid mechanics. |
 | | Nano and Micro electromechanical systems (NEMS/MEMS), nano-materials, image processing techniques in experimental mechanics. |
 | | Estimation and control, Filtering theory, Information processing in autonomous systems, Complex and multi-agent systems, Natural and unconventional computation. |
 | | Multiphase phenomena; Multiphase flow; Transport phenomena in multiphase media; Mass, momentum and heat transfer; Transport systems; Pneumatic conveying; Numerical methods; Shock wave interaction with porous, granular and cellular materials; Drying; Development of absorption heat pump. |
 | | Plasma physics, fluid mechanics. |
 | | Micro and nano optics with applications mainly in solar power conversion. |
 | | Fluid mechanics, Non-Newtonian flows, Buoyancy-driven Viscous flows, Ice-Sheet dynamics. |
 | | Computational fluid dynamics, specifically parallel and high performance scientific computing of laminar (DNS) and turbulent (LES, RANS) flows. Immersed boundary method. Fluid-structure interactions. Flow control. Linear stability analysis of confined shear and thermally driven flows. Pressure-velocity coupled CFD. Multigrid approach. Micro-hydrodynamics and lubrication. |
 | | Composite structures, poroelastic structures, viscoelastic structures, stability of structures. |
 | | Two-phase flows, pneumatic conveying systems, characterization of particulate solids, handling of bulk solids. |
 | | Continuum mechanics, robotics, theory of vibrations. |
 | | Shock wave in unsteady flows; Shock wave interaction with complex geometry; Turbulent mixing (Kelvin-Helmholtz, Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmeyer-Meskov instabilities); Penetration; Protective structures. |
 | | Stochastic and deterministic optimal control and estimation with application to aerospace systems. Fault-tolerant control, Spacecraft attitude and dynamics, Guidance and navigation of vehicles. |
 | | Nonlinear dynamics and stochastic analysis, Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI), Vortex-induced vibration (VIV), Nano and Micro electromechanical systems (N/MEMS). |
 | | Conducting research on motion planning and control of mobile robots. |
 | | Forces at the solid-liquid interface; Wetting phenomena, Intermolecular forces; Tribology; Instrumentation in Material science; Marangoni flow ; colloidal stabilization and coagulation; Adhesion; Super hydrophobicity. |
