 | | Shock wave in unsteady flows; Shock wave interaction with complex geometry; Turbulent mixing (Kelvin-Helmholtz, Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmeyer-Meskov instabilities); Penetration; Protective structures. |
 | | Control Systems, Nonlinear Control with applications to Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Inteligent Transportation Systems, Fault Diagnosis of Complex Engineering systems. |
 | | Biophysics and Cellular Biomechanics. Jamming and Unjamming transitions in epithelial cells. Mechanical inhibition of cellular proliferation.
We experimentally study multicellular mechanical features of epithelial cells, as they relate to collective cellular migration, wound healing, and cancer invasion. |
 | | 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. |
 | | Conditioned Based Maintenance (CBM) and Health Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS), High order finite elements: the hp-version and Fracture mechanics. |
 | | Stochastic and deterministic optimal control and estimation with application to aerospace systems. Fault-tolerant control, Spacecraft attitude and dynamics, Guidance and navigation of vehicles. |
 | | Solid mechanics: nonlinear composites in finite deformations, active polymers, mechanics of soft biological tissues. Vibration analysis and predictive maintenance. |
 | | 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. |
 | | Advanced water and wastewater treatment, Alternative energy sources, Circular economy, Climate change mitigation, Energy-efficient separation, Ultrafiltration |
 | | Fluid Mechanics: Electrokinetics and Nanofluidics.
Our groups conducts theoretical modeling, numerical simulations,and experiments. |
 | | 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. |
 | | Embedded autonomy, morphological computation, soft robotics, fluid-structure interactions, and reduced-order modeling. |
 | | •Physical Artificial Intelligence (PAI); digital and physical AI; PAI robots.
•Materials, design and advanced manufacturing of functional systems.
•Soft robots; soft actuation, sensing, and computation.
•Biohybrid robots; green energy; circular robot economy.
•Sustainable and symbiotic human-robot-nature ecosystems.
•Social interaction of machines and systems possessing physical AI. |
 | | Interfacial phenomena
Wearable cooling
Tribology |
 | | Heat transfer, two-phase systems, mechanics of aerosols, adhesion of solids. |
