Aaron Ames
Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2006 Research Interests: hybrid systems, dynamical systems and control, mechanics and robotics, complexity and fragility, algebraic topology and homology, hybrid system implementation, and embedded and networked systems.
N. K. Anand
Professor & Assistant Dean, Graduate Programs Ph.D., Purdue University, 1983 Research Interests: condensation heat transfer, numerical heat transfer and fluid flow, numerical techniques, heat exchangers, porous media, and aerosols.
Malcolm Andrews
Professor Ph.D., Imperial College, England, 1986
Ray Bowen Professor & President Emeritus Sara & John H. Lindsey ‘44 Chair Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1961 Research Interests: continuum mechanics and applied mathematics.
Jerald Caton Thomas A. Dietz Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980 Research Interests: internal combustion engines, modeling engine and combustion processes and thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics and fundamental and applied combustion topics.
Dara Childs Regents Professor & Leland T. Jordan Chair Ph.D., University of Texas Austin, 1968
Research Interests: computational fluid dynamics and heat and mass transfer, development of materials for controlled release strategies in medicine and agriculture, and detailed measurements of turbulence in Rayleigh-Taylor mixing.
Research Interests: design of generic new operating devices and systems, including patents; invention disclosures; software systems in use in industry or elsewhere.
Kalyan Annamalai
David Claridge Leland T. Jordan Professor Ph.D., Stanford University, 1976
G. Paul Pepper Professor Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1975 Research Interests: combustion, coal and biomass, animal waste, energy conversion, pollutants, fire and thermodynamics.
Research Interests: monitoring and analyzing energy use, expert system applications in buildings, and energy accounting and management.
Raymundo ArrĂłyave Assistant Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004
Terry Creasy Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1997
Research Interests: computational thermodynamics and kinetics of materials and development of phase field methods to describe the time evolution of microstructures.
Research Interests: synthetic multifunctional materials, nastic materials for active structures, nanoscale/microscale properties of materials, and equal channel angular extrusion of polymer matrix composites.
Debjyoti Banerjee Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1999
Swaroop Darbha Associate Professor Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 1994
Research Interests: multi-phase flow and heat transfer (boiling), microfluidics, nanotechnology, thermal and fluid sciences: multi-phase flows and heat transfer (boiling), and micro-scale heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics.
Research Interests: dynamics and control of large scale systems with applications to modeling and control of traffic flow and collections of unmanned vehicles; diagnostics and control of air brake systems in trucks.
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