Education
For undergraduate and graduate students
Turbomachinery Research Faculty
Dara
Childs
Director, Turbomachinery Laboratory, and
Jordan Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Rotordynamics and bearings, labyrinth seals
Kalyan
Annamalai
Paul Pepper Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Combustion, coal and biomass, animal waste, energy conversion, pollutants, fire and thermodynamics
Dr. Annamalai's personal website
Paul
Cizmas
Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Propulsion,
unsteady aerodynamics and heat transfer,
computational fluid dynamics
fluid-solid interaction,
massive parallel processing
Dr. Cizmas personal website
Je-Chin
Han
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering
and holder of the Marcus C. Easterling Chair
Heat transfer augmentation for turbine blade cooling, heat transfer in rotating flows, heat transfer and film cooling in unsteady high free-stream turbulent flows, turbine edge cooling, and mini-scale heat transfer; advanced gas turbine heat transfer and cooling technology in aircraft and industrial gas turbine engines
Hong Liang
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Surface properties-behavior relations, (nano)tribology, tribochemistry,
materials and coatings for extreme environments, bio-nano-interface, biomaterials, nanomanufacturing, chemical-mechanical planarization, and piezoelectric sensors
Dr. Liang personal website
Gerald
L. Morrison
Nelson-Jackson Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Fluid mechanics and heat transfer, turbulence, acoustics, flow instabilities, flow induced noise, turbomachinery, pumps, compressors, computerized data acquisition and analysis, laser anemometry, labyrinth seals
Alan
B. Palazzolo
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Rotordynamics, magnetic bearings, active vibration and noise control, fluid film bearings, vibrations, finite and boundary elements, seal and impeller leakage flow, piping systems, machine design, flywheels, machinery couplings, expert systems, microgravity vibration isolation, electromechanical systems
Alexander Parlos
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Machine condition assessment and end-of-life prediction; intelligent control for machine life extension; distributed sensing and intelligent control for system life extension; adaptive modeling and flow control of distributed real-time applications; neural networks for dynamic system estimation and control; biologically inspired learning and anomaly detection algorithms
Dr. Parlos personal website
Eric Petersen
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Ignition and combustion of fuel blends at gas turbine engine pressures and temperatures; investigation of laminar flame speeds of fuel blends at elevated pressuers; physics of shock tubes, shock waves, and gas dynamics in reacting flows; high-temperature chemical kinetics and spectroscopy; advanced additives for composite solid propellants; nanoparticle additives for enhancing the performance of liquid fuels
Luis
A. San Andres
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Analysis, design and testing of fluid film bearings and gas bearings and seals for oil-free turbomachinery, rotordynamics of turbomachinery, structural vibrations, computational mechanics
Dr. San Andres personal website
Taher
M. Schobeiri
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Experimental and theoretical investigations of flow within turbomachinery components, analysis of dynamic behavior of turbomachinery systems, turbine performance, labyrinth seals
Stuart
L. Scott
Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering, holder of the John E. '74 and Deborah F. '76 Bethancourt Professorship in Petroleum Engineering
Multiphase pumping and wet-gas compression, multiphase modeling and metering
Each researcher has a faculty appointment in an engineering department and in addition to research, teaches classes.
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To view resumes of graduate students working with the faculty, click HERE.