Current projects emphasize application to green design, electric power systems, and large-scale integrated assessments. Topics include closer integration of design and analysis including automatic mesh generation, and application of computer networks, multimedia, and virtual reality to product design, analysis, and manufacturing. Heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics. Research interests in experiments in propulsion system phenomena such as turbulent heat transfer in highly disturbed flows, thermal management, and supercritical fluids. Solid mechanics, fatigue, fracture mechanics, tribology, and numerical methods.
Research focuses on why various structural components break, fatigue, or wear out.
Research concerns developing models that can predict when material will fail. New numerical techniques are often developed in the course of determining solutions. Mechanical design and artificial intelligence. Research in computational support for design with emphasis on conceptual design and design rationale capture. Developing tools to read, understand, and use rough sketches engineers commonly use to record design information.