Hypersonic Flow Simulation
Exploration of a new concept for improving the quality of flow simulation in high-Mach number test facilities. [Professor Hakkinen]

Skin Friction on Wind Tunnel Models and Flight Vehicles
Development, evaluation and calibration of experimental techniques for determination of magnitude and direction of surface shear stress in laminar and turbulent boundary layers under general flow conditions. [Professor Hakkinen]

Flow Control
Numerical study of the influence of synthetic jets on drag reduction by separation control in transonic flow and on vectoring control of a propulsive jet. [Professor Agarwal in collaboration with Dr. William Bower and Dr. Andrew Cary of Boeing Co.]

Application of robust H-infinity control theory to study the control of transition in complex (polymer) fluid flows. [Professor Agarwal in collaboration with Professor Sureshkumar of the Chemical Engineering Department]
Flow control with the application of a magnetic field. [Professor Agarwal]

Flows in Continuum-Transition Regime
Development and application of higher-order continuum equations of fluid dynamics, namely the Burnett equations, to compute the flows at moderate Knudsen numbers that occur in hypersonic regime at high altitudes as well as in microdevices. [Professor Agarwal]

Computational Magneto-hydrodynamics
Development of 2-D and 3-D electro-magneto-hydrodynamics codes to evaluate the concepts of supersonic drag reduction and by-pass propulsion for scramjets. Development and application of explicit and implicit kinetic schemes, vorticity confinement methods, and turbulence models for MHD flows, MHD flow control. [Professor Agarwal]

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Numerical methods for the solution of Euler and Navier-Stokes equations, in particular the kinetic schemes and the vorticity confinement method. Convergence acceleration techniques. Turbulence modeling. Parallel computing. [Professor Agarwal]

Computational Aeroacoustics (CAA)
Solution of acoustics equations (Euler equations linearized about the mean flow) using compact higher-order schemes. Novel farfield boundary conditions. Applications to acoustic scattering, propagation, and radiation problems. [Professor Agarwal]

Computational Electromagnetics (CEM)
Development and application of Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the solution of Maxwell equations to compute the electromagnetic scattering from complex objects. Formulation of novel farfield radiation condition and material surface boundary conditions. [Professor Agarwal]

• Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
  

• Ramesh Agarwal
• Raimo Hakkinen - Aerodynamics, Experimental Methods in Fluid Dynamics, Hypersonic Flow Simulation, Skin Friction on Wind Tunnel Models and Flight Vehicles