Research Areas
- Alternative Energy Utilization in Buildings
- Microscale Heat Transfer Enhancement
- Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Porous Media
- Frost Growth on Cold Surfaces
- Wind Turbine Aerodynamics under Icing Condition
- Convective Melting under Gravity or Microgravity Conditions
- Thin Film Phase Change Heat Transfer
- Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications
- Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow for Truck Coolers
- Overhauling Tires for Fuel Efficiency
- Renewable Bioproducts for Raw Building Materials
Research activities include:
- Energy auditing and computational modeling for net-zero energy building performance
- Testing of energy efficient mechanical equipment such as heat exchangers
- Alternative energy utilization through demonstration
- Assessment of effects of green building practice on the economic aspects of construction
- Engineering new structural materials out of eco-friendly biomass composites.