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The Thermal Fluid Science Group is one of four divisions within WSU's Department of Mechanical Engineering. We have five highly qualified faculty members who have broad expertise in the areas of heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, combustion, fuels, propulsion and micro-scale energy systems.

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We have the computational power and modern laboratory equipment that allow us to perform leading edge research in the thermal fluid sciences. Many of our research efforts are multi-disciplinary and our faculty generally have expertise in more than one area. We perform fundamental research and also work with industry to solve problems arising in to-day's rapidly advancing technologies.

This web site provides you with information about our research programs, computational and experimental facilities, and our outstanding faculty and students.

 

Research Facilities

Remote Access Laboratory

Fuel Tank Test Facility

CFD Laboratory

Heat Transfer Laboratory

 

Projects

Fuel Tank Safety

Remote Access Laboratory

Microgravity Combustion

Plasma Processing of Nanostructured Materials

 

Faculty

Ikram Ahmed - Assistant Professor

  • Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing; Computational Fluid Dynamics & Heat Transfer; Computational Techniques in Complex Geometries

David N. Koert - Associate Professor

  • Fuel Tank Safety, Combustion, Combustion Chemistry, Propulsion, Fuels, Fire Safety

T. S. Ravigururajen - Associate Professor

  • Microscale heat transfer, HVAC, BIO-MEMS, Biothermal

Kurt Soschinske - Assistant Professor

  • Fluid dynamics, thermal science, computational fluid dynamics, acoustics, noise control, multidisciplinary design, undergraduate laboratory development

Dennis Siginer - Professor

  • Continuum mechanics, fluid mechanics, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, rheology, heat transfer with non-Newtonian and in particular viscoelastic liquids, fluid mechanics in microgravity

 

Group Meetings

Fridays at 3:00 PM in EB101K

Upcoming Seminars:

  • Lucas Vargas - 3/19

  • Spring Recesses - 3/26

  • Prof. Ravi - 4/2

Recent Presentations:

  • Panu Phutthawong - 3/12

 

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