This graduate thrust area involves the physical understanding, prediction, and optimization of fluid motion under a large variety of conditions.  Research and coursework embrace a wide range of topics including fluid-dynamic instabilities, incompressible and compressible turbulent flows, turbulence control, flow optimization, multiphase flows, high-speed flows, chemically reacting and other nonequilibrium flows, aeroacoustics, aero-optics, laser propagation in turbulence, fluid-solid interactions, and bio-fluid dynamics.   New theoretical frameworks, unique experimental facilities, and advanced computational codes are developed and engaged.

Participating Faculty

Professor Haris J. Catrakis 
Professor Said E. Elghobashi
Professor John C. LaRue 
Professor Feng Liu 
Professor Dimitri Papamoschou 
Professor Roger H. Rangel 
Professor William A. Sirignano