Overview

Our group deals primarily with core flow modeling.  Within that larger category, we have worked on the development of analytic and computational models of internal flowfields.  Our efforts have produced exact and asymptotic solutions of vortex flowfield; in particular those of the bidirectional vortex liquid rocket engine.  We have also explored energy based solutions of a variety of propulsive flowfields.  We have pursued novel techniques in compressible vortex flow as well as viscous corrections for liquid and hybrid rockets.

Another important area of our research is in wave propagation with respect to combustion instability.  Historically our research team has successfully modeled a variety of waves in a several applications.  Most recently these efforts have been applied toward hydrodynamic instability analysis of vortex flowfields.  We have began exploring the application of biglobal instability to address the mathematical ambiguity classic approaches tend to leave when assessing most real flows.

Lastly, we push to develop new ideas in the field of asymptotic analysis.  These efforts have developed techniques to efficiently and accurately produce solutions to many previously unsolved problems.