PERC: Faculty Members

Marc Carpino (M.E.):
Mechanical systems, machine design, tribology, advanced computer aided engineering tools.

Robert M. Edwards (Nuc.E.):
Power plant simulation/control; application of artificial intelligence/expert systems to power plant operations.

Daniel C. Haworth (M.E.)
Computational thermal-fluids sciences, information technology, biotechnology, advanced transportation systems, and K-12 education.

Kenneth K. Kuo (M.E.):
Combustion, two-phase reacting flows, rocket propulsion, combustion and ignition of energetic materials, ballistics, and combustion diagnostics and modeling.

Michael M. Micci (A.E.):
Chemical and electric propulsion, combustion stability.

Domenic A. Santavicca (M.E.):
Spark ignition, fuel-air mixing, NOx and UHC emissions, turbulent flame propagation, combustion instability, droplet-turbulence interactions and laser diagnostics, particularly as they apply to combustion in spark ignition and diesel engines and gas turbine combustors.

Robert J. Santoro (M.E.):
Combustion and fire science, soot formation, spray and atomization phenomena, rocket propulsion, gas turbine and Diesel engine studies.

Kendra Sharp (M.E.):
Microfluidics, multi-phase flows, fuel cells, optical diagnostics for fluid flow (PIV, stereo PIV, micro-PIV), micro power sources.

Stephen R. Turns (M.E.):
Pollutant formation and control in combustion systems, combustion engines, combustion instrumentation, radiation heat transfer, slurry fuel combustion.

Vigor Yang (M.E.):
Combustion, propulsion, fluid mechanics, acoustics, control.

Richard Yetter (ME):
Combustion/environmental science, combustion chemistry, heterogeneous combustion, materials synthesis, propellant combustion, combustion generated pollutants, atmospheric plume chemistry, chemical processing.

Sven G. Bilén (E.E.):
Electrodynamic tethers and electric propulsion, plasma diagnostics.