Principal Investigators

Principle Investigator	Department(s)	Research Area / Project
Allen, Roland E	Physics	Interaction of Light with Organic and Biological Molecules, and Materials
Balbuena, Perla B	Chemical Eng	Characterization of Materials for Catalysis in Current Power Sources (eg. fuel cells, lithium-ion batteries)
Banerjee, Debjyoti	Mechanical Eng	Modeling Fluid Flow on the Micro and Nano Scale Studying Solid Mechanics of Deformation of Micro-Cantilevers for Scanning-Probe Nanolithography
Benzerga, Amine A	Aerospace Eng	Computational Dislocation Dynamics for Predicting Strength and Fracture in Crystalline Solids
Cagin, Tahir	Chemical Eng	Designing Computationally Engineered Functional Materials
Chang, Ping	Oceanography	Development of Global and Regional Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Models for the Study of Climate Variability and Predictability
Chen, Hamn C	Civil Eng	Development and Applications of Chimera Finite-Analytic Navier-Stokes (FANS) and CHimera finite-Analytic Method for Potential-flow Solver (CHAMPS) for Time-Domain Simulation of Three-Dimensional Flow Around Complex Configurations
Cheng, Zheng D	Chemical Eng	Multiphase Flow in Microfluidic Chanicals
Cizmas, Paul G	Aerospace Eng	Understand Fundamental Physical, Multi-Disciplinary Interactions Governing Aircraft Aeroelastic Applications Develop High-Fidelity Computational Methodologies for the Unique Physics Explore Vehicle Concepts to Achieve Key Performance Requirements
Cote, Gerard L	Biomedical Eng	Simulating the Optical Properties of Arbitrary Shaped Nanoparticles
Culp, Charles H, III	Architecture	Measuring Pressure Drops in Flexible Air-Conditioning Ducts Using CFD
Ford, David M	Chemical Eng	Simulating Large Atomistic Models of Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites
Fry, Gary T	Civil Eng
Girimaji, Sharath S	Aerospace Eng	Large Scale CFD Simulations of Turbulence
Kim R Dunbar	Chemistry	Discovery and Prediction of Systematic Trends in the Structure and Reactivity of Inorganic, Organometallic, and Bioinorganic Systems
Han, Je C	Mechanical Eng	Simulation of Flow and Heat Transfer in Real Gas Turbine Engine Conditions
Holtzapple, Mark T	Chemical Eng	Optimizing the Shape of a Jet Ejector
Hughbanks, Timothy R	Chemistry	Solid State Chemistry of Metal-Rich Cluster Compounds
Kamon, Teruki	Physics	Studying Collisions of Two Hadrons or Two Leptons Using Large-Scale Detectors
Kattawar, George W	Physics	Calculation of the Complete Phase Matrix for Elcectromegnetic Scattering From Irregular Particles by the Finite-Difference Time Domain Method
Keblis, Matthew F	Business Administration	An Auction-Based Approach to the Staffing of Virtual Call Centers
Laane, Jaan	Chemistry	Computing Potential Energy Surfaces of Molecules Using Spectroscopic Data
Liwang, Andy C	Biochemistry	Using Ab Initio Quantum Mechanical Calculations to Investigate Differences Between RNA and DNA Hydrogen Bonds
Lucchese, Robert R	Chemistry	Molecular Photoionization Intermolecular Interactions
Mahapatra, Rabinarayan	Computer Science	Simulation of TCAM Based Cache Architecture
Moreira, Rosana G	Biological & Agricultural Eng	Improving Safety of Complex Food Items using Electron Beam Technology
Muliana, Hanifah	Mechanical Eng	Developing a Multi-Scale Material and Structural Modeling Framework
North, Jerry R	Atmospheric Sciences	Assessment of Climate Sensitivity Using Climate Models
North, Simon W	Chemistry	Using High Level Quantum Chemical Calculations to Infer Energetics and Molecular Properties
Reddy, Junuthula N	Mechanical Eng	Developing Finite Element Methods for the Numerical Solution of Problems in Fluid and Solid Mechanics
Rhode, David L	Mechanical Eng	Developing CFD Codes to Predict Leakage, Heat Transfer, and Vibration Characteristics of Labyrinth Seals Found in Turbomachinery
Richard, Jacques C	Aerospace Eng	Simulation of SkyMaster Aircraft Components
Russell, David H	Chemistry	Characterization of Gas-Phase Peptide and Protein Ion Structure Investigation of Gas-Phase Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mechanism in Peptides Transition Metal-Ligand Interactions Radical Cation Interactions
Saravanan, Ramalingam	Atmospheric Sciences	Simulation of Long-Term Climate Variability in the Tropics Using the Community Atmospheric Model (CAM3)
Seminario, Jorge M	Chemical Eng	Calculation of Electronic Charcateristics of Metal, Seniconduct, Insulator Systems Connected to Organic and Inorganic Molecules
Singleton, Daniel A	Chemistry	Understanding Reactivity and Selectivity in Organic Chemistry
Talreja, Ramesh R	Aerospace Eng	Numerical Simulation of Crack Initiation and Growth from Manufacturing Induced Void in Polymer Composite
Toback, David	Physics	Collider Physics
Whitcomb, John D	Aerospace Eng	Numerical Simulations of Composite Material Behaviour