Automotive, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Faculty

Research topics:

• Bluff body/ground vehicle aerodynamics
• Turbulent flows and jets
• Vehicle and battery thermal analyses
• Sustainable energy systems

Research topics:

• Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
• Digital Manufacturing
• Precision Manufacturing
• Measurement Uncertainty. 3D Coordinate Metrology
• Additive Manufacturing and Rapid Prototyping of sculptured Surfaces
• Manufacturing surface integrity
• Surface quality
• Surface tribology
• Reverse Engineering. Surface Reconstruction
• Structural design optimization
• Topology optimization
• FEA-Based design optimization

Research topics:

• Drying
• Energy and exergy analyses
• Energy conversion and management
• Heat and mass transfer
• Hydrogen and fuel cell systems
• Refrigeration
• Renewable energies
• Thermal energy storage
• Thermodynamics

Research topics:

• Aircraft landing dynamics
• Articulated heavy vehicles
• Bus testing and simulation
• Crash testing and simulations
• High-velocity impact and ballistics simulation
• Multi wheels military vehicles dynamics
• Self-steering axles simulation
• Tire mechanics
• Tire-soft and hard soils interaction
• Vehicle dynamics
• and Virtual human modelling.

Research topics:

• Mechanical vibration
• Active vibration control
• Nonlinear vibrations
• Vehicle dynamics
• Structural dynamics
• Nonlinear and discrete control systems
• Dynamics and vibration of MEMS and NEMS

Research topics:

• Boiling and two-phase flows
• Energy conservation
• Fluid physics and heat transfer at reduced gravity (microgravity space sciences)
• Heat-recovery systems
• and Thermofluids in power plants.

Research topics:

• Manufacturing
• High Speed Machining
• Modelling and Optimization
• Finite Element Modelling
• Residual Stresses and Stress Analysis

Research topics:

• Vehicle System Dynamics
• Vehicle Chassis Design
• Vehicle Active Safety Systems
• Automated Design Synthesis
• Modelling and Simulation
• Driver-Hardware-in-the-Loop Real-Time Simulations
• Application of Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
• Mechatronic Systems

Research topics:

• Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics
• Interfacial Phenomena and Phase Change Processes
• Microfluidics and Optofluidics
• Sustainable Energy
• Direct Solar Energy
• Evaporative Cooling and Evaporating Droplets
• Global Health Technology
• Solar Water Treatment
• Photocatalytic Nanotechnology
• Water Quality Monitoring
• Lab-on-a-Chip Technology

Research topics:

• Aeroacoustics
• Flow-acoustic coupling and flow-induced vibrations
• Sound-structure interaction
• Noise
• Vibration and Harshness
• Active noise and vibration control
• Fatigue assessment of structures and Mechatronics

Research topics:

• Robotics
• Mechatronics
• Mechanisms
• Automation
• Advanced Kinematics of Robots and Mechanisms
• Redundant Manipulator Systems
• Mobile-Manipulator Systems
• Mechanism and Robot Design
• Optimal Design

Research topics:

• Engineering Design
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Engineering Materials
• and Technologies for the Manufacture of Cellular Materials and Composites

Research topics:

• Biomass Combustion and Gasification
• Fluidized Bed Combustors
• Combined Cycle Power Generation
• Exergy Analysis
• Thermal Design and Optimization
• Cogeneration
• Waste Heat Recovery
• Heat Transfer
• Advanced Energy Systems
• Advanced Power Plant Cycles
• Gas-Solid Flows in Advanced Combustors
• Energy Conservation
• Solar Energy

Research topics:

• Polymers and composites processing and characterization
• Smart and advanced materials
• Compounding of colours in plastics
• Wood-plastic composites
• "Green" Composites
• Nano-composites
• Processes and materials for tissue scaffolds and skeletal structures
• Corrosion of ceramic coatings

Research topics:

• Advanced Composite Materials
• Analysis and Design of Composite Pressure Vessels
• Materials Testing
• Alternate Fuelled and Hybrid Vehicles Development
• Vehicle Dynamics
• Manufacturing Technology and Application

Research topics:

• Cogeneration
• District energy
• Efficiency improvement
• Electricity generation
• Energy
• Environmental impact assessment and reduction
• Exergy analysis
• Heat transfer
• Hydrogen energy and fuel cells
• Integrated energy systems
• Modelling and simulation of energy systems
• Renewable energy
• Solar energy
• Sustainable energy
• Wind energy
• Thermal energy storage
• Thermodynamics

Research topics:

• Mechatronics
• Autonomous Robotics
• Visual Servoing and Advanced Controls
• Machine Learning

Research topics:

• DNS of turbulent combustion
• Stratified Combustion
• Fuel Flexible Combustion
• Auto-ignition and spark ignition of turbulent
• combustible mixtures
• Ignition Modelling
• Spray Combustion

Research topics:

• Mechatronics
• Robotics
• Medical and Surgical Robotics
• Haptics
• Human-Machine Interaction
• Actuators
• Sensors
• Control systems
• Magnetic fluids

Research topics:

• Hybrid electric vehicle design and control
• Multiscale/multiphysics modeling and optimization of vehicle energy storage system
• Power electronics control and AC motor optimal control
• Vehicle active safety/automated driving

Research topics:

• Laser Materials Processing
• Micro/Nano Manufacturing
• Nano Biomaterials Fabrication
• Thin-film
• Electrospinning

Research topics:

• Mechatronics
• Autonomous mobile machine
• Intelligent construction equipment
• Intelligent agriculture machinery
• Safety-control
• Electro-hydraulic systems
• Hardware-in-the-loop simulation
• System reliability

Research topics:

• Manufacturing and Metal Cutting
• Design and Optimization
• Modelling and Simulation of Machining Operations
• Machining Difficult-to-Cut Materials
• Surface Integrity
• Material Behavior

Research topics:

• Orthopaedic Biomechanics
• Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
• Biomechanics of Human Motion
• Injury Prevention
• Advanced Structure Materials
• Advanced Manufacturing

Research topics:

• Spark Assisted Chemical engraving (SACE)
• Hybrid additive-subtractive micro-manufacturing
• Surface functionalization
• Microfluidic devices
• Advanced manufacturing