Research Highlights
Thermofluids Engineering

The Thermofluids Engineering division focuses on research in fluid dynamics, heat transfer, energy systems, multiphase flow, boiling and condensation, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, gasification, and combustion with key areas including:
- Energy Management – Solar power composite thermal energy systems for efficient renewable energy utilization.
- Water Technologies – Vacuum desalination and cascaded latent heat storage for sustainable water purification.
- Combustion – Miniature combustors for power generation and low-emission combustion technologies.
- Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) – Multiphase flow modeling and aerodynamic studies on flapping airfoils.
- High-Speed Flows – Supersonic flow test setups for aerospace and defense applications.
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) – Advanced simulations for turbulence, heat transfer, and aerodynamics.
- Microfluidics & Sensors – Miniaturized sensor systems for real-time fluid diagnostics.
- Submarine Hydrodynamics; Turbomachinery
- Ocean Energy; Phase-Change Problems; Multiphase flows
- Latent heat based storage device for high temperature applications,
- Renewable energy integration; Electrochemical carbon capture.
- Machine learning for fluid mechanics