Principal Investigator

Bassam Dally, Ph.D.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: Aerodynamics, Heat Transfer Optimization, Applied Optics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Renewable Energy

Research Group

Aiping Chen, Ph.D.

Research Technician

Research Interests: Catalysis, Analysis, Hydrogen

Saumitra Saxena, Ph.D.

Application Specialist

Research Interests: Fuel Kinetics, Computational Combustion, Emissions, Hot Corrosion, Ash-bearing Fuels

Postdoctoral Fellows

Adamu Alfazazi, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Autoignition Chemistry, Reaction Engineering

Chaochen Xu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Functional Material, Electrocatalysis, Energy Conversion

Hani Ababneh, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Process Design, Process Modeling, CO2 capture, Fuels, Thermodynamics, Energy Analysis

Omar Behar, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Concentrating Solar Power, Solar Radiation Modeling, Thermodynamic Cycles, Hybrid Solar Thermal PV, Sola Ammonia Cracking, Solar Radiation, Hybrid Solar Energy Systems

Sonu Kumar, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Liquid and Gaseous Combustion, Hydrogen Flame, Swirl Combustion, Gas Turbine Combustion, TLAF, Raman, Absorption, LIF

Wanxia Zhao, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Laser Diagnostics, Combustion Species, Polarization Spectroscopy

Ph.D. Students

Abdulrahman Asiri

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Sooting Hydrogen Flames, Sustainable Technologies, Circular Carbon Economy

Ahmed Ihab Haroun

MS / Ph.D. Student

César Lucio Cifuentes

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Renewable Energy, Hydrodynamics, Aerodynamics, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vortex-induced Vibrations, Wake-induced Vibrations

Ihsan Farouki

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Microwave, Spectroscopy, Kinetics

Ivan Perez Alcocer

MS/ Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Aerospace Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics

Jiajun Li

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Combustion, Clean Energy, Laser Diagnostics

Lele Ren

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Combustion, Clean Energy, Laser Diagnostics, MILD Combustion

Maojin Gong

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: FIV, Renewable Energy, CFD, Flow Around Cylinder

Roque Viera

MS/ Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Combustion, Laser Diagnostics

Master Students

Ahmed Badia Alkhiary

MS Student

Research Interests: Turbomachinery, Engineering Design, Clean Combustion, Sustainable Energy

Ahmed Muhammad Azmeer

MS Student

Research Interests: Solar Thermal Energy, Renewable Energy, Gas Turbines, CFD, Fluid Dynamics, Image Processing, Thermofluids, Heat Transfer

Talah Tayeb

MS Student

Research Interests: Renewable Energy, Sustainable Technology, Energy Efficiency