Subjects the PI can teach and supervise.
These follow directly from the research: the same governing equations, applied to real combustion and energy systems rather than to worked examples alone.
Thermodynamics & applied thermal engineering
Availability and irreversibility, reacting mixtures, equilibrium and combustion thermodynamics, cycle analysis for power and propulsion.
Fluid mechanics & heat transfer
Compressible and buoyant flows, turbulent jets and plumes, convective and conjugate heat transfer, species and mass transport.
Combustion & internal combustion engines
Chemical kinetics, laminar and turbulent flame propagation, ignition, knock and abnormal combustion, engine processes, emissions and fuel effects.
Computational fluid dynamics
Discretisation and solver behaviour, turbulence and combustion modelling choices, mesh and AMR strategy, and — the part usually skipped — systematic verification and validation.
Hydrogen energy systems & safety
Hydrogen production, storage and end use; release and dispersion physics; flammability, detection, ventilation and mitigation; standards and risk assessment.
Alternative & low-carbon fuels
Methanol, ammonia, DME and bio-derived fuels: property effects on injection, ignition and combustion, and what they mean for engine and system design.
Derive it, then compute it, then check it.
Courses are built around a small number of governing equations that get used repeatedly rather than a long catalogue of correlations. Where a topic can be computed, students compute it — a short solver, a real dataset, a validation case — because a number you produced yourself is the one you remember.
Course projects can become research.
Undergraduate and course projects are open to discussion.
If a topic here overlaps with something you want to work on, say so — specific beats general.