UConn Mechanical Engineering has an outstanding group of faculty, graduate students and postdocs focussing on research problems in combustion and propulsion.

Areas of research include:

• Experimental studies of chemical kinetics
• Advanced computational methods for reduction and efficient computational implementation of chemical kinetic mechanisms
• Experimental and computational studies of laminar, turbulent, and sooting flames
• Dynamics of and heat transfer in fires
• Experimental and computational studies of novel aerospace propulsion concepts, supersonic combustion and detonations
• Heat and mass transfer in gas turbine combustors
• Development of novel concepts of low-pollution combustion systems
• Advanced numerical modeling of propulsion and combustion systems, direct numerical simulations (DNS) and large eddy simulations LES) using high-performance computing
• Advanced laser diagnostics of turbulent combustion processes