Research Projects Directory

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PI Anish Prasad

CO-I Yogesh Pai

CO-I Royce Fernandes

CO-I Mark Ricklick
This project investigates a novel cylinder design inspired from the Harbor Seal whisker, with the goal of reducing coolant pumping power requirements while maintaining heat transfer rates in pin-fin arrays.

CO-I Hugh Sadri
After the fall of Saddam Hussein, Tehran’s leaders took advantage of Baghdad’s weak position and put many Iraqi power centers and local groups under their influence using a variety of soft to hard power instruments. After the withdrawal of coalition forces from the region in 2011 and through its proxy networks, Tehran gained a solid foothold in Iraq and Syria under the guise of helping Baghdad and Damascus fight the Islamic State. Likewise, Iranian proxy groups have backed Houthi rebels in Yemen fighting a regime dependent on Saudi Arabia for survival. Our primary research question is: How does Iran develop, employ, and sustain proxy organizations in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, and what vulnerabilities does its regional strategy face as a result? Our objective is to analyze the role of Iranian influence in its proxy organizations across the Middle East.

PI Massood Towhidnejad

CO-I Omar Ochoa

CO-I James Pembridge
Efforts to implement these kinds of changes are often slowed down by department cultures or faculty attitudes about the amount of time and work that would be involved. In this project the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will implement an innovative approach to become a department that responds quickly to student and industry needs.

Langrangian Wind Tunnel

ERAU is supporting industry (i.e. Global Aerospace Corp.) in the development of a novel hypersonic wind tunnel by using high-fidelity computational fluid dynamcs.

CO-I Miles Bengtson

CO-I Anatoly Streltsov
When the first American satellite, Explorer I, was launched into space it inadvertently discovered one of the most significant features of our local space environment: the Van Allen Radiation Belts. This region contains highly energetic particles that are hazardous. This research involves one promising remediation mechanism based on interactions between these particles and very-low frequency electromagnetic waves known as whistlers.

PI Massoud Bazargan
Currently, United Airlines does not have any tow tugs at LAX and uses only tractors with pull bars.

PI Bryan Watson
This proposal examines the issue of faulted-agent mitigation through the lens of Biologically Inspired Design.

PI Omar Ochoa
The Semantic Web provides a wealth of high-quality, structured, and contextual data, which can be used to train machine learning models.

PI Eduardo Divo

CO-I Christopher Adams
The proposed project brings together multi-scale computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis and mock circulatory loop (MCL) benchtop experiments to analyze the hemodynamics of a proposed Magnetically-Driven Ventricular Assist Device (MVAD).

PI Heidi Nykyri

CO-I Brandon Burkholder

CO-I Xuanye Ma
The key objective of this study is to better understand the source and cause of high-energy electrons observed by the MMS in the dayside magnetosheath.

PI Massoud Bazargan
The objective of this project is to optimize the use of maintenance manpower at San Francisco International Airport for efficient use of available resources and reduce flight delays.