- Optical diagnostics and laser-based sensors
- Combustion
- Plasmas
- Rarefied and Non-equilibrium flow modeling via Direct Simulation Monte Carlo and numerical solution of the extended Boltzmann equation
- Current funding from NASA, Army Futures Command, Sandia National Laboratories, Department of Energy, Office of Naval Research
Above: Glow discharge cell at 33, 133, and 666 Pa.
CARS diagnostics in the UT plasma torch
Video: Plasma_torch in operation
Video: Graphite_test 480p in plasma torch