Research
A significant portion our thermal sciences research applies to automotive engineering, with a strong focus on developing new, more sustainable technologies. Research topics include areas such as:
- Combustion
- Heat and energy transfer
- Refrigeration
- Thermoelectric energy
Our researchers work closely with to other departments and programs at U-M including Chemical, Biomedical and Aerospace Engineering and the Applied Physics Program.
Funding
- National Science Foundation
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- U.S. Army
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Specialties
- Internal combustion
- Experimental investigation of heat rejection
- Fire suppression
- Metal hydride heat pumps and hydrogen storage
- Hybrid propulsion
- Computational methods for reacting flows
- Heat transfer physics
- Molecular dynamics
- Photovoltaic energy conversion
- Reburn and co-firing technologies
- Pollution mitigation