Research

Current Interests

Areas

• Combustion Theory: Pool Fires, Flame Spread
• Fluid Mechanics: Thin Films
• Partial Differential Equations (evolution type)

Techniques

• Asymptotic and Perturbation Methods
• Numerical Methods (pseudo-spectral, finite difference)
• Nonlinear Analysis and Bifurcation Theory

Papers

• Evaporation and Combustion of Thin Films of Lquid Fuels,Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 435 (2001) pp.351-376.
• Marangoni instability at a contaminated liquid-vapor interface of a burning thin film, Physics of Fluids, May 2003, V.15 no.5.