About Us

The prime focus of HiREF Laboratory is the engineering applications of high-speed reacting flows in the presence of various physical phenomena such as combustion and heat transfer. This focus, in principle, has driven the group to engage in cutting-edge related research areas such as combustion turbulence modeling and experiments, pulse combustion, flameless combustion, and the development of pulse combustion engines.

The HiREF team is currently working to develop accurate turbulence and thermochemical models for different combustion applications, to build state-of-the-art experimental platforms for supersonic shock wave investigations, to synthesize combustion-based nanomaterials, and to establish a knowledge base for multidisciplinary thermofluid research topics.

The group is also active in conducting research in heat transfer enhancement, nanofluids, binary gas mixtures, and macroscale and microscale fluid flow.

Currently, we are actively conducting research on:

• Development of Pulse Detonation Engines
• Flameless Combustion for Biogas and Biomass
• Combustion Safety
• Pulse Combustion for Boiler and Drying Applications
• Mesoscale Vortex Combustion
• Combustion based Synthesis of Nanomaterial
• Combustion Modeling
• Nanofluids Heat Transfer Enhancement; macroscale and microscale
• Heat Transfer and Combustion Measurement and Diagnostics