Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Applied Physics Research Group (APRG)
Led by Subrata Roy · Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
What we study
APRG uses plasma, a charged gas, to steer airflow over wings and turbine blades and to build tiny electric thrusters for spacecraft. It also studies hypersonic flight and works with both computer simulations and wind-tunnel experiments.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Building & testing
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 5
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Numerical Modeling of Plasma Based Flow Control
Builds computer models of how plasma can be used to control airflow over wings and blades.
Micro Plasma Actuators
Develops tiny plasma actuators, small devices that create a charged gas to steer airflow over surfaces.
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Turbine Film Cooling
Studies cooling of turbine blades by a film of cooler gas, using the lab's plasma and fluid flow expertise.
Dynamic Stall delay using High Frequency Plasma Actuation
Tests whether rapid plasma actuation on an airfoil can delay dynamic stall, the sudden loss of lift that matters for helicopters, aircraft and micro air vehicles.
Free Molecular Electro Jet (FMEJ)
Develops the Free Molecular Electro Jet, a new type of micro-thruster for small satellites that gives small pushes for orbit and pointing control while using little power.
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Recent papers, explained
- Macro Environmental Effect on Sustainability of Tourism Sector: Indian Evidence
2025 · Journal of Commerce and Accounting Research
Checks how macro factors like HDI affect India's tourism revenue.
- Data-driven spatiotemporal analysis of linear and serpentine actuation for transition to turbulence
2025 · Physics of Fluids
Uses data to study flow patterns in plasma actuators.
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- On the multi-solitons interaction, shock waves, and hybrid solutions to the variable coefficients perturbed damped modified Korteweg-de Vries-Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation arising in plasma and fluids
2025 · Romanian Reports in Physics
Finds soliton interactions and shocks in plasma equations.
- Dynamics of Indian macroeconomic variables: a hac standard errors VECM approach
2025 · Accounting
Analyzes India's GDP and macroeconomic links using cointegration.
- On the multilayer neural networks for analyzing the (1 + 1)-dimensional space-time fractional equation for Granular model
2025 · The European Physical Journal Special Topics
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