Email: aagrawal@eng.ua.edu
Phone: (205) 348-4964
http://agrawal.people.ua.edu

Center for Advanced Vehicle Technologies
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Curriculum Vitae

News and Events

NSF Funds Workshop on Future Combustion Research to Mitigate Carbon Emissions

UA Working with Aerojet Rocketdyne to Mature Rotating Detonation Engine Technology

Energy Department Announces Up to $7 Million for the Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines

DOE Funds Research ​to Improve Accuracy in Predicting High-Pressure Diesel Fuel Sprays of Future Engines

NASA Funds UA Research on Low-Emission, High Efficiency Gas Turbines for Aviation

Research

Basic and applied research in combustion, heat transfer, and fluid flows. ​Present focus is on advanced combustion concepts for power generation, propulsion, and industry to achieve

  • high thermal efficiency,
  • low-emissions, and
  • fuel flexibility.​​

My research is applicable to 

  • industrial furnaces and boilers.
  • diesel and spark-ignition engines,
  • land-based and aviation gas turbine engines.
Passive Mitigation of Thermoacoustic Instabilities

​Visit research for details including description of our state-of-the-art experimental facilities. ​

Teaching 

  • Introduction to Combustion (ME518/418) 
  • Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (ME511/ME411)

I also teach Advanced Combustion II (ME694), Senior Design Practicum (ME490), Heat Transfer (ME 308), and Thermodynamics II (ME305).
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Service Activities

  • Chair of Coal, Biomass, and Alternative Fuels (CBAF) Committee of ASME Turbo Expo
  • Chair of US Sections of Combustion Institute (USSCI)
  • Past-chair of Central States Section of the Combustion Institute
  • Co-chair of University of Alabama Faculty Senate Research and Service Committee

Visit service for current/recent activities.
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Professional Appointments

  • Robert F. Barfield Endowed Chair Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama, 2005- 
  • University Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor, 1993-2004
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, 1989-1993
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Mechanical Eng. and Eng. Mechanics, Michigan Technological University, 1988-89
  • Teaching Assistant, University of Miami, 1982-87

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Email: aagrawal@eng.ua.edu
Phone: (205) 348-4964
http://agrawal.people.ua.eduCenter for Advanced Vehicle Technologies
​
Curriculum Vitae

​News and Events

NSF Funds Workshop on Future Combustion Research to Mitigate Carbon EmissionsUA Working with Aerojet Rocketdyne to Mature Rotating Detonation Engine Technology

Energy Department Announces Up to $7 Million for the Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines

DOE Funds Research ​to Improve Accuracy in Predicting High-Pressure Diesel Fuel Sprays of Future Engines

NASA Funds UA Research on Low-Emission, High Efficiency Gas Turbines for Aviation
​

Research

Basic and applied research in combustion, heat transfer, and fluid flows. ​Present focus is on advanced combustion concepts for power generation, propulsion, and industry to achieve ​​​
  • high thermal efficiency,
  • low-emissions, and
  • fuel flexibility.​​

​
​My research is applicable to 

  • industrial furnaces and boilers.
  • diesel and spark-ignition engines,
  • land-based and aviation gas turbine engines,

mitigation of thermoacoustic instabilities

Passive Mitigation of Thermoacoustic Instabilities
​
​Visit research for details including description of our state-of-the-art experimental facilities. ​
​

Teaching 

  • Introduction to Combustion (ME518/418)
  • Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (ME511/ME411)

I also teach Advanced Combustion II (ME694), Senior Design Practicum (ME490), Heat Transfer (ME 308), and Thermodynamics II (ME305).
​

Service Activities

  • Chair of Coal, Biomass, and Alternative Fuels (CBAF) Committee of ASME Turbo Expo
  • Chair of US Sections of Combustion Institute (USSCI)
  • Past-chair of Central States Section of the Combustion Institute
  • Co-chair of University of Alabama Faculty Senate Research and Service Committee

Visit service for current/recent activities.
​

Professional Appointments

  • Robert F. Barfield Endowed Chair Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama, 2005-
  • University Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor, 1993-2004
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, 1989-1993
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Mechanical Eng. and Eng. Mechanics, Michigan Technological University, 1988-89
  • Teaching Assistant, University of Miami, 1982-87