PFTL Project Titles
Single Granule Impact Investigations
Single Granule Friction and Wear Investigations
Impact Testing of Spheres against Thin Film Substrates
Granular Flows in Rough Annular Shear Cells
Granular Flow Lubrication in Journal Bearing Geometries
Cellular Automata (CA) Modeling of Granular Flows
Fast Multiphase (Fluid-Particle) Flow Modeling
Explicit Finite Element Modeling (FEM) of Granular Flows
Elucidating Powder Flow Mechanics in Additive Manufacturing
Dry and Lubricated Bit Cutter-on-Rock Tribometry (BCORT)
Optical Characterization of Transfer Film Mechanics
Deterministic Modeling of Two-Body Abrasive Wear and Friction Relationships
Friction and Wear Control in the Artificial Hip Joint
Mechanisms of Liquid Lubricant Enhancement using Powder Additives
Electrically Conductive Solid Powder Lubrication
Volumetric Fractional Coverage (VFC) Modeling to Predict Transfer Film Lubrication and Coating Lifetime
Numerical Modeling of Transfer Film Formation
Tribological Performance of Mechanically Textured Solid Lubricant Reservoir Tribosystems
Full-scale Multiphysics CMP Modeling
Multi-scale Thermal Modeling of Mixed Lubrication Interfaces
Industrial-scale CMP modeling
Experiments in Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP)
Material and Surface Characterization of Polished Surfaces
Computational Modeling of Surface Texturing Effects
Full-Scale, Multiphysics Tribology Modeling of Artificial Hip Joints
Fundamental Research on Sealing Nuclear Reactor Coolant Pumps
CMP aware design for manufacturability in integrated circuits
Multi-Scale Physics-Based Modeling of CMP
CMP aware design for manufacturability in Bit-Patterned Media
Mechanical Characterization of Microalgae
Particle-Surface Tribology Analysis Code (P-STAC): High-Performance Computing Tribology and Multiphase CFD Computing
Contamination of bearing interfaces and sliding contacts in mechanical tribosystems
Multi-scale (single cutter and full bit) oil & gas drilling Simulations
