Granular Flow

• Granular flow in rough shear cells
• Cellular automata modeling of granular flows
• Explicit Finite Element Modeling (FEM) of Discrete Grains

Powder Lubrication

• Solid/Powder lubrication for extreme-environments
• In situ self-replenishing solid/powder lubrication
• “Green” tribology

Slurry Tribology

• Particle augmented mixed lubrication (PAML)
• Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) in IC manufacturing
• The material science of CMP: microstructure of thin metal films
• CMP-aware CAD of integrated circuits (ICs)
• Contamination tribology of hard disk drives
• Slurry lubrication during oil-drilling

Computational Multi-physics Modeling

• Particle augmented mixed lubrication (PAML)
• Contamination flow tribology in hard disk drives
• CFD of contamination in near field (optical) recording (NFR)
• Slurry lubrication during oil-drilling
• Computational tribology modeling of artificial hip/knee joints
• External-field assisted particle flow tribosystems