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Kareem Ahmed is an associate professor at the UCF Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a faculty member of the Center for Advanced Turbomachinery and Energy Research. Before joining UCF, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Old Dominion University. Prior to that, he spent over three years as a senior aero/thermo engineer at Pratt & Whitney military engines, working on advanced engine programs and technologies (F35 and F22 programs).
Ahmed leads creative and technologically crucial projects in the area of advanced propulsion and energy research, focusing on high-speed compressible turbulent combustion, detonations, supersonic compressible reacting flows, flow-flame control and advance laser diagnostics. His research advances detonation-based propulsion for hypersonic and space rockets using jet and rocket propellant multiphase fuels for ultimate hypersonic and rocket propulsion performance.
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- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
