May 2026
Advisor of the Year and a third straight ASME section award
Dr. Sallam was named Advisor of the Year at the OSU-Tulsa Student Organization Awards, and the OSU-Tulsa student section of ASME received the Student Section...
Oklahoma State University · School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sallam Research Lab
We explore thermofluids at the intersection of fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and combustion — from the breakup of liquid jets in supersonic crossflow to solar-driven desalination.
The lab
Facilities
We have a subsonic wind tunnel and a shock tube to generate the wind speeds we need for testing liquid atomization, a combustion test rig for studying combustion noise, and a membrane distillation test rig for water desalination research.
Diagnostics
Measurement tools
We investigate thermo-fluid problems at macro and micro scales using particle image velocimetry (PIV), digital holography, and high-speed imaging.
27peer-reviewed journal articles
55conference papers
28graduate alumni
11courses taught
Inside the lab
Book
An Introduction to Combustion with Applications Using Cantera
K.A. Sallam and S. Srivastava, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023.
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Get in touch
Interested in joining or collaborating?
For questions about the lab, graduate or undergraduate research opportunities, or collaborations, please contact Dr. Sallam at sallam@okstate.edu.
Associate Professor and Associate Head, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University — OSU-Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
