At the Xu Sace Research Group at USC, our research mission is to advance aerospace sustainability and clean energy transitions. We develop high-performance, multiscale computational approaches for reacting flows, and bridge fast quantum chemistry calculation, chemical kinetic modeling, and turbulence-resolved flow simulations, with the aid of machine learning and data-driven methods. We are particularly interested in applications such as sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) design and modeling, high-speed reacting flow physics study, and sustainable energy materials computational design.

Research 

1. Reacting Flows
2. Energy Transition
3. High-Speed ​​Propulsion
4. Computational Gas (Fluid) Dynamics
5. Chemical Kinetic Modeling
6. Molecular Dynamics
7. Quantum Chemistry
8. Machine Learning
9. Combustion
10. Turbulence

We have multiple openings for graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduate students to join our team, starting in Spring and Fall 2025. Interested candidates may email me your Academic CV and research interests to Prof. Rui Xu ([email protected]).