School of Engineering & Applied Science

Search

Michael
Mueller

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Website
609-258-5191
Research interests: High-fidelity numerical modeling of turbulent combustion. Applications to improving efficiency and performance, minimizing emissions, and reducing cost in reciprogating engines, aircraft engines, and stationary gas turbines.

Related News

Graphic with text "Commendation for Outstanding Teaching".

Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

Four people share a stage during a panel discussion.
From left to right, Sarah Gasda, Noah McQueen, Erika La Plante, and Emily A. Carter, took center stage during the panel entitled “Next-Generation Technologies for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage.” (Photos by Lori M. Nichols)

Andlinger Center meeting spotlights next-decade technologies and design approaches for the clean energy transition

While interest in the use of ammonia as a hydrogen carrier and zero-carbon fuel grows, a Princeton-led team of researchers found that a mismanaged ammonia economy could have unwanted environmental consequences. (adobe.stock.com)

Ammonia fuel offers great benefits but demands careful action

Foam board with a pinned grasshopper specimen, with wings extended, and four rows with different colors and shapes of synthetic wings under investigation for flying robots.
A team led by Pierre-Thomas Brun and Aimy Wissa is studying the structures and capabilities of grasshopper wings and flying fish fins. An innovation grant will allow the researchers to test different types of foldable wings and model their performance. Photos by Tori Repp/Fotobuddy

Innovation funds support research in robotics, machine learning, climate resilience and more

Graphic with text "Commendation for Outstanding Teaching".

Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

Photo of a city from afar, with grass in foreground. This is the Meadowlands.
Mario Gandelsonas, Princeton’s Class of 1913 Lecturer in Architecture, professor of architecture, and director of the Program in Urban Studies, has been leading an assessment of the New Jersey Meadowlands (pictured) as a potential national climate park that would mitigate the effects of climate change.

Princeton research is pursuing a sustainable future for New Jersey and the world

Affiliations

Student uses drill press while others observe.

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Solving problems in energy, combustion, fluids, lasers, materials science, robotics and control systems, and nuclear security