1. 航机燃气轮机及重型燃气轮机用跨音速轴流压气机三维叶片优化设计理论和方法研究及应用；轴流压气机气动失稳机理及扩稳方法和技术研究；
2. 低温空分及液化流程能效分析及节能降耗用液体膨胀机研发；
3. 多相流LBM模型和数值方法研究及其在航空器结防冰等方面的应用；
4. 高精度涡方法及其在高雷诺数、复杂分流流动研究中的应用；
5. 国防现代化亟需的航空关键技术研发。

专利授权：
1. 孙金菊;李成;韩春明等，一种高压液体节流用膨胀机转子， 国家发明专利授权，专利号200810150526.2，授权公告日2011年08月31日；
2. 孙金菊,王科,宋鹏等,一种液体膨胀机，国家发明专利授权，专利号200910023562.7，授权公告日2011年4月13日；
3. 孙金菊，宋鹏，王科，径流式液力透平优化设计方法, 国家发明专利授权,专利号201110439235.7，授权公告日2013年12月5日；
4. 孙金菊, 王科，宋鹏，一种低温液力透平,国家发明专利授权,专利号201110455237.5，授权公告日2014年7月3日；
5. 孙金菊, 王科，宋鹏，低温液力透平闭式实验系统和测试方法,国家发明专利授权，专利号201310432913.6，2015年04月29日；
6. Jinju Sun, Ke Wang, Peng Song, Cryogenic liquid turbine, United States patent, Application number: 2014/369522, PCT number: PCT/CN2011/085009, Receipt date: 27 June, 2014；
7. 孙金菊，宋鹏,“液体透平通流部件整机优化设计软件”，软件著作权，登记号：2014SR028957，登记日期：2014年3月11日。

获奖：
1. Peng Song, Jinju Sun, Ke Wang, 获得英国机械工程师学会（Institution of Mechanical Engineers）授予的 “Donald Julius Groen prize 2015”。
2. Jinju Sun, Robin Elder,获得英国机械工程师学会（Institution of Mechanical Engineers）授予的 “The Arthur Charles Main Award 1998”。

代表性论文：
1. Peng Song, Jinju Sun, Ke Wang, Axial flow compressor blade optimization through flexible shape tuning by means of cooperative co-evolution algorithm and adaptive surrogate model, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 2014, 228(7), 782-798. (SCI: AQ5AS, EI: 20144100084789)
2. Peng Song, Jinju Sun, Blade shape optimization for transonic axial flow fan, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, 2015, 29(3), 931-938. (SCI: CD7SD, EI: 20151200652129)
3. Ke Wang, Jinju Sun, Peng Song, Experimental study of cryogenic liquid turbine expander with close-loop liquefied nitrogen system, Cryogenics, 2015, 67, 4-14. (SCI: CE9OB, EI: 20150500464192)
4. Rongye Zheng, Jinju Sun, A modeling approach to droplet contact-line motion dynamics in high-density-ratio two-phase flow, Computers and Fluids，2013, 73(1): 175-186. (SCI:  099GF；EI: 20130716026063；IF：1.467)
5. Yan Ba, Haihu Liu, Jinju Sun, et al, Color-gradient lattice Boltzmann model for simulating droplet motion with contact-angle hysteresis, Physical Review E, 2013, 88(4), 043306(1-13). (SCI: 240RE；EI: 20134516944120；IF 2.313)
6. Rongye Zheng, Haihu Liu, Jinju Sun, et al, Droplet hysteresis investigation on non-wetting striped textured surfaces: a lattice Boltzmann study, Physica A, 2014, 411: 53-62. (SCI: AN1GI)
7. Xifeng Zhao, Jinju Sun, Zhi Zhang, Prediction and measurement of axial flow fan aerodynamic and aeroacoustic performance in a split-type air-conditioner outdoor unit, International Journal of Refrigeration, 2013, 36(3): 1098-1108. (SCI: 120EE；EI: 20131316143172；IF：1.793)
8. Xifeng Zhao, Jinju Sun, Chao Wang, et al, Experimental and numerical study of electronic module-cooling heat sinks used in a variable frequency air-conditioner outdoor unit, International Journal of Refrigeration, 2014,38(2): 10-21. (SCI: AC8RX)
9. Peng Song, Jinju Sun, Ke Wang, Swirling and cavitating flow suppression in a cryogenic liquid turbine expander through geometric optimization, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 2015. (SCI源刊). 已在线出版
http://pia.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/06/02/0957650915589062.abstract
10. Yan Ba, Haihu Liu, Jinju Sun et al, Three Dimensional Simulations of Droplet Formation in Symmetric and Asymmetric TJunctions Using the Color-Gradient Lattice Boltzmann Model, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2015. (accepetd).