Current Projects

1. Characterization of propagating and receding flame edges in composition and velocity gradients

Sponsor: National Science Foundation (CAREER Program)
Students: OPEN


2. Bluff-body flame holding under partially-premixed conditions

Sponsor: Pratt & Whitney
Students: Steve Tuttle (PhD)


3. Study of combustor acoustics using time-series and instantaneous flame-structure measurements (with G.B. King and N.M. Laurendeau, Purdue University)

Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Students: Kristin Kopp (PhD)


4. Experimental and computational study of bluff-body flame stabilization with non-homogeneous upstream mixing (with B.M. Cetegen)

Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Students: Stan Kostka (MS)


5. Development of temperature sensing doped particles for plasma deposition diagnostics (with E.H. Jordan)

Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Students: Mark Majewski (PhD)



Last updated: January 26, 2007