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I am a creative and independent minded individual that can bring ideas to life. Throughout my entire life I have always had at least one project that I am currently working on. It has always been a foreign idea to me to seperate my occupational work from my personal projects. The only way to distinguish one research project as professional versus personal is in its funding source. My professional projects are currently funded by grants while my personal projects are self funded. Both areas are extremely rewarding to me and I will continue to pursue my ideas either professionally or personally. My research interests are in alternative energy sources and conversion methods, acoustic timescale detonation initiation, deflagration-to-detonation transition, numerical modeling of highly compressible reactive flows, supersonic and catalytic combustion, electric manipulation of flames and microgravity combustion, flame stability, ignition and extinction limits, chemical kinetics, pyrolysis and devolatilization models, systems where radiation is the dominant mode of heat transfer and fuel cells.I obtained my doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder and my thesis was titled "Numerical modeling of acoustic timescale detonation initation using the adaptive wavelet-collocation method." My expertise developed during my graduate studies are in the area of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), numerical algorithm development for hyperbolic conservation laws and numerical simulation of highly compressible reacting flows. Although most of my professional work thus far has been in the area of numerical modeling, I have spent a significant amount of time building experimental devices such as shock tube generators, pulse detonation engines, ignition systems, fuel and air delivery systems and electrical circuitry (both analog and digital). |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 29 May 2010 )
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