Prof. W. Kendal Bushe
Fri 14 Sep 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Bobby Hogg Meeting Room, Faraday Building

If you have a question about this talk, please contact: Dong-Hyuk Shin (v1dshin)

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Pizza will be served at 12:30.

Abstract:

The talk will describe the challenges of simulating turbulent combustion processes in brief, then discuss some solutions to one of the most intractable of these: the need to account for the complex interactions between turbulence and chemical reaction. Two solutions that have proposed will be discussed in detail and results of simulations will be compared to experimental data.

Bio:

W. Kendal Bushe graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta in 1992. He went to Cambridge University to obtain his PhD in 1996, then took a post-doctoral research fellowship with the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University and NASA's Ames Research Center. He has been a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia since 1999 where he has been working on clean energy-related research, including in engines and gas-turbines. His work primarily focuses on the numerical simulation of turbulent reacting flows.