Recipients of NASA grants for microgravity combustion

research:

Flight Definition Tasks

California
Dr. Robert K. Cheng
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, CA
"Field Effects of Gravity on Lean Premixed Turbulent Flames"

Professor Paul D. Ronney

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
"Transport and Chemical Effects on Concurrent and Opposed-
Flow Flame Spread at Microgravity"

Illinois
Professor Mun Young Choi
University of Illinois, Chicago
Chicago, IL
"Experiments and Model Development for Investigation of
Sooting and Radiation Effects in Microgravity Droplet
Combustion"

Massachusetts
Professor James C. Hermanson
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA
"Combustion Characteristics of Fully-Modulated, Turbulent
Diffusion Flames in Reduced Gravity"

Michigan
Professor Indrek S. Wichman
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
"Investigation of Diffusion Flame Tip Instability in
Microgravity"

Missouri
Professor Richard L. Axelbaum
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
"Flame Design - A Novel Approach to Clean Efficient Diffusion
Flames"
New Jersey
Professor Chung K. Law
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
"Structure and Response of Spherical Diffusion Flames"

Ohio
Dr. Vedha Nayagam
National Center for Microgravity Research
Cleveland, OH
"Dynamics of Droplet Extinction in Slow Convective Flows"

Ground-based Tasks

California
Professor Jyh-Yuan Chen
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
"Numerical Study of Buoyancy and Differential Diffusion
Effects on the Structure and Dynamics of Triple Flames"

Professor Derek Dunn-Rankin

University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
"Applications of Electric Field in Microgravity Combustion"

Professor Fokion N. Egolfopoulos

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
"Quantitative Studies on the Propagation and Extinction of
Near-Limit Flames Under Normal-and Micro-gravity"

Dr. Jay B. Jeffries

SRI International
Menlo Park, CA
"Quantitative Interpretation of Optical Emission Sensors for
Microgravity Experiments"

Professor Ian M. Kennedy

University of California, Davis
Davis, CA
"The Impact of Buoyancy and Flame Structure on Soot,
Radiation and NOx Emissions from a Turbulent Diffusion Flame"
Professor Benjamin D. Shaw
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA
"Combustion of Han-Based Monopropellant Droplets in Reduced
Gravity"

Professor Owen I. Smith

University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
"Acoustically Forced, Condensed Phase Fuel Combustion Under
Microgravity Conditions"

Professor Forman A. Williams

University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
"High Pressure Combustion of Binary Fuel Sprays"

Colorado
Dr. John M. Alford
TDA Research, Inc.
Wheat Ridge, CO
"Formation of Carbon Nanotubes in a Microgravity Environment"

Professor Melvyn C. Branch

University of Colorado, Boulder
Boulder, CO
"Combustion of Metals Reduced-Gravity and Extraterrestrial
Environments"

Professor John J. Moore

Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO
"A Fundamental Study of the Combustion Synthesis of Ceramic-
Metal Composite Materials Under Microgravity Conditions -
Phase III: Effect of Gravity on the Combustion Synthesis of
Advanced, Engineered, Porous Materials"

Connecticut
Professor Daniel E. Rosner
Yale University
New Haven, CT
"Combustion of Individual Bubbles and Submerged Gas Jets in
Liquid Fuels"

Professor Mitchell D. Smooke

Yale University
New Haven, CT
"Computational and Experimental Study of Energetic Materials
in a Counterflow Microgravity Environment"

Iowa
Professor Lea Der Chen
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
"Reflight of ELF (Enclosed Laminar Flames) Investigation"

Illinois
Professor Bernard J. Matkowsky
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
"Filtration Combustion for Microgravity Applications (1)
Smoldering, (2) Combustion Synthesis of Advanced Materials"

Professor Ishwar K. Puri

University of Illinois, Chicago
Chicago, IL
"Gravitational Effects on Partially-Premixed Flames"

Indiana
Professor Arvind Varma
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
"Mechanistic Studies of Combustion and Structure Formation
During Synthesis of Advanced Materials"

Massachusetts
Professor Simone Hochgreb
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
"A Study of Critical Soot Threshold in Microgravity by the
Application of DC and AC Electric Fields"

Dr. W. Terry Rawlins

Physical Sciences Inc.
Andover, MA
"Hyperspectral Imaging of Flame Spread over Solid Fuel
Surfaces Using Adaptive Fabry-Perot Filters"

Maryland
Dr. Linda G. Blevins
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD
"Carbon Monoxide and Soot Formation in Inverse Diffusion
Flames"

Professor Ashwani K. Gupta

University of Maryland
College Park, MD
"Studies on the Behavior of Highly Preheated Air Flames in
Microgravity"

Dr. Anthony Hamins

National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD
"The Extinction of Low Strain Rate Diffusion Flames by an
Agent in Microgravity"

Dr. William E. Mell

National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD
"Simulation of Combustion Systems with Realistic g-jitter"

Dr. George Mulholland

National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD
"Kinetics and Structure of Superagglomerates Produced by
Silane and Acetylene"

Michigan
Professor Werner J. A. Dahm
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
"Turbulent Flame Processes via Vortex-Ring - Diffusion Flame
Interaction"

Professor James F. Driscoll

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
"Flame Vortex Interactions in Microgravity to Assess the
Theory of Flame Stretch"

Professor Gerard M. Faeth

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
"Flow/Soot-Formation in Nonbuoyant Laminar Diffusion Flames"
New Jersey
Professor Chung K. Law
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
"Aerodynamics and Chemical Kinetics of Premixed Flames at
High Pressures"

New Mexico
Dr. Joel A. Silver
Southwest Sciences, Inc.
Sante Fe, NM
"Quantitative Species Measurements in Microgravity Combustion
Flames"

New York
Professor C. Thomas Avedisian
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
"High Pressure Combustion of an Unsupported Sooting Fuel
Droplet in Microgravity"

Professor Peyman Givi

State University of New York, Buffalo
Buffalo, NY
"Large Eddy Simulation of Gravitational Effects on
Transitional and Turbulent Gas-Jet Diffusion Flames"

Ohio
Dr. Daniel L. Dietrich
NASA Lewis Research Center
Cleveland, OH
"Combustion of Interacting Droplet Arrays in a Microgravity
Environment"

Dr. Paul V. Ferkul

National Center for Microgravity Research
Cleveland, OH
"Thickness Effects on Fuel Flammability"

Dr. Sandra L. Olson

NASA Lewis Research Center
Cleveland, OH
"Low Stretch Diffusion Flames over a Solid Fuel"
Dr. Kurt R. Sacksteder
NASA Lewis Research Center
Cleveland, OH
"Flame Spreading and Extinction in Partial Gravity
Environments"

Dr. Peter Sunderland

National Center for Microgravity Research
Cleveland, OH
"Investigation of Velocity and Temperature in Microgravity
Laminar Jet Diffusion Flames"

Dr. Fumiaki Takahashi

University of Dayton Research Institute, Dayton, OH
"Reaction Kernel Structure and Diffusion Flame Stabilization"

Dr. Randall L. Vander Wal

National Center for Microgravity Research
Cleveland, OH
"The Synthesis of Graphite Encapsulated Metal Nanoparticles
and Metal Catalytic Nanotubes"

Texas
Professor Noel T. Clemens
University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX
"Investigation of Strain/Vorticity and Large-Scale Flow
Structure in Turbulent Nonpremixed Jet Flames"

Professor Philip Varghese

University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX
"Laser Velocimeter for Studies of Microgravity Combustion
Flowfields"

Wisconsin
Dr. Eric E. Rice
Orbital Technologies Corporation
Madison, WI
"Development of Methods for Producing and Utilizing Alternate
Fuel/Oxidizer Combinations Associated with Mars to Support
ISRU-Based Propulsion and Power Systems"