Welcome to the
 

Reacting Gas Dynamics Laboratory
 

at the Mechanical Engineering Department
           at MIT

 
Graduate Students
Youssef Marzouk
Susanne Essig
Sungbae Park
Daehyun Wee
Shanmugam Murugappan
Tongxun Yi

Visiting Scholars
Young Joon Kim

Alumni
Adrin Gharakhani
Aaron Golub
Van Luu
Constantin Petrov
Jean-Claude Saghbini
Marios Soteriou
Shankar Subramaniam
Mahmoud Fleifil
Jean-Pierre Hathout (research) 
Issam Lakkis  (research) 

RGD RESEARCH
Flow Simulations in Internal Combustion Engines, 3-D Vortex Methods
Numerical Simulation of Fire Plumes
Stability and Control of Lean Premixed Combustion
Vortex Simulation of Turbulent Reacting Flow
Design of High Performance, Low Emission Gas Turbine Engines
Prediction of Emissions in Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engines
Active Control of Combustion Instability
Grid-Free Redistribution Methods for Axisymmetric and Anisotropic Diffusion
Flame Embedding for Turbulent Combustion Simulation

Comming Attractions! 

Presentation: "Role of heat release and actuation in combustion control"
       Speaker: Jean-Pierre Hathout
       Date: October 21st, 1999 @ 4:15pm
       Occasion: Sloan Automotive Laboratory and Reactive Gas Dynamics Laboratory Seminar Series.
        Room: 31-161

Presentation: "The effect of flow and mixture inhomogeneity on the dynamics of strained flames."
        Speaker: Youssef Marzouk
        Date: November 18th, 1999, @ 4:15pm
        Occasion: Sloan Automotive Laboratory and Reactive Gas Dynamics Laboratory Seminar Series.
        Room:31-161
 
 
 

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