- Title of project: NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF MULTIPHASE REACTIVE FLOWS
- Funding agency (Optional): DoD
- Description: Combustion in compressible and multiphase media provides the energy necessary to make modern life possible. It provides the thrust needed for aircraft and rocket propulsion, transportation, generates electricity that powers our homes, and provides the explosive potential crucial to national security and the construction industry. However, much is unknown about how chemical reactions, multiphase flows, heat transfer, and compressible fluid mechanics are coupled together in off-design and extreme scenarios. Too often these effects conspire to produce unwanted effects such as dangerous explosions and remain a societal menace. Our ultimate goal is to answer fundamental questions such as: How do explosively dispersed dust clouds ignite and burn? How do droplets burn when injected into very high-speed and shock-laden flows? How do dust explosions propagate? Our group answers these, and other, questions by using numerical simulations with our in-house codes that run on massively parallel high-performance computing clusters.
- Restrictions/Constraints: Some of our funded projects have US Citizenship requirements.
- Knowledge and skills needed: Students with programming experience, mainly Fortran, and strong mathematical skills are preferred.
- How to apply: Please send a CV and transcripts to Prof. Houim
- Faculty contact/webpage: Prof. Ryan Houim, rhouim@ufl.edu
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