Current Graduate Student Researchers

Hunter Mack (website) [hmack@me.berkeley.edu]

        Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition

George Ban Weiss [georgebw@me.berkeley.edu]

Diesel Fuels Research and Air Quality

 
Gregory Bogin Jr [gbogin@me.berkeley.edu]
Laser Diagnostics
 

Andrew Armey [drewarmey@hotmail.com]

          Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition

 

Robert Mills [rmills_mech@berkeley.edu]

          Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition

 

 

Former Graduate Student Researchers

John Chen, Ph. D.

        Numerical Modeling using KIVA

        Currently working at Applied Materials

 

Parag Mehresh, Ph.D.

         HCCI

 

David Giger, M.S.

         HCCI

 

Raza Malik, M.S.

 

Rohit Gupta, M.S. (website)

         Diesel Fuels Research

Will Gans, M.S.

HCCI

 
Tom Bronson, M.S.

HCCI

 
Ricardo Cabra, PhD.
Vitiated Co-Flow Combustor
 
A. S. (Ed) Cheng, Ph.D.
Diesel Research
 
Fred Ginnebaugh, M.S.
HCCI
 
Michael Au, M.S.
HCCI
 
John Reyes Torres, M.S.
HCCI
 
Andrew Kean, M.S.
 
Chen-Pang Chao
Numerical simulation of combustion
 
Jeffrey A. Muss, Ph.D.
The measurement of mixture fraction and Scalar Dissipation Rate in Turblent Jet Flames, 1997
 
Brad Edgar, Ph.D.
Currently executive vice president and chief technology officer at Cleaire Advance Emissions Control.
Practical combustion. Engines, gas turbines, radiant burners. Modeling and experiments related to the formation and destruction of pollutant compounds in combustion systems. Novel approaches to NOx reduction. Alternative fuels characterization and testing. Kinetics and autoignition of Dimethyl Ether (DME).
 
Rajiv Mongia, Ph.D.
Laser absorption measurements. Experimental investigation of catalytic combustion for gas turbine applications. Air/fuel unmixedness effects on NOx formation. Autoignition of premixed methane/air mixtures
 
Michael Streichsbier
 
Zheng Wang
 
Marc Rumminger, Ph.D.
Rumminger, M.D., Babushok, V., Linteris, G.T.,
"Localized Chemical Inhibition in Premixed Flames", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Volume 29, 2002.
Rumminger, M.D. and Linteris, G.T.,
 "The Role of Particles in the Inhibition of Counterflow Diffusion Flames by Iron Pentacarbonyl", 
Combustion and Flame 128(1-2):  145-164 (2002).
Rumminger, M.D., Zhou, X., Balakrishnan, K., Edgar, B.L., and Ezekoye, O.A.,
 "Regeneration Behavior And Transient Thermal Response Of Diesel Particulate Filters", 
Journal of Fuels and Lubricants 110(4): 1015-1022 (2002).  Also as SAE Paper 2001-01-1342.
 Rumminger, M.D. and Linteris, G.T.,
"The Role of Particles in the Inhibition of Premixed Flames by Iron Pentacarbonyl", Combustion and Flame,
123 (1-2): 82-94 (2000).
"Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer and Pollutant Formation in Porous Direct-Fired Radiant Burners", 1996
 
Wei-Chen Chang, Ph.D.
Numerical modeling of Nitrogen Oxide formation in turbulent flames
 
Tami Bond , M.S.
"Experimental and Numerical Investigations of the Catalytic Oxidation of Natural Gas", 1995
 
Josephine Del Rosario, M.S.
"NOx Abatement in Natural Gas Combustion with Reburning"
 
Kijoon (James) Kim, M.S.
"Reduction of Nitric Oxide by Nitrogen Atoms Generated by a Plasma Arc"
 
Bob W. Sun, M.S.
"TurboNOx: An Efficient Process for the Removal of NOx in Low Temperature Exhaust Streams"
 
Dale Andreatta, Ph.D., P.E.
"The Use of Reformed Natural Gas as a Fuel for Reciprocating Engines", 1995
Now working at S.E.A., Inc. in Columbus, Ohio.
 
Quang-Viet Nguyen, Ph.D.
"The Application of Laser Diagnostics to the Measurements of Concentration and Temperature in Practical Methane-Air Flames", 1995
Currently President of RFA Systems, LLC
         
Lance Smith, Ph.D.
"Differential Molecular Diffusion in Reacting and Nonreacting Turbulent Jets of H2/CO2 Mixing with Air", 1994
Currently at Precision Combustion, 25 Science Park, Box 24, New Haven, CT 06511. e-mail: smith@precision-combustion.com
 
Virginia Yang, M.S.
"Pressure and Temperature Dependence of the Absorption of a Helium-Neon Laser by Methane in Gas Mixtures of Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen", 1994
 
Joe Cleary, M.S.
"NOx Measurements Above a Radiant Burner with a Quench Plate", 1993