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.
David Giger, M.S.
Raza Malik, M.S.
Rohit Gupta, M.S. (website)
Diesel Fuels Research
- Will Gans, M.S.
- Tom Bronson, M.S.
- 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