August 29, 2013
Colleen Kaul, a former ASE/EM graduate student, and Professor Venkat Raman were selected to receive the distinguished paper award at the 34th International Symposium on Combustion for their paper on modeling turbulent combustion relevant to aircraft engines. The symposium was held in August 2012 in Warsaw, Poland.
Written with collaborators at Sandia National Laboratory and Stanford University, the paper uses high-fidelity numerical simulations carried out by tens of thousands of processors to understand key physics in a special flow configuration that generates lifted flames. The paper, titled "Large Eddy Simulation of a Lifted Ethylene Flame using a Dynamic Nonequilibrium Model for Subfilter Scalar Variance and Dissipation Rate," was selected along with eleven other papers from nearly a thousand original submissions.
Kaul, MS ASE ’09 and PhD, ASE ‘11, is now a research associate at Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
