Professor Suo Yang

This research broadly involves first-principles based modeling and simulation of reacting flows, including combustion, turbulence, soot aerosols, and plasma physics, and their multiscale interactions. The goals are developing and utilizing high-fidelity and computationally efficient predictive tools to gain fundamental understanding of the physico-chemical processes in reacting flows, and to design and control advanced propulsion and power-generation systems (primarily gas turbines and reciprocating engines) for energy sustainability.

Current interests include:

• Computational fluid dynamics of turbulent reacting flows: large eddy simulation and direct numerical simulation
• Evolution of soot, aerosols, and dusty plasmas in (turbulent) reacting flows: engine emissions and advanced manufacturing
• Plasma/ozone assisted ignition, combustion, and fuel reforming
• Chemical kinetics, mechanism reduction, and dynamic adaptive chemistry
• Supercritical mixing and combustion: rocket engines and high-pressure gas turbines
• Numerical methods for partial differential equations and high-performance parallel computing

Research by this group was featured on the MSI website in June 2023: Computational Model to Predict Nitrogen Oxides.