Event Details
Electric Field Effect on Flames
Speaker: Suk Ho Chung, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Department: Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J223
Date/Time: Friday, October 5, 2012, 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Electric field or plasma assisted combustion has been studied to improve such combustion characteristics as flame speed, flame stabilization, and pollutant emission. In case of electric field assisted combustion, lower power consumption and less flow disturbance could be expected as compared to plasma-assisted combustion. To improve the stabilization characteristics of jet flames, the effects of AC and DC electric fields on the stabilization of jet flames have been investigated, including the influences on liftoff, blowoff, and reattachment for nonpremixed jet flames and on the liftoff of premixed bunsen flames. These findings will be discussed to identify the effect of ionic wind.
Dr. Suk Ho Chung is Director of the Clean Combustion Research Center and Named Professor of Mechanical Engineering at KAUST since August 2009. He most recently served as a professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University in Korea. Additionally, he served as Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Advanced Automotive Research Center.
He has published over 100 articles in refereed international journals. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He served as a Board of Director and International Secretary of the Combustion Institute. His services include Vice President of the Korea Society of Automotive Engineers and the Korea Society of Combustion, as an editorial board member of Combustion and Flame and as the editor-in-chief of International Journal of Automotive Technology. He earned his doctoral and master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University, Illinois, in the United States. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University in Korea.
