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Ju Shneider Miles Part of $7.5M MURI Team
In response to the FY-2009 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Topic 11, “Chemical Energy Enhancement by Nonequilibrium Plasma Species,” we have assembled an interdisciplinary team with extensive background in chemistry, plasma physics, spectroscopy, and fluids-based core disciplines central to advancing scientific understanding, and for developing experimentally-validated predictive tools, advanced plasma sources, and diagnostic methods for nonequilibrium plasma assisted combustion spanning a broad range of temperature, pressure, and flow conditions. The principal goal of the proposed program is to develop validated computational models that are capable of predicting the impact of nonequilibrium plasmas on reacting processes, particularly on combustion and power generation for in-flight vehicles. Four principal research thrusts will be coordinated and directed toward this goal: (1) Experimental studies of nonequilibrium air-fuel plasma kinetics using advanced non-intrusive diagnostics to establish the basic physics, with emphasis on measurements above 1 bar; (2) Kinetic model development and validation; (3) Experimental and modeling studies of fundamental nonequilibrium discharge processes; and (4) Studies of diffusion and transport of active species in representative two and three-dimensional reacting flow geometries. The proposing team members and their affiliations are: i. Walter R. Lempert, who will serve as program PI, Igor V. Adamovich, J. William Rich, Jeffrey Sutton (Ohio State University – Program Lead Institution). ii. Yiguang Ju, Richard B. Miles, and Mikhail Shneider (Princeton University). iii. Andrei Starikovskii, Alexander Fridman (Drexel University). iv. Richard Yetter (Penn State University). v. Vigor Yang (Georgia Tech University)
May 11, 2009