Mueller
Michael Mueller, Assistant Professor
Ph. D., (Mechanical Engineering) Stanford University (2012)
Profile
Prof. Mueller's research focuses on high-fidelity computational modeling of turbulent reacting flows. Capabilites range from full-fidelity Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of canonical problems to understand the fundamental interactions between turbulence and chemistry to high-fidelity Large Eddy Simulation (LES) applied to practical engineering systems such as gas turbine combustors and reciprocating engines. One of the principal objectives of his research is the development of models for engineering calculations from the fundamental understanding gleaned from the first-principles calculations. Current topics of interest include pollutant emissions (soot, NOx), liquid sprays, thermal radiation, and thermo-acoustic instabilites.
As a tool to study and model physical and chemical phenomena, his research also includes areas of computational science and applied mathematics. Current interests in this area include the development of numerical methods appropriate for turbulent reacting flows on both structured and unstructed computational grids, the associated parallel algorithms for high-performance computing, and the development of algorithms for Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) in turbulent reacting flows.
Principal Research Efforts include:
- Direct Numerical Simulation and Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent combustion
- Pollutant emissions in turbulent reacting flows
- Thermo-acoustic instabilities
- Uncertainty quantification for turbulent reacting flows
- Numerical methods and parallel algorithms for turbulent reacting flows
Recent Publications:
1. Mueller, M.E., Chan, Q.N., Qamar, N.H., Dally, B.B., Pitsch, H., Alwahabi, Z.T., Nathan, G.J., Experimental and computational study of soot evolution in a turbulent nonpremixed bluff body ethylene flame, Combustion and Flame (2012) submitted
2. Mueller, M.E., Iaccarino, G., Pitsch, H., Chemical kinetic uncertainty quantification for Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent nonpremixed combustion, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 34 (2012) in press (available online)
3. Donde, P., Raman, V., Mueller, M.E., Pitsch, H., LES/PDF based modeling of soot-turbulence interactions in turbulent flames, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 34 (2012) in press (available online)
4. Mueller, M.E., Pitsch, H., LES modeling of sooting turbulent nonpremixed flames, Combustion and Flame 159 (2012) 2166—2180
5. Bisetti, F., Blanquart, G., Mueller, M.E., Pitsch, H., On the formation and early evolution of soot in turbulent nonpremixed flames, Combustion and Flame 159 (2012) 317-335
6. Mueller, M.E., Pitsch, H., Large eddy simulation subfilter modeling of soot-turbulence interactions, Physics of Fluids 23 (2011) 115104
7. Mueller, M.E., Blanquart, G., Pitsch, H., Modeling the oxidation-induced fragmentation of soot aggregates in laminar flames, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 33 (2011) 667-674
8. Mueller, M.E., Blanquart, G., Pitsch, H., Hybrid Method of Moments for modeling soot formation and growth, Combustion and Flame 156 (2009) 1143-1155
9. Mueller, M.E., Blanquart, G., Pitsch, H., A joint Volume-Surface model of soot aggregation with the method of moments, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 32 (2009) 785-792
