Biography
Farzad Mashayek
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
The relentless growth in computational power has created opportunities in many areas of science and engineering where the wide ranges of spatial and temporal scales have long prevented the problems from being accurately tackled through computer simulations. One of these areas of great practical interest is the general field of turbulent reacting flow where temporal and spatial scales typically vary by several orders of magnitude. Consequently, the accurate prediction of turbulent reactive flow has remained one of the most challenging engineering problems, despite being the subject of intense research for decades. In this talk, we first discuss some novel ideas for enhancing the performance of combustion systems. We will then focus on numerical simulation of turbulent flows using high-order spectral element methods.
Biography:
Farzad Mashayek received a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1994. He is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Mashayek’s research interests are in the areas of turbulent combustion, plasma, electrostatic atomization and solid-ion batteries. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Mashayek has received the CAREER award form the National Science Foundation and the Young Investigator award from the U.S. Office of Naval Research. He has organized and hosted multiple conferences and technical sessions in the areas related to turbulent reacting flows.