Alessandro Gomez, Ph.D
Professor of
Mechanical Engineering

Director of the
Yale Center for
Combustion Studies

Yale University
P.O. Box 208286
New Haven, CT 06520-8286
USA

Phone: 203.432.4384
Fax 203.432.7654
alessandro.gomez@yale.edu

YALE UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

THE LAB AND ITS MEMBERS

The real work has been done by the following cast:

Francesco Carbone Postdoc Research topic: structure of laminar flames of complex fuels and their sooting behavior at high pressures; design of a cookstove for developing countries

Begona Almeria Graduate Student Research topic: biomedical applications of the electrospray

Lorenzo Figura Graduate Student Research topic: soot formation in diffusion flames at high pressures

Giovanni Lenguito Graduate Student Research topic: space propulsion using electrospray

Justin Tang Graduate Student Research topic: electrospray synthesis/deposition of materials for energy applications

 

Ivan Langella Visiting Fellow Research topic: instabilities of counteflow turbulent jets and their control

Facilities

Experiments are conducted with an array of quantitative laser diagnostic techniques, including: Laser Doppler Velocimetry, Phase Doppler Particel Sizing, Raman Scattering and Laser Induced Fluorescence techniques. The lab is equipped with: a 12 W Ar-Ion laser, a two-velocity component fiber optics PDPA (TSI Inc.), two Nd-Yag laser, a dual head PIV Nd-Yag laser, a pumped dye laser, a Cu-Vapor laser, cooled and uncooled CCD cameras with intensifiers, a high-speed digital camera; a 300 mm Raman spectrometer, an IR camera, a HP GC-MS analyzer, miscellaneous workstations and PCs.

Collaborations

Under laminar conditions, measurements are compared to detailed numerical predictions performed in collaboration with Professor M.D. Smooke. Advanced laser diagnostic techniques, that are complementary to our in-house capabilities, are sometimes applied to our flames in the laboratory of Dr. Jonathan Frank at Sandia. Analytical modeling in support of the combustion research topics is done in collaboration with Professor Amable Liñan (Universidad Polictécnica de Madrid). The jet fuel combustion work is done in collaboration with Professors Ranzi and Favarelli (Politecnico of Milan). The work on the synthesis of polymer particles for controlled/targeted drug release is performed in collaboration with Professor T. Fahmy. A new collaborative program on turbulent counterflow flames is being conducted with Professor Steve Pope (Cornell University), who will work on the computational modeling of the flame we study experimentally.

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