Thomas has been selected to receive the 2025 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO) Fellowship for his proposed project titled “Kinetic Modeling of Carbon Mass Loss in Nuclear Thermal Propulsion”. Congratulations, Thomas!
Thomas presents a paper titled “Lean detonability of hydrogen-oxygen mixtures in narrow channels”.
Brian presents a paper titled “Propagation limits of cellular detonation in narrow channels”.
Ghazal and Diego presented their research on nanographene synthesis and detonation turbine generators, respectively, at the annual Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Symposium.
Rio is selected to receive the 2025 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Award!
Thomas and Brian present the ongoing detonation research at the AIAA Region VI Conference hosted at UC Irvine.
Thomas presents a paper titled “Lean detonability of hydrogen-oxygen mixtures in narrow channels”.
Brian presents a paper titled “Propagation limits of cellular detonation in narrow channels”.
Rio presents a paper titled “Optimizing nanographene formation in natural gas pyrolysis via microwave plasma”.
Thomas and Spencer serve as mentors for the 2024 NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) program jointly hosted by Orange Coast College and South Western College, where they guided teams in building robots for a simulated NASA contract competition for the exploration of Mars. The teams also toured our research lab to share the opportunities available once they transfer to a four-year college. Thomas’ team won the competition with their excellent robot construction, teamwork, and competition presentation.
Xian presents two papers on detonation and participates in the Early Career Panel Discussion on the Future of Combustion Research.
Ghazal’s proposal on natural gas based battery electrode synthesis and testing has been selected in the UROP 2024 Call for Summer (SURP) Proposals.
Spencer is selected to receive the 2024 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Award!
Xian presents an extended abstract titled “Probing Nitrogen Vibrational Relaxation in Hydrogen-Oxygen-Nitrogen Detonations Using Ozone”.
Thomas presents a poster on the detonation experimental facility at the 30th UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium and wins the poster presentation award for the Engineering and Technology category! Well done, Thomas!
Brian is selected to receive a 2023 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! He proposed to study carbon nanoparticle dynamics within a chemically reactive environment.
Xian presents a paper based on his collaboration with Professor Sirignano, titled “Three-dimensional rotational flameLet (3D-RFL) with detailed chemistry and transport models”.
In addition, Xian attends and helps organize the 2023 Combustion Early Career Investigator Workshop.
Xian presents two papers based on his postdoctoral work:
- Detonation propagation in curved channels: A geometric modeling case study
- Isolating gasdynamic and chemical effects on detonation cellular structure and regularity
