I was part of the Combustion and Propulsion Group at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Florida under the guidance of Associate Professor Corin Segal 2000-2008. The combustion lab is studying a number of problems related to high-speed propulsion technologies, e. g. droplet breakup under interaction with shockwaves, droplet and spray combustion, high-density fuels with different additives, flameholding and flow instability in supersonic combustion (scramjet), catalytic combustion and pulse detonation engine inlet instabilities. For more details on past and present research in the Combustion Lab, see the Research Activities page. Currently, I'm working at the Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion (FCAAP) in Tallahassee, FL.

Research topics
Pulse Detonation Engines (PDE) Filtered Rayleigh Scattering (FRS) Fluorinated polymers (FT-IR) Acetone planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) Catalytic combustor JP-10 flameholding in supersonic combustor Ethylene flameholding in supersonic combustor Cryogenic cavitation Scramjet blockage due to thermal choking Fluoroketone fluorescence & phosphorescence characterization

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