(Information on students who have graduated can be found here)

Post Doctoral

Lydia Shi

Lydia joined the combustion laboratory in Summer 2012 as a postdoctoral student. Her current work is related to analyzing the behavior of crude oil spills in the Arctic.

PhD

Brian Elias (Start date: Spring 2011)

Brian joined the PhD program at WPI after finishing an MS thesis related to investigating the vapor components and concentrations that collect in a portable gasoline container. Specifically, he worked to characterize the conditions that cause a flammable mixture to develop in the vapor space above the gasoline. When these conditions exist, a flame may be able to propagate from the pouring gas stream into the container causing an explosion. His MS thesis can be downloaded here.

$Description: C:\Users\NEERAJ\Desktop\ASR\pic.jpg$ Sreenivasan Ranghanathan (Start date: Spring 2012)

Sreenivasan completed his MS thesis from IIT Chennai on the topic of burning velocity of oxy-methane flames. He joined the PhD program in Spring 2012 and is working on the topic of turbulent dust combustion.

Peter Bellino (Start date: Spring 2013)

Peter completed his MS thesis at WPI related to the topic of insitu burning of crude oil. Two of his recent publications related to spread and burning behavior can be downloaded here. He will be starting his PhD in Fall 2013 related to the topic of large scale burning behavior of crude oil spills in the Arctic.

Hamed Farahani (Start date: Spring 2014)

Hamed completed his MS thesis at WPI related to the topic of crude oil burning behavior in an ice cavity. He is currently pursuing a PhD related to a similar topic.

MS Thesis

Minkyu Lee (Start date: Spring 2012)

Minkyu is working on laminar dust-air flames. He is investigating (both experimentally and using a theoretical model) the influence of external heat flux on the burning velocity of laminar dust flames.

Andre D. Da Vitoria (Start date: Spring 2014)

Andre is working on the topic of flammability of roll paper, sponsored by FM Global (https://www.fmglobal.com/).

Independent Study

Haoran Li

Haoran is currently working on investigating the burning behavior of liquid pool fires in an ice cavity. During the summer (2012) Haoran worked on investigating the suppression of PMMA pool fires.