Last Revised: 8/29/96

Yale Center for Combustion Studies

The Yale Center for Combustion Studies, an interdisciplinary research center, uses experimental, computational, and mathematical techniques to deal with the fundamentals of chemically reacting and multiphase combustion systems. Research support comes from government sources, such as AFOSR, NSF, NASA, GRI, DOE, ARO, and ONR, and from industrial sponsors, such as Texaco, United Technologies Research Center, SCM, and the Gas Research Institute.

Research Areas

Combustion Incineration
Convective Energy and Mass Transfer
Catalytically Stabilized Combustion
Deposition of Vapors and Particles from Combustion Products
Gas and Particle Sampling
Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Kinetics
Laser Diagnostics for Temperature, Species, Droplet, and Velocity Distributions in Flames
Microgravity Combustion
Numerical Simulation of Combustion Dynamics
Organic and Inorganic 'Soot' Formation, Coagulation and Transport
Spray Combustion
Turbulent Flames

Research Faculty

Associated Faculty

AP - Applied Physics

ChE - Chemical Engineering

ME - Mechanical Engineering

Research Facilities

Center laboratories occupy 9,000 sq. ft. in the Departments of Applied Physics, Chemical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Research equipment includes instrumentation for planar laser-induced fluorescence, Raman spectroscopy, absorption and emission spectroscopy, nonlinear optical spectroscopy, photoionization spectroscopy, Fourier transform spectroscopy, laser Doppler anemometry, phase Doppler anemometry, elastic and inelastic light scattering, gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry. Computational facillities include IBM RS 6,000's (Model 580 and Model 590), a Stardent GS 2500, and a variety of workstations.

Educational Acivities

Center faculty offer two graduate level courses in combustion. Combustion is also a significant component of courses on chemical kinetics, chemical reactor design, environmental engineering, transport phenomena, propulsion and energy conversion, air pollution, and thermodynamics. Seminars and research group meetings are held weekly or biweekly.

Computed and experimental hydroxyl radical (OH) isopleths in a diffusion flame

For more information about the Center for Combustion Studies, contact:

Alessandro Gomez, Director

Center for Combustion Studies, Yale University

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

E-mail: gomez@minerva.cis.yale.edu

Phone: 1 (203) 432-4384

Fax: 1 (203) 432-7654

For information about other research in the departments of Applied Physics, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering, please visit the Engineering and Applied Science Home Page.