Undergraduate Students

Former Students

Benjamin Akih-Kumgeh – Ph.D. student and Postdoctoral Scholar
Thesis title: Shock tube studies and chemical kinetic modeling of oxygenated hydrocarbon ignition

Graeme Watson – Ph.D. student and Postdoctoral Scholar
Thesis title: The influence of interfacial heat transfer on stable flame propagation in small channels

Sean Salusbury – Ph.D. student and Postdoctoral Scholar
Thesis title: Experiments in laminar and turbulent premixed counter-flow flames at variable Lewis number

Farzam Fotovat – Ph.D. student (co-supervised with J. Chaouki)
Thesis title: Characterization of hydrodynamics and solids mixing in fluidized beds involving biomass

Philippe Julien – Ph.D. student (co-supervised with D. Frost) and Postdoctoral scholar
Thesis title: On the study of flames in aluminum and iron suspensions

George Gauthier – Ph.D. student and Postdoctoral scholar
Thesis title: Combustion in heat-recirculating burners for efficient and clean power production

Philippe Versailles – Ph.D. student and Postdoctoral scholar
Thesis title: CH formation in premixed flames of C1–C4 alkanes: assessment of current chemical modelling capability against experiments

Mohamed Laila – Ph.D. student (co-supervised with J. Whalen)
Thesis title: Spatial and temporal optimization of advanced biofuel supply chains in the United States: an integrated platform

Michael Soo – Ph.D. student (co-supervised with D. Frost)
Ph.D. Thesis title: Thermal structure of flames in metal particle suspensions
Master’s Thesis title: Aluminum dust concentration effect on combustion in hydrocarbon bunsen flames

Pablo Diaz Gomez Maqueo – Ph.D. student (co-supervised with S. Coulombe)
Thesis title: Non-thermal plasma discharges for methane reforming

Ehsan Abbassi Atibeh – Ph.D. student
Thesis title: The effects of differential diffusion in counter-flow premixed flames with dilution and enrichment

Carl Regis Bauwens – Ph.D. student
Thesis title: Combustion in heat-recirculating burners for efficient and clean power production

Mathew Evans – Ph.D. student
Thesis title: Pulsed plasma generator development and low-temperature plasma-assisted combustion at atmospheric pressure

Keena Trowell – Ph.D student
Thesis title: High-temperature and supercritical water oxidation of metals for hydrogen and heat production

Julien Lambert – Ph.D student
Thesis title: Study of the hydrodynamic and thermal effects of nanosecond repetitive pulsed discharges in plasma-assisted combustion

Bryan Fishbein – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Combustion of surrogate jet fuel components in premixed stagnation flames

Robin Brakmann – M.Eng. student
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Khalid Noorani – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Comparative chemical kinetic and experimental study of methanol, ethanol, n-propanol and n-butanol auto-ignition delay times

Gregory Chung – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Planar laser-induced fluorescence of nitric oxide in isomeric butanol and butane stagnation flames

Bradley Denman – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Flame propagation of jet A-1 fuel and its surrogates

Jeffrey Munzar – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Laminar flame speed of jet fuel surrogates and second generation biojet fuel blends

Mathew Evans – M.Eng. student (co-supervised with S. Coulombe)
Thesis title: Pulsed plasma generator development and low-temperature plasma-assisted combustion at atmospheric pressure

Sam Whiteley – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Flame speeds and stretch effects in counterflow aluminum flames

Antonio Lipardi – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Nitric Oxide formation and modelling uncertainty from exhaust-gas-diluted methane flames

James Vickery – M.Eng. student (co-supervised with D. Frost)
Thesis title: Spherically-expanding flames in hybrid aluminum-methane-oxidizer mixtures

Michelle McRae – M.Eng. student
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Santino Salvo – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Effect of acoustic forcing on flame front thermo-diffusive and parametric istabilities

Frederic Blais – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Effects of initial reactant temperature on flame speeds in aluminum dust suspensions

Martin Aralov – M.Eng. student; now working at Altiro Energy
Thesis title: Particle collection system for iron fuel burner

Samson Bowen-Bronet – M.Eng. student; now working at Altiro Energy
Thesis title: Development of a turbulent iron burner for use as a clean energy carrier

Benjamin Francolini – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Study of differential diffusion effects in lean, premixed, hydrogen-enriched low-swirl flames

Parinaz Farhadi – M.Eng. student; now working at FeX Energy
Thesis title: An energy storage system based on iron fuel

Nicholas Pinkerton – M.Eng. student; now working at Altiro Energy
Thesis title: An assessment of the commercial feasibility of iron fuel for clean heat and power