James C. Sutherland

Title

James C. Sutherland

Education

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Utah, 2004. Dissertation: Evaluation of Large-Eddy Simulation Mixing and Reaction Models for Nonpremixed Combustion using Direct Numerical Simulation

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Utah, 1999

Curriculum Vitae

See Curriculum Vitae (PDF).

Faculty Web Page

http://www.che.utah.edu/~sutherland/JamesHome/Home.html

Class Web Pages

CHEN 6603 - Multicomponent Mass Transfer
CHEN 1703 - Introduction to Chemical Engineering

Research

  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Algorithm & software design
  • Smart algorithms & algorithm switching
  • Fire simulation
  • Multi-physics simulation
  • Manifold methods for chemical kinetic reduction
  • Multiscale turbulence-chemistry interactions & subgrid mixing.

Selected Publications

J. C. Sutherland, P. J. Smith, J. H. Chen, “A New Method for A Priori Evaluation of the Performance of Combustion Models,” Combustion Theory & Modelling (to appear 2006).

E. R. Hawkes, R. Sankaran, J. C. Sutherland, and J. H. Chen, “Scalar Mixing in Direct Numerical Simulations of Temporally-Evolving Plane Jet Flames with Detailed CO/H2 Kinetics,” 26th Symposium (International) on Combustion (to appear).

J. C. Sutherland, P. J. Smith and J. H. Chen, “Quantification of Differential Diffusion in Nonpremixed Systems,” Combustion Theory and Modelling, 9:365-383 (2005).

J. C. Sutherland and C. A. Kennedy, “Improved Boundary Conditions for Viscous, Reacting, Compressible Flows,” Journal of Computational Physics 191:502-524 (2003).