1. ‣Combustion

  2. ‣Computational Fluid Dynamics

  3. ‣Algorithm & software design

  4. ‣Smart algorithms & dynamic algorithm switching (including modification of constitutive models, addition/removal of governing equations, etc.

  5. ‣Fire simulation

  6. ‣Multi-physics simulation

  7. ‣Manifold methods for chemical kinetic reduction

  8. ‣Multiscale turbulence-chemistry interactions & subgrid mixing.

Links:


  1. BulletMy Ph.D. Dissertation: “Evaluation of Mixing and Reaction Models for Large Eddy Simulation of Nonpremixed Combustion using Direct Numerical Simulation”

  2. BulletICES - Institute for Combustion and Energy Studies at the University of Utah

  3. BulletChemical Engineering department at the University of Utah.

Recent Publications:

  1. BulletJ. C. Sutherland and A. Parente. Combustion modeling using principal component analysis. In Proc. Combust. Inst., volume 32, pages 1563–1570. The Combustion Institute, 2008.

  2. BulletA. Parente, J. C. Sutherland, P. J. Smith, and L. Tognotti. Identification of low-dimensional manifolds in turbulent flames. In Proc. Combust. Inst., volume 32, pages 1579–1586. The Combustion Institute, 2008.

  3. BulletJ. C. Sutherland, P. J. Smith, and J. H. Chen. A quantitative method for a priori evaluation of combustion reaction models. Combustion Theory and Modelling, 11(2):287–303, (2007).

  4. BulletE. 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. In Proc. Combust. Inst., 31:1633–1640. The Combustion Institute, (2007).

  5. BulletE. R. Hawkes, R. Sankaran, J. C. Sutherland, J. H. Chen, “Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Combustion - Fundamental Insights Towards Predictive Models,” Invited Plenary Lecture at SciDAC 2005, San Francisco, California, USA, (June, 2005).   Published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series 16:65-79 (2005).

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

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