Shock Tube and High Pressure Combustion Lab

Voulgaris Awarded NCSA Fellowship

Aerospace Engineering Professor Petros Voulgaris has been awarded a National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Fellowship for his project, "Simulation-Based Performance and Robustness Analysis of Large Distributed Control Applications."

Chasiotis and Group Win Best Paper Award

Editors of Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures have selected an article co-written by AE Assistant Prof. Ioannis Chasiotis for the journal's 2007 Best Paper Award.

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August 25
First Day of Instruction

August 25
AE 590 Seminar
Modeling and Validation of Yield Surface in Cellular Solids under Biaxial Loading

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Faculty Researchers:	Location:	Phone:	Website:
Professor R. L. Burton Professor H. Krier Professor N. G. Glumac	Room 13 Talbot Laboratory	217-333-1790

Description of Research:

Co-directed by Professor R. L. Burton, Professor H. Krier, and Professor N. G. Glumac. The lab employs a 15m shock tube to compress oxidizer to 3000 K, thereby igniting 20-micron metal and boron particles. Particles being studied are boron, aluminum, magnesium, and alloys of these metals combusting in oxygen and water vapor. A second particle ignition experiment uses a 1.5 liter, 50,000 psi combustion bomb, with optical diagnostics to study particle ignition at near steady-state conditions. A third experiment studies particle ignition using a windowed flow reactor and a solid propellant ignition source.