Professor Fokion N. Egolfopoulos
FORMER STUDENTS
Master Degree:
Jeffrey A. Langille (2005)
Thesis Title: Detailed Studies of Flame Ignition
Current Position: Senior Engineer at Fluor
Garry Schwab (2008)
Thesis Title: Processing and Combustion of Biodiesel
Current Position: Thermal Engineer at Millennium Space Systems
Adam Sifounakis (2009)
Thesis Title: Combustion Studies of Jet Fuels and their Surrogates
Current Position: Research Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University
Doctoral Degree:
Hai Zhang (1999)
Thesis Title: Heat Losses Effects on the Structure and Dynamics of Strained Laminar Flames
Current Position: Professor, Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
Christine M. Vagelopoulos (1999)
Thesis Title: An Experimental and Numerical Study on the Stability and Propagation of Laminar Premixed Flames
Wenjun Qin (2000)
Thesis Title: Detailed Studies on the Combustion of Landfill Gases
Current Position: Senior Chemical Engineer, GT Solar
Jyh-Yih Ren (2001)
Thesis Title: Structure and Dynamics of Lean-Burning of Natural Gas
Current Position: Senior Engineer, GC Environmental Inc.
M. Gurhan Andac (2001)
Thesis Title: On the Structure and Dynamics of Dusty Reacting Flow in Normal- and Micro-gravity
Current Position: Lead Engineer/Technologist, General Electric Aviation
Adam T. Holley (2008)
Thesis Title: Studies on the Flame Dynamics and Kinetics of Alcohols and Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuels
Current Position: Senior Research Engineer, Combustion Group, Thermal & Fluid Sciences Department,
United Technologies Research Center
Yang L. Wang (2011)
Thesis Title: An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Fundamental Combustion Properties of Biofuels
Current Position: Staff Scientist at Hestia TEC, LLC
Chunsheng Ji (2011)
Thesis Title: Flame Studies of Conventional and Alternative Jet Fuels and their Surrogates
Current Position: Postdoctoral Appointee, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California
Peter S. Veloo (2011)
Thesis Title: Studies of Combustion Characteristics of Alcohols, Aldehydes, and Ketones
Current Position: Research Associate, Princeton University
Qiyao Feng (2011)
Thesis Title: An Experimental and Modeling Study of NOx and Soot Emissions from Biodiesel and its Surrogates
Ning Liu (2013)
Thesis Title: Flame Ignition Studies of Conventional and Alternative Jet Fuels and their Surrogate Components
