Tis the season...Happy Holidays everyone!
Bowling - pizza party with Brian Maxwell's group: Samaneh, Omar, Ramki and our own: Kevin (and Gabrielle), Hongxia, Aliou, Farzane and Samir visiting us from KAUST.
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2023 Highlights - Ramki, Willstrong and Sarthak graduate!
Many great things realized in 2023, but the best were the successful thesis defences and graduation of three students: Ramki Murugesan defended his PhD thesis Translational Non-Equilibrium Effects in Reactive Dynamics of Detonations Willstrong Rakotoarison defended his PhD thesis Chapman - Jouguet deflagrations and their transition to detonations Sarthak Lalchandani defended his Masters thesis Modelling of Quasi Steady Detonations with Inert Confinement Congratulations guys. You rock!
Are Chapman-Jouguet deflagrations the ultimate flames prior to transition to detonations?
We just published an article suggesting this is the case, provided the gases are sufficientlty insensitive to not have transited prior. It is the flame's last resort for transition. Our paper.