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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Thermodynamics and Combustion Laboratory

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science

Principal Investigator

	Ben Akih-Kumgeh Assistant Professor, Syracuse University, Feb. 2012 - present Postdoctoral Scholar, McGill University, July 2011- Jan. 2012 Education PhD, Mechanical Engineering, McGill University 2011 M.Sc., Energy Engineering, RWTH Aachen, 2007 Dipl.-Ing. (FH), Mechanical Engineering, Fachhochschule Aachen, 2004 Aircraft Engines and Power Plants, Samara State Aerospace University, 1999-2001 Curriculum Vitae
Graduate research students
	Apeng Zhou PhD student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Shock tube investigation of knock-resistant fuel additives and blends
	Nathan Peters PhD student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Investigation of the multi-physics of laser-induced ignition of transportation fuels
	Shirin Jouzdani PhD student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Shock tube laser absorption investigation of alternative fuel ignition and pyrolysis
	Deshawn Coombs PhD student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Computational combustion; Computational gas dynamics (shock tube and laser-induced flows)
	David Chenwi Zheng PhD student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Large Eddy Simulations of multiphase & chemically reacting flows

	Amirali Montakhab PhD student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Lattice Boltzmann Methods for combustion simulations
Undergraduate research students

Former members
	Jenna Philips M.S., Spring 2016, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Large Eddy Simulations of high-pressure methane injection and mixing
	Dr. Mazen Eldeeb Cuurent: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Fresno PhD Thesis (Dec. 2015): Characterization and Chemical Kinetic Analysis of the Ignition of Representative Conventional and Bio-Derived Fuels
	Marcos Blanco Fernandes Undergraduate research student from Fundacao Educacional Inaciana, Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. Research at TCL Syracuse March 2012- Dec. 2012 on: Shock tube design for combustion chemical kinetics studies Shock Wave Physics
	Ranon Barros Bezerra Undergraduate research student from Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil. Research at TCL Syracuse June 2012- Dec. 2012 on: Thermochemistry Development of a MATLAB Graphic User Interface for the generation of thermodynamics tables and NASA polynomials from output files of electronic structure calculations.

TCL - Summer 2015

From left to right: Deshawn Coombs, Francisco Caamano, Donna Le, Dorian Revolorio, Kevin Gautreau, Patrina Bailey,

Amanda Walkowicz, Peter Michalowski, Dr. Akih, Mazen Eldeeb, Riley Gourde, Jenna Philipp, Shirin Jouzdani,

Lingshu Zhang, Nathan Peters. Photo by Nathan Peters.

TCL - Fall 2013

From left to right: Ana Ally, Apeng Zhou, Yuan Fang, Henry Morrow, Brian Bascom, Nathan Peters, Dr. Akih,

Robert Dreiker, Marvin Mena, Shaquille Jones, Cory Prykull, Jasdeep Singh, and Mazen Eldeeb. Photo by Ana Ally.

Contact us

Dr. Ben Akih-Kumgeh
Email:bakihkum[at]syr.edu
Tel.:+1 315 443 2335
Fax: +1 315 443 9099

Thermodynamics & Combustion Lab
MAE Department, Syracuse University
Mailing: 263 Link Hall; Office: 235 Link Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244