Today’s energy technologies have been moving toward operating at near-limit conditions to achieve higher efficiency, lower emissions, and fuel variability. Under these near limit conditions chemical kinetics and thermo-fluid dynamics couple more distinctively in a reacting flow system. This talk discusses two such ‘near limit’ systems – “Liquid Phase” non-thermal plasma discharge and “Cool Flame” in multiphase configuration. The first part of the talk focuses on plasma development in liquid phase and discusses the kinetic processes that drives the plasma formation mechanism at nano-second time scales. The second part of the talk will discuss the interplaying physicochemical processes that trigger “Cool Flame” behavior, and that can be controlled to purposely attain a “Cool Flame” burn in multiphase.
Biography: Tanvir Farouk is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of South Carolina, Columbia. He received his MASc (2004) and PhD (2009) from University of Toronto and Drexel University respectively. His doctoral work on non-thermal plasma discharge earned him the prestigious National Science and Engineering Research council of Canada (NSERC) post-doctoral fellowship award. He was awarded the Irvin Glassman Young Investigator award by the Combustion Institute in 2013 for his work on “Cool Flames” and was invited to be a member of NASA’s Science and Definition for Microgravity Experiments from 2014 – 2016 and also serves in the panel on “Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space 2023-2032”. He was awarded the Young Investigator Award (2018) and Breakthrough Star Award (2016) from the University of South Carolina. In 2019 he was awarded the Ralph Teetor Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers. For his contribution to plasma treated surface functionalization of composites he received the NASA Group Achievement Award in 2020. His research has been supported by DARPA, DOE, DOD, NASA, NSF, Boeing and Holtec. Dr. Farouk has authored/ co-authored 50 plus journal articles, 80 conference articles, 1 book chapter and 5 patents/disclosures.
