Facilities

  • Counterflow Burner

    A high-pressure counterflow burner (capable of operating at above 50 atmospheres – hydrotested up to 200 atm) with an array of flow controllers, PIV, and LII diagnostics.

  • High-Pressure Flow Reactor

    A high-pressure flow reactor (hydro tested up to 100 atm) with an array of flow controllers, gaseous and pre-vaporized liquid fuel delivery system, and species/soot quantification via GC-TCD-FID, GC-MS, MBMS, SMPS.

     



     

  • Reacting Flow Codes

    An array of reacting flow codes – Chemkin suite, Cantera 2.3, OpenFOAM, Sandia S3D DNS code with IBM, and access to high performance computing capabilities

Contact Information

Harsha K. Chelliah

Professor

Professor Chelliah is currently serving as the Program Director for Combustion and Fire Systems in the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems at the National Science Foundation (NSF). His research interests are vast and include fundamental investigations on interaction of finite-rate kinetics with transport.
Google Scholar Reacting Flow Lab
Email harsha@virginia.edu