Publications

Recent Publications

Sarnacki, B, Chelliah, HK, “Sooting Limits of Non-premixed Counterflow Ethylene/Oxygen/Inert Flames using LII: Effects of Flow Strain Rate and Pressure (up to 30 atm),” Combustion and Flame, 195 (2018) 267-281 (Special Issue in Honor of Professor CK Law’s 70th Birthday) 

Rahimi, MJ, Chelliah, HK, “Simplified Approach to Identify Thermal Choking Limit of a Dual-Mode Supersonic Combustor with Variable Cross-sectional Area,” AIAA J., 56(5) (2018), pp. 2091-2095

Huang, B, Shrestha, U, Davis, RJ, Chelliah, HK, “Endothermic Pyrolysis of JP-10 with and without Zeolite for Hypersonic Applications,” AIAA J., 56(4) (2018), pp. 1616-1626

Shrestha, U, Rahimi, MJ, Simms, GP, Chelliah, HK, “Fuel pyrolysis in a microflow tube reactor–Measurement and modeling uncertainties of ethane, n-butane, and n-dodecane pyrolysis,” Combustion and Flame, 177 (2017) 10–23

Johnson, RF, Chelliah, HK, “Numerical Simulation of Two-dimensional Flow Over a Heated Carbon Surface with Coupled Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Reactions,” Combustion Theory and Modeling 21 (2017) 2-22 Article PDF

Johnson, RF, VanDine, AC, Esposito, G, Chelliah, HK, “On the Axisymmetric Counterflow Flame Simulations: Is there an Optimal Nozzle Diameter and Separation Distance to Apply Quasi One-Dimensional Theory?” Combustion Science and Technology, 187 (2015) 37-59 (Special Issue in Honor of Professor Forman A. Williams 80th Birthday)

Esposito, G, Rahimi, MJ, Edwards, JE, and Chelliah, HK, “Assessment of Chemical Kinetic Modeling for Silane/Hydrogen Mixtures in Hypersonic Applications,” AIAA J. 52(10) (2014) 2213-2222

Esposito, G and Chelliah, HK, “Effect of Binary Diffusion and Chemical Kinetic Parameter Uncertainties in Simulations of Premixed and Non-premixed Laminar Hydrogen Flames,” Combust. and Flame 159 (2012) 3522-3529

Esposito, G, Sarnacki, B, and Chelliah, HK, “Uncertainty Propagation of Chemical Kinetic Parameters and Binary Diffusion Coefficients in Predicting Extinction Limits of Hydrogen/Oxygen/Nitrogen Nonpremixed Flames,” Combust. Theory and Modeling 16(6) (2012) 1029-1052

Sarnacki, B, Esposito, G, Krauss, RH, Chelliah, HK, “Extinction Limits and Uncertainties of Non-Premixed Ethylene-Air and Methane-Air Counterflow Flames,” Combust. and Flame 159 (2012) 1026–1043

Contact Information

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.