The ASEC Lab launches at McGill University
Aerothermochemistry for Sustainable Energy Conversion — a new research group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
McGill University · Department of Mechanical Engineering
Aerothermochemistry for Sustainable Energy Conversion
We develop predictive simulation methods for turbulent reactive flows — advancing hydrogen and alternative fuels, thermochemical conversion of solid fuels, and high-performance computing for the energy transition.
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Predictive models for hydrogen, ammonia blends, and reactive metal fuels — from flame instabilities to storage safety.
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Multiphase reactive flows of biomass and metal fuels — kinetics, radiation, and emissions in practical systems.
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DNS and LES with flamelet-based manifolds, on GPU-based exascale architectures with NekRS, Pele, and OpenFOAM.
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About the name
Numerical modeling of turbulent combustion is grounded in first-principle equations that arise from the rational combination of aerodynamics, thermodynamics, and chemistry. The establishment of this framework is usually attributed to Theodore von Kármán, who first lectured on aerothermochemistry at the Sorbonne, Paris, during the academic term 1951–1952. Our lab's name honors this tradition — and applies it to the energy systems of the future.
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Aerothermochemistry for Sustainable Energy Conversion — a new research group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
We are open for scholarship applications and always welcome inquiries from motivated students, researchers, and postdocs.
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