People

Prof. Omid Askari

Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)

(304) 293-0200

omid.askari@mail.wvu.edu

James Shaffer

PH.D. STUDENT
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Research Interests: High-Pressure Ignition, Laminar Burning Speed, Thermal Plasma Modeling, Glow/Arc Discharge, Laser Spectroscopy

Afaque Alam

PH.D. STUDENT
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Research Interests: Ammonia Combustion, Laminar Burning Speed, Advanced Laser Diagnostics, Machine Learning

Luis Fernando Alvarez Correa

PH.D. STUDENT
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Research Interests: Ammonia Combustion, Plasma-assisted Combustion, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Non-thermal Plasma Modeling, Laser Spectroscopy

Kwonse Kim

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Research Interests: Ignition Kernel Formation, Capacitive Discharge, Matching Effect of High Voltage, Plasma Jet Ignition

Shrabanti Roy

PH.D. STUDENT
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Research Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Chemical Kinetic, Detailed/Reduced Mechanism Generation, Renewable energy

Saeid Zare

PH.D. STUDENT
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Research Interests: Laminar Burning Speed, Flame Stabilization, Plasma-Assisted Ignition, Optical Diagnostics, Sensitivity Analysis

Hao Wei Lo

M.S. STUDENT
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Research Interests: Plasma-Assisted Combustion, Repetitive Nanosecond Plasma Discharge in Coaxial Burner

Lameed Ayodeji Onigbanjo

M.S. STUDENT
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Research Interests: Thermodynamic Properties of Pure and Mixed Thermal Plasmas

Aiman El Maadi

M.S. STUDENT
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Research Interests: Flame Speed, Flame Structure, Oxygenated Biofuel, Thermodynamic Modeling

Karl Grebner

B.S. STUDENT
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Worked on proportionality between light intensity emitted by plasma and its temperature

Ben Jones

B.S. STUDENT
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Studied Auto Ignition Process using Rapid Compression Expansion Machine (RCEM)

Ty Irwin

B.S. STUDENT
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Performed Experiment and Calibration on OH Laser Induced Fluorescence (OH-LIF) System

Kirill Safrin

B.S. STUDENT
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Installed and Calibrated a Rapid Compression Expansion Machine (RCEM) along with a High-Pressure Injection System

Allie Brown

B.S. STUDENT
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Designed a New Single-Element Coaxial Burner for Low-Temperature Plasma Investigation

Adam Weed

B.S. STUDENT
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Designed and Built a New Controlled Ignition Box for Air-Fuel investigation in a Constant Volume Combustion Chamber (CVCC)

Bret Reinhart

B.S. STUDENT
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Designed and Built a High-Speed Schlieren Imaging System to Study Ignition Kernel and Flame Propagation

Spencer Craig

B.S. STUDENT
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Designed and Procured a New Air-Fuel Supply Manifold System to Prepare Mixture with Precise Composition

Steven Coke

B.S. STUDENT
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Prepared a Lab Layout for Equipment Placement and Supported Lab Activities in Design and Manufacturing

Matthew Matrick

B.S. STUDENT
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Performed a Comprehensive Literature Review on Combustion-Synthesized Nanoparticles