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The Georgia Institute of Technology's Computational Combustion Laboratory (CCL) is a part of the Georgia Tech School of Aerospace Engineering Combustion Research Facility. The CCL is a center for the modeling and analysis of complex combustion dynamics in turbulent flows. This facility is under the supervision of Dr. Suresh Menon, and contains both supercomputers and workstations networked locally and through the Internet. The CCL conducts research in the following areas: turbulence and tubulent mixing, active drag control, non-premixed and premixed turbulent combustion in gas turbine combustors, two-phase turbulent spray combustion, heterogeneous chemistry effects in combustors (aerosol and soot dynamics), combustion in LOX-GH2 rocket motors, unsteady combustion in internal combustion engines, active control (fuzzy and neural network) application to combustion instability, simulation of MEMS synthetic jet actuators and micro-power generators, supersonic mixing and cavity oscillations, plasma ignition and turbulence, molecular dynamics, and interactive animated visualization of complex fields. Research involves application of direct and large-eddy simulations using innovative mixing and combustion models. Some of the research effort involves parallel experimental studies (e.g., two-phase mixing, droplet condensation, fuzzy control, two-phase combustion in spray systems and supersonic mixing) so that the numerical tools can be validated.
The general themes of research currently in CCL are:
