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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">SPEAKER/BIO:</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><br><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Dr. Pavel Popov, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, SDSU<br></span></b><font size="4"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b><span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"></span></span></b></span><span></span></b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"></span></b></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span>Reliable prediction of
the performance of modern aerospace combustion devices poses numerous
challenges, in terms of both modelling and numerical implementation.
This talk will provide an overview of some of these challenges. Monte
Carlo methods for simulation of turbulent reactive flow are an effective
solution to the chemical composition turbulent closure problem, but
require an increase of the computational cost to keep the sampling error
at a reasonable level. Laser-induced breakdown in high speed combustors
has exciting potential as a control actuator, but requires correct
modelling at both the high-temperature plasma regime and the energy
containing neutral combustion regime. Accurate simulation of reactive
processes using real fuels necessitates algorithms which can efficiently
handle chemical mechanisms with hundreds of species and thousands of
reactions. The simulation of combustion instability and the design of
control strategies to prevent it combines all of these challenges.
Solutions to overcome them are being pursued by the Popov research
group, and will be described in this talk.</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span><br></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><font size="4"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
Pavel Popov is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace
Engineering, specializing in computational combustion. His doctoral work
focused on stochastic methods for the simulation of turbulent reactive
flows. Prior to coming to SDSU in Fall 2019, he pursued post-doctoral
projects in combustion-acoustic instability in rocket engines and
modelling of plasma-combustion coupling. His research interests are in
numerical simulation of reactive flows, high-performance computing,
stochastic simulation and machine learning applications in computational
combustion</span></font>.</span></p>
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