Dr. Houshang B. Ebrahimi
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Phone: (931) 454-7491
Education
- Ph. D., Mechanical Engineering,
University of California-Berkeley, 1984.
Research
Primarily responsible for the development and application
of chemically reacting, two-phase flow codes and models. Representative
applications have included subsonic and scramjet engines,
pulse detonation engines, engine augmenters, solid-rocket
motor performance, missile aerodynamics, and exhaust plume
behavior. Principal investigator for the development of efficient
CFD methodologies to simulate numerous aspects of combustion
processes and stability factors affecting chemical propulsion
systems, including gas-turbine engines and rocket devices,
as well as internal test-facility flow combustion and cooling
phenomena. This computational tool can be applied to liquid
and gas combustion processes leading to increased engine performance,
reliability, and reduced emissions; ramjet/scramjet flow phenomena
including mixing, ignition, and combustion; and detailed spray
droplet analysis including atomization, phase change, and
vaporization, as well as multiple spray modeling. Established
an extensive experimental database in order to facilitate
the validation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes
Courses Taught
- Advanced Combustion
- Numerical Reacting Flow
Publications
- Ebrahimi, H. B., Rajendra, M., and Merkle, C. "Multi-level
Analysis of Pulsed Detonation Engines." AIAA-2000-3589,
July 2000.
- Ebrahimi, H. B. and Merkle, C. "A Numerical Simulation
of the Pulse Detonation Engine With H2 Fuels." Combustion
of Energetic Materials. Begell House, Inc.
- Ebrahimi, H. B., Ryder, R. C., Jr., and Brankovic, A.
"A Measurement Archive for Validation of the National
Combustion Code." AIAA-2001-0811, January 2001.
- Ebrahimi, H. B. "Numerical Simulation of Transient
Jet Interaction Phenomenology in a Supersonic Frees Stream."
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 37, No. 6,
December 2000, pp. 713-719.
- Ebrahimi, H. B. and Merkle C. "A Numerical Simulation
of The Pulse Detonation Engine With Hydrogen Fuels."
AIAA-99-2818, June 1999.
- Ebrahimi, H. B., Levine, and Kawasaki, A. "Numerical
Simulation of Transient Jet Interaction On a Generic Supersonic
Missile With Fins." AIAA-99-03-03, July 1999.
- Ebrahimi, H. B. "Numerical Investigation of Twin-Nozzle
Rocket Plume Phenomenology." Journal of Propulsion
and Power, Vol. 16, No. 2, March 2000, pp. 178-186.
- Ebrahimi, H. B. "Validation Database for Propulsion
Computational Fluid Dynamics." Journal of Spacecraft
and Rockets, Vol. 34, No. 5, October 1997, pp. 642-650.
- Ebrahimi, H. B., Levine, J. and Kawasaki, A. "Numerical
Investigation of Twin-Nozzle Rocket Plume Phenomenology."
AIAA-97-0264, January 1997.
