Professor Suo Yang

This group conducts research centered on the multi-physics and multi-scale modeling and numerical simulation (CFD) of turbulent reacting/multiphase flows (spanning combustion, plasma, particulate and multiphase flows, and hypersonics) in propulsion and energy systems (e.g., diesel engines, gas-turbine jet engines, scramjets, liquid rocket engines, detonation engines/tubes, chemical reactors, and hypersonic boost-glide vehicles). 

Current projects include:

• High-pressure liquid-fueled propulsion power for high efficiency
• Plasma/catalysis-assisted combustion and fuel reforming/gas conversion toward zero emission
• Hypersonic air-breathing propulsion aerodynamics: supersonic combustion, detonation, hypersonic sonic boom
• Multi-fidelity digital twin physics-integrated machine learning modeling of reacting/multiphase flows for the feed-forward control of propulsion power systems
• Particles in combustion emission (e.g., soot) and nanomaterial synthesis (e.g., TiO₂)

Research by this group was featured on the MSI website in June 2023: Computational Model to Predict Nitrogen Oxides.