Indrek Wichman
Professor
Research Interests
- combustion
- flame studies
Research Biography
Combustion and flame studies related to fire and theoretical combustion, analytical modeling (fire, ignition, quenching, flame spread, instabilities), computational modeling (flame spread, triple flames, instabilities, solid pyrolysis, microgravity flames), experimentation (MSU fire tunnel, thermal property measurement, flames in small enclosed spaces (micro flames), burner flame attachment).
Selected Publications
- Olson, S. L., Miller, F. J., Jahengirian, S. and Wichman, I. S., "Flame Spread Over Thin Fuels in Actual and Simulated Microgravity Conditions," submitted to Combustion and Flame, December (2007).
- Wichman, I. S and McMasters, R. L. IV, "On Combustion Around a Porous Blowing reactant Sphere in a Low Reynolds Number Crossflow," Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 179, pp. 933-960 (2007).
- Shen, Y., Bedford, J. and Wichman, I. S., "Thermodynamic Modeling of Direct Injection Methanol Fueled Engines," submitted to Applied Thermal Engineering, June (2007).