Background
Large-eddy simulation and modeling of turbulent reacting flows, non-premixed flame, aeroacoustics and combustion generated noise, turbulence and fluid dynamics, numerical methods and high-order schemes
Education
- Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford, 2007
- M.Sc. Computational Engineering, University of Erlangen, Germany, 2002
- Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Mechanical Engineering, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany, 2000
Academic Honors and Awards
- 2010 AFOSR Young Investigator Award
- 2010 ONR Young Investigator Award
- 2009 NSF CAREER Award
- 2009 Rackham Faculty Research Grant
- 2000 Academic Excellence Award
- 1995-2002 BMW Scholarship
Selected Journal Publications
- Regularization of reaction progress variable for application to flamelet-based combustion models. Ihme, M., Shunn, L. and Zhang, J.. Journal of Computational Physics, 2012. (BIB)
- On the role of turbulence and compositional fluctuations in rapid compression machines: Autoignition of syngas mixtures. Ihme, M.. Combustion and Flame, 2012. (BIB)
- On the generation of direct combustion noise in turbulent non-premixed flames. Ihme, M. and Pitsch, H.. International Journal of Aeroacoustics, 11(1):25-78, 2012. (BIB)
- LES flamelet modeling of a three-stream MILD combustor: Analysis of flame sensitivity to scalar inflow conditions. Ihme, M. and See, Y.C.. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 33(1):1309-1317, 2011. (BIB)
- Prediction of autoignition in a lifted methane-air flame using an unsteady flamelet-progress variable model. Ihme, M. and See, Y.C.. Combustion and Flame, 157(10):1850-1862, 2010. (BIB)
- Radiation of noise in turbulent non-premixed flames. Ihme, M., Pitsch, H. and Bodony, D.. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 32(1):1545-1553, 2009. (BIB)
- Modeling of radiation and nitric oxide formation in turbulent nonpremixed flames using a flamelet/progress variable formulation. Ihme, M. and Pitsch, H.. Physics of fluids, 20:055110, 2008. (BIB)
Current Ph.D. Students
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