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, 2008
- 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
- Large-eddy simulation of a piloted premixed jet burner. Y. Chen and M. Ihme. Combustion and Flame, 160(12), 2013. (URL) (BIB)
- Acoustic characterization of a partially-premixed gas turbine model combustor: Syngas and hydrocarbon fuel comparisons. P.M. Allison, J.F. Driscolla and M. Ihme. Proc. Combustion Institute, 34(2), 2013. (URL) (BIB)
- On the role of turbulence and compositional fluctuations in rapid compression machines: Autoignition of syngas mixtures. M. Ihme. Combustion and Flame, 2012. (URL) (BIB)
- On the generation of direct combustion noise in turbulent non-premixed flames. M. Ihme and H. Pitsch. International Journal of Aeroacoustics, 11(1):25-78, 2012. (URL) (BIB)
- Regularization of reaction progress variable for application to flamelet-based combustion models. M. Ihme, L. Shunn and J. Zhang. Journal of Computational Physics, 2012. (URL) (BIB)
- LES flamelet modeling of a three-stream MILD combustor: Analysis of flame sensitivity to scalar inflow conditions. M. Ihme and Y.C. See. Proc. of the Combustion Institute, 33(1):1309-1317, 2011. (URL) (BIB)
- Prediction of autoignition in a lifted methane-air flame using an unsteady flamelet-progress variable model. M. Ihme and Y.C. See. Combustion and Flame, 157(10):1850-1862, 2010. (URL) (BIB)
- Radiation of noise in turbulent non-premixed flames. M. Ihme, H. Pitsch and D. Bodony. Proc. Combustion Institute, 32(1):1545-1553, 2009. (URL) (BIB)
- Prediction of extinction and reignition in nonpremixed turbulent flames using a flamelet/progress variable model: 2. Application in LES of Sandia flames D and E. M. Ihme and H. Pitsch. Combustion and flame, 155(1):90-107, 2008. (URL) (BIB)
- Modeling of radiation and nitric oxide formation in turbulent nonpremixed flames using a flamelet/progress variable formulation. M. Ihme and H. Pitsch. Physics of fluids, 20:055110, 2008. (URL) (BIB)
- Prediction of extinction and reignition in nonpremixed turbulent flames using a flamelet/progress variable model: 1. A priori study and presumed PDF closure. M. Ihme and H. Pitsch. Combustion and flame, 155(1):70-89, 2008. (URL) (BIB)