My current research interests are related to the experimental characterization of hydrogen detonations by laser diagnostics (mainly OH- and NO-LIF), the development of a spectroscopic code to model LIF processes (KAT-LIF code), as well as the numerical simulations of detonations with OpenFOAM. I am also interested in characterizing reactive systems related to carbon-free fuel energy production or related to the transitioning to net-zero carbon emissions.

• Characterization of detonation waves by simultaneous OH and NO planar laser-induced fluorescence
  S.B. Rojas Chavez, K.P. Chatelain, M. Alicherif and D.A. Lacoste
  Applications in Energy and Combustion Science, (Under Review)
  
  
• Simultaneous Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence of Nitric Oxide and Hydroxyl Radical with a Single Dye Laser in Hydrogen Flames
  K.P. Chatelain, G. Wang, and T.F. Guiberti
  International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, (Accepted)
  
  
• Two-dimensional visualization of induction zone in hydrogen detonations
  S.B. Rojas Chavez, K.P. Chatelain, and D.A. Lacoste.
  Combustion and Flame, 255, 112905 (2023). 
  
  
• Induction Zone Length Measurements in Hydrogen Detonation by Laser Induced Fluorescence of Nitric Oxide
  S.B. Rojas Chavez, K.P. Chatelain, and D.A. Lacoste
  Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 39, 2885-2894, (2023).
  
• Laminar Burning Velocity of Hydrogen, Methane, Ethane, Ethylene, and Propane Flames at near-Cryogenic Temperatures
  A. Ghosh, Natalia M. Munoz-Munoz, K.P. Chatelain, and D.A. Lacoste
  Applications in Energy and Combustion Science, (2022), 100094. 

• Effect of the Reactor Model on Steady Detonation Modeling
  K.P. Chatelain, Y. He, R. Mével, and D.A. Lacoste
  Shock Waves, 31, 323-335, 2021 
  
  
• Effect of the Excitation Line on Hydroxyl Radical Imaging by Laser Induced Fluorescence in Hydrogen Detonations
  S.B. Rojas Chavez, K.P. Chatelain, T.F. Guiberti, R. Mével, and D.A. Lacoste
  Combustion and Flame, 229, 111399, (2021). 

• Effect of incident laser sheet orientation on the OH-PLIF imaging of detonations
  K.P. Chatelain, R. Mével, J. Melguizo-Gavilanes, A. Chinnayya, S.Xu, D.A. Lacoste
  Shock Waves, 30, 689-702, 2020
  
  
• Correction of Reaction Models Using Collision Limit Violation Analyses: Application to a Silane Reaction Model
  K.P. Chatelain, R. Mével, and D.A. Lacoste
  Combustion and Flame, 217, 346–359, (2020). 

• An updated reaction model for the high-temperature pyrolysis and oxidation of acetaldehyde
  R. Mével, K. Chatelain, G. Blanquart and J.E. Shepherd
  Fuel, 217, 226-239, 2018

• ​Ph.D., Processing engineering, ENSTA ParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, FRANCE. (2016)
  
• M.Sc, Energy and Materials, Université d’Orléans, Orléans, FRANCE. (2013)
  
• B.Sc, General Chemistry, Université d’Orléans, Orléans, FRANCE. (2011)
  

• ​2021-present: Research Scientist, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
• 2017-2021: Postdoctoral fellow, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
  
• 2016-2017: Researcher (Post-Doctoral), ENSTA ParisTech, France
  
• 2014: Visiting Researcher, MIT, Cambridge (MA), USA
  
• 2013-2016: Researcher (Ph.D), IFP Energies nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France
  
• 2013: Research Assistant (Internship), Caltech, Pasadena (CA), USA
  
• 2012: Research Assistant (Internship), Caltech, Pasadena (CA), USA
  

• ​Clean Combustion Research Center
  
• Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering​