Event
List
Location: KAUST, Building 5, Level 5, Room 5205
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Dates: Wednesday April 17; Sunday April 21;
Wednesday April 24; Sunday April 28;
Wednesday May 1; Sunday May 5
Abstract:
In the field of premixed combustion there are two types of reaction waves, deflagrations and detonations. The main difference is that detonations propagate at supersonic speed, while deflagrations propagate at subsonic speed. This results in several differences, such as the considerable increase in pressure generated by a detonation. The lectures on the fundamentals of detonation deal with this phenomenon by introducing the thermodynamics and the one-dimensional theory of detonations. The lectures deal with the Chapman–Jouguet theory, the concept of thermicity, the Zeldovich–Newman–Döring theory and the analysis of experimental results used to characterize detonations.
Andrés Mendiburu is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, a position he assumed in 2018. Andrés received his Energy Engineering Bachelor from Santa National University in Perú, and his master’s and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Sao Paulo State University in Brazil. His doctoral thesis was approved in 2016 and focused on the study of flammability limits of hydrocarbons and alcohols in air. During his PhD, Andrés received a Linnaeus-Palme Fellowship from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm to be a visiting graduate student from September to December of 2012. After obtaining his PhD he was an invited Pos-doctoral Fellow at the Explosion Physics and Prevention Laboratory at Queen's University (Canada) in 2016 and 2017, staying for three months each year.
Since his admission as assistant professor, Andrés has performed teaching and research activities at the undergraduate and graduate levels. At the undergraduate level he teched Fundamentals of Combustion and Applied Combustion from 2018 to 2021, since 2022 Andrés teaches Heat Transfer Fundamentals, a core subject in Mechanical and Energy Engineering courses of UFRGS. At the graduate level Andrés teaches Classical Thermodynamics in the first semester of the year beginning in 2019. At the second semester of the year, He has taught different courses which reflect his research interests, for example, He delivered a course on Compressible Flow in 2019 and 2020, a Premixed Flames Propagation course in 2021, and a course called Detonations: Fundamentals and Applications in 2023. To this date Andrés has advised nine master thesis and one PhD thesis in the Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering of UFRGS. Currently, Andrés is advising seven master’s students and three PhD students in UFRGS. From March to June of 2024, He is a visiting faculty at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
Andrés is currently the vice-coordinator of the Combustion Laboratory of UFRGS, the Fire Dynamics Laboratory of UFRGS, and he is also the coordinator of the International Research Group for Energy Sustainability (IRGES), where he conducts research on premixed flame propagation emphasizing limit phenomena, deflagrations, and detonations, involving hydrogen, ethanol and other alternative fuels. As a result of his research work, Andrés has published more than 40 scientific articles in journals as Fuel, Combustion Science and Technology, and Energy, among others, between 2014 and 2024. He co-authored the book Applied Combustion (in Portuguese) published in 2018.
He also coordinates a project funded by the Brazilian National Council of Science and Technology (CNPq) in which he collaborates with Prof. Yiguang Ju from Princeton, Prof. Deanna Lacoste from KAUST and with Prof. Gabriel Ciccarelli from Queen’s University. In each case, a PhD student from Brazil will have the opportunity to conduct research in the laboratories of the above institutions. He is also the CO-PI of a project funded by the Army Research Office of the United States where the focus is on the study of detonation phenomena in rotating detonation engines. He was vice-coordinator of a project funded by PETROBRAS and has coordinated two other projects funded by CNPq and by the Research Foundation of Rio Grande do Sul (FAPERGS).
Andrés was awarded by the Brazilian National Council of Science and Technology (CNPq) a productivity researcher grant. This is a grant for faculties who demonstrate an impactful contribution in research and supervision of master's and doctoral students. Less than 15% of the Brazilian Faculty are granted this distinction.
Since 2023, Andres has been a member of the board of the Brazil section of the Combustion Institute (RNC). In the year of 2022 Andrés was elected Secretary of the Combustion Technical Committee (CTC) of the Brazilian Association of Mechanical Science and Engineering (ABCM). He has been coordinator of the Combustion Symposiums of three Brazilian Congresses of Thermal Science and Engineering, ENCTI2020, ENCIT2022, ENCIT 2024 and of two International Congress of Mechanical Engineering, COBEM2021 and COBEM2023. Andrés was the vice-president of the Organizing Committee of the 9th International Combustion Institute Winter School (9th RNC-CI-WS), held in Brazil in July of 2023. Currently, Andrés is appointed as one of the vice-chairs for the WiPP sessions of the 40th International Symposium on Combustion that will be held in Milan – Italy.
