My background is mainly related to the experimental and modeling kinetic studies with different apparatuses, directly or indirectly applied to combustion or industrial safety.

I did my PhD at IFP Energies nouvelles (Rueil-Malmaison) on "the liquid phase stability of fuel surrogates". The main objective of my thesis was to develop and validate a methodology combining both experimental data acquisition and the development of kinetic models for liquid phase autoxidation.

My current research is about the experimental and modeling study of detonation propagations.

• 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
  
• Current Status of the High-Temperature Kinetic Models of Silane: Part I. Pyrolysis
  K.P. Chatelain, Y. He, R. Alharbi, R. Mével, E.L. Petersen, and D.A. Lacoste
  Combustion and Flame, 227, 526-537, 2021
  
• Combustion of Silane-Nitrous Oxide-Argon Mixtures: Analysis of Laminar Flame Propagation and Condensed Products.
  R. Mével, K.P. Chatelain, Y. He, S. Lapointe, D.A. Lacoste, M. Allix, N. Chaumeix, and C.-...
  Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 38, 2235-2245, 2021

• Spherically Expanding Flame in Silane-Hydrogen-Nitrous Oxide-Argon Mixtures
  R. Mével, K.P. Chatelain, S. Lapointe, D.A. Lacoste, M. Idir, G. Dupré, and N. Chaumeix
  Combustion and Flame, 221, 150-159, 2020

• 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, D.A. Lacoste
  Combustion and Flame, 217, 346-359, 2020
• Comparison of electrical breakdowns produced by a nanosecond high-voltage pulse applied to metallic and composite m...
  A. Reguig, B. Ramljak, K.P. Chatelain, J.S. Damazo, E. Kwon, D.A. Lacoste
  IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 1-8, 2019
• Development of kinetic models for the hybrid fuels combustion containing aluminum particles
  K. Chatelain, M. Matrat, L. Catoire and M. Bouchez
  Journal of Propulsion and Power, 35, 443-450, 2019
• 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​