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April 2024 ─ Energy & Fuels, ACS Publication
Dianalaura working with colleagues, lead authors a paper accepted in Special Issue of Energy & Fuels ─ Recent Advances in Gas Hydrate Technologies: An Update from ICGH10, 2024, “Methane Hydrate Structure I Dissociation Process and Free Surface Analysis.” American Chemical Society Publication.
Read the work - 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.4c00267
April 2024 ─ 17th SoCal Fluids Symposium at UCI
 YCC presents the microgravity E-FIELD Flames work and space operation in the Combustion session (hosted by Perry Johnson and Dimitri Papamoschou).
April 2024 ─ Observe Total Solar Eclipse with NASA Glasses
 YCC and LFA members appreciate NASA's eclipse glasses for observing the solar eclipse.
Mar 2024 ─ Professor of the Year, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
 YCC awarded (from student vote) for the Professor of the Year of the Mechanical and Aerospace Enginering department at the Engineering Awards Banquet organized by Engineering Student Council (ESC).
Mar 2024 ─ Western States Section of the Combustion Institute (WSSCI) Spring Meeting in Utah
 Kevin Gallerman presented “Modeling ember behavior and accumulation patterns during a wildfire,” (2B05) in the Numerical Methods and Machine Learning Techniques Applied to Combustion session.
Jose Santamaria presented “Experimental observation of the SO3/H2SO4 equilibrium in flue gas conditions with continuous monitoring methods for SO3,” (2A06) in the Diagnostics session.
Jan 2024 ─ Paper Publication in PECS (Impact Factor 29.9)
YCC work with colleagues DDR, Ueda, T., Ohmura, R. coauthor a detailed combustion aspacts of hydrate science published in Progress in Energy and Combustion Science (PECS), 2024, “Fiery ice: An overview of methane hydrate combustion.”
Read the work - 10.1016/j.pecs.2023.101111
It is not only a collection of the hydrate combustion science review, but also an archival effort of their dedication to their career as the permanent record.
Nov 2023 ─ American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR)
  Leopold presented NASA work "Electric Field Coflow Flames Experiment and Simulation," Robin presented NASA research poster "Investigation of mechanisms for microgravity ion-driven wind using simulation."
Aug 2023 ─ UCI Combustion Institute Summer School (UCI CI-SS)
 LFA members joined the week-long lodging Combustion Summer School, "Experimental Combusiton: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE." UCI CI-SS Official Site (ssoe news pending)
July 2023 ─ 29th International Colloquium on the Dyamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems (ICDERS)
![]() Brandon's paper "A comparison between water addition and CO2 addition to a diffusion jet flame," was presented at the 29th International Colloquium on the Dyamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems in Korea as a poster.
July 2023 ─ 10th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH10)
![]() Dianalaura presented poster, "Inhibition effects of surfactant addition at the methane hydrate-CO2 interface: A molecular dynamics study," and awarded the Best Poster at the ICGH10 in Singapore. Another poster lead authors by YCC "Emission Characteristics from CH4 Hydrate Combustion," was also presened.
June 2023 ─ UCI Graduate Hooding Ceremony
 Dianalaura Cueto Duenas (and Daniela Ruiz) were hooded at the UCI graduate hooding ceremony.
June 2023 ─ Graduate Scholarship at SWE-OC
 Dianalaura Cueto Duenas is selected for the FY23 SWE-OC graduate student scholarship reciepent. The celebration will occur in June at the year end banquet.
May 20 2023 ─ AIAA-OC ASAT Conference
Kerian Jeanne Rose and Minas joined the 19th AIAA-OC (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) ASAT (Aerospace Systems and Technology Conference) hosted at UCI, Irvine, CA.
March 2023 ─ Paper Publication in Data in Brief
Dunayeskiy, I., Biasioli, A., YCC, DDR, Muzio, L., Himes, R. coauthors the DoE collaboration work published in Data in Brief, 2023, “Dataset for SO2, SO3, H2SO4 and H2O infrared absorption spectra at 300° C and 350° C temperatures.”
Read the work - 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109066
Feb 2023 ─ Paper Publication in Combustion Science and Technology
YCC, Hugo Girodon and Brandon Esquivias coauthors the PeleLM high pressure simulation work published in Combust. Sci. Technol., 2023, “Modeling of Elevated Pressure Diffusion Flames with Water Addition.”
Read the work - 10.1080/00102202.2023.2182205
Nov 23 2022 ─ Mater's Academic Research Oral Examination
 Maxime Donzeau presented his academic work "PeleLM CFD of ion driven winds from laminar diffusion flames," to supervisors and juries.
Nov 23 2022 ─ Mater's Academic Research Oral Examination
 Thomas Ristor presented his academic work "Gas hydrate for fire suppression," to supervisors and juries.
Nov 22 2022 ─ Mater's Academic Research Oral Examination
 Antoine Guillemenot presented his academic work "Hydrogen blended fuel in high pressure conditions for non-intrusive diagnostics," to supervisors and juries.
Nov 22 2022 ─ Mater's Academic Research Oral Examination
 Alexis Rouault presented his academic work "Watery fuel and high-pressure combustion for clean energy," to supervisors and juries.
Nov 9-12 2022 ─ American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR)
 Dianalaura Cueto Duenas attended and met astronaut and geologist Harrison Schmitt at the ASGSR annual meeting in Houson, Texas.
Engineering News - Graduate Students Meet Astronaut Harrison Schmitt at National Conference
Nov 2022 ─ Paper Publication at Combustion and Flame
YCC lead authors on the first ISS E-FIELD Flames results published in Combust. Flame, 2022, “Electric-Field Effects on Methane Coflow Flames Aboard the International Space Station (ISS): ACME E-FIELD Flames.”
Read the work in Combustion and Flames - 10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112443 🌟Gold open access🌟
Summer 2022 ─ LFA Journal Club and LFA summer Fabrication/Hands-on Training
7/06/21 - For the fourth summer since 2019, LFA Journal Club had a fresh start with a recent published mechanism work in person. The summer hands-on training for experiments is also resumed this year!
June 21 2022 ─ ICDERS Conference
YCC presented a work lead authors by Hugo Girodon "CFD Modeling of pressurized laminar coflow (non-premixed) diffusion flames with water addition," at the International Colloquium on the Dyamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems in Naples Italy.
Mar 21 2022 ─ WSSCI Spring Meeting(hybrid)
Gurpreet Singh Tahim and Edward Sungho Jeon presented the work on Initial Investigation of Carbon Dioxide Hydrate Fire
Extinguishment in the Western States Section of Combustion Institute Spring meeting virtually.
Mar 18 2022 ─ Ph.D. Degree
Navid Saeidi defended on 12/10/21 for his Ph.D. on "Fundamental Studies of CO2 Substitution in Methane Hydrate", files and receives Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering in March.
Mar 14 2022 ─ UCI Engineering News
 Congratulations Yu-Chien (Alice) Chien, recognized as an exceptional mentor and a pathfinder in her field!
Engineering News - Chien Recognized for Gravitational and Space Research and Mentoring
MAR 05 2022 ─ Paper Publication in Combustion and Flame, Vol. 243
YCC as corresponding author works with lead author Escofet-Martin on a paper accepted in Combust. Flame, 2022, “PLIF and Chemiluminescence in a Small Laminar Coflow Methane-Air Diffusion Flame at Elevated Pressures.”
Read the work in Combustion and Flames - 10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112067
See Keck Lab brief history at About Keck DOPSL which is the site dedicated for the Keck Deep Ocean Power Science Laboratory!
Feb 17-20 2022 ─ AAAS Annual Meeting (Hybrid)
Dianalaura Cueto Duenas recorded a three-minute presentation in October, and was invited to present as the finalist online to the judges in January. Her E-Poster research work topic is "MD Simulations of Methane Hydrate Dissociation Under Temperature Step and Ramping" at the AAAS Annual Meeting.
Fall 2021 ─ Dr. Chien's project is selected by NASA PSI
 The project of E-FIELD Flames Experiment, “PeleLM CFD of Ion Driven Winds from Diffusion Flames,” is selected for data mining in the NASA Physical Science Informatives system.
NASA News - NASA Selects Proposals to Provide New Insights from Openly Available Data
Engineering News - NASA Funds E-FIELDS Flames Simulation Project
Dec 03 2021 ─ M.S. Thesis
Dianalaura Cueto Duenas accomplished her M.S. thesis titled “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Methane Hydrate Dissociation Under Temperature Step and Ramping,” and receives her M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Dec 03 2021 ─ M.S. Thesis
Brandon Esquivias Rodriguez accomplished his M.S. thesis titled “Numerical Simulation of Water-Vapor Addition into a Methane Diffusion Flame at High Pressure Using PeleLM,” and receives his M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Dec 01 2021 ─ Memoir of Dr. Felix Jiri Weinberg
DDR working with the Royal Society, lead authors a Biographical Memoir for Dr. Felix Weinberg - the fellow of the Royal Society. 10.1098/rsbm.2021.0012
The photo on the right is in the Supplement Material which records Dr. Weinberg's influence towards people, personal spirit, and life!
Nov 12 2021 ─ Virus-Related and Medical Sprays
Marco Minniti working with colleagues, lead authors a paper accepted in Special Issue of At. Sprays — Virus-Related and Medical Sprays, 2021, “Long-range microscopy of optically dense spray structures using Ultra-Short Pulse Off-Axis Digital Holography.” 10.1615/AtomizSpr.2021039404
Nov 06 2021 ─ ASGSR Halstead Young Investigator Award
YCC is awarded the ASGSR Thora Halstead Young Investigator award at the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) annual meeting in Baltimore.
ASGSR site - 2021 Thora Halstead Young Investigator Award
Oct 11 2021 ─ Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Navid Saeidi working with colleagues, lead authors a paper accepted in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, “Experimental studies on combined production of CH4 and safe long-term storage of CO2 in the form of solid hydrate in sediment.”10.1039/D1CP03239A
Past news
Sept 02 2021 ─ ICLASS2021 (virtual)
Jose Torres presented his work on Digital Hologram Construction and Reconstruction Optimization for Sprays using Optical Softwar in the 15th International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems virtually.
Summer 2021 ─ LFA Journal Club (virtual)
7/29/21 - For a third summer in a row, LFA Journal Club #1 started with a quality microgravity fire safety paper virtually.
May 25 2021 ─ US National Combustion Meeting (virtual)
Brandon Esquivias presented his work on Numerical Simulation of Water-vapor Addition into a Methane Diffusion Flame at High Pressures at the 12th U.S. National Combustion Meeting virtually.
Mar 09 2021 ─ Dissertation Defense
Andrea Biasioli defends his Ph.D. on Optical Absorption for Continuously Monitoring Sulfur Oxides and Sulfuric Acid in Flue Gas Condition and receives his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Dec 18 2020 ─ M.S. Thesis
Dorsa Shirazi accomplishes her M.S. thesis on Wake Simulation of the Multiroter Test Bed and Validation of CHARM Software and receives her M.S degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Dec 18 2020 ─ Ph.D Degree
Claudia López-Cámara defended on 12/03/20 for her Ph.D. on Numerical Study of Non-Premixed Methane/Air Flames Behavior under Different Body Forces: Buoyancy and Electric Field, receives her Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Nov 05 2020 ─ ASGSR Plenary
DDR presents in the Physical Science Plenary at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) Virtual Meeting 2020 on topic "ACME: E-FIELD Flames — Electric Field Effects on Laminar Diffusion Flames".
Nov 05 2020 ─ ASGSR Plenary
YCC presents in the Physical Science Informatics Plenary at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) Virtual Meeting 2020 on topic "E-FIELD Flames Experiment Operations and Accomplishment".
May 14 2020 ─ Advanced Cadidacy
Navid Saeidi successfully advanced to Ph.D. candidacy on the research topic "Fundamental Studies of Substitution of CO2 into the Methane Hydrate".
Dec 06 2019 ─ Dissertation Defense
Michela Vicariotto defends her Ph.D. on Watery Vapor Addition in High Concentrations to the Fuel Side of a Two-dimensional Methane/air Diffusion Flame and receives her Ph.D. degree in in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Nov 2019 ─ ASGSR Annual Meeting
YCC gave oral presentation of ISS research on microgravity experiments examining electric field effects on laminar methane gas-jet diffusion flames; Claudia-F. López Cámara presented her recent work on comprehensive chemical kinetic mechanism for simple hydrocarbon fuels including important excited and charged species in the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) annual meeting.
Sep 03 2019 ─ Dissertation Defense
Marco Minniti defends his Ph.D. on Femtosecond Holography of Sprays and receives his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
August 2019 ─ INTERN Fellowship
Claudia-F. Lopez-Camara is awarded a “Non-Academic Research Internship for Graduate Students (INTERN)” from NSF for an internship at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
July 17 2019 - August 29 2019 ─ LFA summer Fabrication Training and Journal Club
YCC leads 12 hours hands-on fabrication taining and 5 research topics of journal club with LFA graduate students and summer scholars.
July 2019 ─ ASPACC 2019
YCC presented a paper on microgravity E-FIELD Flames experiments with methane jet flames at the 12th ASPACC (Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion) in Fukuoka, Japan.
May 2019 ─ ILASS 2019
Marco Minniti presented a paper on femtosecond holography of a dodecane jet spray at high-pressure conditions at the 30th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Tempe, AZ.
April 2019 ─ AAPG-Gas Hydrates 2019
Navid Saeidi gave an oral presentation on CO2 substitution in methane hydrates at the Gas Hydrates Conference - From Potential Geohazard to Carbon-Efficient, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) in New Zealand.
March 2019 ─ US National Combustion Meeting
Andrea Biasioli presented his work on continuous monitoring methods for SO3 and H2SO4 in flue gas; Michela Vicariotto presented her work on fuel dilution on a coflow methane/air diffusion flame; Claudia-F. López Cámara presented her research on numerical simulations of CH4-air flames influenced by varying electric fields; Candy Hernandez and Michelle Tanaka presented their research on hot air balloon combustion behavior; YCC presented a paper on ion current with electric fields in microgravity at the 11th U.S. National Combustion Meeting in Pasadena.
Feb 2019 ─ Princeton University
DDR presents in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Seminar at Princeton University on topic "Electric Field Effects on Laminar Diffusion Flames".
Nov 2018 ─ ASGSR Annual Meeting
YCC and Claudia-F. López Cámara gave oral presentations in the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) annual meeting in Fall.
Oct 2018 ─ FIERY ICE 2018
Navid Saeidi presented a poster in the 12th International Workshop on Methane Hydrate Research and Development Conference at the Southwest Petroleum University in Chengdu, China.
July 2018 ─ ICLASS2018
Marco Minniti presented a paper in the 14th International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems.
July 29 2018 - Aug 03 2018 ─ Combustion Symposium
Michela Vicariotto, Claudia-F. López Cámara, YCC presented work-in-progress posters in the 37th international Combustion Symposium in Dublin, Ireland.
Sep 07 2017 ─ Dissertation Defense
David Escofet-Martin defends his Ph.D. on Laser Diagnostics for High Pressure Combustion and receives his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Aug 28 2017 ─ Dissertation Defense
Jesse Tinajero defends his Ph.D. on Flame Dynamics and Chemi-Ion Flows Driven by Applied Electric Fieldsand receives his Ph.D. degree in in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Aug 17 2017 ─ Dissertation Defense
Vinicius Maron Sauer defends his Ph.D. on Analysis of Laminar Nonpremixed Stagnation Flow and Swirl-Type Tubular Flames and receives his Ph.D. degree in in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Sep 30 2016 ─ Dissertation Defense
Rosa Padilla defends her Ph.D. on Structure and Behavior of Non-Premixed Water-Laden Methane/Air Flames and receives her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Sep 02 2016 ─ Dissertation Defense
Jin Dang defends his Ph.D. on In Field Measurements of Solid Fuel Cookstove Emissions and receives his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
July
31
2016 - Aug
05 2016 ─ combustion Symposium
LFA members
to attend 36th international Combustion Symposium in COEX, Seoul, Korea.
March 21
2016 - March 22 2016 ─ WSSCI Spring Meeting
LFA
members
to attend and present in Western States Section Combustion
Institute in University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Mar 02 2016 ─ Dissertation Defense
Ali Ziaee defends his Ph.D. on Ultra-short Pulse Off-axis Digital Holography and Kerr Effect Ballistic Imaging in Highly Scattering Environments such as Formation Regions of Diesel Sprays and receives his Ph.D. degree in in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Dec 2015 ─ Korea Trip
DDR invited to present talks in Korea.
Nov 11 2015 - Nov 14 2015 ─ ASGSR/ISPS Annual Meeting
Claudia Lopez presents an electric field modeling talk/poster at American
Society for Gravitational and Space Research Biological and Physical
Sciences Bridging Earth and Space conference in Alexandria, VA.
Oct
05
2015 - Oct
06 2015 ─ WSSCI Fall Meeting
Vinicius Sauer, Jin Dang and Claudia Lopez
to attend and present in Western States Section Combustion Institute in Brigham Young University, Probo, Utah.
Sep 22
2015 ─ LFA Office moved
LFA office moved to a new location.
Aug
09
2015 - Aug
14 2015 ─ Gordon Research Conferences
LFA members
to attend Laser Diagnostics in Combustion Meeting of
Gordon Reseach Conferences in Waterville Valley, NH.
Aug 02 2015 - Aug
07 2015 ─ 25th ICDERS Meeting
DDR presents Yu-Chien Chien and David Escofet-Martin's
electric field effects on impinging flame paper; David Escofet-Martin's
laser diagnostic poster of two photon CO measruement.
June 21 2015 -
June 26 2015 ─ 2015 Combustion Summer School
LFA
members to to attend one
week Combustion Summer School of
Combustion Energy Frontier Research Center(CEFRC) at Princeton.
June
08 2015 - June 12 2015 ─ V School of COMBUSTION
LFA
members to to attend one
week Combustion Summer School at Brasil.
May 17 2015
- May
21 2015 ─ 9th U.S. National Combustion Meeting
DDR invited as plenary speaker presents "Deep Ocan Power
Science: Hydrate Combustion." LFA
members to attend and present their work at National Combustion Meeting
in Cincinnati.
April 2015 ─
Asia Trip - National Cheng Kung University, Aoyama Gukuin University
and Keio University
DDR invited to present talks and workshops on Methae
Hydrate at Research Center for Energy Technology and Strategy, National
Cheng Kung Univertiy,
Taiwan.
Mar
17 2015 ─
LFA website up-to-date!!
Thanks
every LFA member for sending/creating personal pages.
Mar
13 2015 ─
LFA cloud officially starts!
Thanks for Vinicius' choice and appreciate Jin for setting
the system up.
For detail information please speak with Jin or Alice.
Dec 15 2014 ─ Dissertation Defense
Yu-Chien (Alice) Chien defends her Ph.D. on Electrical Aspects of Quenching Flames and
receives her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Oct 23 2014 - Oct 26 2014 ─ ASGSR/ISPS Annual Meeting
Jesse
Tinajero presents an electrical aspects on combustion paper at American
Society for Gravitational and Space Research Biological and Physical
Sciences Bridging Earth and Space conference in Pasadena, CA.
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