CEFRC
Director(s):
Chung K. Law
Lead Institution:
Princeton University
Years:
2009-2014
Mission:
To develop a validated, predictive, multi-scale combustion modeling capability which can be used to optimize the design and operation of evolving fuels in advanced engines for transportation applications.
Research Topics:
biofuels (including algae and biomass), hydrogen and fuel cells, combustion, carbon capture
Experimental and Theoretical Methods:
laser diagnostics, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), monte carlo (MC), quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, continuum modeling, finite element method, multiscale modeling, next generation optimization methods, extreme scale computing
Partner Institutions:
- Argonne National Laboratory
- University of Connecticut
- Cornell University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of Minnesota
- Princeton University
- Sandia National Laboratories
- University of Southern California
- Stanford University
- University of Wisconsin - Madison
