CEFRC
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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
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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