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Dr. Tarek Echekki Associate Professor North Carolina State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 4152 Broughton Hall Box 7910 Raleigh, N.C. 27695 Phone: 919.515.5238 Fax: 919.515.7968 Email: techekk@eos.ncsu.edu

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 1993
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 1987
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, 1986

Research Interests

Modeling and simulation of turbulent reacting flows; Low-dimensional turbulent combustion models: Linear-Eddy Model (LEM) and One-Dimensional Turbulence (ODT); Direct Numerical; Simulations; Large-Eddy Simulations; Micro-scale combustion

Selected Publications

• Ranganath, B. and Echekki, T., Effects of Preferential and Differential Diffusion on the Mutual Annihilation of Two Premixed Stoichiometric Hydrogen Air Flames, Combust. Theory and Modelling, in Review, 2004.
  
  
• Zhang, S.., and Echekki, T., Finite-Rate Chemistry Effects in Hydrogen-Air Turbulent Jet Diffusion Flames with Helium Dilution, in Review, Combustion and Flame, 2004.
  
  
• Echekki, T., Chen, J.Y., Hegde, U., Numerical investigation of buoyancy effects on triple flame stability, Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 176 (3): 381-407, 2004.
  
  
• Echekki, T., Chen, J.H., Direct numerical simulation of autoignition in non-homogeneous hydrogen-air mixtures, Combustion and Flame, Vol. 134 (3): 169-191, 2003.
  
  
• Echekki, T., Chen, J.H., High-temperature combustion in autoigniting non-homogeneous hydrogen/air mixtures, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute,  Vol. 29: 2061-2068, 2002.