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Dr. Kevin Lyons Associate Professor North Carolina State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 3180 Broughton Hall Box 7910 Raleigh, N.C. 27695 Phone: 919.515.5293 Fax: 919.515.7968 Email: lyons@eos.ncsu.edu

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, 1994
M. Phil. Mechanical Engineering Yale University, New Haven, CT. ,1992
M. S. Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT. , 1991
B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Manhattan College, 1988

Research Interests

Laser Diagnostics in Reacting Flows, Non-intrusive optical imaging techniques, Temperature, Velocity Species Measurement in Combustion Experiments, Flow Control for Propulsion applications, Flame Stabilization, Turbulent mixing.

Selected Publications

• "Combustion Structures in Lifted Ethanol Spray Flames," S.K. Marley, E.J. Welle and K.M. Lyons, To Appear: ASME Journal for the Engineering of Gas Turbines and Power.
  
  
• "Leading-Edge Reaction Zones in Lifted-Jet Gas and Spray Flames," S. K. Marley, K. M. Lyons and K. A. Watson, To appear: Flow, Turbulence and Combustion.
  
  
• "On Scalar Dissipation and Partially Premixed Flame Propagation," K. A. Watson, K. M. Lyons, J. M. Donbar and C. D. Carter Combustion Science and Technology 175 (4) 649-664 (2003).
  
  
• "Simultaneous Two-Shot CH-PLIF and Particle Image Velocimetry Measurements in Lifted CH4-Air Diffusion Flames," K. A. Watson, K. M. Lyons, J. M. Donbar and C. D. Carter, in 29th Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, pp. 1905-1912, (2002).
  
  
• "Visualizing Diffusion Flame Formation in the Wake of Partially Premixed Combustion," K. M. Lyons and K. A. Watson, ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology 123 (3): 221-227 SEPT (2001).