Current Positions

Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests

Prof. Powers performs detailed computations of reactive fluid mechanics in low and high speed flows. He typically addresses detailed systems of hydrogen-air, as well as hydrocarbons such as methane. Fundamental issues of ignition, extinction, flame stability, flame structure are of importance. Prof. Powers also pays particular interest to the accuracy of the simulation, which requires special computational strategies to capture the multiscale nature of such flow fields. He additionally studies the development of rationally reduced models to simulate complex combustion dynamics.

Key Words

Combustion, Energy Efficiency and Consumption, Flames, Hydrogen, Petroleum and Natural Gas

Relevant Energy Publications

1. Shabouei, Mohammad, Waad Subber, Cedric W. Williams, Karel Matouš, and Joseph M. Powers. "Chemo-thermal model and gaussian process emulator for combustion synthesis of ni/al composites." Combustion and Flame 207 (2019): 153-170.
2. Powers, Joseph M., Samuel Paolucci, Joshua D. Mengers, and Ashraf N. Al-Khateeb. "Slow attractive canonical invariant manifolds for reactive systems." Journal of Mathematical Chemistry 53, no. 2 (2015): 737-766.
3. Romick, C. M., T. D. Aslam, and J. M. Powers. "Verified and validated calculation of unsteady dynamics of viscous hydrogen–air detonations." Journal of Fluid Mechanics 769 (2015): 154-181.
4. Mengers, J. D., and J. M. Powers. "One-dimensional slow invariant manifolds for fully coupled reaction and micro-scale diffusion." SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems 12, no. 2 (2013): 560-595.
5. Al-Khateeb, Ashraf N., Joseph M. Powers, and Samuel Paolucci. "Analysis of the spatio-temporal scales of laminar premixed flames near equilibrium." Combustion Theory and Modelling 17, no. 1 (2013): 76-108.

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