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2024

Apr. 23, 2024: Surya received the Grand Prize and Travel Award at the 2024 Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) Research Exhibition. Congrats Surya!
Apr. 16, 2024: Sai and Pradeep presented 2 posters at the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP) Spring Summit 2024.
Feb. 26-28, 2024: Prof. Yang attended and presented 3 talks at the Combustion & RDCs Joint Program Review with ONR, AFOSR, and NSF.
Jan. 8-12, 2024: 9 CRFELers gave 11 talks (including one invited talk on "Fast Gas Heating in Plasma-Assisted Ignition and Fuel Reforming"), organized 1 panel, and chaired many sessions in the AIAA SciTech 2024 Forum. In addition, Praise's paper "3D phenomenological modeling of plasma-assisted methane reforming", Navneeth's paper “VLE-based High Pressure Stationary Droplet Evaporation at Spray Detonation Conditions”, Gihun's paper "Simulation of a Reacting Jet in Cross-Flow: detailed chemistry, molecular differential diffusion, and vorticity", and Pradeep's paper "Numerical Modeling of Energy Assisted Compression Ignition Engines for Aerial Operations" have been selected to appear in the AIAA Showcase on Kudos. Congrats Praise, Navneeth, Gihun, and Pradeep!

2023

Dec. 22, 2023: Prof. Yang received the prestigious Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award to work on Micro-Jetting in Detonations. See our news on ME Website.
Dec. 4, 2023: Taaresh's work on the large-eddy simulations of plasma-assisted ignition in static and flowing mixtures to examine the effects of discharge pulse frequency on ignition, and Surya's work on the CFD simulations to capture intricate details of the resulting oblique detonation wave (ODW) stabilization process, have been featured as breakthroughs in plasma technology and clean & high-speed combustion systems, respectively, by Aerospace America’s 2023 Year in Review. Congrats Taaresh and Surya!
Dec. 1, 2023: Prof. Yang gave an invited talk about "Modeling of Plasma-Assisted Combustion and Fuel Reforming for Decarbonization and Hypersonic Propulsion" as an Honorable Speaker at the High Temperature and Plasma Laboratory (HTPL) Seminar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Nov.-Dec. 2023: Sai, Praise, and Navneeth passed the Written and Oral Preliminary Exams, and are officially Ph.D. Candidates now! Congrats Sai, Praise, and Navneeth!
Nov. 19-21, 2023: 2 CRFELers attended and presented 2 talks at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS DFD).
Nov. 6, 2023: Hongyuan successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on In Situ Adaptive Tabulation of Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium Phase Change Models for the Numerical Simulation of High-Pressure Transcritical Flows with Multiple Components. Congrats Dr. Zhang!
Oct. 31, 2023: Prof. Yang attended the DARPA YFA PI Meeting and gave an invited talk on "Hypersonic Sonic Boom Theory based on Line-Distributed Energy Impulse Source: Lift, Shape, and Thermochemistry" for his new DARPA Director's Fellowship Award.
Oct. 9-13, 2023: 2 CRFELers attended and presented at the 76^th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference (APS GEC).
Sep. 10, 2022: Gihun and Sai's journal article "Numerical simulation of virus-laden aerosol transmission in real human respiratory airways" has been chosen as an Editor's Pick, Featured Article, and Scilight in Physics of Fluids. Congrats Gihun and Sai!
Aug. 2023: Rudram joined CRFEL. Welcome!
Aug. 8, 2023: CRFELers presented at the Discover STEM (a Summer Youth Program for 11-12th graders), College of Science and Engineering (CSE).
Jul. 30 - Aug. 11, 2023: Taaresh was selected to attend the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC 2023). Congrats Taaresh!
Jun. 28, 2023, Prof. Yang gave a talk about "Computational Propulsion and Power: A Real Rocket Science!" at the NSF ME³ REU ME & CSE Research Webinar.
Jun. 20, 2023: CRFELers presented at the Eureka! (a Summer Youth Program for K-12 STEM Outreach: 8th grade girls), College of Science and Engineering (CSE) and Girls Inc. at the YWCA of Minneapolis.
May 30-31, 2023: Prof. Yang attended and gave an invited talk about "Plasma-Assisted Ammonia Combustion and Flare Gas Reforming to Enhance Reactivity and Control Emission" at the 243rd Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting.
May 22, 2023: Collin joined CRFEL as a summer undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
May 5, 2023: Prof. Yang received the prestigious Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director's Fellowship Award to continue working on hypersonic sonic boom. See our news on ME Website.
May 2, 2023: Prof. Yang gave an invited talk about “Multi-Physics Modeling for Future Aerospace Propulsion and Energy: High-Pressure Phase Change & Plasma Assisted Ignition” at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Seminar, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL.
Apr. 27, 2023: Taaresh received the 2023-24 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) from the University of Minnesota Graduate School. Congrats Taaresh!
Apr. 26, 2023: Surya and Gihun passed the Ph.D. Qualifying Exams. Congrats Surya and Gihun!
Apr. 13, 2023: Prof. Yang gave an invited talk about “Multi-Physics Modeling for Future Aerospace Propulsion and Energy: High-Pressure Phase Change & Plasma Assisted Ignition” at the Aeronautics and Astronautics (AA) Research Seminar, Stanford University, CA.
Apr. 3-6, 2023: Prof. Yang attended and presented at the ONR Sea Based Aviation Propulsion Program Review.
Mar. 23, 2023: 7 CRFELers visited ExxonMobil Headquarter in TX to meet with collaborators. Prof. Yang gave an invited talk about "Multi-Physics Modeling for Energy Systems: deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT), cavitation from retrograde condensation, and plasma-assisted fuel reforming" at the ExxonMobil Seminar.
Mar. 20-22, 2023: 7 CRFELers gave 10 talks and chaired many sessions at the 13th U.S. National Combustion Meeting.
Mar. 18-19, 2023: Prof. Yang attended the 2023 Early Career Investigator Workshop at the 13th U.S. National Combustion Meeting.
Mar. 9, 2023: Prof. Yang received the IOP 2022 "Outstanding Reviewer" Award for his service on the "Plasma Sources Science and Technology" journal.
Mar. 1, 2023: Prof. Yang attended and presented in the DARPA YFA Virtual PI Meeting.
Feb. 27 - Mar. 3, 2023: Prof. Yang attended the Multi-Agency Coordination Committee for Combustion Research (MACCCR) meeting and served as a panelist in the Computational Combustion Discussion Session.
Feb. 15-17, 2023: 3 CRFELers attended and presented in the 4th ARL Center for UAS Propulsion (CUP) workshop.
Feb. 3, 2023: Prof. Yang gave an invited talk about “Multi-Physics Modeling for Future Propulsion and Power Systems: high-pressure phase separation and plasma assisted ignition” at the Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics (AEM) Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Jan. 23-27, 2023: 8 CRFELers gave 7 talks, organized 1 panel, and chaired many sessions in the AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum.

2022

Dec. 15, 2022: Dezhi and Shufan's journal article "Pressure Effects on Soot Formation and Evolution in Turbulent Jet Flames" has been chosen as a Featured Article in Physics of Fluids. Congrats Dezhi and Shufan!
Nov. 20-22, 2022: Prof. Yang gave a talk at the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD).
Nov. 1, 2022: Prof. Yang gave an invited talk about "Multi-Physics Modeling for Future Propulsion and PowerSystems: high-pressure phase separation and plasma-assisted ignition" at the Mechanical Science and Engineering Seminar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL.
Oct. 25-26, 2022: Prof. Yang attended the DARPA Forward conference at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Sep. 22, 2022: Prof. Yang gave an invited talk about "Multi-Physics Modeling for Future Propulsion and Power Systems: High-Pressure Phase Separation and Plasma-Assisted Ignition" at the ACMS Applied Math Seminar, University of Notre Dame, IN.
Sep. 2022: Our new HPC cluster Raptor is online now.
Sep. 15, 2022: Prof. Yang visited GE Gas Power in Greenville, SC and gave a seminar talk about "Multi-Physics Modeling for Future Propulsion and Power Systems: High-Pressure Phase Separation and Plasma-Assisted Ignition".
Sep. 14, 2022: Prof. Yang gave an invited talk about "Non-equilibrium Plasma Driven Control of Flaring Emissions: From Computational Modeling Perspective" and served as a panelist on the Industrial Flare Panel at the American Flame Research Committee (AFRC) 2022 Industrial Combustion Symposium, Greenville, SC.
Sep. 8, 2022: Prof. Yang gave an invited talk about "Multi-Physics Modeling for Future Propulsion and Power Systems: High-Pressure Phase Separation and Plasma-Assisted Ignition" at the Fluid Dynamics Research Consortium (FDRC) Seminar, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA.
Sep. 2, 2022: Prof. Yang gave an invited talk about "Modeling of multiphase and reacting flows in OpenFOAM: high-pressure phase change and plasma assisted ignition" at the OpenFOAM and Combustion Simulation Webinar, National University of Singapore.
Aug. 2022: Surya and Gihun joined CRFEL. Welcome!
Jul. 31 - Aug. 12, 2022: Hongyuan was selected to attend the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC 2022). Congrats Hongyuan!
Jul. 28, 2022: 4 CRFELers presented at the VIRTUAL Discover STEM (a Summer Youth Program for 11-12th graders), College of Science and Engineering (CSE).
Jul. 19, 2022: We received supplemental support from NSF to support Taaresh's Fall intern at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Taaresh will work with our collaborators at NREL to develop advanced plasma assisted combustion models in Pele. Congrats Taaresh!
Jul. 5, 2022: 5 CRFELers presented at the Eureka! (a Summer Youth Program for K-12 STEM Outreach: 8th grade girls), College of Science and Engineering (CSE) and Girls Inc. at the YWCA of Minneapolis.
Jun. 29, 2022, Prof. Yang gave a talk about "Computational Propulsion and Power: A Real Rocket Science!" at the NSF ME³ REU ME & CSE Research Webinar.
Jun. 2022: Hongyuan received the prestigious AIAA Martin Summerfield Propellants and Combustion Graduate Award. See our news on ME website and Aerospace America. Congrats Hongyuan!
Jun., 2022: 3 CRFELers attended the 2022 Princeton-Combustion Institute Summer School on Combustion and the Environment.
Jun., 2022: 3 CRFELers attended the 1st US Low Temperature Plasma Summer School at UMN. Also see the news on ME website.
Jun. 6, 2022: Amiya and Viswesh joined CRFEL as an REU student. Welcome!
May, 2022: 5 CRFELers gave 6 talks at the 18th International Conference on Numerical Combustion in San Diego, CA.
Apr. 26, 2022: Navneeth received the Second Prize and Travel Award at the 2022 Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) Research Exhibition. Congrats Navneeth!
Apr. 15, 2022: Navneeth passed the Ph.D. Qualifying Exams. Congrats Navneeth!
Apr. 4-8, 2022: Prof. Yang attended the ONR Sea-Based Aviation Science & Technology Program Review.
Feb. 24, 2022: Prof. Yang attended and presented in the DARPA YFA Virtual PI Meeting.
Feb. 21, 2022: Prof. Yang joined the ASME Propulsion Technical Committee.
Feb. 8, 2022: Sai received the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (IDF) for the 2022-2023 academic year. See the announcement on the Graduate School website and our news on ME website. Congrats Sai!
Feb. 8, 2022: Prof. Yang gave an invited talk about "Multiphase Combustion Modeling for Future Propulsion and Power Systems: soot emission, plasma ignition, and high-pressure phase separation" at the Mechanical Engineering Seminar, Florida A&M / Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
Jan. 31, 2022: Prof. Yang received the prestigious Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award to work on Multicomponent Transcritical Phase Change and Spray Breakup in High-Pressure Liquid-Fueled Combustors. See our news on ME website.
Jan. 21, 2022: Taaresh received the 2022 Joachim and Yuko Heberlein Travel Grant Award. See our news on ME website. Congrats Taaresh!
Jan. 3-7, 2022: 4 CRFELers gave 4 talks at the AIAA Scitech 2022 Forum.

2021

Dec. 13, 2021: Dezhi's Combustion and Flame paper of "Soot-based Global Pathway Analysis" is now featured online on Advances in Engineering titled as "Dominant reaction pathways for high-pressure soot formation". Congrats Dezhi!
Dec. 2, 2021: Prof. Yang received an ARPA-E REMEDY grant to work on Plasma-assisted In-situ Reforming of Flare Gases to Achieve Near-Zero Methane Emissions.
Nov. 17-18, 2021: 3 CRFELers attended the 3rd ARL Center for UAS Propulsion (CUP) workshop.
Nov. 4, 2021: Taaresh's NSF research has been selected for NSF Division Director, Dr. Jeanne VanBriesen, to highlight in her talks about the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) at upcoming ASME and AIChE meetings. Congrats Taaresh!
Nov. 1, 2021: Prof. Yang joined the CSE Data Science Initiative (DSI).
Sep. 16, 2021: Ari joined CRFEL. Welcome!
Aug. 31, 2021: Prof. Yang was assigned as the University Honors Program representative and UROP coordinator for ME department at UMN.
Aug. 26, 2021: Henry received the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) award from the University of Minnesota's Office of Undergraduate Research. Congrats Henry!
Aug. 23, 2021: Navneeth joined CRFEL. Welcome!
Aug. 13, 2021: Prof. Yang attended the 2021 AFOSR Propulsion and Power Program Review.
Aug. 12, 2021: Prof. Yang received the prestigious Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) to work on hypersonic sonic boom. See our news on ME and MSI websites.
Aug. 4, 2021: Prof. Yang gave an invited talk about soot modeling at the Caterpillar Combustion & Thermofluids Tech Meeting.
Aug. 3, 2021: Prof. Yang is promoted to a Senior Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Jul. 14, 2021: Prof. Yang attended a panel discussion at the ME-Connect Career Development Workshop.
Jul. 7, 2021, Hongyuan and Prof. Yang presented at the Eureka! (a Summer Youth Program for K-12 STEM Outreach: 8th grade girls), College of Science and Engineering (CSE) and Girls Inc. at the YWCA of Minneapolis.
Jun. 30, 2021, Prof. Yang gave a talk about "Computational Reactive Flow & Energy" at the NSF ME³ REU ME & CSE Research Webinar.
Jun. 23, 2021, Prof. Yang attended the 2021 Virtual Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) Day.
Jun. 2021: 4 CRFELers attended the 2021 Princeton-Combustion Institute Summer School on Combustion.
Jun. 2021: the first generation CRFEL undergraduate students (Anders, Justin, Praveen, Lindsey and Jose) graduated and will move on to new positions. Best wishes for your bright career and future!
Jun. 2021: Sai joined Aramco as a summer intern to work on the soot modeling for gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines. Congrats Sai!
May 2021: 6 CRFELers gave 10 talks at the 12th U.S. National Combustion Meeting.
May 20, 2021: Taaresh passed the Written and Oral Preliminary Exams and is officially a Ph.D. Candidate now! Congrats Taaresh!
May 2021: Hongyuan gave a talk at the ILASS-Americas 31st Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems.
May 2021: Prof. Yang attended a panel discussion about computation and modeling using machine learning at the ILASS-Americas 31st Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems.
Apr. 26-27, 2021, Prof. Yang attended the AFOSR Computational Math for Hypersonics workshop.
Apr. 23, 2021: Praise passed the Ph.D. Qualifying Exams. Congrats Praise!
Apr. 20, 2021: Hongyuan is one of the only four recipients of the prestigious national Frontera Computational Science Fellowship for FY 2021-2022. Also see our news on ME website. Congrats Hongyuan!
Apr. 14, 2021: Prof. Yang gave a talk about "COVID-19: Multi-Scaled Predictive Modeling and Simulation" at the ASME Visualize MED (Modeling and Simulation in Medicine).
Mar. 2021: Prof. Yang joined the AIAA High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee.
Mar. 2021: Henry joined CRFEL for undergraduate research. Welcome!
Feb. 2021: Prof. Yang joined the AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Technical Committee.
Feb. 2021: Dezhi joined University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute as an Assistant Professor. Congrats Dezhi!
Jan. 2021: Tim Chen (Princeton) gave a talk about our collaboration work at the 38th International Symposium on Combustion.
Jan. 19, 2021: Sai's paper on Airborne Transmission of Virus-Laden Aerosols was chosen as an Editor's Pick & Featured Article in Physics of Fluids. Also see our news at AIP, CONVERGE, CSE and ME websites. Congrats Sai!
Jan. 2021: Praise joined CRFEL. Welcome!
Jan. 11-15, 2021: 4 CRFELers gave 5 talks at the AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum.

2020

Dec. 17, 2020: Prof. Yang received a NSF grant to work on plasma assisted ammonia combustion.
Dec. 10, 2020: Taaresh got the UMII Graduate Assistantship Award as an MnDRIVE Fellow of AY 2021-2022. See our news on the MSI website. Congrats Taaresh!
Dec. 5, 2020: Prof. Yang gave an invited talk about soot modeling at the Combustion Webinar. Take a look at YouTube!
Nov. 2020: 4 CRFELers gave 4 talks at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD).
Nov. 13, 2020: Shufan passed the Ph.D. Qualifying Exams. Congrats Shufan!
Sep. 30, 2020: Prof. Yang presented U's Response to COVID for Inspire MN High School On-line Course, organized by Institute for Engineering in Medicine (IEM).
Sep. 29, 2020: 3 CRFELers presented at the 2020 Institute for Engineering in Medicine (IEM) Annual Conference.
Sep. 2020: Prof. Srinivasan gave a talk about our collaboration work at the ASME Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition (Turbo Expo) 2020.
Aug. 26, 2020: Prof. Yang gave a talk about soot modeling at the 2020 Aramco Global CFD Workshop.
Aug. 21, 2020: Taaresh passed the Ph.D. Qualifying Exams. Congrats Taaresh!
Aug. 7, 2020: Sai's work on the modeling of aerosol travel in the lungs to improve COVID-19 treatments has been reported by MSI, CSE, ME, and Office of Academic Clinical Affairs websites. Congrats Sai!
Jul. 30, 2020: Prof. Yang and Prof. Hong got interviewed by ABC Good Morning America about "Ventilation placement could affect COVID-19". See our news, radio and video on ABC websites! Also see our news on MSI, CSE and ME websites.
Jul., 2020: Prof. Yang joined the Exposure and Control Research Group, Infectious Dose – How Does it Inform Our Decisions about Exposures and Controls for Preventing Transmission of SARS-CoV-2? (an international effort led by Prof. Michael T. Osterholm, President Joe Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board Member).
Jul. 15, 2020: Prof. Yang gave a talk about "Olympics of Future Propulsion and Power: Faster, Cheaper, and Greener" at the NSF ME³ REU ME & CSE Research Webinar.
Jul. 14, 2020: Prof. Yang received a NSF grant to work on flame spray pyrolysis (FSP) of nanoparticles.
Jul. 13, 2020: Prof. Yang received an ARL funding to work on engine combustion modeling for unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV) propulsion.
Jun. 30, 2020: Prof. Yang gave a talk about "Soot Formation at Elevated Pressures in Laminar and Turbulent Sooting Flames" at the International Sooting Flame (ISF) Workshop: Turbulent Flames Summer Teleconference.
Jun. 24, 2020: Prof. Yang received a NSF grant to work on enhanced atomization of viscous liquids.
Jun. 2020: Shufan joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) as a summer intern to work on the new development of AMReX and Pele. Congrats Shufan!
Jun. 2020: Justin, Praveen (UMN UROP), Lindsey and Jose (NSF ME³ REU) joined CRFEL for undergraduate summer research. Welcome!
Apr. 2020: Dezhi and Hongyuan presented two posters at the 2020 Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) Research Exhibition.
Apr. 28, 2020: Prof. Yang served as a judge of the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) 2020 Research Exhibition.
Apr. 21, 2020: Prof. Yang joined the Institute for Engineering in Medicine (IEM).
Apr. 17, 2020: Prof Yang served as a judge of the Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Apr. 2020: Prof. Yang joined the Combustion Webinar Technical Committee.
Mar. 31 - Apr. 2, 2020: Prof. Yang attended the 2020 NSF ENG CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop.
Mar. 24, 2020: Hongyuan passed the Written and Oral Preliminary Exams and is officially a Ph.D. Candidate now! Congrats Hongyuan!
Jan. 2020: Anders joined CRFEL for undergraduate research. Welcome!
Jan. 2020: CRFEL moved to our new location at ME L-101, and our new HPC cluster ROME-1 is online now.
Jan. 6-10, 2020: Dezhi and Prof. Yang gave 8 talks at the AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum.

2019

Dec. 10, 2019: Hongyuan got the UMII Graduate Assistantship Award as an MnDRIVE Fellow of AY 2020-2021. See Hongyuan's research outcome about NOx prediction on UMN Research Computing news. Congrats Hongyuan!
Nov. 2019: Hongyuan, Prof. Yang, and our collaborators gave 4 talks at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD).
Nov. 22, 2019: Sai and Krishna passed the Ph.D. Qualifying Exams. Congrats Sai and Krishna!
Nov. 12, 2019: Prof. Yang gave a talk about "Modeling of Reactive Flows: A Journey from Combustion Emissions to Nanoparticles" at the ME Advisory Council Meeting.
Oct. 4-5, 2019: We hosted the 4th Midwest OpenFOAM User Group (MOFUG) Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute (MSI) and the Digital Technology Center (DTC).
Sep. 2019: Shufan joined CRFEL. Welcome!
Aug. 2019: Taaresh joined CRFEL. Welcome!
Aug. 26, 2019: Prof. Yang gave an invited talk about soot modeling at Georgia Tech.
Aug. 2019: Ping joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University as an Assistant Professor. Congrats Ping!
Aug. 8, 2019: Prof. Yang attended a panel discussion at the ME-Connect Career Development Workshop.
Jun. 3-7, 2019, Prof. Yang attended the 2019 AFOSR/ARO/NSF Basic Combustion Research Review.
Jun. 2019: Levi joined CRFEL for undergraduate summer research supported by UMN UROP. Welcome!
May 2019: Dezhi joined CRFEL. Welcome!
May 2019: Sai presented a poster about his dusty plasma research at the 10th Annual Meeting of the DOE Center for Control of Plasma Kinetics.
May 2019: Prof. Yang gave a talk at the ILASS-Americas 30th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems.
May 1-2, 2019: Prof. Yang attended the ARL Center for UAS Propulsion (CUP) Industry-Academia Connection Days.
Apr. 2019: Krishna presented a poster about his CT-RCEM work at the 2019 Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) Research Exhibition.
Apr. 5, 2019: Hongyuan passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exams. Congrats Hongyuan!
Mar. 2019: Prof. Yang joined the AIAA Propellants and Combustion Technical Committee.
Mar. 2019: Krishna gave a talk at the 11th U.S. National Combustion Meeting.
Mar. 2019: Prof. Yang attended the 2019 Combustion Early Career Investigator Workshop.
Feb. 2019: Hongyuan joined CRFEL. Welcome!
Feb. 15, 2019: Prof. Yang got interviewed for New Faculty Program (NFP) promo video.
Jan. 2019: Ping joined CRFEL. Welcome!
Jan. 7-11, 2019: Tim Chen (Princeton) gave a talk about our collaboration work at the AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum.

2018

Dec. 10, 2018: Prof. Yang served as a judge at the University of Minnesota Robot Show.
Nov. 2018: CRFEL finally got a first site at ME 331.
Nov. 2018: Prof. Yang gave a talk at the 71st Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD).
Oct. 2018: Prof. Yang gave a talk about plasma assisted two-stage ignition at the Richard J. Goldstein Symposium.
Sep. 2018: Sai and Krishna joined CRFEL. Welcome!
Aug. 2018: Prof. Yang received the "Outstanding Reviewer" award of the "Aerospace Science and Technology" journal.
Aug. 2018: Prof. Yang attended the New Faculty Orientation and CRFEL is officially opened!