Committee Nominations 2012

The nominations received for the 2012 elections to the Committee of the British Section of the Combustion Institute are: 

Nomination	Nominator	Seconder
Phil Bowen	Bill Jones	Nondas Mastorakos Guillermo Rein
Stewart Cant	Simone Hochgreb	Peter Lindstedt Nondas Mastorakos
Yannis Hardalupas	Bill Jones	Markus Kraft Richard Stone
John Moran	Bryn Jones	Allan Hayhurst Bill Jones
Swami Swaminathan	Simone Hochgreb	Peter Lindstedt Nondas Mastorakos
Jennifer Wen	John Griffiths	Mohamed Pourkashanian Kevin Hughes Alan Williams

Phil Bowen
Phil Bowen graduated with First Class Honours in Pure/Applied Maths and was awarded his PhD in developing perturbation and numerical methods for Newtontian and non-Newtonian swirling flow in 1990 under Prof. Ken Walters. He was then employed by Shell Research Ltd. (Thornton, 1990-94) as part of the Combustion Hazards group (with Bull and Bradley) to develop understanding of two-phase effects in HC explosions in offshore and onshore structures. He was project leader for probably the largest explosion mitigation programme undertaken at that time, studying the influence of water-sprays and chemical inerting in a 550m^3 explosion vessel (Buxton, 1993) with partners ABB and Kidde. In 1994 he joined Nick Syred;s thermofluids/combustion group at Cardiff, developing his research expertise in combustion and combustion-related stationary power-gen applications (e.g. coal and biomass applications) and automotive, mainly through ongoing sponsorship with Ricardo consulting engineers. His risk hazard research continued, with funding from a range of sponsors including BP, Shell, DNV, Exxon, HSL, etc.. He was appointed 'Chair in Energy Systems' at Cardiff in 2004. He was co-founder of the first national pan-Wales energy research centre (WERC), which has since developed into the Low Carbon Research Institute. He led Cardiff's successful 2005 bid for the donation of QinetiQ's high-pressure/temperature/flow gas turbine combustion facilities, which he recommissioned at an offsite centre (GTRC, Port Talbot) as part of a £7.8M programme. GTRC (www. cu-gtrc) has since won major international funding for a range of programmes involving major OEMs such as Siemens, Rolls-Royce, Ansaldo and utilities EON, Laboralec including alternative fuels for gas turbines (AFTUR) , and H2-IGCC for IGCC with carbon capture integration. GTRC is currently part of the EU Capacities Infrastructure consoritium 'BRISK' for Bioenergy research. He led Cardiff's successful £3.8M bid in 2007 for RCUK centre in Renewable Energy under the Science and Innovation investment programme - Centre for Integrated Renewable Energy Generation and Supply (CIREGS, led by Prof. Nick Jenkins). He set up Cardiff's MSc in Sustainable Energy and Environment (2006). He has published approaching 200 papers, including 50 journal in the area of thermofluids, heat transfer and combustion. He has supervised to completion over 20 PhDs . He is currently Chair of the IOP Combustion Physics Group (2009-12), and is member of the EU Biofuels Technology Platform (2007-) Steering Committee , IEC International Standards Management Committee for Explosive Area Classification (2007-), UKELG and the Institute of non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics Board. He has advised government on Energy policy, and has undertaken consultancy for a wide range of multi-nationals. He is currently Deputy Director at Cardiff School of Engineering, responsible for 'Innovation and Engagement'. .

Stewart Cant
Professor Stewart Cant did his PhD at Cranfield with Prof John Clarke on the mathematical analysis of detonation initiation. From 1985 he worked with Prof Ken Bray in Cambridge on CFD and modelling of turbulent combustion. After a period as a lecturer at UMIST, he returned to Cambridge in 1995 and continues to work on various aspects of computational combustion. He has developed a number of Direct Numerical Simulation codes (ANGUS, FERGUS and SENGA) which are used to obtain statistical data to support modelling for both Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) and Large Eddy Simulations (LES). Together with co-investigators he has won the Sugden Award (2000) and the Gaydon Prize (2004 and 2008). Currently he is Professor of Computational Engineering in the Cambridge University Engineering Department. Stewart has been involved for many years with the Combustion Consortium which deals with high-performance computing in combustion. He is chairman of CCP12 (High Performance Computing in Engineering Steering Group) and a member of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team on Infrastructure. He was secretary of UKELG from 1996 to 2001, and is a former committee member of the IoP Combustion Physics Group. He is member of the organising committee for the international conference series on Numerical Combustion. He served on the committee of the Combustion Institute (British Section) between 1996 and 2002, and was a member of the organising committee for the 28th Combustion Symposium (Edinburgh, 2000).

Yannis Hardalupas
Professor YannisHardalupas graduated from National Technical University of Athens in Greece with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1984 and received his PhD degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department at Imperial College in 1989, where he was appointed Professor of Multiphase Flows in 2009. He was awarded an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship on experimental research on combustion of liquid and solid fuels and an industrial secondment to Ricardo Consulting Engineers from the Royal Academy of Engineering for development of computational models for atomization of liquid fuels in IC engines. He is currently a member of the Committee of the Combustion Physics group of the Institute of Physics and of the British Section of the Combustion Institute, the technical committee of Propellants and Combustion of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Editorial board of the International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics and the Journal of Combustion and the Advisory Board of several International Conferences. His scientific contributions are in the area of combustion related to gas turbines, internal combustion engines and rockets, liquid atomization and sprays and the development and application of novel optical techniques.

John Moran
Anthony John Moran, BSc, Corporate Specialist - Combustion, Rolls-Royce Engineering, Associate fellow in Combustion, Rolls-Royce plc. 30 years experience across a broad range of combustion systems from Ramjet missile systems to large aero derivative industrial combustion systems. He has spent most of his career in the fields of low emission combustion and unsteady combustion. He has been involved in not only fundamental combustion research but also combustion system development. He has published a number of papers in each field. He is currently responsible for combustion technology acquisition across all gas turbine market sectors including Civil, Military Energy and Naval marine, having responsibility for research programmes in the UK, Europe and North America.

N Swaminathan
Dr N Swaminathan is a Reader in Mechanical Engineering at Cambridge University Engineering Department (CUED). He has degrees from India and USA in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He has worked in academia (1995-2000, research associate/fellow at Sydney University with Professor Bilger) and industries (2000-02 GE R&D Centre, Bangalore, 2003- consultant to Pratt & Whitney in association with Tata Consulting Services, Bangalore) before joining CUED in October 2003. His research activities are on various aspects of physical understanding and modelling of turbulent combustion, in general, using mainly numerical approach, and are supported by EPSRC, Rolls-Royce Plc., Siemens, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan. He was involved in the advancement of conditional moment closure (CMC) modelling for non-premixed and premixed combustion. He has published more than 100 papers in journals and conference proceedings on combustion related topics and has co-edited a book with Professor Ken Bray on Turbulent Premixed Flames published by Cambridge University Press. He serves on the Editorial Board of The Open Fuel & Energy Science Journal, reviews funding applications for many overseas funding bodies and served on international advisory boards for Global-COE programme and international conferences. He has strong research connections internationally, co-investigator on research projects (~£2.7M 2010-2015) in turbulent combustion at TokyoTech and, Advisory Board and cooperative international member of an educational programme on Energy Science (£25M+ 2008-2017) at TokyoTech. He is in the organising committee of Computational Mechanics Symposium of JSME (2012). He had held visiting positions in a number of research institutes and Universities outside the UK, and a member of various professional institutes and societies.

Jennifer Wen
Jennifer Wen graduated in 1984 from Shanghai Jiaotong University in China with the award of one of the only 3 fully funded PhD studentships among more than 200 graduates in the Department of Power Machinery Engineering. This financed her study at Queen Mary and Westfield College where she was awarded PhD for research on condensation heat transfer in 1990. Jennifer’s professional career started in 1988 firstly with Computational Dynamics Ltd (now CD-ADAPCO) where she worked on the development of STAR-CD and then the Research Centre of the former British Gas plc working on multi-dimensional laminar flame modelling with detailed chemistry. She returned to academia in 1993 initially with South Bank University and moved to Kingston University in 1998 as Reader and awarded the professorial title in 2000. Jennifer’s research interests are mostly related to the numerical modelling of accidental release, dispersion and combustion. She established and currently leads the Centre for Fire and Explosion Studies (CFES) at Kingston University. Jennifer has published over 150 journal and conference papers covering applications as well as the development of sub-models for combustion, soot and radiation heat transfer. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the UK Explosion Liaison Group, International Association of Hydrogen Safety (IA-HYSAFE) as well the Scientific/Organising Committees of several international conferences. She also served as external examiner to fire/explosion courses in several UK universities.   Currently, Jennifer is leading a team of 5 guest editors to publish 4 special issues about hydrogen safety for the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. This work leads up to the launch of the new International Journal on Hydrogen Safety, for which Jennifer will be the Editor-in-Chief.