Smooke Selected to Receive AIAA Propellants and Combustion Award

Mitchell Smooke, Strathcona Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Applied Physics, has been selected to receive the 2015 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Propellants and Combustion Award. The award recognizes Smooke for his "fundamental and substantive contributions to combustion and propellant science and the advancement of numerical combustion."

Smooke's primary research interests lie in the areas of computational combustion, chemical vapor deposition, and the numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential equations. His current research projects involve computational studies of NOx and soot formation in flames, the modeling of multidimensional premixed and nonpremixed flames on parallel supercomputers, flamelet models for turbulent reacting flows, and microgravity combustion.

In addition to the AIAA Award, Smooke has previously received numerous honors including the Combustion Institute Zeldovich Gold Medal, the Combustion Institute Silver Medal, and was elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

Smooke will receive the award in July at the AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum and Exposition in Orlando, FL.