FPE Faculty
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Arnaud Trouvé Office: Rm. 3104D - J.M. Patterson Building |
Research Interests
Fire Modeling, including Computational Fluid Dynamics and Zone Modeling; Direct Numerical Simulation and Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent reacting flows; High-Performance (Parallel) Scientific Computing; Physical modeling of fire-related phenomena: buoyancy-generated turbulence; turbulent combustion; combustion-generated soot; combustion-generated carbon monoxide; radiation heat transfer; wall surface heat transfer; water-based fire suppression systems; flash fires, fireballs, and explosions.
Research Projects
- Description of Current Research Projects (pdf)
- Example of Undergraduate Project (D. Andrukat, Fall 2004) (pdf)
Education
- Engineering Degree and M.S. (1985), Ecole Centrale of Paris, France
- Ph.D. (1989), Ecole Centrale of Paris, France
- Associate Professor (2001-present), University of Maryland at College Park, MD
- Guest Researcher (part time) (2005-07), Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, MD
- Research Scientist (1999-2001), The George Washington University, DC
- Senior Research Engineer (1993-1999), French Petroleum Institute, France
- Post-doctoral Researcher (1990-1993), Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University, CA.
US Section of the Combustion Institute, Society of Fire Protection Engineers, International Association for Fire Safety Science.
Professional Service
Technical reviewer for: Combustion and Flame, Combustion Science and Technology, Combustion Theory and Modeling, Fire Safety Journal, Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Turbulence, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Journal of Fire Sciences, Physics of Fluids; American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Combustion Institute, International Association for Fire Safety Science, National Science Foundation.
At-large Member (2005-07) and Arrangements Chair (2007-09) of the Executive Board of the US Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute.
Member of a Project Technical Panel for the Fire Protection Research Foundation of the National Fire Protection Association (2007-08).
Co-Chair of the Fire Research Colloquium at the 32nd International Symposium on Combustion, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (August 2008).
Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on Combustion, 2008.
Organizer and Chair of a National Science Foundation Workshop on Cyber-based Combustion Science (May 2006). See http://www.nsf-combustion.umd.edu/.
Recent Publications
• Trouvé A. (2007) “Challenges in CFD modeling of large-scale pool fires”, in Advanced Res. Workshop on Fire Computer Modeling, Ed. J. A. Capote Abreu, GIDAI, Univ. Cantabria, Santander, Spain, pp. 1-14.
• Williamson, J. W., Marshall, A. W. and Trouvé, A. (2007) “Developing extinction criteria for fire”, 11th Intl. Interflam Conf., Univ. London, Royal Holloway College, U.K.
• Wiley, J. and Trouvé, A. (2007) “Large eddy simulation of ignition and transient combustion in fuel vapor clouds”, 5th Intl. Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards, Edinburgh, U.K.
• Hu, Z., Utiskul, Y., Quintiere, J. G. and Trouvé A., (2007) “Towards large eddy simulations of flame extinction and carbon monoxide emission in compartment fires”, Proc. Combust. Inst., 31:2537-2545.
• Trouvé, A. and Marshall, A. W. (2006) “CFD-based modeling of combustion and suppression in compartment fires”, to appear in Transport Phenomena in Fires (B. Sunden and M. Faghri Eds.), WIT Press.
• Wang, Y. and Trouvé, A. (2006) “Direct numerical simulation of non-premixed flame-wall interactions”, Combust. Flame 144:461-475.
• Yoo, C. S., Wang, Y., Trouvé A. and Im, H. G. (2005) “Characteristic boundary conditions for direct simulations of turbulent counterflow flames”, Combust. Theory Modelling 9:617-646.
• Williamson, J., McGill, J. and Trouvé A. (2005) “Large eddy simulation modeling of turbulent deflagrations”, Fire Safety Science – Proc. Eigth International Symposium, International Association for Fire Safety Science, 1375-1388.
• Hu, Z., Utiskul, Y., Quintiere, J. G. and Trouvé A. (2005) “A comparison between observed and simulated flame structures in poorly ventilated compartment fires”, Fire Safety Science – Proc. Eigth International Symposium, International Association for Fire Safety Science, 1193-1204.
• Yoo, C. S., Im, H. G., Wang, Y. and Trouvé A. (2005) “Interaction of turbulence, chemistry and radiation in strained nonpremixed flames”, in SciDAC 2005, Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing, J. Physics: Conference Series 16: 91-100.
• Wang, Y. and Trouvé, A. (2005) “Direct numerical simulation of non-premixed flame-wall interactions”, in SciDAC 2005, Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing, J. Physics: Conference Series 16: 119-123.
• Wang, Y. and Trouvé, A., (2004) “Artificial acoustic stiffness reduction in fully compressible, direct numerical simulation of combustion”, Combust. Theory Modelling 8:633-660.
• Williamson, J., McGill, J. and Trouvé A. (2004) “A filtered progress variable approach to model turbulent premixed combustion in FDS”, Intl. Tech. Congress on Computational Simulation Models in Fire Engr. and Res., Ed. J. A. Capote Abreu, GIDAI, Univ. Cantabria, Santander, Spain, pp. 7-16.
• Hu, Z., Panafieu, G., Stauder J. and Trouvé A. (2004) “A presumed Pdf approach to model turbulent non-premixed combustion in FDS”, Intl. Tech. Congress on Computational Simulation Models in Fire Engr. and Res., Ed. J. A. Capote Abreu, GIDAI, Univ. Cantabria, Santander, Spain, pp. 281-295.
• Yao, X., Ma, T., Marshall, A. W. & Trouvé, A. (2004) “Mixing and turbulent transport in unconfined and impinging plumes”, in Proc. 10th Intl. Interflam Conf., Interscience Communications, pp. 1233-1244.
• Lazaro, M., Boehmer, H., Alvear, D., Capote, J. A. and Trouvé A., (2008) “Numerical simulation of fire growth, transition to flashover, and post-flashover dynamics in the Dalmarnock fire test”, Fire Safety Science – Proc. Ninth International Symposium, International Association for Fire Safety Science, accepted for presentation.
• Hu, Z. and Trouvé A., (2008) “Numerical simulation of explosive combustion following ignition of a fuel vapor cloud”, Fire Safety Science – Proc. Ninth International Symposium, International Association for Fire Safety Science, accepted for presentation.
• Narayanan, P. and Trouvé, A. (2008) “Radiation-driven flame weakening effects in sooting turbulent diffusion flames”, Proc. Combust. Inst., 32, accepted for presentation.
