Prof. Sili Deng

Dr. Deng works in the area of combustion, with a focus on understanding flame dynamics and emissions during combustion processes. Her work combined both experiments and computations to advance fundamental understanding of combustion and emission processes as well as to develop novel technologies for electricity and power generation, emission control, and fuel reforming. Her recent research interests are to combine combustion and material science to develop flame synthesis technologies for high-throughput-low-cost nanomaterial production and their applications in energy conversion and storage.

Deng's initial focus on the following areas:
(*) Energy conversion with a low carbon objective: high-efficiency low-emission engines, waste heat recovery, energetic materials, photoelectrochemical devices
(*) Flame synthesis: flame-based/flameless synthesis of nanomaterials for sensing, solar cell, and photoelectrochemical devices
(*) Combustion: chemical kinetics, flame dynamics and combustion instability, pollutant formation and reduction
(*) Multiphase chemically reacting flows: experimentation and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)