CFP.BERKELEY.EDU - Key Persons
Andy is a graduate student focused on the study of fluid mechanics.
His research is focused on the study microgravity combustion processes.
(born in Asturias, Spain) is a faculty member of the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Mechanical Engineering. He also serves as an associate dean in the Graduate Division at Berkeley, where he oversees the Graduate Diversity Program, the American Indian Graduate Program, Graduate Division's academic services, fellowships, publications, and websites. His research interests are in combustion, heat and mass transfer, microgravity combustion, micro and meso-scale combustion, ignition and flame propagation, smouldering and transition to flaming combustion.
Prof. Fernández-Pello has experience in dozens of research projects, with more than 400 published papers and book chapters. During his academic career, he has advised many students: more than 20 Ph.D.'s, 45 M.Sc.'s, and numerous undergraduate students and teacher assistants. He has been involved in teaching and research activities since the 1970s in different institutions around the globe, mainly in U.S., Spain, France and Japan.
Charles is a postdoctoral researcher focusing on modeling brazing automation and wildland fire using both reacting flow simulations and experimentation.
Jeanette Cobian-Iñiguez is a postdoctoral scholar working on smoldering fire behavior of simulated wildland fuels. She completed her PhD at the University of California, Riverside where she did dissertation work on chaparral fire behavior. Jeanette's research interests are in the use of experiments to gain fundamental understanding of wildfire behavior, remote sensing data to derive data driven models of regional wildfire behavior as well as in science communications and outreach. She will be starting a faculty position at the University of California, Merced, Department of Mechanical Engineering in July 2020.
In the CFP Lab, Lauren studies combustion of various wire insulation materials in space exploration atmospheres (SEA), which include environments with micro-gravity, external radiant flux, low velocity flows, reduced pressures, and elevated oxygen concentrations. She does this through experimental work and computation/theoretical tools to aid in interpretation of test results. http://cfp.berkeley.edu/research/flame-spread-on-wires-in-space-craft-environments/
Dr Huang is a Combustion Scientist and a Fire Protection Engineer. He received his PhD from Imperial College London in 2016, MSc from University of California, San Diego in 2012, and BEng from Southeast University in 2010. Prior to joining PolyU, Dr. Huang was a Postdoc and Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, where he conducted research with NASA on the Microgravity Combustion and Fire Safety in the International Space Station. Dr Huang's research interests include combustion, fire dynamics, heat transfer, thermal safety, and clean energy technologies.
Yong is a visiting student from State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), he studies flame spreading over electrical wire under horizontal forced flow. And he also researches ignition and blowoff of flame spreading over wire.
Yudong is a visiting scholar from Multiphase Flow Measurement Laboratory of Southeast University, China. He focuses on the study of 3D flame temperature measurement of embers/firebrands using the computational imaging technique.