Mitchell D. Smooke

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.

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.

ACADEMIC & EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• Strathcona Professor of Mechanical Engineering (1995-Present)
• Professor of Mechanical Engineering (1993-1995)
• Associate Professor with Tenure (1990-1993)
• Associate Professor on Term (1986-1990)
• Assistant Professor (1984-1986)
• Staff Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA (1978-1984)

SCIENTIFIC & PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• The Combustion Institute
• Institute of Physics (IOP)
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
• Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

RECENT INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE

• Acting Dean of Engineering, Yale University (Fall, 2000)
• Chairman, Mechanical Engineering, Yale University (1994-2000, 2006-Present)
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Mechanical Engineering (1985-1994, 2000-2006)
• Director of Graduate Studies, Yale Engineering (2002-2003)
• Yale University Tenure Committee for the Physical Sciences and Engineering (2000-2002, 2005-2006)
• Yale University HPC Focus Group (Chair, 2010-Present)
• Yale University ITS Advisory Committee (2010-Present)
• Yale University Science Council (Member 2004-2005, 2008-Present, Chair 2005-2008)
• Yale University Budget Committee, (1998-2000, 2005-2007)
• Yale University Physical and Biological Sciences Degree Committee (2002-Present)
• Yale University Junior Faculty Fellowship Committee for the Physical Sciences and Engineering (2001-2007)
• Yale University Committee for the Economic Status of the Faculty (1992-1994, Chair 1996-1998)
• Yale University Scholar Awards Committee (2005-2009)
• Yale University Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering Ad Hoc Committee (2005-Present)
• Yale University Committee on Cooperative Research (1996-2000)

RECENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Chair, National Academies Committee on Cyberinfrastructure for Combustion, (2008-Present)
• Coeditor-In-Chief, Combustion Theory and Modeling (1996-Present)
• Editor, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (2001-2005)
• Program Co-Chair, 32nd International Combustion Symposium (2008)
• Member of the Board of Directors, The Combustion Institute, (2006-Present)
• Executive Committee, Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute (2005-2007)
• Chair, Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute (2003-2005)
• Vice-Chair, Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute (2001-2003)
• Program Chair, Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute (1996-1997)
• Paper Chair, Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute (1994-1995)
• Colloquium Co-Chair, 23rd, 26th and 27th International Combustion Symposium, (1990, 1996, 1998)
• Member of the Engineering Advisory Board, Fairfield University (2005-Present)
• Member of the External Advisory Board, Department of Mechanical Engineering, U. of Connecticut (2006-Present)
• Department of Energy Workshop on Clean and Efficient Transportation Fuels for the 21st Century (2006)
• Department of Energy Workshop on Multiscale Modeling (2005)
• Propellant and Combustion Technical Program Chair, ASM AIAA, Reno, (2005)
• Propellant and Combustion Technical Committee, AIAA, (2001-Present)
• Co-Organizer, 12th International Conference on Numerical Combustion, SIAM (2008)
• Co-Organizer, 10th International Conference on Numerical Combustion, SIAM (2004)
• Co-Organizer, 8th International Conference on Numerical Combustion, SIAM (2000)
• Co-Organizer, 6th International Conference on Numerical Combustion, SIAM (1996)
• Co-Organizer, 4th International Conference on Numerical Combustion, SIAM (1991)
• University of Utah ASCI Review Committee (2001)
• NASA Microgravity Combustion Discipline Working Group (1992-present)

RECENT INVITED LECTURES AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS

(Over 50 lectures at National and International Meetings have been presented since 1980. A selection of recent lectures is listed below.)

• “Computational and Experimental Study of Laminar Flames,” Plenary Lecture, Joint Meeting of the Dutch and Belgian Sections of the Combustion Institute, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 1999.
• “Computational and Experimental Study of Energetic Materials,” Keynote Address, CSE Symposium, University of Illinois, April 2000.
• “Modeling Energetic Materials,” Plenary Lecture, Gordon Research Conference, The Tilton School, Tilton, New Hampshire, July 2000.
• “On the Transition from Nonsooting to Sooting Ethylene Diffusion Flames,” Distinguished Mechanical Engineering Seminar, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 2003.
• “Soot Formation in Laminar Flames,” Plenary Lecture, Computational Heat Transfer Meeting, CHT-04, M. S. Midnatsol, Norway 2004.
• “Soot Formation in Ethylene-Air Diffusion Flames,” Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, April 2005.
• “Computational and Experimental Study of Laminar Diffusion Flames,” Plenary Lecture, Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2007.
• “Computational and Experimental Study of Soot Formation in Coflow Laminar Diffusion Flames,” Plenary Lecture, COMBURA Meeting of the Dutch Combustion Section, Utrecht, Holland, October 2008.

CONTRIBUTED LECTURES AND INVITED SEMINARS

Since 1980, over 200 lectures and invited seminars have been presented at various technical meetings, academic institutions, government and industrial laboratories.

RESEARCH SUPPORT

Since 1985, Professor Smooke has been a PI or Co-PI on over 30 research grants totaling more than $13M of which nearly $7M has been used to fund his research.