KEVIN M. LYONS
Associate Professor

Education
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, 1994
M. Phil. Mechanical Engineering Yale University, New Haven, CT. ,1992
M. S. Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT. , 1991
B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Manhattan College, 1988

Research Interests
Laser Diagnostics in Reacting Flows, Non-intrusive optical imaging techniques, Temperature, Velocity Species Measurement in Combustion Experiments, Flow Control for Propulsion applications, Flame Stabilization, Turbulent mixing

Professional Experience
July 2000--present Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

8/94 -- June 2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

6/97 - 8/97 AFOSR Summer Faculty Researcher Arnold Air Force Base, TN

6/96 -- 8/96 Summer Faculty Researcher Research Division, Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake, CA

6/88 - 5/94 Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Laser Diagnostics, Yale University, New Haven, CT

6/88 -- 8/88 Research Assistant, Sandia National Laboratory, Combustion Research Facility, Livermore, CA

6/87 -- 8/87 Research Assistant, Physics Department, Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA.

Professional Societies
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Optical Society of America (OSA)

Combustion Institute

Selected Publications
"Combustion Structures in Lifted Ethanol Spray Flames," S.K. Marley, E.J. Welle and K.M. Lyons, To Appear: ASME Journal for the Engineering of Gas Turbines and Power .

"Leading-Edge Reaction Zones in Lifted-Jet Gas and Spray Flames," S. K. Marley, K. M. Lyons and K. A. Watson, To appear: Flow, Turbulence and Combustion .

"On Scalar Dissipation and Partially Premixed Flame Propagation," K. A. Watson, K. M. Lyons, J. M. Donbar and C. D. Carter Combustion Science and Technology 175 (4) 649-664 (2003).

"Simultaneous Two-Shot CH-PLIF and Particle Image Velocimetry Measurements in Lifted CH4-Air Diffusion Flames," K. A. Watson, K. M. Lyons, J. M. Donbar and C. D. Carter, in 29th Symposium (International) on Combustion , The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, pp. 1905-1912, (2002).

"Visualizing Diffusion Flame Formation in the Wake of Partially Premixed Combustion," K. M. Lyons and K. A. Watson, ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology 123 (3): 221-227 SEPT (2001).