Contact Information:

Tarek Echekki, Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
North Carolina State University
4152 Broughton Hall
2601 Stinson Drive - Campus Box 7910
Raleigh, NC 27695-7910

919.515.5238 (Office)
919.515.7968 (Fax)
techekk@eos.ncsu.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA (January, 1993).

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA.

Positions

Member of the Technical Staff, Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories.

Visiting Assistant Research Engineer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre de Recherche sur la Combustion Turbulente (Center for Research on Turbulent Combustion), Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, France.

Research Interests

Combustion Science: Flame stucture, stability and dynamics, Autoignition in non-homogeneous mixtures, Turbulent Combustion simulation and modeling, Micro-scale combustion, Turbulent mixing.

Simulation Strategies: Direct Numerical Simulations and Large-Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Reacting Flows, Low-Dimensional Stochastic Models (the One-Dimensional Turbulence, ODT, model, and the Linear-Eddy Model, LEM).

Multiscale Simulations: Hybrid LES-Low Dimensional Stochastic Models, Model-Based Closure.