Education
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley.
M.A.Sc., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Graduate Program in Business Administration (CEAG), Foundation
Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Mechanical and electrical engineer, Ecole Centrale des Arts et Métiers,
Brussels, Belgium.
Teaching
Fall 2011
Undergraduate: ENGG349, Mechanics II
Winter 2012
Undergraduate: ENME595, Gas Dynamics and ENME341, Fluid Mechanics I
Graduate: ENME607, Mechanics of Compressible Flows
Research
Funded by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada and H2Can, my research is concerned primarily with pulsating and unsteady flows, with combustion or heat transfer, using numerical (CFD) techniques and theoretical models. My interest in computational issues is driven by the scale of the computational models in direct simulation of reacting flows. The main current application is safety of hydrogen as an automotive fuel. We participated in the HySafe consortium. Currently, we participate in the H2Can network of excellence. Specifically, my areas of research are:
1. Computational fluid dynamics and mathematical analysis in combustion and reacting flows, especially detonations and combustion instabilities, with applications in hydrogen safety.
Numerical smoke foil from a three-dimensional simulation of a detonation in a square channel, top picture = side wall, bottom picture = bottom wall (overdrive 1.1, heat release = 2, activation energy = 5, gamma = 1.2. Resolution: 170x80x80).
2. Pulsating flows with heat transfer or heat release and pressure oscillations. Thermoacoustics, pulse-tube cryocoolers, acoustic refrigeration, interaction between flames and acoustics, regenerator analysis and oscillating flows in porous media, cryogenics.
Invited Talks
Invited Lecture, Thermoacoustics, 50th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society, San Francisco, CA, November 25, 1997.
Oscillating Flows and Heat Engines, University of Rome, La Sapienzia, July 1996.
Oscillating Flows, Thermoacoustics and Regenerators, Technical University of Dresden, Germany, December 1998.
Etude numérique des structures de détonation bi- et tridimensionelles, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d Aérotechnique, Poitiers, France, December 16, 1999.
Two- and Three-Dimensional Simulation of Detonation Cells, Computational Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 2000.
Two- and Three-Dimensional Simulation of Detonation Cells, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, April 25, 2000.
Oscillating Flow in Porous Media, with Application in Regenerators and Thermoacoustic Stacks, Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, May 17, 2001.
Keynote Presentation, Oscillating Flows in Porous Media and Proper Formulations for Regenerator Analysis, 10th ISEC, Osnabrück, Germany, September 2001.
Invited Presentation, Three-Dimensional Detonation Cells, 39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA, Reno, NV, January 2002.
Moteurs thermoacoustiques et réfrigérateurs de type tube à gaz pulsé- Modèles à échelles multiples, LIMSI, Orsay, France, June 14, 2002.
Simplified Chain-Branching Kinetic Models for Hydrogen Detonation, Second International Firebridge Conference 2005 - Northern Ireland - Japan, Belfast, May 9-11, 2005.
Graham Walker: In Memoriam, with Prof. Vicenzo Naso, University of Rome, 12th International Stirling Engine Conference, Durham, UK, September 8, 2005.
Numerical Simulation of Hydrogen Detonations and Application in Enclosed Environments and Detonations, Cellular Structure, Detonative Ignition and Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition: Lessons from 25 Years of Numerical Simulation, keynote lectures, First European Summer School on Hydrogen Safety, Belfast, Aug. 22, 2006.
Activities and Honors
Vice-President, Institute for Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Seattle, WA, 2011-2013. Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Board of Directors, Institute for Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Seattle, WA, 2007-2011, 2011-2017.
Associate Editor (liaison with ICDERS), Shock Waves, Springer Verlag, 2005-date.
Member, Grant Selection Committee 13 (2004-2006) and 1054 (2006-2007), Mechanical Engineering, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Visiting Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, May-June 2007.
Program co-chair, 20th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, July 30-August 5, 2005, Montreal, Quebec.
Colloquium Co-chair, Detonations and Explosions, 29th International Symposium on Combustion, July 21-26, 2002, Sapporo, Japan.
Visiting Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, May 2002.
Visiting Research Professor, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January-July 2000.
Associate Research Director, CNRS, Poitiers, France, fall 1999.
President, CFD Society of Canada, 1998-2000.
President, Super*Can, the Canadian Association for High Performance Computing, 1997-1998.
Member, Propellants and Combustion Technical Committee, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Expert Auditor, Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (ACTS) Program, European Commission, Directorate XIIIB, 1997; 1998; 2000.
Research Excellence Award, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 1999.
Personal:
Pictures of Celine and Steven's wedding
Pictures of Regis and Linda's wedding
To contact me:
e-mail: bauwens@ucalgary.ca
Phone: (403) 220 5792
Fax: (403) 282 8406
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(Last updated October 4, 2011)