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Propulsion and Energy Sciences

Energy conversion by combustion is and will continue to be the overwhelming mode of energy conversion in the electricity generation, ground and
air transportation, and space propulsion sectors.† However, concerns over the environmental impacts of fossil fuel combustion have made
advances in new high-e ciency, low-emissions combustion technology critically important.

Combustion lies at the intersection of chemistry and transport phenomena ranging from the electron scale to engine scale including reaction
kinetics, molecular transport, radiation heat transfer, and uid mechanics, and the range of activities in the Department re ects this diversity.†
Current research activities include fundamental combustion chemistry for both fossil-derived fuels (conventional and synthetic) and bio-derived
fuels, pollutant emissions (nitrogen oxides and soot) chemistry and modeling, low-temperature combustion, plasma-assisted combustion, spray
and droplet combusiton, high-pressure combustion, turbulent combustion, and combustion-derived functional nano-materials.† These activities
include both experimental and computational activities.† Experimental activities include the development of advanced laser diagnostic
capabilities, and computational activities include the development of advanced numerical algorithms and multi-scale multi-physics modeling
approaches.† Current applications of interest include fuel- exible stationary gas turbines, aviation gas turbines, diesel engines, gasoline engines,
low-temperature homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines, scramjets, and rockets.

To provide a sustainable and exible energy future, alternative energy conversion, energy storage, and propulsion technologies are also required.†
This encompasses faculty in all areas of the Department in collaboration with the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.  Department
faculty are engaged in a variety of areas in propulsion and energy sciences, broadly de ned including combusiton and alternative technologies:

Combustion: Ju, Law, Mueller

Alternative/Bio Fuels: Carter, Ju, Law, Mueller
Energy Storage and Fuel Cells: Arnold, Carter, Haataja, Steingart
Fission and Fusion Energy: Carter, Glaser, Kolemen, Rowley
Solar Energy: Arnold, Carter
Wind Energy: Hultmark, Martinelli, Smits
Electric/Plasma Propulsion: Choueiri

Edgar Choueiri (/people/faculty/choueiri)

Professor
choueiri@princeton.edu
(609) 258-5220
 D432 Engineering Quadrangle
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Frederick Dryer (/people/faculty/dryer)

Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar
dryer@princeton.edu
(609) 258-5206 Voice mail only
 D302A Engineering Quadrangle
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Lamyaa El-Gabry (/people/faculty/el-gabry)

Lecturer
lelgabry@princeton.edu
 D324 Engineering Quadrangle
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Yiguang Ju (/people/faculty/ju)
gabry)
Robert Porter Patterson Professor
yju@princeton.edu
(609) 258-5644
 D329B Engineering Quadrangle
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Chung Law (/people/faculty/law)

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Robert H. Goddard Professor
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cklaw@princeton.edu
(609) 258-5271
 D323C Engineering Quadrangle
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Michael Mueller (/people/faculty/mueller)
Assistant Professor
muellerm@princeton.edu
(609) 258-5191
 D332 Engineering Quadrangle
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