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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
40
Citations
7278
World Ranking
2003
National Ranking
746

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Josette Bellan is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a substantial number of publications in computational mechanics as well as in related subfields such as ocean engineering, fluid flow and transfer processes, applied mathematics, and aerospace engineering.

Their work covers several main topics, reflecting diverse interests within fluid mechanics and combustion science. These topics include:

  • Combustion and flame dynamics
  • Granular flow and fluidized beds
  • Particle dynamics in fluid flows
  • Advanced combustion engine technologies
  • Fluid dynamics and heat transfer
  • Heat transfer and supercritical fluids
  • Gas dynamics and kinetic theory

Josette Bellan has contributed to various scientific journals and conferences. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • AIAA Journal
  • AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum
  • AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum
  • AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum

Their recent papers provide insight into the focus and scope of their research. Notable examples are:

  • "Fluid density effects in supersonic jet-induced cratering in a granular bed on a planetary body having an atmosphere in the continuum regime" (2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics)
  • "Future Challenges in the Modelling and Simulations of High-pressure Flows" (2020, Combustion Science and Technology)
  • "A priori evaluation of the Double-conditioned Conditional Source-term Estimation model for high-pressure heptane turbulent combustion using DNS data obtained with one-step chemistry" (2020, Combustion and Flame)
  • "Global thermodynamic, transport-property and dynamic characteristics of the Venus lower atmosphere below the cloud layer" (2020, Icarus)
  • "Ejecta from Granular-Medium Cratering by a Supersonic Jet Entering a Continuum Atmosphere" (2021, AIAA Journal)

Collaborations have been an essential aspect of this scientist's career. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Kaushik Balakrishnan
  • Takahiko Toki
  • Nek Sharan
  • W. Kendal Bushe
  • Cécile Devaud

Josette Bellan was recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1991.

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of equilibrium and non-equilibrium evaporation models for many-droplet gas-liquid flow simulations

    R.S. Miller;K. Harstad;J. Bellan

  • A Generalized Biomass Pyrolysis Model Based on Superimposed Cellulose, Hemicelluloseand Liqnin Kinetics

    R. S. Miller;J. Bellan

  • Supercritical (and subcritical) fluid behavior and modeling: drops, streams, shear and mixing layers, jets and sprays

    J. Bellan

  • Direct numerical simulation of a confined three-dimensional gas mixing layer with one evaporating hydrocarbon-droplet-laden stream

    R. S. Miller;J. Bellan

  • Direct numerical simulations of supercritical fluid mixing layers applied to heptane–nitrogen

    Richard S. Miller;Kenneth G. Harstad;Josette Bellan

  • Efficient High-Pressure State Equations

    Kenneth G. Harstad;Richard S. Miller;Josette Bellan

  • Consistent Boundary Conditions for Multicomponent Real Gas Mixtures Based on Characteristic Waves

    Nora Okong'o;Josette Bellan

  • Direct numerical simulation of a transitional supercritical binary mixing layer: heptane and nitrogen

    Nora A. Okong'o;Josette Bellan

  • Modeling of dense gas–solid reactive mixtures applied to biomass pyrolysis in a fluidized bed

    D. Lathouwers;J. Bellan

  • Isolated fluid oxygen drop behavior in fluid hydrogen at rocket chamber pressures

    K. Harstad;J. Bellan

  • Theory, modeling and analysis of turbulent supercritical mixing

    Josette Bellan

  • Modelling of subgrid-scale phenomena in supercritical transitional mixing layers: an a priori study

    Laurent C. Selle;Nora A. Okong'o;Josette Bellan;Kenneth G. Harstad

  • An all-pressure fluid drop model applied to a binary mixture: heptane in nitrogen

    K Harstad;J Bellan

  • Consistent large-eddy simulation of a temporal mixing layer laden with evaporating drops : Part 1. Direct numerical simulation formulation and a priori analysis

    Nora A. Okong'o;Josette Bellan

  • A model of smoldering combustion applied to flexible polyurethane foams

    T.J. Ohlemiller;J. Bellan;F. Rogers

  • Direct Numerical Simulations of O/H Temporal Mixing Layers Under Supercritical Conditions

    Nora Okong'o;Kenneth Harstad;Josette Bellan

  • Direct Numerical Simulation and Subgrid Analysis of a Transitional Droplet Laden Mixing Layer

    Richard S. Miller;Josette Bellan

  • Analysis of the convective evaporation of nondilute clusters of drops

    J. Bellan;K. Harstad

  • The Lewis number under supercritical conditions

    K. Harstad;J. Bellan

  • A theory of nondilute spray evaporation based upon multiple drop interactions

    J. Bellan;R. Cuffel

Frequent Co-Authors

Sébastien Lebonnois
Sébastien Lebonnois Sorbonne University
William A. Sirignano
William A. Sirignano University of California, Irvine
Gerald Schubert
Gerald Schubert University of California, Los Angeles
Rolf D. Reitz
Rolf D. Reitz University of Wisconsin–Madison

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