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Richard C. Miake-Lye is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with a strong emphasis on understanding particulate matter emissions from aircraft engines and evaluating sustainable aviation fuels.

Their work spans several subfields including global and planetary change, automotive engineering, health toxicology and mutagenesis, materials chemistry, and aerospace engineering. Core research topics include advanced aircraft design and technologies, vehicle emissions and performance, air quality and health impacts, catalytic processes in materials science, air traffic management and optimization, advanced combustion engine technologies, and recycling and waste management techniques.

They have published in multiple venues, notably:

  • Journal of Aerosol Science
  • Aerosol Science and Technology
  • Meteorologische Zeitschrift
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Fuel

Frequent collaborators include Prem Lobo, Gregory J. Smallwood, Zhenhong Yu, Andrew Freedman, and Philip D. Whitefield, with multiple joint publications across their careers.

Representative recent papers with publication years and venues include:

  • Aircraft engine particulate matter emissions from sustainable aviation fuels: Results from ground-based measurements during the NASA/DLR campaign ECLIF2/ND-MAX, 2022, Fuel
  • Comparison of standardized sampling and measurement reference systems for aircraft engine non-volatile particulate matter emissions, 2020, Journal of Aerosol Science
  • Aircraft-engine particulate matter emissions from conventional and sustainable aviation fuel combustion: comparison of measurement techniques for mass, number, and size, 2022, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Assessment of a regulatory measurement system for the determination of the non-volatile particulate matter emissions from commercial aircraft engines, 2020, Journal of Aerosol Science
  • A New Approach to Estimate Particulate Matter Emissions From Ground Certification Data: The nvPM Mission Emissions Estimation Methodology, 2022, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Best Publications

  • Emission Measurements of the Concorde Supersonic Aircraft in the Lower Stratosphere

    D. W. Fahey;E. R. Keim;K. A. Boering;C. A. Brock

  • Impact of aviation on climate: FAA’s Aviation Climate Change Research Initiative (ACCRI) Phase II

    Guy P. Brasseur;Mohan Gupta;Bruce E. Anderson;Sathya Balasubramanian

  • Aerosol dynamics in near‐field aircraft plumes

    R. C. Brown;R. C. Miake-Lye;M. R. Anderson;C. E. Kolb

  • Commercial aircraft engine emissions characterization of in-use aircraft at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

    Scott Christopher Herndon;John T. Jayne;Prem Lobo;Timothy B. Onasch

  • Environmental conditions required for contrail formation and persistence

    Eric J. Jensen;Owen B. Toon;Stefan Kinne;Glen W. Sachse

  • Measurement of aircraft engine non-volatile PM emissions: results of the Aviation-Particle Regulatory Instrumentation Demonstration Experiment (A-PRIDE) 4 campaign

    Prem Lobo;Lukas Durdina;Gregory J. Smallwood;Theodor Rindlisbacher

  • Gas Turbine Engine Emissions—Part II: Chemical Properties of Particulate Matter

    Michael T. Timko;Timothy B. Onasch;Megan J. Northway;John T. Jayne

  • Lifted turbulent jet flames: A stability criterion based on the jet large-scale structure

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  • Reductions in aircraft particulate emissions due to the use of Fischer–Tropsch fuels

    A. J. Beyersdorf;M. T. Timko;L. D. Ziemba;D. Bulzan

  • NO and NO2 emission ratios measured from in-use commercial aircraft during taxi and takeoff.

    Scott C. Herndon;Joanne H. Shorter;Mark S. Zahniser;David D. Nelson

  • Chemical Properties of Aircraft Engine Particulate Exhaust Emissions

    Timothy B. Onasch;John T. Jayne;Scott Herndon;Douglas R. Worsnop

  • Overview on the Aircraft Particle Emissions Experiment

    Chowen C. Wey;Bruce E. Anderson;Changlie Wey;Richard Charles Miake-Lye

  • Particulate Emissions of Gas Turbine Engine Combustion of a Fischer−Tropsch Synthetic Fuel

    M. T. Timko;Z. Yu;T. B. Onasch;H.-W. Wong

  • In situ observations in aircraft exhaust plumes in the lower stratosphere at midlatitudes

    D. W. Fahey;E. R. Keim;E. L. Woodbridge;R. S. Gao

  • Influence of Jet Fuel Composition on Aircraft Engine Emissions: A Synthesis of Aerosol Emissions Data from the NASA APEX, AAFEX, and ACCESS Missions

    Richard H. Moore;Michael Shook;Andreas Beyersdorf;Chelsea Corr;Chelsea Corr

  • Hydrocarbon Emissions from In-Use Commercial Aircraft during Airport Operations

    Scott C. Herndon;Todd Rogers;Edward J. Dunlea;John T. Jayne

  • Particulate Emissions from in-use Commercial Aircraft

    Scott C. Herndon;Timothy B. Onasch;Brian P. Frank;Linsey C. Marr

  • Aircraft exhaust sulfur emissions

    R. C. Brown;M. R. Anderson;R. C. Miake-Lye;C. E. Kolb

  • Sampling Artifacts from Conductive Silicone Tubing

    Michael T. Timko;Zhenhong Yu;Jesse Kroll;John T. Jayne

  • Subsonic aircraft: Contrail and cloud effects special study (SUCCESS)

    Owen B. Toon;Richard C. Miake-Lye

  • Alternative Aviation Fuel Experiment (AAFEX)

    B. E. Anderson;A. J. Beyersdorf;C. H. Hudgins;J. V. Plant

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott C. Herndon
Scott C. Herndon Aerodyne Research
Bruce E. Anderson
Bruce E. Anderson Langley Research Center
Robert C. Brown
Robert C. Brown Iowa State University
Timothy B. Onasch
Timothy B. Onasch Boston College
E. L. Winstead
E. L. Winstead Langley Research Center
Andreas J. Beyersdorf
Andreas J. Beyersdorf California State University, San Bernardino
Luke D. Ziemba
Luke D. Ziemba Langley Research Center
Charles E. Kolb
Charles E. Kolb Aerodyne Research

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