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Suresh Iyer

Research Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Larson Transportation Institute
  • Mechanical Engineering

201 Transportation Research Building

ssi105@psu.edu

814-865-2327

Interest Areas:

Optical methods for the detemination of soot characteristics in flames, particulate and gaseous emission measurements of heavy duty engines

 
 

 

Education

  • B.Sc. (Engineering), Mechanical Engineering, University of Kerala, 1978
  • Master of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 1980
  • PhD, Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2005

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Joseph Vais and Suresh S Iyer, 2021, "Comparison of emissions measurement methods based on chassis dynamometer testing", Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International, pp. 16
  • Anand Makwana, A Jain, Milton Linevsky, Suresh S Iyer, Robert J Santoro, Thomas Litzinger, Yuan Xuan and Jacqueline O'Connor, 2019, "Experimental and numerical investigation of effects of premixing on soot processes in iso-octane co-flow flames", The Combustion Institute, 37(2019), (1), pp. 1031-1039
  • Anand Makwana, Suresh S Iyer, Milton Linevsky, Robert J Santoro, Thomas Litzinger and Jacqueline O'Connor, 2018, "Effect of aromatic fuels and premixing on aromatic species and soot distributions in laminar, co-flow flames at atmospheric pressure", Combustion and Flame, 194(2018), pp. 11
  • Yefu Wang, Anand Makwana, Suresh S Iyer, Milton Linevsky, Robert J Santoro, Thomas Litzinger and Jacqueline O'Connor, 2018, "Effect of fuel composition on soot and aromatic species distribution in laminar co-flow diffusion flames - Part 1: Non-premixed fuel", Combustion and Flame, 189, pp. 13
  • Anand Makwana, Yefu Wang, Suresh S Iyer, Milton Linevsky, Robert J Santoro, Thomas Litzinger and Jacqueline O'Connor, 2018, "Effect of fuel composition on soot and aromatic species distribution in laminar co-flow diffusion flames - Part 2: partially premixed fuel", Combustion and Flame, 189, pp. 16
  • Anandkumar Makwana, Suresh S Iyer, Milton Linevsky, Robert J Santoro, Thomas Litzinger and Jacqueline O'Connor, 2017, "Effects of fuel molecular weight on emissions in a jet flame and a model gas turbine combustor", J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power, 140, (3), pp. 9
  • Venkataraman Mahadevan, Suresh S Iyer and David J Klinikowski, 2016, "Recovery of tail pipe species concentrations and its effect on emissions calculations from raw exhaust gas streams during chassis dynamometer tests", SAE International Journal of Engines, (2016-01-0984), pp. 10
  • Anne Geraldine Mouis, Thomas Litzinger, Yefu Wang, Venkatesh Iyer, Suresh S Iyer, Milton Linevsky, Robert J Santoro and Viswanath Katta, 2015, "Effects of a JP-8 surrogate and its components on soot in laminar, N2-diluted ethylene co-flow diffusion flames from 1 to5 atm", Combustion and Flame, 162, (5), pp. 9
  • Partha Mishra, Suresh S Iyer and David J Klinikowski, 2015, "Uncertainties in Emissions Measurements in a Partial Flow Sampling System", Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), International, (2015-26-0096), pp. 8
  • Loknath Mohanta, Suresh S Iyer, Partha Mishra and David J Klinikowski, 2014, "Uncertainties in measurements of emissions in chassis dynamometer tests", Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), International, pp. 9
  • Venkatesh R. Iyer, Suresh S Iyer, Thomas Litzinger, Robert J Santoro, Stephen Dooley, Frederick L. Dryer and Christopher J. Mordaunt, 2014, "Simulating the Sooting Propensity of JP-8 with Surrogate Fuels from Hydrocarbon Fluids", Journal of Propulsion and Power
  • Mathew McKeand, Arvind Menon, Suresh S Iyer, Seong-Young Lee, Milton Linevsky, Thomas Litzinger and Robert J Santoro, 2012, "Effects of NO2 on Soot Formation in a Laminar Premixed Ethylene-Air Flame", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Venkatesh R. Iyer, Suresh S Iyer, Thomas Litzinger, Robert J Santoro, Stephen Dooley, Frederick L. Dryer and Christopher J. Mordaunt, 2012, "Emulating the Sooting Propensity of JP-8 with Surrogate Fuels from Solvent Mixtures", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AIAA 2012-0621, pp. 14
  • Stephen Dooley, Sang Hee Won, Joshua Heyne, Tanvir I. Farouk, Yiguang Ju, Frederick L. Dryer, Kamal Kumar, Xin Hui, Chih-Jen Sung, Haowei Wang, Matthew A. Oehlschalaeger, Venkatesh Iyer, Suresh S Iyer, Thomas A. Litzinger, Robert J. Santoro, Tomas Malewicki and Kenneth Brezinsky, 2012, "The experimental evaluation of a methodology for surrogate fuel formulation to emulate gas phase combustion kinetic phenomena", Combustion and Flame, 159, (4), pp. 1444-1466
  • Thomas Litzinger and Suresh S Iyer, 2011, "The Hypergolic Reaction of Dicyanamide-based Fuels with Nitric Acid", Energy & Fuels, 2011, (25), pp. 72-76
  • Suresh S Iyer, Thomas Litzinger, Seong-Young Lee and Robert Santoro, 2007, "Determination of soot scattering coefficient from extinction and three-angle scattering in a laminar diffusion flame", Combustion and Flame, 149, (1-2), pp. 206-216

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