Colin H. Smith

About Me

firefox-gray I am a 4th year PhD student in the mechanical engineering department at The University of Texas at Austin, and I study under Dr. Janet Ellzey. My current research is in rich and ultra-rich combustion for syngas production, and I work with filtration reactors and laminar flames. I am primarily an experimentalist, and I am interested in chemical kinetics, combustion limit phenomena and transport.

I graduated from Cornell University in 2004 with a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering. At Cornell I worked on a flame chemiluminescence project for Professor Fred Gouldin. For three years following graduation, I worked at Raytheon Company as a Radar Systems Engineer.

email: colin.healey.smith@utexas.edu


Here is my CV


Here are some of my papers:

Effect of preheating on rich combustion for syngas production: experiments and modeling of burner-stabilized flames

Conversion of Jet Fuel to Syngas via Filtration Combustion - 2011 US National Combustion Meeting

Conversion of Bio-Butanol to Syngas via Filtration Combustion - 2010 WSSCI Spring Technical Meeeting

Conversion of Wet Ethanol to Syngas via Filtration Combustion: an Experimental and Computational Investigation - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 2011

A Framework to Report the Production of Biodiesel from Algae - BioEnergy Research 2010

Design for a 1.3MW, 13 MEV Beam Dump for an Energy Recovery Linac, Proceedings of 2005 Particle Accelerator Conference 2005


Here are some links:

Paul White who does robots at Lockheed

Kurt Lavetti who does health economics at Berkeley

Brent Castle who does statistics/computer science at Indiana

Alon Gorodetsky who is a Prof. at UC Irvine

Ingmar Schoegl who is a Prof. at LSU

Michael Webber who is a Prof. at UT (and one of my MS advisors)

The Combustion Institute

My committee members:

My advisor, Dr. Janet Ellzey

Dr. Ofodike Ezekoye

Dr. Laxminarayan Raja

Dr. Carlos Hidrovo

Dr. Halil Berberoglu