Craig T. Bowman

Professor
Faculty of Thermosciences Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Degrees

B.S. Carnegie Institute of Technology – Mechanical Engineering (1961)
M.S. Princeton University – Aeronautical Engineering (1964)
Ph.D. Princeton University – Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences (1966)

Research Interests

Combustion, reacting flows, air-breathing propulsion, and environmental impacts of combustion. He is the author of over 80 journal articles and three book chapters in these areas.

Awards/Honors

1997 Humboldt Research Prize
1998 Zeldovich Gold Medal of the Combustion Institute

Recent Publications

• R. W. Bates, D. M. Golden, R. K. Hanson and C. T. Bowman, "Experimental Study and Modeling of the Reaction H + O 2 + M ® HO 2 + M (M= Ar, N 2, H 2O) at Elevated Pressures and Temperatures between 1050-1250K,", PCCP 3, 2337-2342, 2001.
  
• S. Song, R. K. Hanson, C. T. Bowman and D. M. Golden, "Shock Tube Determination of the Overall Rate of NH 2 + NO ® Products at High Temperatures," Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Volume 28, 2403-2409, 2001.
  
• C. Schmidt and C. T. Bowman, "Flow Reactor Study of the Effect of Pressure on the Thermal De-NO x Process," C., Comb. Flame 127, 1958-1970, 2001.
  
• S. Song, R. K. Hanson, C. T. Bowman and D. M. Golden, "Shock Tube Determination of the Overall Rate of the NH 2 + NO ® Products in the Thermal De-NO x Temperature Window,", Int. J. Chem. Kinetics 33, 715-721, 2001.
  
• S. Song, D. M. Golden, R. K. Hanson and C. T. Bowman, "A Shock Tube Study of Benzylamine Decomposition: Overall Rate Coefficient and Heat of Formation of the Benzyl Radical,", J. Phys. Chem. A 106, 6094-6098, 2002.
  
• J. T. Herbon, R. K. Hanson, D. M. Golden and C. T. Bowman, "A Shock Tube Study of the Enthalpy of Formation of OH,", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Volume 29, 1201 – 1208, 2002.
  
• S. Song, D. M. Golden, R. K. Hanson and C. T. Bowman, "A Shock Tube Study of the NH 2 + NO 2 Reaction,", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Volume 29, 2163 – 2170, 2002.
  
• S. Song, R. K. Hanson, C. T. Bowman and D. M. Golden, "A Shock Tube Study of the Product Branching Ratio of the NH 2 + NO Reaction at High Temperature," J. Phys. Chem. A. 106, 9233-9235, 2002.
  
• S. Song, D. M. Golden, R. K. Hanson, C. T. Bowman, J. P Senosiain, C. B. Musgrave and G. Friedrichs, “A Shock Tube Study of the Reaction NH 2+CH 4 ® NH 3+CH 3 and Comparison with Transition State Theory,” Int. J. Chem. Kinetics 35, 304-309, 2003
  
• J. T. Herbon, R. K. Hanson, C. T. Bowman, and D. M. Golden, “ The reaction of CH 3 + O 2: Experimental determination of the rate coefficients for the product channels at high temperatures,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Volume 30, 2004 (in press).
  
• S. Lee, C. F. Edwards and C. T. Bowman, “Development of a multilayer mesoscale burner array for gas turbine reheat,” Proceedings of IMECE 2004: 2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, 2004.
  
• D.L. Baulch, C. T. Bowman, C. J. Cobos, R. A. Cox, Th. Just, J. A. Kerr, M. J. Pilling, D. Stocker, J. Troe, W. Tsang, R. W. Walker and J. Warnatz, “Evaluated Kinetic Data for Combustion Modelling,” J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 2004.

Projects

NASA, "Intelligent Distributed Combustion for Advanced Gas Turbine Engines”
DOE, “Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Combustion Gases at High Temperatures"
GCEP, "Advanced Combustion Concepts”
DOE, “Combustion in HCCI Engines”

Last updated 11/02/05

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