Paul Papas, Associate Professor

Princeton University, Ph.D.

Dr. Papas earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Ph.D. in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University. His research interests include flame extinction, ignition, hydrodynamic and combustion instabilities, and high-temperature fuel oxidation kinetics.

Homepage - http://inside.mines.edu/~ppapas/
Paul Papas received a Batchelor Science in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1988, M.A. in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University in 1990, and Ph.D. in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University in 1994. At Princeton University, he was awarded an AFRAPT Fellowship (1991-1993) and the Luigi Crocco Prize for Best Teaching Assistant in 1994. From 1994-96, he was a National Research Council Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory (Washington DC). From 1996-2004, he was a Senior Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne Switzerland, where he gave courses in aircraft stability, aerodynamics, rocket propulsion and combustion. Since January 2004, he has been an Associate Professor at the Colorado School of Mines. He has published and conducted research in many areas of combustion and fluid mechanics, including reacting mixing layer dynamics and combustion instabilities, metal combustion, thermal ignition of carbonaceous materials, solid propellants, thermo-acoustic oscillations in industrial combustors, high-temperature fuel oxidation kinetics, and laminar flame extinction. His current research interests are focused on alternative energy conversion technologies (e.g. hydrogen production from coal pyrolysis and coal/biomass gasification).

Current Courses - Fall 2009
EGGN566A - Combustion