Education:

Princeton University
PhD Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences

Teaching: ^top

Aerospace Propulsion
Combustion I and II
Aerodynamics

Research Interests: ^top

• Supersonic Combustion within Scramjet Experiments
• Rocket Combustion (H2-O2) for NASA’s Project Constellation Center at Michigan
• Nitric Oxide Formation in General Electric TAPS Jet Engine Combustors
• Fundamental Studies of Turbulent Combustion

Biography: ^top

POSITIONS HELD AT U-M

Interim Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2003-2005
Associate Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2001-2003
Professor of Aerospace Engineering

Awards: ^top

• President, the Combustion Institute, 2016-2020
• Vice President & President-Elect, The Combustion Institute 2012-2016
• Editor, Combustion and Flame, 2003-2009
• Board of Directors, The Combustion Institute
• Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005
• Technical Program Co-Chair, 28th Symposium on Combustion, Edinburgh, 2000
• AIAA Propellants and Combustion Award for 2013
• The Silver Medal of the Combustion Institute (1998) for the outstanding paper of the
• Twenty-Sixth International Symposium on Combustion Naples, Italy, 1996 (with co-authors C. Mueller, M.C. Drake, D. Reuss)
• Distinguished paper award, 2006 Symposium on Combustion, Heidelberg, with co-author Jeffrey Sutton
• AIAA Best Paper Award-in the area of Propellants and Combustion, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1994 and 2008
• Combustion and Flame Most Cited Author Award for 2005-2008
• Silver Shaft Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001
• The Research Excellence Award – Department of Aerospace Engineering, 1993
• Outstanding Faculty Member Award for 1982, College of Engineering Class of ’38 Award
  Service Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2007
• AIAA Service and Leadership Award, 1990
• Interim Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2003-2005

Publications: ^top

1. T. M. Wabel, A. W. Skiba, C. D. Carter, S. Hammack, J. E. Temme, J. F. Driscoll, Measurements to Determine the Regimes of Premixed Flames in Extreme Turbulence, to appear, Proc. Combust. Inst. 36, 2016.
2. ·T. M. Wabel, A. W. Skiba, J. F. Driscoll, Turbulent Burning Velocity Measurements – Extended to Extreme Levels of Turbulence, to appear, Proc. Combust. Inst. 36, 2016.
3. Dalle, D.J., Driscoll, J.F., Torrez, S.M., Ascent Trajectories of Hypersonic Aircraft: Operability Limits Due to Engine Unstart, Journal of Aircraft: 52, 4, 1345-1354, 2015. 10.2514 / 1.C032801
4. Rosenberg, D. A., Allison, P.M., Driscoll, J. F., Flame Index and its Statistical Properties Measured to Understand Partially-Premixed Turbulent Combustion, Combustion and Flame, 62, 7, 2015, 2808-2822.
5. Lamorte, N., Friedmann, P.P., Dalle, D. J., Torrez, S.M., Driscoll, J.F., Uncertainty Propagation in Integrated Airframe-Propulsion System Analysis for Hypersonic Vehicles, J. of Propulsion and Power, 31, 1 (2015) 54-68.
6. Allison, P. M., Chen,Y. T., Ihme, M. and James F. Driscoll, Coupling of Flame Geometry and Combustion Instabilities Based on Kilohertz Formaldehyde PLIF Measurements, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 35, 3, 2014, 3255-3266.
7. Eagle, W. E. and Driscoll, J. F., Shock Wave-Boundary Layer Interactions in Rectangular Inlets: 3-D Separation Topology and Critical Points, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 756, pp. 328-353, 2014.
8. Temme, J.A., Allison, P.M., Driscoll, J.F., Combustion Instability of a Lean Premixed Prevaporized Gas Turbine Combustor Studied Using Phase-Averaged PIV, Combustion and Flame 161 (2014) 958–970.
9. Dalle, D. J., Torrez, S.M., Driscoll, J.F., Bolender, M.A., Bowcutt, K.G., Minimum-Fuel Ascent of a Hypersonic Vehicle Using Surrogate Optimization, AIAA J. of Aircraft 51, 6 (2014) 1973-1986.
10. Temme, J.A., Allison, P.M., Driscoll, J.F., Combustion Instability of a Lean Premixed Prevaporized Gas Turbine Combustor Studied Using Phase-Averaged PIV, accepted, Combust. Flame 2013.
11. Dalle, D. J., Torrez, S.M., Driscoll, J.F., Bolender, M.A., Bowcutt, K.G., Minimum- Fuel Ascent of a Hypersonic Vehicle Using Surrogate Optimization, accepted, J. Aircraft 2013.
    Sutton, J.A. and Driscoll, J.F., Measurements and Statistics of Mixture Fraction and Scalar Dissipation Rates in Turbulent Non-premixed Jet Flames, Combustion and Flame 160, 9, 1767-1778, 2013.
12. Torrez, S.M., Dalle, D.J. and Driscoll, J.F., A New Method for Computing Performance of Choked Reacting Flows and Ram-to-Scram Transition, J. Prop. Power 29, 2, 433-445, 2013.
    Fotia, M.L., Driscoll, J.F., Ram-Scram Transition and Flame/Shock-Train Interactions in a Model Scramjet Experiment, J. Propulsion and Power, 29, 1, 261-273, 2012.
13. Allison, P.M., Driscoll, J.F., Ihme, M., Acoustic Characterization of a Partially-Premixed Gas Turbine Model Combustor: Syngas and Hydrocarbon Fuel Comparisons, Proc. Combust. Inst. 34, 3145-3153, 2013.
14. Dalle, D.J., Torrez, S.M. and Driscoll, J.F., Rapid Analysis of Scramjet and Linear Plug Nozzles, J. Propulsion and Power 28, 3, 545-555, 2012.
15. Schumaker, S.A. and Driscoll, J.F., Mixing Properties of Coaxial Jets with Large Velocity Ratios and Large Inverse Density Ratios, Physics of Fluids 24,5, 055101, 2012.
    Steinberg, A.M., Driscoll, J.F., Swaminathan, N., Statistics and dynamics of turbulence- flame alignment in premixed combustion, Combustion and Flame 159, 8, 2576-2588, 2012.
16. Bian, S., Driscoll, J.F., Elbing, J.R., Ceccio, S.L., Time resolved flow-field measurements of a turbulent mixing layer over a rectangular cavity, Experiments in Fluids, 51, 1, 51-63, 2011.
    Fotia, M.L. and Driscoll, J.F., Isolator-Combustor Interactions in a Direct-Connect Ramjet- Scramjet Experiment, J. Propulsion and Power 28, 1, 83-85, 2012.
17. Micka, D. and Driscoll, J.F., Stratified Jet Flames in a Heated (1364 K) Air Cross-Flow with Autoignition, Combustion and Flame 159, 3, 1205-1214, 2012.
18. Torrez, S.M., Driscoll, J.F., Ihme, M., Fotia, M.L., Reduced Order Modeling of Turbulent Reacting Flows With Application to Ramjets and Scramjets, J. of Propulsion and Power, 27, 2, 371-382, 2011.
19. Dhanuka, S.K, Temme, J.E., Driscoll, J.F, Lean Limit Combustion Instabilities of a Lean Premixed Prevaporized Gas Turbine Combustor, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 33, 2, 2961-2966, 2011.
20. Dhanuka, S.K, Temme, J.E., Driscoll, J.F, Unsteady Aspects of Lean Premixed-Prevaporized Gas Turbine Combustors: Flame-Flame and Flame-Shear Layer Interactions, J. Propulsion and Power, 27,3 631-641, 2011.
21. Dalle, D.J, Fotia, M.L., Driscoll, J.F., Reduced-Order Modeling of Two-Dimensional Supersonic Flows with Applications to Scramjet Inlets, J. of Propulsion and Power, 26,3, 545-555, 2010.
    Bian, S. Ceccio, S., Driscoll, J.F., A dual-camera cinematographic PIV measurement system at kilohertz frame rate for high speed unsteady flows, Experiments in Fluids, 48, 3, 487-495, 2010.
22. Steinberg, A.M., Driscoll, J.F., Stretch-rate relationships for turbulent premixed combustion LES subgrid models measured using temporally resolved diagnostics, Combustion and Flame, 157, 7, 1422-1435, 2010.
23. Steinberg, A.M., Driscoll, J.F., Straining and wrinkling processes during turbulence–premixed flame interaction measured using temporally-resolved diagnostics, Combustion and Flame 156, 12 (2009) 2285–2306.
24. Steinberg, A.M., Driscoll, J.F., Three-dimensional temporally resolved measurements of turbulence –flame interactions using orthogonal-plane cinema-stereoscopic PIV, Experiments in Fluids (2009) 47:527–547.
25. Steinberg, A.M., Driscoll, J.F., Ceccio, S.L., Measurements of turbulent premixed flame dynamics using cinema stereoscopic PIV, Experiments in Fluids 44, 6, 985-999, 2008.
26. Steinberg, A.M., Driscoll, J.F., Ceccio, S.L., Temporal Evolution of Flame Stretch due to Turbulence and the Hydrodynamic Instability, Proc. Combustion Inst. 32, 1713-1721, 2009.
27. Dhanuka, S.K, Temme, J.E., Driscoll, J.F., Mongia, H.K., Vortex Shedding and Mixing Layer Effects on Periodic Flashback in a Lean Premixed Prevaporized Gas Turbine Combustor, Proc. Combustion Inst. 32, 2901, 2908, 2009.