University of Illinois
Interest in ASCENT:
- Analysis to Support Environmental Std Setting
Contact:
Don Wuebbles
wuebbles@illinois.edu
Projects
- Assessment of Contrail Formation via Combustion of Sustainable Aviation Fuel
- Environmental Impacts of High Altitude and Space Vehicle Emissions
- Fuel Testing Approaches for Rapid Jet Fuel Prescreening
- Jet Noise Modeling and Measurements to Support Reduced LTO Noise of Supersonic Aircraft Technology Development
- National Jet Fuels Combustion Program - Area #7: Overall Program Integration and Analysis
- Alternative Fuels Test Database Library
- National Jet Fuels Combustion Program – Area #6: Referee Swirl-Stabilized Combustor Evaluation/Support
- National Jet Fuels Combustion Program – Area #3: Advanced Combustion Tests
- Evaluation of FAA Climate Tools
- Alternative Jet Fuel Supply Chain Analysis
Lead Investigators
Publications
- Stratospheric Ozone and Climate Forcing Sensitivity to Cruise Altitudes for Fleets of Potential Supersonic Transport Aircraft
- Potential Impacts of Supersonic Aircraft Emissions on Ozone and Resulting Forcing on Climate: An Update on Historical Analysis
- Aviation Impact on Air Quality Present Day and Mid-century Simulated in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM)
- The Impact of NOx Emissions from Lightning on the Production of Aviation-induced Ozone
- Spray Characteristics and Flame Structure of Jet A and Alternative Jet Fuels
- Large-Eddy Simulations of Fuel Effects on Gas Turbine Lean Blow-out
- Simultaneous High Speed (5 kHz) Fuel-PLIF, OH-PLIF and Stereo PIV Imaging of Pressurized Swirl-Stabilized Flames using Liquid Fuels
- An Intercomparative Study of the Effects of Aircraft Emissions on Surface Air Quality
- Coupled Chemistry-climate Effects from 2050 Projected Aviation Emissions
- Fuel Effects on Lean Blow-out in a Realistic Gas Turbine Combustor
- Low Temperature Autoignition of Conventional Jet Fuels and Surrogate Jet Fuels with Targeted Properties in a Rapid Compression Machine
- Impact of Aviation on Climate: FAA’s Aviation Climate Change Research Initiative (ACCRI) Phase II
- An Inter-comparative Study of the Effects of Aircraft on Surface Air Quality