Alex Klimenko’s Homepage

Reader in Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics

Qualifications

D.Eng. (UQ), Ph.D. in Sci. (Mosc.Univ.), M.Eng/Sci (MPhTI), Grad.Cert. in Tert. Educ. (UQ)

Links

• The ME Combustion Pages
• Underground Coal Gasification (UCG)
• Old teaching page with some teaching material still there
• Klimenko’s SoE staff page
• Some of the thesis topics are here (or contact Alex Klimenko at klimenko@mech.uq.edu.au)
• Back to Mechanical Engineering home page

Research Interests

Fluid Mechanics, Combustion, Turbulence, Underground Coal Gasification and in-situ mining, Energy Production and Climate, Reacting Flows in Porous Media, Vortical Flows, Asymptotic and Numerical Methods, Computer Programming and Simulations, Stochastic Processes, Technological Progress and Engineering Education

Awards, Fellowships and Nominations

• Guest Scientist (Full Professor level), Karlsruhe University
• Senior Visiting Fellowship, CTR Stanford University
• Visiting Fellowship, Research Center Karlsruhe (FZK, Germany)
• Visiting Faculty, Cornell University
• Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship
• More than 20 student nominations for 'the most effective lecturer'
• Four First Prizes in Research and Science competitions (2 CIAM + 2 Regional Olympiads)

Current staff

Research associates and long-term visitors:

• Mathew Cleary
• Dmitri Saulov
• Jingyu Ran (Visiting Scholar)
• Gus Plumb (Visiting Professor)

Current Ph.D. Students:

• Paul Bedi
• Chetan Chodankar

Main Publications Since 2000

• K.A.Weinman.and A.Y.Klimenko “Estimation of the Kolmogorov constant (Co) for the Lagrangian structure function using DNS for a continous Scalar”,  Physics of Fluids V12, 3205-3220 (2000).
• A.Y.Klimenko & A.G.Class “On premixed flames as gasdynamic discontinuities: A simple approach to derive their propagation speed”,  Comb.Sci Tech. V. 160 pp.25-37 (2000).  
• A.Y.Klimenko “A small disturbance in the strong vortex flow”, Physics of Fluids, v13, No 6, pp.1815-1818 (2001).   
• A.Y.Klimenko “Near-axis asimptote of the bathtub-type inviscid vortical flows”, Mechanics Research Communications v.28, No2, pp.207-212 (2001).
• A.Y.Klimenko “Moderately strong vorticity in a bathtub-type flow”, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Mechanics v.14, 243-257 (2001).
• A.Y.Klimenko “Equations for conditional means and fluctuations of the conserved scalar dissipation”, chapter in “Gas Dynamics”, Fizmatlit, v.2, pp. 395-407, (2001).
• A.Y.Klimenko “On relation of the Conditional Moment Closure and unsteady Flamelets” Combustion Theory and Modelling, v5, 275-294, (2001). 
• A.Y.Klimenko and A.G.Class “Ppropagation of non-stationary curved and stretched premixed flames with thin reaction zones and multi-step reaction mechanisms”  Combustion Science and Technology, 174 (8), pp. 165-207, 2002.
• .A.Y.Klimenko, A.G.Class and S.M.O'Gorman  “Near-equidiffusion disturbed premixed flames with wider reaction zones” Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 69 (2): 95-122 2002.
• A.Y.Klimenko and S.B. Pope, A model for turbulent reactive flows based on Multiple Mapping Conditioning, Phys.of Fluids, 15 (7): 1907-1925, 2003
• A.G. Class, B. J. Matkowsky, and A. Y. Klimenko, “A unified model of flames as gasdynamic discontinuities” J.Fluid Mech, 491, 11-49, 2003.
• A.G Class, B. J. Matkowsky, and A. Y. Klimenko, “Stability of planar flames as gasdynamic discontinuities” J.Fluid Mech, 491, 51-63, 2003
• A.P. Wandel, N.S.A. Smith, and A.Y. Klimenko, “Verification of  Markov Hypothesis for Conserved Scalar Process: Validation of Conditional Moment Closure for Turbulent Combustion”, ANZIAM Journ.. v.44, C802--C819, 2003
• A.Y.Klimenko, “On Inverse Parabolicity of PDF Equations in Turbulent Flows”, Quarterly J. Mech.and Appl.Math. 57, 79-93, 2004. 
• A.Y.Klimenko, “Matching the conditional variance as a criterion for selecting parameters in the simplest MMC models”, Phys. Fluids, 16, 4754-4757, 2004. 
• A.Y.Klimenko, Matching Conditional Moments in PDF modelling of non-premixed combustion, invited paper, Combustion & Flame 143, 369-385, 2005.
• A.P. Wandel and A.Y. Klimenko “Testing MMC mixing for Monte-Carlo PDF simulations”  Phys. Fluids, 17, 128105, 2005.
• A.Y.Klimenko and M.M. Abdel-Jawad, Conditional methods for continuum reacting flows in porous media, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 31 (2007) 2107–2115.
• M.S. Blinderman and A.Y. Klimenko “Theory of Reverse Combustion Linking” Combustion and Flame, 150 (2007) 232–245.
• A.Y.Klimenko, On simulating scalar transport by mixing between Lagrangian particles, Physics of Fluids, 19, 031702, Letter, (2007).
• A.Y.Klimenko Analysis of compensating regime in intensification region of strong vortices WSEAS Transactions on Fluid Mechanics, to appear, 2007.
• A.Y.Klimenko, 'Technological Cycles and their impact on Science, Engineering and Engineering Education', The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, to appear
• M.S. Blinderman, D.Saulov and A.Y. Klimenko, "Forward and Reverse Combustion Linking in Underground Coal Gasification" ENERGY- the International Journal, to appear.
• M.S. Blinderman, D.Saulov and A.Y. Klimenko "Optimal Regimes of Reverse Combustion Linking in Underground Coal Gasification" accepted in Journal of the Energy Institute.