Mechanical Engineering Faculty Profile:

Dr. Gregory Jackson
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Combustion (premixed flame stability/extinction behavior, gas turbines), fuel cells (fast-response H2 production from hydrocarbons, integrated fuel cell/gas turbine power plants), catalytic reactors (catalytic combustion, hydrogen generators, computational model development), meso-scale power production, thermoelectric waste heat recovery

(301) 405-2368 | gsjackso@umd.edu | website | Room 4164E, Bldg 088, Glenn L. Martin Hall

Education
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1994

Recent Publications
Karagiannidis, S., Mantzaras, J., Jackson, G.S, and Boulouchos, K. (2006), “Hetero-/homogeneous combustion and stability maps in methane-fuelled catalytic microreactors”, Proceedings Combustion Institute, 31:3309-3317, 2007.

Wakatsuki, K., Jackson, G.S., Hamins, A., and Nyden, M.R., (2006), “Effects of Fuel Absorption on Radiative Heat Transfer in Methanol Pool Fires”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 31, 2573-2580.

Bohl, D. and Jackson, G.S., (2006), “Experimental study of the spill and vaporization of a volatile liquid”, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 140, 117-128.

Zhou, S., Varghese, B., Eichhorn, B.W., McIlwrath, K., and Jackson G.S. (2006), “Enhanced CO Tolerance for Hydrogen Activation in Au-Pt Dendritic Heteroaggregate Nanostructures”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128(6), 1780-1781.

Sukeshini, A.M., Habibzadeh, B., Becker, B.P, Stoltz, C.A., Eichhorn, B.W., and Jackson, G.S. (2006), “Electrochemical Oxidation of H2, CO, and CO/H2 Mixtures on Patterned Ni Anodes on YSZ Electrolytes”, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 153(4), A705-A715.

Reihani, S. A.S. and Jackson G.S. (2006), “Mechanism analysis with ILDM’s for H2 Combustion on Pd Catalysts”, Combustion Theory and Modelling, 10(1) 1-20.

Leach, T.T. Cadou, C.P., and Jackson, G.S., (2006), “Effect of structural conduction and heat loss on combustion in micro-channels”, Combustion Theory and Modelling, 10(1) 85-103.

Zhou, S., Varghese, B., Eichhorn, B.W., McIlwrath, K., and Jackson, G.S., (2005), “Pt-Cu Core Shell and Alloy Nanoparticles for Heterogeneous NOx Reduction: Anomalous Stability and Reactivity from a Core-Shell Nanostructure”, Angewandte Chemie – Intl. Ed., 44, 4539-4543.

Reihani, S. A.S. and Jackson G.S. (2004), “Effectiveness in Catalytic Washcoat with Multi-Step Mechanisms for Catalytic Combustion of Hydrogen”, Chemical Engineering Science, 59, 5937-5948.

Scientific and Professional Membership
Session Organizer and Chair for ASME-Turbo Expo ‘99; Reviewer, The Combustion Institute, ASME, NSF, DOE, and USDA; Member, ASME, AIAA, Combustion Institute, Electrochemical Society

Honors and Awards
2000 NSF CAREER Award; Outstanding Paper in Terrestrial Energy Systems—AIAA, 1997; Co-Inventor on Patented Catalytic Torch Igniters, 1996, 1998

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