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Elaine Oran

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Dr. ELaine Oran

  • Affiliate Professor, Aerospace Engineering

Research interests

  • Computational Physics, Astrophysics
  • Explosions
  • Propulsion
  • Turbulence
  • Reactive Flow
  • Computer Architectures
  • Flames, Detonations and Reaction-Wave Transitions


Phone: (979) 845-2630
Email: eoran@tamu.edu

Educational Background

  • Ph.D, Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 1972, Yale University
  • M.Ph., Department of Physics, 1968, Yale University
  • A.B., Physics and Chemistry, 1966, Bryn Mawr College

Awards & Honors

  • Member, National Academy of Engineering
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Member, Texas Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Member, Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Docteur Honoris Causa, Ecole Centrale de Lyon
  • Honorary Doctorate of Science, Leeds University
  • Docteur Honoris Causa, Institut National des Sciences Appliqu’es Rouen
  • Fellow, Combustion Institute
  • Fellow, APS
  • Fellow, ASME
  • Fellow, SIAM
  • Zeldovich Gold Medal, Combustion Institute
  • Fluid Dynamics Prize, APS
  • Arthur R. Fleming Award, US Government
  • Achievement Award, Society of Women Engineers
  • Member, Women in Technology International Hall of Fame

Selected Publications

  • The Structure of the Blue Whirl Revealed, J.D. Chung,  X. Zhang, C.R. Kaplan, and E.S. Oran,   Science Advances,  August 12, 6 (33), eaba087, 2020.  (arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.12347).
  • Dispersion of Stratified Dust Layers by a Moving Shock Wave, S.L.\ Lai, R.W.\ Houim, and E.S.\ Oran,  International Journal of Multiphase Flow,  118, 87–96, 2019.
  • From Fire Whirls to Blue Whirls and Combustion with Reduced Pollution, H.\ Xiao, M.G.\ Gollner, and  E.S.\ Oran, PNAS, (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science)}, 113, 9457–9462, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1605860113,  2016.
  • Effect of Decreasing Blockage Ratio on DDT in Small Channels with Obstacles, G.B. Goodwin, R.W. Houim, and E.S. Oran, {\sl Combustion and Flame,  173, 16–26, 2016.
  • The Physics, Chemistry, and Dynamics of Explosions, Special Issue of  The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, edited by E.S. Oran and F.A.\Williams, 379, 531–799, February, 2012.
  • Intermittency in Premixed Turbulent Reacting Flows, P.E. Hamlington,, A.Y.  Poludnenko, and E.S. Oran,  {\sl Physics of Fluids}, 24, 07511,  2012.
  • Mechanisms and Occurrence of Detonations in Vapor Cloud Explosions, E.S. Oran, G. Chamberlain, A. Pekalski, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science,  77, 100804, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecs.2019.100804
  • Origins of the Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition in Gas-Phase Combustion, E.S. Oran and V.N. Gamezo, Combustion and Flame, 48, 4–47, 2007.
  • Thermonuclear Supernovae: Simulations of the Deflagration State and Their Implications,  V.N. Gamezo, A.M. Khokhlov, E.S. Oran, A.Y. Chtchelkanova, R.O. Rosenberg, {\sl Sciencexpress}, published online, November 21, 2002.  Includes supplementary material and movies: Numerical Simulation of Reactive Flow, E.S. Oran and J.P. Boris 2nd Edition, 2001 Cambridge University Press
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